Executive Producer
A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they leave behind.
The Arc of Oblivion illuminates the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory through a filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in Maine.
Self
Unpacks the ethics and responsibility inherent in documentary filmmaking by examining well-known documentaries of the past decade, and revealing the impact their commercial success has had on the lives of the onscreen subjects.
Thanks
ARCTIC SUMMER is a poetic meditation on Tuktoyaktuk, an Indigenous community in the Arctic. The film captures Tuk during one of the last summers before climate change forced Tuk's coastal population to relocate to more habitable land.
Executive Producer
In a village in Thailand, Pomm works in a care center for Europeans with Alzheimer's. While she is separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth during the final stages of her life, as Maya, a new patient, is on her way from Switzerland.
Additional Camera
A executiva musical Drew Dixon revela o quanto a carreira e a vida pessoal foram profundamente afetadas após ser sexualmente abusada por um dos homens mais poderosos do ramo.
Producer
Em Dick Johnson Is Dead, a diretora Kirsten Johnson busca uma maneira de manter vivo seu pai de 86 anos para sempre. Utilizando a magia do cinema e o humor sombrio de sua família, ela comemora os últimos anos do Dr. Dick Johnson encenando fantasias da morte e além. Juntos, pai e filha enfrentam a grande inevitabilidade que nos espera.
Director of Photography
Em Dick Johnson Is Dead, a diretora Kirsten Johnson busca uma maneira de manter vivo seu pai de 86 anos para sempre. Utilizando a magia do cinema e o humor sombrio de sua família, ela comemora os últimos anos do Dr. Dick Johnson encenando fantasias da morte e além. Juntos, pai e filha enfrentam a grande inevitabilidade que nos espera.
Self
Em Dick Johnson Is Dead, a diretora Kirsten Johnson busca uma maneira de manter vivo seu pai de 86 anos para sempre. Utilizando a magia do cinema e o humor sombrio de sua família, ela comemora os últimos anos do Dr. Dick Johnson encenando fantasias da morte e além. Juntos, pai e filha enfrentam a grande inevitabilidade que nos espera.
Writer
Em Dick Johnson Is Dead, a diretora Kirsten Johnson busca uma maneira de manter vivo seu pai de 86 anos para sempre. Utilizando a magia do cinema e o humor sombrio de sua família, ela comemora os últimos anos do Dr. Dick Johnson encenando fantasias da morte e além. Juntos, pai e filha enfrentam a grande inevitabilidade que nos espera.
Director
Em Dick Johnson Is Dead, a diretora Kirsten Johnson busca uma maneira de manter vivo seu pai de 86 anos para sempre. Utilizando a magia do cinema e o humor sombrio de sua família, ela comemora os últimos anos do Dr. Dick Johnson encenando fantasias da morte e além. Juntos, pai e filha enfrentam a grande inevitabilidade que nos espera.
Director of Photography
Elliott Erwitt has spent his entire adult life taking photographs, of presidents, popes and movie stars, as well as regular people and their pets. His work is iconic in world culture while his life is largely unknown.
Director of Photography
A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.
Additional Camera
Three extraordinary young people battle to change their lives through the three-month odyssey of the New York Daily News Golden Gloves - the biggest, oldest, most important amateur boxing tournament in the world.
Director of Photography
Filmmaker Sam Green, in collaboration with writer and editor Joe Bini, takes the stage with the legendary classical-music group Kronos Quartet to create a "live documentary" that chronologically unfolds the quartet's groundbreaking, continent-spanning, multi-decade career. Wildly creative and experimental in form, A Thousand Thoughts is a meditation on music itself-the act of listening closely to music, the experience of feeling music deeply, and the power that music has to change the world. Green narrates the piece live onstage while the Kronos Quartet performs the score, and a rich blend of archival footage, photos, and interviews with members of the Kronos Quartet – as well as longtime collaborators like Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Terry Riley, Tanya Tagaq, and Steve Reich – unspools on screen.
Camera Operator
Quatro anos da história de um bravo grupo de policiais negros e latinos e um investigador privado implacável que, em meio a um processo histórico, arriscam tudo para expor práticas ilegais de cotas e seu impacto sobre as minorias jovens.
self
Made from footage captured at Brooklyn’s BAMcinemafest in June 2016 in which filmmakers were left alone in a hotel with a camera and a question: "Is cinema a dead language, an art which is already in the process of decline?" An homage to Wim Wenders’s documentary Room 666, in which the same question was posed to directors such as Steven Spielberg, Jean-Luc Godard, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016 serves as a revealing document about the current state of American independent film, as well as a provocative rumination about how we see and experience the world.
