Journey to Hope
Anita Kruse | United States | 2018 | 1:16:41 Website | Facebook Purple Songs Can Fly, the first recording studio ever created on a pediatric cancer floor, was founded in 2006 at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Twelve years and thousands of songs later, six childhood cancer patients, Mia, Layla, Dominic, Emily, Stephen, and… Read more »
Work at Hand
Peter Hartel | United States | 2018 | 54:00 Website Documentary of how a man of modest origins from the hills of West Virginia overcomes cultural bias and cancer to become a highly regarded artist and painter. Cast Michael K. Paxton Writer Peter Hartel Producer Peter Hartel
Dunham Deaf Boy
Ladan Sahraei | Canada | 2017 | 50:00 American Sign Language, English Facebook Patrick and Margaret Fee immigrated to Montreal from Farmaugh County, Ireland in 1925 and trekking with horses’ wagon trying to cross the USA border but got stranded 20 miles before the border due to the birth of their 5th child. They settled… Read more »
Beyond Crisis
Kai Reimer-Watts | Canada | 2017 | 1:04:25 Website | Facebook | Twitter BEYOND CRISIS is a story of hope for a rapidly changing world: a meditative call to action that explores what it means to be living in this new era of climate change, as told by over fifty diverse voices from across Canada,… Read more »
Baker Does Beethoven
John Hazard | United States | 2018 | 51:00 Roger Baker is a graphic artist and hang glider pilot who has chosen a seemingly impossible task. He will use lawn mowers to carve an image of an iconic figure into a field outside Ellenville, NY. And to what purpose? Baker’s purpose is to celebrate Beethoven…. Read more »
A Nation Divided
Steven West, Shane Schmidt | United States | 2018 | 1:37:00 A two year look into the growing division in the United States and the issues at the center of the divide. Cast Ted Nugent Harry Reid Writer Steve West Producer Steve West
Women Composers
Kyra Steckeweh | Germany | 2018 | 1:34:30 English, German with English Subtitles Website | Facebook When pianist Kyra Steckeweh realised that her repertoire exclusively consisted of music composed by men, she began searching for pieces written by female composers. Her research quickly disclosed a variety of remarkable works that have been buried and rarely… Read more »
Shred America
Arthur Swidzinski | United States | 2018 | 1:32:00 Website | Facebook Four twenty-year-olds travel from Chicago to New York on skateboards. Fueled by youthful ignorance, the four navigate America’s landscape through a maze of wrong turns and unfortunate circumstances. Producer Arthur Swidzinski Michael Kosciesza
SMACKED! Addiction and Recovery in Rural America
Jessica Vecchione | United States | 2018 | 1:07:00 Website | Facebook Addiction is easy. Recovery is not. Rural America has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic, but hope is alive as well. SMACKED! tells the story of how law enforcement and the healthcare community are coping with the heroin epidemic that has swept… Read more »
The Capitol of Nowhere
John V. Ward | United States | 2018 | 1:27:00 Website | Facebook “When four teenage friends opened a music venue in their dying Pennsylvania coal mining town, the last thing they expected to bring was hope. This is a documentary about how four teenagers started and ran a music venue in the dying coal… Read more »