Jenny Raskin

Follows members of the Zulu Club, New Orleans’ first Black Mardi Gras, as they work to bring the Zulu parade back to the streets for Mardi Gras Day 2022, in the face of a global pandemic, hurricane Ida and the loss of members due to COVID and gun violence.

With his signature gospel sound on the Hammond B3, Billy Preston doublehandedly elevated the greatest artists of his time – from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, from Aretha Franklin to Eric Clapton, from Ray Charles to Barbra Streisand to Sly and the Family Stone. In our film, we explore Billy's career and influence on generations of musicians, as he scored several number one hits of his own and became one of the most sought-after musicians in the world. He did all of this as a soul divided -- by his deep roots in the church, in constant conflict with his identity as a gay Black man, searching for a family of his own that would accept him for who he was.

The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island — takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.

A college student searches for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.

Experiencing violence is commonplace for Syrian women but they do not discuss the prevalence of – often sexual – exploitation for fear of revenge. A collective of young women want to break the taboo with a theatre project. But how free are they themselves?

In the competitive world of high school mariachi, the musicians from the South Texas borderlands reign supreme. Under the guidance of coach Abel Acuña, the teenage captains of Edinburg North High School’s acclaimed team must turn a shoestring budget and diverse crew of inexperienced musicians into state champions.

An intimate look into the lives of one of the most iconic folk-rock bands in America - the Indigo Girls. With never-before-seen archival and intimate vérité the film dives into the songwriting and storytelling of the music that transformed a generation.

The world is in crisis as it misses target after target to stop climate change. The Green New Deal has captured the imagination of millions with its visionary promise for systemic economic and environmental change that will build a better and more just world. In this moment of political upheaval with clashes in the streets and the halls of Congress, climate policy is taking center stage for the first time in American history, and the fight is on.

Décadas después de que Tanya Tucker se apartase de los focos, la estrella Brandi Carlile se propuso escribir un álbum completo para su heroína, basada en su extraordinaria vida y espoleando el mayor regreso en la historia de la música country.

An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence, and alarming rationale behind covert land grabs by some of the world’s most powerful countries.

Doris Muñoz is a young, ambitious music manager whose undocumented family depends on her ability to launch pop stars. When she loses her biggest client, Doris hustles to discover new talent and finds Jacks, another daughter of immigrants for whom "making it" isn't just a dream: it's a necessity.

This stirring and visually immersive documentary brings us inside the spirited pursuits of David Hanson, a restless inventor aiming to perfect the world’s most life-like A.I. With freewheeling energy and storytelling gusto, Jon Kasbe and Crystal M...

Una mirada interna a la histórica carrera multinacional para investigar, desarrollar, regular y lanzar vacunas contra el COVID-19 en la guerra contra la pandemia del coronavirus.

A documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 promised to give away his $25M inheritance in an effort to usher in a new era of world peace.

An alarmingly disproportionate number of Black women are failed every year by the U.S. maternal health system. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac were vibrant, excited mothers-to-be whose deaths due to childbirth complications were preventable. Now, their partners and families are determined to sound a rallying cry around this chilling yet largely ignored crisis.

Seis hombres que fueron abusados ​​sexualmente por el clero católico cuando eran niños encuentran empoderamiento al crear cortometrajes inspirados en su trauma.

A documentary following JR's artwork giving a global voice to everyday people.

Después de que una prueba de ADN revela sus lazos de parentesco, tres primas adoptadas por familias estadounidenses viajan a China para buscar a sus padres biológicos.

Un registro asombroso de la naturaleza hereditaria del trauma, Jacinta sigue la vida de tres generaciones de mujeres que luchan por encontrar estabilidad en medio de años de dependencia. Jacinta deja el Centro Correccional de Maine, dejando atrás a su madre para que complete su propia oración, e intenta reconstruir su relación con Caylynn, su hija preadolescente sobrenaturalmente sabia que anhela tiempo y atención de la madre a la que adora. Pero a medida que las presiones de dar forma a una vida en un mundo que apenas conocía sobrio resultan cada vez más desafiantes, lleva al espectador a su batalla emocional y cotidiana para encontrar la paz consigo misma y ganarse la confianza de su familia.

Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Told in his own words and through the creation of a dance inspired by his life, this immersive portrait follows a man who, when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him, determined to build one that would.

