Breaking Silence
A deaf father and his hearing daughter explore how imprisonment has shaped their relationship and their advocacy.
LA Street Food, South Asian Style | Spice Road, Episode 4
Actor Rupak Ginn returns home to Los Angeles, where he dines on Desi street food delicacies with a twist at Paratta. He joins friend actor/writer/comedian Kiran Deol at a South Asian grocery store to shop, while pondering the future of South Asians in America, and then share hearty laughs and heartfelt conversation over a delicious meal. LA Street Food, South Asian Style | Spice Road, Episode 4
Back to the Motherland-ish | Spice Road, Episode 3
The ancestors are calling as actor Rupak Ginn (Royal Pains) heads to New Jersey to dine with actor/writer Sheetal Sheth (The World Unseen) at Mejwaani, a Maharashtrian restaurant, in honor of his mother's heritage. He then travels to his hometown of New York for a mom-cooked meal—and to ask his parents some pressing questions. Back to the Motherland-ish | Spice Road, Episode 3
Southern Fried Tikka Masala | Spice Road, Episode 2
Pani puri, pakoras, and… pageants? Actor Rupak Ginn (Royal Pains) travels to Taaza, an Indian restaurant tucked away in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southern Virginia. There he discovers how his African American wife Nancy Redd’s heritage intersects with his own, and how people and cultures strive to stay alive. Southern Fried Tikka Masala | Spice Road, Episode 2
Tandoori Truck Stop | Spice Road, Episode 1
What do truckers and tandooris have in common? Actor Rupak Ginn (Royal Pains) travels to the highly-acclaimed Punjabi Dhaba in Bakersfield, California, to find out. He learns about immigrant Balvinder Singh Saini’s journey from truck driver to dhaba owner and is joined by celebrated actor and comedian, Nik Dodani (Dear Evan Hansen, Escape Room). Tandoori Truck Stop | Spice Road, Episode 1
Everything Wrong and Nowhere to Go
Exploring the field of “climate psychology,” Everything Wrong and Nowhere to Go is a candid and comedic self-portrait in which the filmmaker turns the camera on herself and goes in search of a cure for her crippling climate anxiety. This personal documentary asks how we can find a space of emotional balance, where we can stay attentive to the climate crisis without becoming debilitated by it.
Maletero
Luciano, once an immigrant himself, now makes a living as a maletero, a porter driving across the border, delivering goods from immigrants who settled in Texas to their families in the same Mexican town they all left decades ago.
Underground
The hustle and bustle of New York City subways provides a veil of anonymity, making invasions of personal space inevitable. There are innocuous interactions, but also violations that cross the line. Vividly shot in New York subways and stations, Underground emboldens the survivors of these incidents to share their stories in hopes of changing the stigma surrounding public violations.
The Command Center to Bring Women Home
Through a collaborative writing process with filmmakers, three women bring to life “The Command Center to Bring Women Home,” an imagined space run by formerly incarcerated women for those with nowhere else to turn but to each other, a place where mothers can reunite and heal with their children, and women are able to hold and comfort one another.
Brother
A filmmaker's intimate phone calls with her brother explore his fragile recovery from opioid addiction.
Using imaginative animation, they journey both into the cosmos—a place her brother has encyclopedic knowledge about—and an all-too-real world where shame and pain take their toll.
Our League
Following an extended hiatus, Michelle Guzowski takes a risk by returning to her favorite local bowling alley in the Ohio Rust Belt, after coming out to fellow bowlers as a trans woman. While the alley's new owners made it seem a welcoming space, the changes are hard for old-school bowlers.
Folk Frontera
Far West Texas is a place where local folklore looms as large as the landscape. Two fronteriza women—one a public radio music show host, the other a Mariachi and folklórico dancer—live in two cultures at the same time, as they struggle to find their place in the vast Chihuahuan Desert. Touches of magical realism infuse this portrait of life along the U.S.- Mexico border.
When I'm Her
When I'm Her follows the double life of a dancer who inhabits an alter ego. A luminary figure at American Ballet Theatre in New York, Michael Cusumano had a stellar career ahead of him, but after past trauma prevented him from realizing his artistic and professional potential, he finds refuge and liberation by becoming Russian ballet instructor Madame Olga, the mentor he never had for himself.
Senior Prom
For so many high-schoolers, prom is a rite of passage in all of its love-filled, well-coiffed, abundantly photographed glory. But for generations of LGBTQ+ youth, prom has been emblematic of an exclusion from a world they could not experience as their authentic selves.
The Great World of Gregory Blackstock
The richly obsessive life and work of renowned autistic artist Gregory Blackstock comes to life, as he uses his art to catalogue and make sense of the world around him. Gregory’s cousin Dorothy helps bring his drawings to the attention of the art world, while the film brings his work to life through hand-crafted animation, drawing you into the unique vision of this singular artist.
Driver Radio: Jamaica, Episode 1
Twin brothers Don and Ron Brodie travel to Jamaica to reconnect with their roots, with first stop the bustling city of Kingston. While all-night dancehall parties are a main attraction for tourists and locals alike, the Brodies link up with a local taxi driver to get a feel for life far outside the city.
City to Country | Driver Radio: Jamaica, Episode 1
Driver Radio: Jamaica, Episode 2
The Brodie brothers reunite with an old acquaintance named Orville, a local jack-of-all-trades (DJ, beekeeper, driver, you name it) who has taken up driving an unregistered taxi as a supplemental source of income.
Reunion | Driver Radio: Jamaica, Episode 2
Driver Radio: Jamaica, Episode 3
With help and inspiration from experienced Jamaican taxi drivers Dean and Stacy (one of the first female drivers they've met in Kingston) the Brodie brothers explore the possibilities of running a taxi service on their own.
Twin Charter | Driver Radio: Jamaica, Episode 3
Driver Radio: Jamaica, Episode 4
With their parents' own immigrant journey from Jamaica to America in mind, the Brodie brothers travel through the heart of Jamaica, to Mandeville and Montego Bay, in hopes of better understanding where they come from.
All Routes Lead Home | Driver Radio: Jamaica, Episode 4
Blind Love, Episode 7
We check in with our "Blind Love" friends one last time: After the stress of rapid-fire speed-dating, Simon feels like he's bonded with a girl over a love of sushi; Joni decides to give James a chance; Solomon meets a girl and tries to impress her with his cooking (okay, a shared kitchen effort with buddy Nick); and Mario's whole attitude brightens.
Give Love a Chance | Blind Love, Episode 7
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