Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Jerome Foundation, this showcase is hour-long collection of shorts from six prominent...
Minnesota Landscapes
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Four generations of the "People Who Live Where the Cedar Trees Start to Grow" (Wah-up-weh-tuhneum), also known as the Mono or Western Monache people,...
Colliding Worlds
A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become...
Possibly in Michigan
A philosophical flume ride through the physical, political and moral borders that inhibit the free movement of people and ideas. Mixing commentary,...
Borders
This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative...
The Commission
In the early 1970s, a group of secretaries in Boston decided that they had suffered in silence long enough. They started fighting back, creating a...
9to5: The Story of a Movement
This winner of the 1993 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature details the case that the 1989 invasion of Panama by the US was motivated not by...
The Panama Deception
The extemporaneous musings of an actress about her career provide the springboard for an imaginative fantasy on the fragility of fame.
Confessions of a Stardreamer
Inspired by the Greek myth of Prometheus, a Titan who created the first mortals from clay and stole fire from the gods, Prometheus' Garden immerses...
Prometheus' Garden
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the...
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
An intellectually disabled young man has his childlike world threatened by a violent neighborhood loan shark.
Candy Store
A PBS documentary on the life and work of writer Raymond Carver. It features interviews with his family and friends, and provides an insightful look...
To Write and Keep Kind
Consistent stylistic-thematic structures link and merge throughout the bewildering event chain. The distinction between organic forms and human...
Euphoria
Against a field of swaying and halting yellow vegetation, another processed field: the image of the eponymous subject (performed by painter Doris...
Lilith
When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community...
Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round
Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Firdaus is a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a...
Queen of Diamonds
Story about the last original "American Diner" in Miami, Florida. Since 1938 the S & S has been owned and operated by the family of the present...
Last Night at the S&S Diner
A ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons,...
The Genius
