Richard Hankin

Black and white, young and old, a group of women risk their personal identities to build a second family while creating a documentary-film across the inequities of their Baltimore City neighborhoods.

Em uma das decisões mais polarizadas da Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos, Roe v. Wade, está uma mulher tão polêmica quanto o próprio caso. Norma McCorvey, também conhecida como "Jane Roe", revela a verdade por trás de sua história em um momento crítico no debate sobre o aborto nos EUA.

In 2010 David Crowley, an Iraq veteran, aspiring filmmaker and charismatic up-and-coming voice in fringe politics, began production on his film Gray State. Set in a dystopian near-future where civil liberties are trampled by an unrestrained federal government, the film’s crowd funded trailer was enthusiastically received by the burgeoning online community of libertarians, Tea Party activists and members of the nascent alt-right. In January of 2015, Crowley was found dead with his family in their suburban Minnesota home. Their shocking deaths quickly become a cause célèbre for conspiracy theorists who speculate that Crowley was assassinated by a shadowy government concerned about a film and filmmaker that was getting too close to the truth about their aims.

A documentary chronicling the impact and day to day operations of the journal The Nation.

A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to infuse African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting sexual immorality and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow biblical law.

A powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to infuse African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting sexual immorality and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow biblical law.

The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11.

Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig's debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water. From the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car and I.O.U.S.A., this timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water. From the plastic production to the ocean in which so many of these bottles end up, this inspiring documentary trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips on the table. A powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry, this revelatory film features those caught at the intersection of big business and the public's right to water.

Chronicles the first-ever, senior citizen hip-hop dance team for the New Jersey Nets Basketball team, 12 women and man - all dance team newbies, from auditions through to center court stardom.

Burning the Future: Coal in America examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the Coal Industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by an emerging coal-based US energy policy, local activists watch the nation praise coal without regard to the devastation caused by its extraction.

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway is an American documentary film, directed by Dori Berinstein, a Broadway Producer, Writer and Filmmaker. Berinstein filmed each principal musical on Broadway for her project during the 2003-2004 season, for about 600 hours of initial film footage. She focused the film on four musicals, through the difficulties of pre-production, their openings, attendant publicity around the shows, and their reviews, through the 2004 Tony Award competition. The four musicals documented for the film were: Wicked, Taboo, Caroline or Change, Avenue Q.

On November 3, 1979, members of the Communist Workers Party were holding a Death to the Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. Suddenly a caravan rounded the corner, scattering the protesters. Klansmen and Nazis emerged from the cars, unloaded an arsenal of guns and began firing. Five people were killed in what became known as the Greensboro Massacre. Greensboro: Closer to the Truth reconnects 25 years later with the players in this tragedy—widowed and wounded survivors, along with their attackers—and chronicles how their lives have evolved in the long aftermath of the killings. All converge when the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission ever held in the United States is convened in Greensboro from 2004-2006 to investigate the Massacre. As the Commission struggles to uncover what actually happened and why, the participants confront the truth of their past, and struggle with the possibility of hope and redemption.

For a wounded American soldier returning home from Iraq, the conflict has just begun. "Home Front" captures the human story of what happens when Sergeant Jeremy Feldbusch returns to civilian life in his small hometown, as he readjusts to family, community --and most importantly, his new, altered self. On another level, the film is also about Jeremy's family, and how they cope with events that have forever changed them. By turns heartbreaking and inspiring, "Home Front" gets behind the often-sanitized myth of war to reveal its true complications and costs.

For a wounded American soldier returning home from Iraq, the conflict has just begun. "Home Front" captures the human story of what happens when Sergeant Jeremy Feldbusch returns to civilian life in his small hometown, as he readjusts to family, community --and most importantly, his new, altered self. On another level, the film is also about Jeremy's family, and how they cope with events that have forever changed them. By turns heartbreaking and inspiring, "Home Front" gets behind the often-sanitized myth of war to reveal its true complications and costs.

O documentário expõe o caso de uma família judia de classe média, em uma pequena cidade da costa leste dos Estados Unidos. O pai - professor de computação para crianças e adolescentes - e o filho mais novo são acusados de molestar crianças em 1987, na escola de informática montada na casa da família. O filme mistura cenas do polêmico julgamento com depoimentos de vítimas e imagens feitas pelos três filhos do casal, que não deixaram de praticar seu hobby de gravar em vídeo imagens da família durante o período em que os Friedman foram atacados pela mídia. O documentário se desenrola com a estrutura de uma ficção, ´capturando´ as experiências vividas pelos protagonistas e deixando ao espectador a decisão sobre o veredito do caso. Filme vencedor do Grande Prêmio do Júri no Festival de Sundance em 2003.

O documentário expõe o caso de uma família judia de classe média, em uma pequena cidade da costa leste dos Estados Unidos. O pai - professor de computação para crianças e adolescentes - e o filho mais novo são acusados de molestar crianças em 1987, na escola de informática montada na casa da família. O filme mistura cenas do polêmico julgamento com depoimentos de vítimas e imagens feitas pelos três filhos do casal, que não deixaram de praticar seu hobby de gravar em vídeo imagens da família durante o período em que os Friedman foram atacados pela mídia. O documentário se desenrola com a estrutura de uma ficção, ´capturando´ as experiências vividas pelos protagonistas e deixando ao espectador a decisão sobre o veredito do caso. Filme vencedor do Grande Prêmio do Júri no Festival de Sundance em 2003.