Film Category: NEW DOCS

Freedom Summer
Marco Williams

This investigative documentary takes us back to that moment when the only thing that mattered was making the U.S. a country worth living in for…

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Air Guitar Nation
Alexandra Lipsitz

“The axes are invisible; the chops are for real.” The art of air guitar centers on the elusive quality of “airness.” Covering the U.S. Air…

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Arctic Son
Andrew Walton

Stanley, a hard-drinking and aimless First Nation young man in Washington State, visits his estranged father, who now lives in Old Crow, a Yukon Territory…

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Asparagus! A Stalk-Umentary
Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly

What does asparagus—also known as “green gold”—have in common with skunks and rotten eggs? In this film you’ll learn everything you always wanted to know…

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Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture
Byron Hurt

Former college football quarterback Byron Hurt gives a first person account of his disenchantment with hip-hop’s thug-centered, misogynist, and homophobic culture. Compelling interviews with hip-hop…

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Black Sun
Gary Tarn

This extraordinary art film combines word, image, and music to portray a life interrupted and renewed. Black Sun begins with artist/filmmaker Hugues de Montalembert’s spoken…

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The Boy in the Bubble
Barak Goodman, John Maggio

The stuff of legend in pop culture. David Vetter was a real boy who, due to a rare immune system disorder, was forced to live…

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The Chances of the World Changing
Eric Daniel Metzgar

What began as a desire to help save endangered turtles becomes an all-consuming passion for New Yorker Richard Ogust, who eventually shares his apartment with…

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China Blue
Micha X. Peled

Jasmine, a 16-year-old Chinese peasant, moves from the rural Sichuan province to the industrial city of Shaxi and finds work at the Lifeng blue jean…

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EXIT
Fernand Melgar

In Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal, the choice to end one’s life is not a struggle with the law, but a liberating and empowering…

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