An archive-based feature documentary viewing the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of the ABC network, as it narrowly succeeds in producing the most watched, most controversial made-for-TV movie, THE DAY AFTER (1983). With irreverent humor and sobering apocalyptic vision, this film reveals how a commercial broadcaster seized a moment of unprecedented television viewership, made an emotional connection with an audience of over 100 million and forced an urgent conversation with the US President on how to collectively confront and resolve the most pressing issue of the time - nuclear proliferation.

Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby's room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half century older than her daughter.

Cuba is well known as a so-called time capsule. The place where the New World was discovered has become both a romantic vision and a warning. With ongoing global cultural and financial upheavals, large parts of the world could face a similar kind of existence.

Documental sobre las gimnastas víctimas de los abusos del doctor Larry Nassar, de la Federación de Gimnasia de los EE. UU., y los periodistas que destaparon la cultura tóxica de un deporte y una federación en el que lo único importante era ganar.

La inquietante historia del ejecutivo musical Drew Dixon mientras lidia con su decisión de convertirse en una de las primeras mujeres de color, a raíz de #MeToo, en presentarse y acusar públicamente al magnate del hip-hop Russell Simmons de conducta sexual inapropiada. Un examen apasionante y profundo de la raza, el género, la interseccionalidad y el precio que el abuso sexual tiene en los sobrevivientes y en la sociedad en general.

Determined to turn unfathomable tragedy into action, the teenage survivors of Parkland, Florida catalyze a powerful, unprecedented youth movement that spreads with lightning speed across the country, as a generation of mobilized youth take back democracy in this powerful coming-of-age story.

La fotoperiodista siciliana Letizia Battaglia comenzó una larga batalla contra la despiadada Cosa Nostra cuando fotografió por primera vez el siniestro escenario de un brutal asesinato. Documentando el bárbaro gobierno de la Mafia italiana, fue testigo inquebrantable de sus crímenes. Su genial arte y valentía ayudó a poner fin al espantoso y sangriento reinado del clan de los corleoneses.

Alexis Bloom charts the rise and fall of the late Republican Party booster and controversial Fox News mogul who went down in flames amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.

After a routine partial hip replacement operation leaves his mother in a coma with permanent brain damage, what starts as a son's video diary becomes a citizen's investigation into the future of American health care.

It’s 2017 in Bisbee, Arizona, an old copper-mining town just miles from the Mexican border. The town’s close-knit community prepares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bisbee’s darkest hour: the infamous Bisbee Deportation of 1917, during which 1,200 striking miners were violently taken from their homes, banished to the middle of the desert, and left to die. Townspeople confront this violent, misunderstood past by staging dramatic recreations of the escalating strike. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective versions of the story and “directed,” in a sense, by residents with conflicting views of the event. Deeply personal segments torn from family history build toward a massive restaging of the deportation itself on the exact day of its 100th anniversary.

Durante más de treinta años, y a través de su programa de televisión, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), presentador, productor, escritor y pianista, acompañado por sus marionetas y sus muchos amigos, habló directamente a los niños pequeños sobre algunos de los temas más importantes de la vida.

Documentary following three families each coping with a child affected by serious emotional or mental illness. The families explore treatment opportunities and grapple with the struggle of living with their child's condition.

Examina lo sucedido en 2014 en relación al tiroteo de Laquan McDonald, un chico de 17 años que fue abatido por el agente de policía Jason Van Dyke en Chicago (Estados Unidos), y la tapadera que se realizó para ocultar los hechos.

After international withdrawal from Afghanistan, two remarkable Afghan women working within the government and media struggle to maintain their hard-won rights while balancing what’s best for their families.

Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored by the FBI.

When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.

The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of Russian meddling in the 2016 election that reveals an empire of fake news and the tactics of modern day information warfare.

Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.

En este desgarrador documental, una joven que prepara su tesis doctoral recurre a la cámara para dar visibilidad a su lucha diaria contra el síndrome de fatiga crónica.

Dina, an outspoken and eccentric 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiancé Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge. Scott freezes when it comes to physical intimacy, and Dina, a Kardashians fanatic, wants nothing more than to share with Scott all she’s learned about sensual desire from books, TV shows, and her previous marriage. Her increasingly creative forays to draw Scott close keep hitting roadblocks—exposing anxieties, insecurities, and communication snafus while they strive to reconcile their conflicting approaches to romance and intimacy.

The senior year of a girls’ high school step team in inner-city Baltimore is documented, as they try to become the first in their families to attend college. The girls strive to make their dancing a success against the backdrop of social unrest in their troubled city.

This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.

