AJ Schnack

Películas

Long Gone Summer
Editor
An examination of the 1998 MLB season and the home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. The two sluggers' race to hit the most home runs, later overshadowed by the steroid scandal, left a permanent mark on baseball history.
Long Gone Summer
Producer
An examination of the 1998 MLB season and the home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. The two sluggers' race to hit the most home runs, later overshadowed by the steroid scandal, left a permanent mark on baseball history.
Long Gone Summer
Director
An examination of the 1998 MLB season and the home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. The two sluggers' race to hit the most home runs, later overshadowed by the steroid scandal, left a permanent mark on baseball history.
The Earth is Humming
Executive Producer
In Japan, earthquake preparedness is a way of life — and a full- blown industry.
Gavin Grimm vs.
Executive Producer
In 2016, transgender teen Gavin Grimm sued his local school board after its members refused to let him use the bathroom of his choice. He was ready to take his case all the way to the Supreme Court—and then the election happened.
National Disintegrations
Executive Producer
In his latest film, Braden King ponders the Geneva Freeport, a warehouse complex in Switzerland that is said to house over 1 million works of art. A high-security tax haven for international dealers and collectors, the Freeport's exact contents remain a mystery to the general public. As people crossing borders are more to more and greater scrutiny, NATIONAL DISINTEGRATIONS examines what it means to have untold amounts of wealth and property flow freely through this extralegal space.
Duterte's Hell
Executive Producer
Since taking office last June, President Rodrigo Duterte has been waging a deadly anti-drug campaign. In the past year, police and vigilantes have reportedly killed over 7,000 people suspected of participating in the drug trade.
Our New President
Executive Producer
Donald Trump has become a beloved cult figure for many Russians. The short film uses found footage, fake news and state-controlled political programming to reveal the variety of ways Trump's newfound Russian supporters express their devotion.
Picket Line
Executive Producer
One week before Donald Trump was elected, 700 workers—many of whom were Trump supporters—walked out of the Momentive chemical plant in Waterford, NY, sparking a 105-day strike. In the wake of his win, the striking workers reflect on the election and Trump's advocacy for union-busting legislation.
Clowns
Producer
The Great Clown Panic of 2016 wasn’t about clowns. It was about you.
The Moderators
Executive Producer
In an office in India, a cadre of Internet moderators ensures that social media sites are not taken over by bots, scammers, and pornographers. The Moderators shows the humans behind content moderation, taking viewers into the training process that workers go through in order to become social media’s monitors.
Trump's Lobby
Executive Producer
Since the election of Donald Trump, there has been a continual flow of high level visitors to the penthouse apartment in Trump Tower. Their arrivals were turned into a media spectacle.
Project X
Executive Producer
Un manual de alto secreto lleva a los televidentes en un viaje encubierto a TITANPOINTE, el sitio de una asociación oculta. Narrado por Rami Malek y Michelle Williams, y basado en documentos clasificados de la NSA, PROJECT X revela el funcionamiento interno de un rascacielos sin ventanas en el centro de Manhattan.
The Vote
Producer
Strict military rule and international sanctions kept Myanmar sealed off from the world for decades. The Vote observes residents of the bustling city of Yangon as they navigate their first democratic election in over 50 years.
Like
Executive Producer
In our current world, where worth is often gauged by online popularity, an economy has developed for paying for followers and likes. Through access inside the “click-farms” of Bangladesh, Like explores the multi-million dollar industry that grows social media followings for celebrities and brands alike.
Concerned Student 1950
Executive Producer
A series of racist acts prompts three Mizzou students to pick up cameras and take us inside the student movement that brought down their college president. From the hunger strike, to victory, to the fear of violent reprisals, we live with the students who started a campus revolt.
Speaking Is Difficult
Director
Harrowing police scanner audios are set against placid landscapes in this urgent treatise on an American epidemic.
Caucus
Director
A film about the 2011-12 Republican race in Iowa by AJ Schnack
We Always Lie to Strangers
Director
A story of family, community, music and tradition set against the backdrop of Branson, Missouri, the remote Ozark Mountain town that is one of the biggest tourist destinations in America.
Convention
Director
Un grupo de cineastas de documentales hacen la crónica de la Convención Democrática Nacional de 2008.
Kurt Cobain: Sobre un Hijo
Editor
Luego de su supuesto suicidio, la figura de Kurt Cobain como nuevo mártir rockero dio paso a múltiples especulaciones y puntos de vista alrededor de la propia industria musical y, por supuesto, de su vida personal. Las conjeturas y los diferentes acercamientos comienzan de a poco a plasmarse en propuestas cinematográficas, algunas más felices que otras. Y si bien el abanico de ofertas puede ser diverso, ninguno podría igualar el motor que lleva adelante esta película: la voz del propio Cobain. Utilizando parte de más de veinticinco horas de entrevistas con material inédito, el líder de Nirvana se convierte en narrador excluyente de un documental intimista que va desglosando de manera pausada su propia historia: su infancia, sus primeros pasos en la música, su primer concierto, el encontronazo con la fama, sus últimos días. Un detalle: la música hipnótica de Steve Fisk (productor de Blew, primer Ep de Nirvana) y Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie).
Kurt Cobain: Sobre un Hijo
Director
Luego de su supuesto suicidio, la figura de Kurt Cobain como nuevo mártir rockero dio paso a múltiples especulaciones y puntos de vista alrededor de la propia industria musical y, por supuesto, de su vida personal. Las conjeturas y los diferentes acercamientos comienzan de a poco a plasmarse en propuestas cinematográficas, algunas más felices que otras. Y si bien el abanico de ofertas puede ser diverso, ninguno podría igualar el motor que lleva adelante esta película: la voz del propio Cobain. Utilizando parte de más de veinticinco horas de entrevistas con material inédito, el líder de Nirvana se convierte en narrador excluyente de un documental intimista que va desglosando de manera pausada su propia historia: su infancia, sus primeros pasos en la música, su primer concierto, el encontronazo con la fama, sus últimos días. Un detalle: la música hipnótica de Steve Fisk (productor de Blew, primer Ep de Nirvana) y Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie).
They Might Be Giants: Here Come The ABCs
Director
Learn the ABC's the fun way with The Grammy® - winning rock legends: THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 'HERE COME THE ABCs' CD + DVD features 24 New Songs PLUS 24 Music Videos. Enjoy both the CD and DVD in this package. The DVD contains over 45 minutes of animations, the wonderful puppets of the Deeply Felt Puppet Theater and performances!
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
Director
Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns is a rock documentary about Brooklyn's finest, They Might Be Giants. Filmed in 2001, the film contains concert footage, interviews, humor, animation, coffee, humor, lyric readings, people wondering about the subject matter of their lyrics, information on our eleventh and sixteenth presidents, and much, much more.