Lois Vossen

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old...

07 de out. de 2022

Biografia do artista Jean-Michel Basquiat, considerado um dos mais importantes pintores afrodescendentes do século 20. Sua vida breve e morte inesp...

25 de jan. de 2010

Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.

24 de ago. de 2020

Sonia Kennebeck takes on the controversial tactic of drone warfare, and demands accountability through the personal accounts—recollections, traumas...

14 de out. de 2016

Filmmaker Tadashi explores his father Robert A. Nakamura's life as an influential Asian American artist and activist, while grappling with Robert's...

26 de jan. de 2025

Social isolation affects millions of people, even Mars-bound astronauts. A savvy NASA psychologist is tasked with protecting these daring explorers.

08 de mar. de 2024

In a universe where cool kids are nerds, the orchestra is world class and being Asian American is the norm, seniors at Lowell High School compete f...

03 de dez. de 2021

One man dance party Howard Mordoh, a longtime fixture of the L.A. concert scene, copes with the canceled concerts and isolation of life during the ...

24 de mai. de 2021

Following the death of her brother, filmmaker Robie Flores returns to her hometown Eagle Pass on the Texas/Mexico border, wanting to turn back time...

29 de set. de 2024

Brett Story's visionary look at New York City as it braces for an uncertain future.

15 de nov. de 2019

When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, ...

11 de jun. de 2020

A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time fea...

15 de mar. de 2024

In Venezuela, amidst a backdrop of poverty, murder, and corruption, the El Sistema youth orchestra offers children hope and the opportunity to purs...

26 de jun. de 2022

When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation ...

26 de jan. de 2019

Set in motion by a tragic police-involved shooting, two communities of color navigate fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and discriminat...

11 de jun. de 2020

Three brave cheerleaders take on the NFL, battling the massive, male-dominated sports league for recognition — and a raise.

27 de abr. de 2019

Matter of Mind: My ALS follows three people living with the fatal illness ALS, in an intimate exploration of the complex choices confronting them a...

21 de fev. de 2023

Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 reside...

12 de jul. de 2019

Following a cancer diagnosis, Sister Úna—a mischievous, rule-breaking Catholic nun dedicated to social justice—chooses to live as she’s dying. In t...

29 de ago. de 2024

Amidst the traditional pomp and circumstance of Filipino elections, a quirky people’s movement rises to defend the nation against deepening threats...

21 de ago. de 2024

An unlikely collaboration between a forensic scientist from Texas and a group of Latin American students changes the course of forensic science and...

10 de fev. de 2023

Chicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Americans, Latinos, and poor whites to confront pol...

24 de out. de 2019

Kafi Dixon dreams of starting a land cooperative for women of color who have experienced trauma and disenfranchisement in the city of Boston. By da...

07 de mai. de 2021

Sam Now is a gripping family story consisting of home videos, Super 8 films and modern-day HD videos told over a lifetime. Director Reed Harkness c...

01 de mai. de 2022

A "beyond the shoes" documentary on the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.

23 de nov. de 2003

A group of women and non-binary journalists, bucking the white male status quo, launch The 19th*—a digital news startup that asks who has been omit...

07 de jun. de 2023

A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence.

02 de jun. de 2021

Four women find purpose carrying babies for strangers in Boise, Idaho -- the unofficial surrogacy capital of the United States -- and encounter com...

22 de jun. de 2019

An intimate portrait of a community fighting to save lives and keep hope alive in a neighborhood ravaged by the overdose crisis.

03 de fev. de 2023

While visiting his hometown of Milwaukee, father of three and aspiring attorney, Claude Motley, is shot in the face by 15-year-old Nathan, during a...

17 de mar. de 2021

Mama Bears is an intimate exploration of two “mama bears”—conservative, Christian mothers who have become fierce advocates for LGBTQ+ people—and a ...

13 de mar. de 2022

In an era when Dick, Jane, and discipline ruled America's schools, Albert Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in his fifth gra...

11 de jan. de 2005

Like millions of indigenous people, many Native American tribes do not control their own material history and culture. For the Eastern Shoshone and...

22 de fev. de 2016

When director Jasmin Mara López sees a photo of her niece with her grandfather, she is flooded by painful memories of her own childhood sexual abus...

03 de mai. de 2022

Exposing a painful, quintessentially American geography, CONSCIENCE POINT unearths a deep clash of values between the Native American Shinnecock an...

13 de out. de 2019

The story of a Muslim casket maker and ritual body washer in Newark, NJ who takes two young men under his wing to teach them how to live better lives.

26 de ago. de 2020

Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. ...

24 de fev. de 2022

Harvest Season delves into the lives of people who work behind the scenes of the premium California wine industry, during one of the most dramatic ...

07 de out. de 2018

Sixteen-year-old Jewel Wilson is the next generation in a long line of prolific Inupiat subsistence hunters in Unalakleet, Alaska. Her ability to h...

18 de nov. de 2019

The Interpreters follows the lives of Iraqi and Afghan interpreters, and the American veterans they worked with. In many cases, interpreters face d...

26 de mai. de 2018

Spanning his fifty-year dogsled racing career, ATTLA explores the life and persona of George Attla, from his childhood as a TB survivor in the Alas...

11 de out. de 2019

In the heart of the American Midwest, three women take on entrenched political systems in their fight to reshape local politics on their own terms.

14 de ago. de 2020

Following three female police officers in Minneapolis, Women in Blue charts their progress and efforts to remake the department to become more incl...

08 de fev. de 2021

Filmed over three years, the film follows Ashley Chea, a Cambodian-American basketball phenom. Exploring the highs and lowsher immigrant family, su...

05 de mai. de 2024

Muslim chaplains work for change inside the U.S. military, fighting for equality and religious freedom.

06 de nov. de 2023

In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to...

20 de set. de 2023

Explores a variety of underground hazing rituals that are abusive and sometimes deadly. The journey to understand hazing culture reveals a world of...

13 de jun. de 2022

Accept the Call charts a Muslim American family’s struggle against Islamic radicalisation. Through a series of calls from federal prison, Yusuf and...

15 de jun. de 2019

In Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s, three people navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a degenerative illness, ...

08 de abr. de 2024

Plagued by anxiety about climate change, a filmmaker decides to start seeing a climate psychologist, hoping to find peace of mind at what she’s pre...

16 de set. de 2022

Borders have defined Sansón’s life. There’s the physical and psychological border between Mexico and the US. And now, looking at a life behind bars...

03 de mar. de 2023

Michael was a ballet prodigy with a stellar career ahead of him. He transformed into a Russian ballet instructor named Madame Olga as a way to both...

26 de mar. de 2021

From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by decades...

27 de out. de 2022

Jeff Chang visits East Palo Alto, a historically Black and Latino community in the heart of Silicon Valley, to hang out with rapper, dancer and per...

It showcases the events, choices, and relationships that shape the legacy of a Lakota family.

15 de abr. de 2024

In the US Midwest, plagued with opioid abuse and rising incarceration rates for women, three unforgettable mothers return home from prison to rebui...

29 de abr. de 2021

This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, art...