Film
Te Mana o Teao (The strength of the World)
Te Mana o Teao is a 15-minute short documentary set in Rapa Nui — Easter Island — the most remote inhabited island in the world. It tells the story of José Teao, an indigenous Rapa Nui underwater hunter and freediver who lost a leg in an accident and spent years in darkness, unable to swim and provide for his family. But the ocean kept calling him back. Te Mana o Teao follows his journey of resilience and spiritual renewal, where the sea transforms loss into purpose and power.
Like Father, Like Sons
A film about the fathers we lose and the brothers we find. "Like Father, Like Sons" is a feature film that follows three brothers who barely know each other. When their absent father dies, his last wish forces them onto a cross-country road trip together, and over those miles three strangers slowly become a family. It is funny, it is honest, and it is drawn from the real lives of the two filmmakers who wrote it. This is a Black story, told by Black filmmakers, about something universal: what it means to be a father, what it costs to be [...]
Year of the Cat
YEAR OF THE CAT follows filmmaker Tony Nguyen on an extraordinary quest to solve the mystery of his father, lost in the chaos of the Fall of Saigon 50 years ago. Told as an investigative home movie, this powerful documentary weaves together moments of humor and heartache, offering an intimate look at how the children of refugees are shaped by war and loss. As Tony delves into his family’s history, the film reveals the emotional lengths we go to in confronting the ghosts of the past—and the possibility of healing as we reclaim and transform our futures.
The Man with No Eyes
The Man With No Eyes documents a corporation's failed first attempt at artificial love. Following her husband Otis’s near-fatal car accident, Asha is coerced into being the first client of an ominous new company, Endless Love. Their service provides replacement partners for widows and soon-to-be widows, only to cause a horrifying confrontation when the real Otis and his replacement surprise her on their wedding anniversary.
Through Riders: Riding Through Grief Across the Gobi Desert
After devastating personal losses, three women across three generations come together to ride across Mongolia on a four-month horseback journey across Mongolia and through the vast Gobi Desert, one of the most remote and unforgiving landscapes on Earth. Through Riders follows their shared expedition as an act of survival, reflection, and connection. Moving on horseback through extreme terrain, the riders confront pain and grief not in isolation but in motion, discovering how landscape, animals, and deep friendship can hold space for trauma, death, and the search for meaning. The film is co-created with the herder families who guide the journey [...]
The Rug Dealer in The Land of Mirages
The Rug Dealer in the Land of Mirages is a feature-length Sufi-Western and allegorical folktale. When a silent mystic's rug is mistaken for a lost treasure, he is forced into flight across sentient dreamlike landscapes. Blending myth, spirituality, and ecological themes, the film explores greed, belonging, and transformation through a poetic journey inspired by the folklore and reimagined visual traditions of the SSWANA region.
There’s No Place
When Juan - a self-taught tech worker on the verge of landing a full-time offer - gets a call that his older brother Junior is released from prison, he drives 400 miles to haul him home down the Northern California coast. What starts as an obligation becomes something neither of them expected: a darkly comic and bittersweet collision between two men shaped by a world built for neither of them. Written & Directed by: Jesus Beltran Produced by: Alan Luna & Rick Porras
The Jerome Project
The Jerome Project preserves, protects, and perpetuates the artistic legacy of Jerome Caja (1958 — 1995). The mission is to bring greater visibility and accessibility to Caja’s paintings and performances. The project includes several moving parts: a digital catalogue raisonné, a repository of art and ephemera available for academic research, and a feature-length documentary film about Caja, with an accompanying exhibition of his art.
Rebel Woman
Rebel Woman is a personal documentary short that traces a first-generation Afghan American woman's journey to understand her mother's quiet acts of defiance and the legacy of resilience passed down through generations. The film weaves together memories of pre-war Afghanistan and the immigrant experience in America, exploring the tensions between cultural expectations and personal freedom. In our current moment, when women's rights are threatened globally and immigrant voices are being silenced, Rebel Women offers an intimate reminder of strength, identity, reconnecting with a dying culture, and the powerful bond between mother and daughter.
Way of Life
Interweaving the stories of one of Montana’s only abortion and trans healthcare clinics and diverse Montanans fighting to define and defend individual freedoms, the feature documentary in-progress WAY OF LIFE explores ideological complexities and contradictions in the country’s rapidly intensifying battles over privacy and bodily autonomy–dangerous frontlines in a polarizing America.