Consulting Producer
Khader El-Yateem, an Arab American Pastor from Palestine, and Linda Sarsour, organizer of the Women's March on Washington, come together in the wake of President Trump's anti-Muslim policies. With Sarsour's support, El-Yateem runs for New York City council. Will he be the first Arab American to ever win a seat in the race? The documentary follows the drama of his candidacy.
Additional Photography
O documentário traça a vida e história da doença mental da artista e fotógrafa americana Ruth Litoff, pela ótica de sua irmã.
Additional Camera
Veja o impacto médico e ambiental do permanente despejo de resíduo nuclear em duas comunidades de St. Louis, cada vez mais preocupantes.
Co-Producer
Um retrato aprofundado sobre o revolucionário impacto causado na sociedade contemporânea pela atuação do WikiLeaks e de toda sua equipe, explorando especificamente a vida do criador da iniciativa, bem com seu refúgio forçado na Embaixada do Equador, em Londres, o jornalista Julian Assange, responsável por coordenar diversas ações que vazaram e ainda vazam documentos secretos, em uma busca constante pela verdade.
Director of Photography
Um retrato aprofundado sobre o revolucionário impacto causado na sociedade contemporânea pela atuação do WikiLeaks e de toda sua equipe, explorando especificamente a vida do criador da iniciativa, bem com seu refúgio forçado na Embaixada do Equador, em Londres, o jornalista Julian Assange, responsável por coordenar diversas ações que vazaram e ainda vazam documentos secretos, em uma busca constante pela verdade.
Additional Director of Photography
Este documentário mergulha no mundo complexo da Herbalife, empresa global de produtos nutricionais acusada de esquema de pirâmide.
self
The following roundtable conversation features director Kirsten Johnson along with documentary filmmaker Gini Reticker and sound recordists Wellington Bowler and Judy Karp, frequent collaborators of Jonhson’s whose work is featured in CAMERAPERSON. It was produced in 2016.
Director of Photography
Set at an ancient nunnery above the majestic Irrawaddy River, A THOUSAND MOTHERS is an unprecedented look at the lives of Buddhist nuns in Sagaing, Myanmar.
Director of Photography
Work in progress.
Additional Camera
Em duas cidades de locais diferentes dos Estados Unidos, duas adolescentes são vítimas de estupro em uma festa em que são dopadas por garotos que consideravam seus amigos. Após a violência, elas são assediadas virtualmente, e a depressão e a vergonha as encaminham para o suícidio, e tragicamente, uma delas morre. Audrie & Daisy explora a perspectiva dos adolescentes e suas familias, incluindo os meninos envolvidos e as garotas dispostas a falar publicamente pela primeira vez.
Director of Photography
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
Self (archive footage)
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
Producer
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
Director
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
Director of Photography
TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures in the US and clinics have taken their fight to the courts. Follow the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers who are on the front lines of a battle to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women.
Director of Photography
A U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
Producer
A U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
Director
A U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
Director of Photography
The New Yorker is the benchmark for the single-panel cartoon. This light-hearted and sometimes poignant look at the art and humor of the iconic drawings shows why they have inspired and even baffled us for decades. Very Semi-Serious is a window into the minds of cartooning legends and hopefuls, including editor Bob Mankoff, shedding light onto how their humor evolves.
Additional Photography
Following the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. Reverend Rob Schenck, anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, breaks with orthodoxy by questioning whether being pro-gun is consistent with being pro-life.
Director of Photography
A WOMAN LIKE ME is a hybrid documentary that interweaves the real story of director Alex Sichel, diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2011, with the fictional story of Anna Seashell, who struggles to find the glass half full when faced with the same diagnosis. The film follows Alex as she uses her craft to explore what is foremost on her mind while confronting a terminal disease: parenting, marriage, faith, life, and death. When we are stuck between a rock and hard place, can our imagination get us out?
Director of Photography
For the past 15 years, a group of accomplished New York women, artists and writers in their eighties and nineties, gather at the Westbeth Artists Housing for a monthly salon.
Director of Photography
Native American Natural Foods is one of the only private enterprises on the Pine Ridge Reservation. When their new energy bar gains national distribution, it gives new hope to a struggling community.
Director of Photography
The children of "Happy Valley" were victimized for years, by a key member of the legendary Penn State college football program. But were Jerry Sandusky’s crimes an open secret? With rare access, director Amir Bar-Lev delves beneath the headlines to tell a modern American parable of guilt, redemption, and identity.
