PLEASE DON'T TURN AWAY, 3min., Australia, Music Video
Directed by Elizabeth Usher
The compelling music video for "Please Don't Turn Away", a song inspired by animal photojournalist and founder of We Animals Media, Jo-Anne McArthur. Written by Elizabeth Usher, performed by MC Pony feat. Leafy Gree...

SHOPPING CART PEOPLE, 20min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Duffy Hecht
Shopping Cart People presents an unflinching exploration of people living in today’s world as homeless and those advocating for them. Stories are told, lives are shared, as a filmmaker delves into a community’s efforts to help...

FACING MONSTERS, 90min., Australia, Surfing/Life
Directed by Bentley Dean
Facing Monsters is a candid insight into a man caught between the love he has for his family, and a childhood dream that could ultimately destroy him.

80 YEARS LATER, 50min,. USA, History
Directed by Celine Parreñas Shimizu
The feature documentary 80 YEARS LATER explores the racial inheritance of Japanese American family incarceration during World War II through multigenerational conversations with survivors and their descendants.

In the 80th...

THE WOMAN IN WHITE, 19min., Canada, Documentary
Directed by Roshanak Jaberi
"What an incredibly poignant film – it’s an amazing piece of work."
—Samer Muscati, Human Rights Watch
From October 15, 1979 to January 16, 1992, El Salvador endured a civil war. More than 8000 people were forcibly disapp...

A PEOPLEHOOD | AMIUT YEHUDIT, 23min,. Canada, Documentary
Directed by Marnie Salsky
A PEOPLEHOOD | AMIUT YEHUDIT examines Toronto’s contemporary Jewish community and, simultaneously, the emotional impact of today’s insidious antisemitism. The video is a non-linear narrative structured around them...

RISING - LIL BERETE, 13min,. Canada, Documentary
Directed by Avery Harris Stedman
Short documentary dives into the personal story of Yay Berete p/k/a Lil Berete, a young rapper from Regent Park, Toronto's most notorious and violent neighborhood. After one of his songs goes viral at the tender age...

THE SHOT, 15min., USA, Documentary
Directed by John Mogor
We followed three patients' journey from suffering, through treatment and over a year into recovery. All three credit SGB with changing their lives.
SGB is an injection into the stellate ganglion, a group of nerves in the neck that sends m...

OUR DYSLEXIC CHILDREN, 44min., Documentary
Directed by Aaron Blevins
In 2010, a group of parents in a suburban school district near Columbus, Ohio discovered their children had something in common - they could not read. They were languishing in a reading intervention program and their dyslexia wa...

LIVING WHILE AMERICAN, 26min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Sosena Solomon
A freshman city councilman in Philadelphia brings the police to the table to reduce traffic stops by 30 percent, reducing needless interactions between officers and people of color.

ELEMENTAL, redefining our relationship with wildfire, 80min., USA, Nature/Environment
Directed by Trip Jennings
As fire seasons grow longer, more destructive and more deadly, it is clear that our approach to reducing wildfire risk is failing. This film brings cutting edge science and indigenous k...

12TH HOUR, 52min,. USA, Documentary
Directed by Susan Kucera
Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which are built in by evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address the problem.

Our brains evolved to solve short-ter...

BOZO, 4min., USA, Crime/Comedy
Directed by Ron Weisberg
A Clown hits a man on the road one night and finds a lot of money in a briefcase in the man's Car. He takes the Money and the Body of th Dead man Home.

WHERE THERE'S A WHEEL THERE'S A WAY, 20min., USA
Directed by Christian Montoya Johnson, Anton Ransom
Take a deep dive into the life of Manny the Tru MC, a poet with Cerebral Palsy, who takes you behind the smile into what like is truly like for someone with a disability. "If you have the heart of...

ESCAPE, 14min,. USA, Relationships
Directed by Oren Brimer
A couple tries to get out of an escape room before the timer runs out on their relationship.

LINE 25, 6min., USA, Romance
Directed by Michael Sternberg
When a daydreamer falls in love with a book smart, things might get complicated - in her head, flying to the moon is more feasible than asking him out for ice cream, but on this bus ride, she will find the courage to speak up before the e...

ALMOST, 28min., France, Romance
Directed by Paul-André Robin
Yann, a somewhat lost guy fleeing his life in Normandy without luggage, is hitchhiked by Claire, a sick and disillusioned doctor, returning from his sister's wedding. During this trip that takes them to Paris, they talk to each other, a...

FOR I AM DEAD, 18min., USA,
Directed by Patricia Delso Lucas
In late-1800s Europe, Oscar, a wealthy but lonely middle-aged man who has lived a decadent, extravagant life in a chateau filled with wine, courtesans and opium, confesses love to his gardener Jude before he dies of his excesses.

SASHA, 9min,. USA, Romance/Sci-Fi
Directed by David McGuff
A recently divorced man orders an android to fill the void left by his wife, but SASHA is capable of more than he could have imagined.

Interview with filmmaker David McGuff

1. What motivated you to make this film?

I wanted to make some...

FOREST UNDER STRESS, 9min., USA, Documentary/Animation
Directed by Michal Joy Hall Bravo Ramírez, Rachel Lee Hall
In a forest plagued by drought, a group of mycelia fungus struggles to provide nutrients and moisture to a desperate root system, which affects the entire terrestrial story.

Director...

LAST DAY ON EARTH, 5min., USA, Drama
Directed by Christian Jacob Eisenbarth
An old man lives alone in the depths of a Washington forest, unknowingly experiencing his last day on earth. He embarks through an enchanted forest, only to find he's not alone. In his last moments, he discovers the meani...

HERD, 15min., Canada, Documentary
Directed by David Borish
In the startling collapse of the once massive George River Caribou Herd - and a subsequent total hunting ban - Inuit in Labrador, Canada, were abruptly confronted with a new reality: life without a fundamental source of food, culture, and...

After a 2015 explosion at the Torrance refinery rattled the community, local activists discovered the blast almost led to a catastrophic release of one of the most toxic chemicals used in refining. Soon after, Torrance activists joined forces with environmental justice activists in Wilmington, un...

WITHOUT WATER, 20min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Jonathan Hyla
"Without Water" is a film that documents the ongoing dispute between the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power and the residents of Long Valley, California. Filmed by acclaimed director Jonathan Hyla and narrated by actor David C...