Movies: Documentary filmmaking

South Bend is in the midst of its most dramatic shift since the collapse of Studebaker in 1963. Today, it is at a turning point and still trying to find its footing. We held conversations with people around South Bend to capture how residents were ex...

On July 4th, 1946, the crowd in Kielce, Poland, slaughtered forty-two Jews and wounded many others. Forty years later, in 1987, Marcel Łoziński visited those places and met some witnesses of the carnage....

Mexico City was built on a lake, yet today it faces water scarcity. This film allows us to reflect on this contradiction. It also travels back in time to the day when a monolith representing Tlaloc, the aquatic deity, was transported to the center of...

To My Motherland is an experimental personal essay film that blends personal photographs and home videos to explore the complexities of immigration, language, and returning to the motherland....

In intimate confessions and poetic imagery, the film transforms simple fruit into a profound metaphor for the eternal quest for meaning, love, power, and desire, challenging societal taboos along the way....

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EXTREME BEACHCOMBING is an intimate portrait of retired plumber John Anderson and his 46-year obsession with collecting manmade objects that wash up on the obscure beaches of the Pacific Northwest. Narrated entirely by John himself, this poetic and p...

Crayons and Paper follows Dr. Jerry Ehrlich, a New Jersey pediatrician who worked with Doctors Without Borders in war zones including Sri Lanka, Haiti, the Caucasus, and Darfur. Alongside medical care, he gave children crayons and paper, encouraging ...

Filmmaker Jack Bramley spends a day with Jethro The Clown, filming him at one of his clown gigs to see what clowning looks like up close. They discuss what got Jethro into clowning, the reputation of clowns over the years, his advice to aspiring clow...

Deep in the heart of the Waveney valley, Master Thatcher Nick and his apprentice Olly work on the ancient roofs of east anglia. Keeping the craft alive, they challenge modern practices, following long standing traditional methods using local material...

Meet Marcus Tribe, a fifth-generation forester, one of Britain’s last woodsmen. He lives in his wooden yurt on a 6-acre woodland in Devon and has spent over 20 years preserving the land and living self-sufficiently. Now in his older years, as he witn...

Five years ago, Nick and Mark received permission to excavate an old pond on Wanstead Flats, the southernmost part of Epping Forest in Leytonstone, East London. This area has a rich history of activism, with past protests here credited for helping la...

Faced with the wreckage of a failed film project and the turmoil of his troubled youth, a young filmmaker, urged by his friends, seeks refuge in therapy. Each session becomes a battleground where he confronts his deepest fears and darkest nightmares....

Dirty Dave grimsley is a pint size blend of Randall McMurphy and "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" and George clooney's, Ulysses Everett McGill in "oh brother where art thou" also known as 'dammit man" and "Tom Sawyer" because of his profane huckster...

An upcoming documentary on the Arizona screamo band Journal....

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Cinema is an art that brings joy to millions of people around the world. However, it is difficult to create and produce, but there is an organization that teaches children how to make films so they can create the stories they dream of....

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A short documentary about a local Drogheda barbershop owner, detailing his history, taste in music and the history of the shop all while having a chat with an old colleague and regular customer....

A personal and intimate documentary in which Maria Cleusa dos Santos, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother tells her life story and about the houses where she had lived and lives today....