T. Griffin

Cuenta la extraordinaria historia de Donna Summer a través de un rico archivo compuesto por extractos de películas inéditas, videos caseros, fotografías, escritos, audios personales y otras grabaciones que abarcan la vida de una de las artistas más icónicas de todos los tiempos. Dirigido por Roger Ross Williams y la hija de Summer, Brooklyn Sudano.

Brooke Shields, ’80s icon and household name, was a child model before she came to prominence in Louis Malle’s controversial film "Pretty Baby" at age 12. With a series of provocative Calvin Klein jeans ads and leading roles in 1980s teensploitation hits "The Blue Lagoon" and "Endless Love," Shields’ early career was defined by a sexuality that she could neither claim nor comprehend.

In 1969, bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself — point-blank — 192 times.

In a Texas military town, three teenage girls confront the dark corners of adolescence at the end of a fever dream summer.

Basado en el éxito de ventas homónimo, "Street Gang" explora cómo el creador Joan Ganz Cooney, el director Jon Stone y el legendario creador de marionetas Jim Henson (entre otras figuras importantes) se unieron para crear una serie de televisión para niños que acabaría convirtiéndose en un revolucionario fenómeno cultural. Tras descubrir el poder de este medio para captar la atención de los más pequeños de la casa, estos visionarios decidieron emplear su poder para algo bueno, o lo que es lo mismo: en ofrecer contenidos de aprendizaje y no simples productos de consumo. Más de 50 años después, la serie se ha emitido en más de 150 países de todo el mundo, y sigue entreteniendo al mismo tiempo que educa a las nuevas generaciones.

Five Years North is the coming-of-age story of Luis, an undocumented Guatemalan boy who just arrived alone in New York City. He struggles to work, study, and evade Judy - the Cuban-American ICE officer patrolling his neighborhood.

En un experimento inusual, mil jóvenes de Texas de 17 años se unen para construir un gobierno representativo desde cero.

When artist-turned-filmmaker Jill Magid learns that the archives of Mexico's most famous architect are being held in a private collection, she devises a radical plan to explore the contested legacy of the late Luis Barragán.

Digging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.

Karoline, Christine and Enoch are high school seniors who want to be the first generation in their families to go to college, and they are determined to bring their friends with them. That's why they work as peer college counselors in their schools even as they reach towards their own college dreams. Karoline, Christine and Enoch are fighting for the right to a better future, for themselves and for every single one of their classmates.

Directed by Darius Clark Monroe and executive produced by Spike Lee, this documentary short tells the story of what happened when a group of college athletes decided to protest a long-standing racial injustice.

Pacientes terminales que se enfrentan a un final inevitable conocen a médicos extraordinarios que quieren cambiar nuestro enfoque con respecto a la vida y la muerte.

The lives of four Syrian families, resettled in Baltimore and under a deadline to become self-sufficient in eight months.

Traces the life and mental illness of New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and her sister's struggle to come to terms with her tragic suicide.

Tres judíos jasídicos se enfrentan al ostracismo, a la ansiedad y al peligro al intentar huir de la comunidad ultraortodoxa culpable de innumerables traumas y abusos.

For over a decade, this portrait of a North Philadelphia family and the creative sanctuary offered by their home music studio was filmed with vérité intimacy. The family's 10-year journey is an illumination of race and class in America, and it's a testament to love, healing and hope.

Owen Suskind es un niño normal hasta que cumple tres años. Entonces empieza un retroceso en su desarrollo. Lo que empieza siendo una sospecha por parte de los padres se acaba convirtiendo en una realidad desesperada. Owen es autista. Y deja de hablar. Y se desconecta de la realidad. Lo único que lo mantiene tranquilo es ver películas de dibujos de Disney con su hermano grande. Cuando los padres empiezan a perder la esperanza de que el niño recupere el habla, de repente, un día, expresa una realidad a partir de una frase que les es familiar. Se trata de una frase sacada de una película de las que el niño ve. Los padres descubren así que su hijo solo se puede comunicar a partir del mundo ficticio que ha construido en su cabeza, basado en las cintas de Disney. Se abre un camino de esperanza que irá mucho más allá de lo que podían imaginar.

In September 2012, the tiny prairie town of Leith, North Dakota, sees its population of 24 grow by one. As the new resident's behavior becomes more threatening, tensions soar, and the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor.

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.

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.

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.

El controversial Clérigo Terry Jones se enfrenta la comunidad musulmana en un barrio de Detroit.

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day. Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-collectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan gangs. LA CAMIONETA follows one such bus on its transformative journey: a journey between North and South, between life and death, and through an unfolding collection of moments, people, and places that serve to quietly remind us of the interconnected worlds in which we live.

Documental sobre el skater Josh "Skreech" Sandoval, una leyenda en el mundo del skate con tan solo 23 años de edad. Tristan Patterson, retrata la vida de Skreech y su novia, quienes se dedican a dejar pasar el tiempo bajo el brillante sol californiano apropiándose de cualquier piscina ajena, sin sufrir el más mínimo estupor cuando son pillados por sus propietarios. Sus mayores aliados son la marihuana y el alcohol, no entienden de responsabilidades, actúan en base a sus impulsos, se dirigen hacia donde les lleve el cuerpo y las ruedas de sus patines se encargan del resto.

Until an FBI bust upended her life, Jeanette Maier was a successful New Orleans madam. Her discreet clientele included a number of powerful, high-ranking politicians. The ensuing very public trial - both in the courtroom and in the media – focused salaciously on the fact that Jeanette’s brothel was a family affair – Jeanette ran the business with her mother and she employed her own daughter as an escort. Jeanette and her family ended up infamous, their futures blighted by felony convictions, yet their well-connected clients escaped exposure. Now, the Canal Street Madam sets out to reinvent herself, to reclaim her public persona, and to protect her family as she fights back against a system that silences the powerless and protects the elite.

Throughout human history, people have had giddy dreams and fantastic notions about what the future would bring. Today the future has become more of a threat than a promise-a knot of intractable problems looming menacingly on the horizon. With a powerful sense of poetry, Utopia in Four Movements uses the collective experience of cinema to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

Filmmaker Kimberly Reed returns home for her high school reunion, ready to reintroduce herself to the small town as a transgender woman and hoping for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother Marc. Things are complicated by the shocking revelation that Marc may be the grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, forcing Kim and her family to explore questions of sexual orientation, identity, severe trauma and love.

This surreal art-movie/live-performance hybrid is comprised of New York filmmaker Jem Cohen's original 16mm and DV movie footage combined with concert clips of Vic Chesnutt and members of Silver Mt. Zion, among others.

One year after Hurricane Katrina, troubles arise for a surgeon who, despite remarrying his ex-wife and starting his life anew, becomes reacquainted with an former girlfriend.

A short musical film