Documental que sigue a Aisholpan, una niña mongola de trece años que lucha contra una arraigada cultura misógina para convertirse en la primera cazadora de águilas en 2.000 años de historia dominados por hombres. Mediante una impresionante fotografía aérea y un metraje cercano y real, la película captura su travesía personal a la vez que aborda temas universales como el empoderamiento de la mujer, el mundo natural, la entrada en la edad adulta y el arranque de la modernidad

Una mirada a los efectos del bullying cibernético en los adolescentes y su comunidad.

Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Night School follows three adult students living in the city’s more impoverished neighborhoods as they attempt to earn their diplomas while juggling other difficult responsibilities and realities. Through their stories, the filmmakers explore many issues that low-income Americans deal with, including unjust minimum wage and working conditions, arbitrary legal hindrances, and race and gender inequality.

A finales de los años ochenta, en la Rumanía de Ceausescu, un contrabandista de VHS y una valiente traductora llevaron la magia del cine occidental al pueblo rumano y sembraron la semilla de una revolución.

What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery.

An idealistic collective launches a TV channel in the very early days of portable video cameras. This wonderful lesson in journalism makes it clear just how perilous it is to promote your own view of society via autonomous media. From the tumultuous period of Woodstock, the Black Panthers, women’s lib and anti-Vietnam demonstrations.

An idealistic collective launches a TV channel in the very early days of portable video cameras. This wonderful lesson in journalism makes it clear just how perilous it is to promote your own view of society via autonomous media. From the tumultuous period of Woodstock, the Black Panthers, women’s lib and anti-Vietnam demonstrations.

La guerra de 1967 'de los Seis Días' terminó con la decisiva victoria de Israel; la conquista de Jerusalén, Gaza, el Sinaí y Cisjordania. Una semana después de la guerra, un grupo de kibbutzniks jóvenes, dirigidos por el reconocido autor Amos Oz, grabó conversaciones íntimas con los soldados que regresan del campo de batalla. La grabación revela una mirada honesta, que el ejército israelí había censurado, lo que permite a los kibbutzniks publicar sólo un fragmento de las conversaciones. 'Censored Voices' revela las grabaciones originales por primera vez. (FILMAFFINITY)

A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.

A descent into Eastern Europe's haunted woodlands uncovers the secrets, fairy tales, and bloody histories that shape our understanding of man's place in nature.

La creciente rivalidad entre Kevin Pearce y Shaun White en la carrera hacia las Olimpiadas de 2010 deja a Shaun en lo alto del podio olímpico y a Kevin en coma después de un accidente durante un entrenamiento en Park City, Utah. La familia de Kevin, estrechamente unida a él, viaja desde Vermont para ayudarle a reconstruir su vida con una lesión cerebral. Pero él insiste en volver a practicar snowboard. Los médicos piensan que el más ligero golpe en la cabeza podría matarlo. ¿Los desafiará Kevin e insistirá en perseguir su gran pasión? Esta es la dramática historia de un atleta inolvidable, de un deporte espectacular, el snowboard, y de un grave asunto, la lesión cerebral. (FILMAFFINITY)

Amid the nation’s ongoing debate over health care reform, this bracing new documentary examines the everyday realities of Americans who lack access to affordable medical treatment. Filmed during three days in the operation of a “no-cost” clinic set up annually at Bristol, Tennessee’s NASCAR speedway, Remote Area Medical documents the range of medical care the eponymous organization provides to low-income patients in the heart of Appalachia.

The film MISS REPRESENTATION exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. It’s time to break that cycle of mistruths.

Afghani-American filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi shadows her father, a women's health specialist working to rebuild hospitals in war-torn Afghanistan, in this thought-provoking documentary filmed in the wake of the United States' invasion of the region. In a country where one in seven women dies during childbirth, many women are willing to travel for days to receive adequate care from a trained professional.

On October 23, 1998, a sniper carrying a high-powered rifle assassinated Dr. Barnett Slepian in his home, altering forever a family, a community, and the bounds of our imaginings about anti-abortion violence. This horrific act punctuated a decade of escalating harassment and violence against women’s heath care providers – a decade marred by murders, assaults, death threats, stalking, clinic blockades, arsons, bombings, and chemical attacks. How do these events affect the personal and professional lives of abortion providers? What motivates them to continue their work in the face of such terrorism?

Teacher Wang works as a 'mistress dispeller' in China, hired to break up affairs by any means necessary. Through one of her cases, we explore the ways class, capital, and culture collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.

A documentary film following the rise of Ebony and Jet and their growth into a brand with a readership base in the millions which has had an undeniable effect on American culture.