Film Library

A circle of diverse women with breast cancer investigate the known and suspected causes of the breast cancer epidemic.

Racial tensions are reignited as a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs fights to remove trees that many believe were originally planted as a totem of segregation. This intimate, sobering, and at times humorous investigation uncovers an even darker history that few would equate with the City’s progressive image.

A strong-minded Bedouin woman struggles against tradition and society as she seeks to become Jordan’s first Solar Engineer.

The curiosity of a little village girl uncovers the story of once beautiful Maria whose buried memories reveal a story of war and lost love.

RAISE HELL: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MOLLY IVINS tells the story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on the Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it.

Artist Beverly McIver was enjoying a skyrocketing career when a casual—yet life‐changing—promise made to her mother years before came due. Filmed over 6 years by Oscar nominees Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher, RAISING RENEE explores deep themes of family, race, class, disability and art through the interplay of painting, cinema and everyday life.

At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation’s highest court has been largely unknown, eve…

Naomi has known all her life she will succumb to the same fate that has struck her family for generations. She is determined not to make a fool of herself as her ancestors have trying to avoid the curse.

Ana, a first generation Mexican American teenager living in East Los Angeles, has just graduated from high school. Although Ana is excited about the possibility of going to college, her overbearing and hypercritical mother, Carmen, insists that it is t…

RECLAIM tells the story of young Honor as he follows in the footsteps of his older brother Hanalei in learning the Hawaiian tradition of hula. The brothers are proud of their role in reclaiming Hawaiian heritage, through dance as well as the meaningful power of language and custom.

In 2016, at Standing Rock, the youth of many tribes unite the Native Nations for the first time in 150 years and rise up in spiritual solidarity against the 3.8 billion dollar Dakota Access Oil Pipeline (DAPL). These young Native leaders known as ‘water protectors’ join together to honor their destiny as they pray and protect Mother Earth by leading a peaceful movement of resistance which awakens the world.

For over sixty years, children have been born and raised here. Parents and grandparents eat and survive here. Thousands of families have thrived in the largest and most toxic area in all of Central America. For decades, the Guatemala City Garbage Dump…