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“I Want to Move, I Want to Embrace Change”: Kelsey Peterson’s Journey to...
By Xian Horn Kelsey Peterson and I have had very different experiences of disability—I was born with cerebral palsy, and she became disabled as an adult. But watching her film Move Me, I felt deeply...
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Beyond Football: Pahokee, Florida’s History of Black Resilience
This community and the surrounding area around the southern shores of Lake Okeechobee, Florida, has a rich history, but the people of Pahokee’s past has often been skipped over, even by those who live...
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How Vancouver Finds Hope and Love Amid Fentanyl Crisis
By Ivonne Spinoza One of the more horrible legacies we are left with from the war on drugs is the lack of compassion toward those who struggle with addiction. Instead of treating this crisis as a...
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What Happened to Chol Soo Lee?
By Bedatri D. Choudhury Chol Soo Lee was a Korean American immigrant wrongfully convicted in 1974 of murdering a Chinatown gang leader in San Francisco. After a decade of being incarcerated, serving...
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Home Movies and Heartbreak: Brothers Bond Over Decades of Filmmaking
By Brian Darr Sam Now is filled with the unexpected twists and turns of a family undergoing great upheaval, filmed over the course of a quarter-century by one of its members. Inspired by National Film...
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Free Mom Hugs: How Mama Bears Spread Radical Love
By Alex Stergiou “These women don’t go from being conservative to allies because of other people. They go because they have skin in the game. They transform. Love is involved because their flesh and...
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Feeding Our “Hungry Ghosts”: The Misunderstood Pain Behind Addiction
By Ivonne Spinoza Brother is an intimate portrayal of addiction that makes us question our preconceptions and helps shed light on what really goes on inside the mind of a person suffering through this...
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Short Film “Folk Frontera” Shows the Culture of Life on the Border
By Ivonne Spinoza Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn’s Folk Frontera is a border-set tale, expertly portraying the beauty and heartbreak that comes with living on the U.S.-Mexico border. Connecting two...
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From Crimmigration Court Interpreter to Lifelong Friends
Mexican American filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes was and still is a court interpreter in rural California. It was in that capacity that he met then 19-year-old Mexican migrant Sansón Noé Andrade, who was...
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When the American Dream Becomes Survival: Short Doc Chronicles Rural...
By Nathan Duke Director Ramin Bahrani’s acclaimed films (like Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, and 99 Homes) focus on people struggling to survive due to economic challenges or failing to achieve the...
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What Extreme Outer Space Isolation Can Teach Humans
Filmmaker Ido Mizrahy was fascinated by space travel isolation from a young age, inspired and awed by science fiction films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, and the original Solaris. And he...
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“To Film with Your Ears”: Reinventing Cinematic Language with The Tuba Thieves
By Rachel Kolb Alison O’Daniel is a visual artist and filmmaker who works with sound, moving images, sculpture, and large-scale installations. She is the director of The Tuba Thieves, an experimental...
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