Director of Photography
What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well, you’re wrong. Like, really wrong.
Co-Producer
Uma documentarista e um repórter viajam para Hong Kong para o primeiro de muitos encontros com Edward Snowden.
Director of Photography
Uma documentarista e um repórter viajam para Hong Kong para o primeiro de muitos encontros com Edward Snowden.
Director of Photography
The Gift is a feature-length film exploring a major transformation in peoples' relationships with animals.
Director of Photography
Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local FBI offices to leak stolen documents and expose the illegal surveillance of ordinary Americans in an era of anti-war activism. In this riveting heist story, the perpetrators reveal themselves for the first time, reflecting on their actions and raising broader questions surrounding security leaks in activism today.
Director of Photography
Born to Fly pushes the boundaries between action and art, daring us to join choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her dancers in pursuit of human flight.
Camera Operator
Seeds of Time follows agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler's global journey to save the eroding foundation of our food supply in a new era of climate change.
Director of Photography
Haitian born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a 2-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti.
Additional Photography
Documentary - The documentary directed by Joshua Seftel follows the revival production of the Broadway musical including casting, rehearsals, and opening night. - Andy Blankenbuehler, Lilla Crawford, Madi Rae DiPietro
Director of Photography
When filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she discovered a hidden box of audiotapes. Sixteen years passed before she had the courage to delve into this trove, unearthing details that her mother had recorded about every aspect of her life from the challenges of her marriage to a State Senator, to her son’s estrangement, to her struggles with bipolar disorder. HERE ONE DAY is a visually arresting, emotionally candid film about a woman coping with mental illness, her relationships with her family, and the ripple effects of her suicide on those she loved.
Director of Photography
Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data.
Producer
Filmmaker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans' personal data.
Director of Photography
Evangelical Christians are calling out for a second sexual revolution: chastity. As a counter-movement of the attitudes and practices of today's culture, one in six girls in the US has vowed to remain 'unsoiled' until marriage. But the seven children of the Wilson family, founders of the Purity Ball, take this concept of purity of body and mind one step further; even their first kiss will be at the altar. For two years, the filmmakers follow the Wilson offspring as they prepare for their fairytale vision of romance and marriage and seek out their own prince and princess spouses. In the process, a broader theme emerges: how the religious right is grooming a young generation of virgins to embody an Evangelically-grounded Utopia in America.
Director of Photography
Using personal stories, this powerful documentary illuminates the plight of the 49 million Americans struggling with food insecurity. A single mother, a small-town policeman and a farmer are among those for whom putting food on the table is a daily battle.
Director of Photography
O sonho das mulheres que entram para o exército norte-americano é servir e proteger seu país. Mas uma vez no campo de batalha, elas sofrem um número crescente de abusos sexuais por parte de seus supostos companheiros.
Director of Photography
Sixteen women who had been imprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces in Foca, Bosnia, testify in an international court of law.
Director of Photography
Still Photographer
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Assistant Editor
By exploring the life of political activist Marie Runyon, we encounter a woman motivated not only to fight against injustice, but to also inspire victims of injustice to fight for themselves.
Director of Photography
By exploring the life of political activist Marie Runyon, we encounter a woman motivated not only to fight against injustice, but to also inspire victims of injustice to fight for themselves.
Director of Photography
Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Director of Photography
Pregnancy is a death sentence for more than half a million women every year, but their deaths would be preventable if they could obtain the health care they needed. This documentary focuses on the personal stories behind those statistics.
Additional Camera
The Edge of Joy follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and religious leaders as they battle the world's highest maternal mortality rate.
Editor
This documentary tells the story of an FBI sting that took place in Albany in 2004. The idea was to entrap Yassin Aref, 37 and Mohammed Hossain, 51. In 2006, the two men were sentenced to 15 years in prison. The documentary asks; was this sting a set-up to criminalize two innocent Muslim men and if it was, what was the purpose?
Co-Producer
This documentary tells the story of an FBI sting that took place in Albany in 2004. The idea was to entrap Yassin Aref, 37 and Mohammed Hossain, 51. In 2006, the two men were sentenced to 15 years in prison. The documentary asks; was this sting a set-up to criminalize two innocent Muslim men and if it was, what was the purpose?
