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Free Mom Hugs: How Mama Bears Spread Radical Love
By Alex Stergiou “These women don’t go from being conservative to allies because of other people. They go because they have skin in the game. They transform. Love is involved because their flesh and...
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Feeding Our “Hungry Ghosts”: The Misunderstood Pain Behind Addiction
By Ivonne Spinoza Brother is an intimate portrayal of addiction that makes us question our preconceptions and helps shed light on what really goes on inside the mind of a person suffering through this...
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Short Film “Folk Frontera” Shows the Culture of Life on the Border
By Ivonne Spinoza Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn’s Folk Frontera is a border-set tale, expertly portraying the beauty and heartbreak that comes with living on the U.S.-Mexico border. Connecting two...
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From Crimmigration Court Interpreter to Lifelong Friends
Mexican American filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes was and still is a court interpreter in rural California. It was in that capacity that he met then 19-year-old Mexican migrant Sansón Noé Andrade, who was...
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“Your Story Makes You Strong”: Sansón, an Incarcerated Man, Watches His Life...
By Craig Phillips with Rodrigo Reyes and Sansón & Me team The life story of a young man serving life in prison for murder, Sansón and Me is told through dramatic re-creations—featuring members of...
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Forensic Anthropology Tools of the Trade
By Amy Whipple In 1992, forensic anthropologist Mercedes (Mimi) Doretti (pictured above, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 1980s) traveled to El Salvador as part of a U.N.-sponsored team to...
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What Happens to Your Family When You Escape North Korea, and Other Harrowing...
The harrowing, riveting documentary Beyond Utopia, captures what life is like for refugees after escaping North Korea. What happens to the family you left behind? How hard is it to adjust to life in a...
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When the American Dream Becomes Survival: Short Doc Chronicles Rural...
By Nathan Duke Director Ramin Bahrani’s acclaimed films (like Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, and 99 Homes) focus on people struggling to survive due to economic challenges or failing to achieve the...
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“A Stoic Group”: Midwestern Farmers Talk Frankly About Mental Health
Filmmaker Samuel-Ali Mirpoorian was inspired to make Greener Pastures after hearing a report on NPR’s All Things Considered that farmers had the highest rate of suicide by any profession, by more than...
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A Cartoonist Talks About How to Be an Artist with Parkinson’s
Cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) at the age of 43. In the documentary Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s, he remarks, “To lose the ability to draw would be a...
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What Extreme Outer Space Isolation Can Teach Humans
Filmmaker Ido Mizrahy was fascinated by space travel isolation from a young age, inspired and awed by science fiction films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, and the original Solaris. And he...
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“To Film with Your Ears”: Reinventing Cinematic Language with The Tuba Thieves
By Rachel Kolb Alison O’Daniel is a visual artist and filmmaker who works with sound, moving images, sculpture, and large-scale installations. She is the director of The Tuba Thieves, an experimental...
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