Film Library

In a town where the wind blows every single moment of every single day, the wind fisherman ?

A life-changing three minutes in the life of Susan, who wakes up from a night of partying to find her world a different place from which she remembered.

William’s wife of forty-five years has died. Local widow women are kind and he is trying to adjust to life alone. It’s just that Ruth’s cow, Tulip, needs to be milked, but she wants nothing to do with him. Another great Australian short.

Better This World is a 2011 documentary film that was directed by Kelly Duane and Katie Galloway. It had its world premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival on April 23, 2011, where it won two Golden Gate Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary Feature.

A selection of short films produced by the Youth Documentary Academy.  

When a widow and widower, both artists, meet on a vacation tour, they start a tale that dreams are made of. Although their interest in art provides a strong bond, it is their differences which bring a fresh, lively element to their marriage and the film. Together they reaffirm that love and romance can happen at any age for the clear eyed and open hearted.

Gabriel Valentine, 17, is a rising senior at Palmer High School. Since he was little, Gabriel has been drawn to film and video cameras and the impulse to help people tell their stories. At Palmer, Gabriel has been active in Terror TV, a school television program. In addition, he has produced short media pieces for Inside Out in Colorado Springs. For his YDA project, Gabriel wanted to investigate fatherhood through the eyes of those who’ve had strong fathers, and through his own eyes: since Gabriel was two, he’s been raised exclusively by one parent, his mother. When he turns the camera on her, the film becomes an intimate testament to parenthood in general as a mother and son come to deeper terms with their own special relationship in the absence of a father.

From Academy Award® winning director Roger Ross Williams, LIFE, ANIMATED is the inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films.

Twenty months after the horrific mass shooting in Newtown, CT that took the lives of twenty elementary school children and six educators on December 14, 2012, the small New England town is a complex psychological web of tragic aftermath in the wake of yet another act of mass killing at the hands of a disturbed young gunman. Kim A. Snyder’s searing Newtown documents a traumatized community fractured by grief and driven toward a sense of purpose.

Andy Kwiatowski, 18, is a recent graduate of Rampart High School in Colorado Springs. Andy came to YDA to make a documentary about growing up with an autistic disorder and turned the camera on himself, his parents and sister in telling a deeply personal account. His film LONELY HIGHWAY, is an intimate portrayal of family love and support as they come to terms with the unique challenges of and resilience necessary to being on the autistic spectrum. Prior to joining YDA, Andy took several film and media classes in school and produced a comic strip, stop motion video and several small films.

Spain,1977. Colonel Asensio has gathered his family and friends to celebrate his birthday. The party is going perfectly. However, one of the guests holds a secret that has been buried for many years but that refuses to stay hidden.