Additional Camera
Outrage é um documentário de 2009 dirigido por Kirby Dick sobre políticos gays norte-americanos no armário e que patrocinam legislação antigay. Esses políticos incluem o governador da Flórida, Charlie Crist, o congressista pela Califórnia David Dreier, o ex-prefeito de Nova Iorque, Ed Koch, e o ex-congressista pela Louisiana, Jim McCrery. O filme também apresenta entrevistas com os políticos abertamente gays Barney Frank, Jim McGreevey, e Tammy Baldwin.
Quando perguntado sobre a ética em revelar a orientação sexual de políticos que optaram em preservar suas vidas particulares, Dick respondeu dizendo "nosso filme toma a posição de não visar os políticos que estão no armário mas não votam contra os gays".
O filme foi produzido por Chain Camera Pictures, a produtora co-fundada por Kirby Dick. O Sundance Institute deu fundos para a produção do filme.
Director of Photography
A film crew follows the well-known banjo player Bela Fleck on his travels to Africa, where he learns about the instrument's origins.
Director of Photography
Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.
Director of Photography
Through a unique, “mom-and-pop” style film festival, a small town in south Dakota celebrates its most famous native son, Oscar Micheaux, a pioneering African American filmmaker of the early 1900’s.
Director of Photography
The untold story of the first women in U.S. history to be sent into direct ground combat.
Director of Photography
Este documentário aclamado segue a história de seis pessoas que estão determinadas a acabar com os sofrimentos no Darfur, devastado pela guerra no Sudão. Os seis - um ativista americano, um promotor internacional, um rebelde sudanês, um sheik, um líder do Programa Mundial de Alimentos e um ator conhecido internacionalmente - demonstram o poder de como um indivíduo pode criar mudanças extraordinárias.
Director of Photography
During the 2004 presidential election, Michael Moore set off on a 60 city tour (mostly colleges), making stops in the 20 battleground states, to help raise voting awareness.
Director of Photography
Michael Moore visits colleges in swing states during the 2004 election with a goal to encourage 18–29 year olds to vote.
Director of Photography
This film follows students, staff and parents through the first four years of the High School for Contemporary Arts, an experimental "small school" housed within one of the most dangerous schools in the Bronx.
Additional Camera
Documentary looking at the work of the attorneys and adjusters involved in cases of wrongful death, a moving and enlightening story of how tragedy and injustice are computed and integrated into financial considerations that make it impossible to give a human answer to one of the most fundamental questions - what is the value of life? (Storyville)
Producer
Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a triumph of documentary storytelling, ELECTION DAY combines eleven stories--all shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight--into one. Factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists and diligent poll watchers, from South Dakota to Florida, take the process of democracy into their own hands. The result: an entertaining, inspiring and sometimes unsettling tapestry of citizens determined on one fateful day to make their votes count.
Director of Photography
Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a triumph of documentary storytelling, ELECTION DAY combines eleven stories--all shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight--into one. Factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists and diligent poll watchers, from South Dakota to Florida, take the process of democracy into their own hands. The result: an entertaining, inspiring and sometimes unsettling tapestry of citizens determined on one fateful day to make their votes count.
Director of Photography
Will you kill for a good story? If you are James Cooper, a 28 year old copy editor with dreams of literary stardom, you will. After all, your girlfriend was just crowned the "voice of a new America" by the New York literati, and you waste your days editing third-rate textbooks in a dreary Chicago basement. Your first book got panned. Your agent just dumped you. You have no future. But when your girlfriend's corpse ends up sprawled beneath your bedroom window, you finally know what to write about. Crime Fiction is the story of murder, betrayal and outrageous artistic fortune.
Second Assistant Camera
A film that chronicles a young mans return to the streets where he grew up and the events that unfold after he reunites with a childhood friend.
Director of Photography
Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.
Self - Interviewer (voice)
Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.
Director of Photography
An innovative project in South Florida is raising academic achievement in public grammar schools by partnering teachers with artists to work together in the classroom.
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
In 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty after university students uncovered new evidence proving the innocence of 13 men on death row. This documentary follows the hearings held by a panel Ryan appointed to study the issue and interviews activists, scholars and prisoners, while examining the history of the American death penalty. As Ryan's time in office comes to an end, he must decide what steps to take to reform the judicial system.
Director
In 2000, Illinois Gov. George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty after university students uncovered new evidence proving the innocence of 13 men on death row. This documentary follows the hearings held by a panel Ryan appointed to study the issue and interviews activists, scholars and prisoners, while examining the history of the American death penalty. As Ryan's time in office comes to an end, he must decide what steps to take to reform the judicial system.
