After losing last year’s championship, equipped with heart, hustle, and hope, the “Boston Renegades” (a women’s tackle football team with players ranging in age from 19-49) are on the path to redemption. These unpaid athletes from a vast spectrum of backgrounds dedicate both their time and their bodies to pursue their passion, all while maintaining full-time careers.
An unlikely friendship forms between bullied Yves and popular Charlotte fueled by their love for synchronized swimming.
Health and educational outcomes in low-income areas across America are staggering low. Stephen Ritz is out to change that. He developed a curriculum that allows children to grow vegetables in the classroom, be more engaged with school, and give them pathways to jobs. GENERATION GROWTH follows Ritz as he expands his program across the country: bringing hope, health, and opportunity to those who need it the most.
Young Adil grapples with leaving Morocco and his mother to live with his father in France.
FILTERED is an honest look at ten teenagers and the effects of media on their psychological states over the course of a year.
Paternal expectations plague young and tender Léo on a hunting trip on which he’s meant to kill.
A foreboding paranoia progressively overcomes and affable latchkey kid after he solely witnesses and attack.
Overprotected and overdirected, American children are wilting under the weight of well-meaning parents. CHASING CHILDHOOD follows education professionals and reformed helicopter parents seeking solutions to develop more confident and independent young people, while restoring some joy and freedom to their childhoods.
Fault lines (cultural, relational, and geological) threaten a tenuously reunited Taiwanese American family in the late ’80s.
Gabriel’s hardened father hinders his dream of singing with a local choir that fundraises for refugees.
Guarded by police, unable to leave home, young Colin isn’t allowed the questions he’s full of.
To make ends meet, people in the US are working longer hours across multiple jobs. This modern reality of non-stop work has resulted in an unexpected phenomenon: the flourishing of 24-hour daycare centers. THROUGH THE NIGHT is a verité documentary that explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of 2 working mothers and a childcare provider whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center.
After winning, a young gymnast is regarded more like a prized pony than a child.
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