Additional Photography
Few can resist Venice's magical allure, but with more than 14 million visitors a year, Italy's glorious city of canals faces a number of threats. This documentary examines issues at the heart of Venice's precarious future. Interviews reveal a city in crisis -- politician Roberto plans to modernize Venice, while environmentalist Paolo wages a battle against tourist power-boat shuttles and Michela tries to maintain Venice's residential population.
Director of Photography
In the new Rwanda, women are at the forefront of change; transforming the country from the ground up and planning for a peaceful future.
Additional Camera
O diretor Michael Moore investiga como os Estados Unidos se tornaram alvo de terroristas, a partir dos eventos ocorridos no atentado de 11 de setembro de 2001. Os paralelos entre as duas gerações da família Bush que já comandaram o país e ainda as relações entre o atual Presidente americano, George W. Bush, e Osama Bin Laden.
Camera Operator
Director of Photography
Documentary about the life and career of Rokia Traoré, a musician from Mali, an African country, who is one of the few women in her country, perhaps the only one, who manages to have a career in music. She's recorded with Kronos Quartet, and lives between France and Mali.
Camera Operator
Camera Operator
Camera Operator
Camera Operator
Additional Camera
A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.
Director of Photography
Baba, a young Ghanaian woman, goes in search of her father for his blessing on her impending marriage. This turns to a nightmare as he insists she a different man, and that she undergo female genital mutilation as is the custom in his tribe. She is forced to flee her father's village, seeking refugee status in the U.S. Instead she becomes enmeshed in the U.S. immigration system.
Additional Photography
A 2003 documentary film about women on Wall Street following the lives of four Wall Street women - a research analyst, a currency trader, an NYSE floor broker and a rookie investment banker.
Camera Operator
It’s a medical breakthrough that might never have happened - if not for the persistence of one man. A woman is fighting cancer - with the help of a deadly poison. This is the story of a life-saving connection between ancient wisdom and modern science: arsenic, one of the most exciting new developments in the international war on cancer.
Director of Photography
Documentary about French philosopher (and author of deconstructionism) Jacques Derrida, who sparked fierce debate throughout American academia.
Additional Camera
Using two separate filmmaking teams (an all-white crew filming white residents and an all-black camera crew filming black residents), TWO TOWNS OF JASPER captures very different racial views by townsfolk in Jasper, Texas, the location for a racially motivated murder of an African American man in 1998.
Director of Photography
The Teamster's Union goes on strike against Overnite Transportation, a nationwide freight company that has resisted unionization. The Union, however, faces its own internecine battles as factions inside the organization, one led by James P. Hoffa (son of the infamous Jimmy Hoffa), vie for power.
Additional Camera
A portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.
Director of Photography
Six years after I left my country, Brazil, I was sent an old sound reel in the post and I discovered a recording of my parent's wedding ceremony. I was twenty-six. It was the first time I'd ever heard my mother's voice as she died when I was a year old. I was terribly moved and I decided to go to Brazil.
Director of Photography
Journey To The West is a contemporary exploration of the ways in which Chinese medicine - including acupuncture and herbal remedies - is being practiced today.
Director of Photography
Filmmaker Julia Pimsleur used to make up elaborate lies about her brother Marc, rather than explain that he had dropped out of college, turned his back on his Jewish heritage and moved to a Christian commune in Alaska. She and her mother initially feared that Marc had joined a cult. This documentary traces Julia's efforts to understand his conversion and to revive their relationship, despite her fundamentalist brother's disapproval of her bisexuality. Julia travels from New York City to her brother's religious community, where she and Marc search for common ground and discover the meaning of family.
Director of Photography
Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck's homeland, Haiti.
Director
James Forman, a 31-year-old public defender and son of a civil rights leader, provides representation for black youth in Washington, D.C., who can't afford their own attorneys in this riveting documentary that goes inside the criminal justice system. Director Kirsten Johnson's award-winning film also sheds light on the difficulties that ex-offenders face when trying to break the cycle of crime and imprisonment.
Screenplay
A "fictional documentary" concerning the volatile topic of female excision, Bintou In Paris tells the story of a young Malinese mother faced with the critical decision of whether or not to excise her baby daughter.
Director
A "fictional documentary" concerning the volatile topic of female excision, Bintou In Paris tells the story of a young Malinese mother faced with the critical decision of whether or not to excise her baby daughter.
Director of Photography
A young woman named Juliette is faced with a series of confrontations that she hears as those close to her discuss matters directly affecting Juliette offscreen.
Screenplay
Biopic on the life of Susan Sontag
Director
Biopic on the life of Susan Sontag
