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MARRIAGE COPS (2025)
Directed by Shashwati Talukdar & Cheryl Hess
Sales: MetFilm Sales
​• World Premiere, HotDocs Festival​
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Within the bustling corridors of Dehradun police station, a remarkable form of justice unfolds as Officer Sandhya and her all-woman team mediate troubled marriages in northern India. MARRIAGE COPS follows three couples whose stories offer a window onto the complex, evolving landscape of gender relations in contemporary Indian society.
THE CHAPLAIN AND THE DOCTOR (2025)​
Directed by Jessica Zitter
Produced by Jen Gilomen
• World Premiere, San Francisco International Film Festival
• "A must-see for anyone who cares about healthcare." - San Francisco Chronicle
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Betty Clark and Jessica Zitter make an unlikely pair. Clark, the 80 year-old African American Chaplain at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, accused Zitter, a white, Jewish physician, of racism the first time they met. But with time has grown an extraordinary relationship, which is documented in breathtaking cinema verité as we witness the pair breaking down barriers and creating a model for patient care.
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MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY (2021)
Directed by Lisa Molomot and Jeff Bemiss
Produced by Jacob Bricca, Lisa Molomot & Jeff Bemiss
• Winner, George Foster Peabody Award
• Broadcast on Independent Lens
• "One of the most nuanced and disturbing films about the immigration crisis" - Boston Globe
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Two families search for their loved ones who went missing in the fields of Brooks County, Texas after crossing from Mexico and find a sobering truth: the deadliest part of the journey is far from the border.
THE BAD KIDS (2016)
Directed by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe
Produced by Low Key Pictures
• Winner, Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival
• Funded by the Sundance Institute and The Pare Lorenz Documentary Fund
At a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that, more than academics, it is love, empathy and life skills that give at-risk students command of their own futures. This coming-of-age story watches education combat the crippling effects of poverty on the lives of these so-called “bad kids.”
LOST IN LA MANCHA (2003)
Directed by Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe
Distributed by IFC Films (USA), Optimum Releasing (UK)
• World Premiere, Berlin International Film Festival
• $1.4 million in worldwide box office sales
"Truly heartbreaking and emotionally satisfying." -Robert Altman
"Spectacular" - The New York Times
Filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe chronicle the making of a movie that was never actually completed in this documentary about Terry Gilliam's repeated (and repeatedly failed) attempts to adapt Don Quixote to the big screen. In the end, Gilliam's passionate project -- which starred Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis and Jean Rochefort -- metamorphosed into the impossible dream.
CON ARTIST (2009)
Directed by Michael Sladek
Distributed by New Yorker Films & Ovation Networks
​World Premiere, Tribeca Film Festival
"Excellent" - The Hollywood Reporter
"A reverie on the concept and addictive nature of celebrity." - Variety
"An entertaining portrait of one of the art world's most outrageous provocateurs" - New York Times
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Mark Kostabi was once the highest paid painter in the world, but he sold his soul for fame. Now he wants it back.
JIMMY SCOTT: IF YOU ONLY KNEW (2002)
Directed by Matthew Buzzell
Distributed by Rhino Home Video
World Premiere, Tribeca Film Festival
"A wonderful documentary" - Los Angeles Times
Blending concert footage, rare photos and candid interviews with Scott, his family and his colleagues, Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew is a moving testament to one of the most distinctive vocalists of our time. Scott's lifelong attempt to reunite his family and find solace through his art is a bittersweet story as unforgettable as his music.
FINDING TATANKA (2014)
Directed by Jacob Bricca
Produced by Jacob Bricca & Jonathan Crosby
• "A deeply personal family tale, it captures themes both universal and intimate"
- Katie Walsh, Indiewire
• Official Selection, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and 12 other film festivals
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​Kit Bricca was a leader of the Bay Area protest movements of the 1960s and 70s with a fierce passion for social justice, but found the transition from activist to breadwinner a challenging one. In this moving, psychologically complex documentary, filmmaker Jacob Bricca follows the extraordinary journey of his father Kit, a man whose uncompromising idealism changed the world but tore his family apart.
SONS OF BEN (2014)
Directed by Jeff Bell
Produced by Jeff Bell, Debbie Axel, & Mike Dieffenbach
• "One of the 11 Best Sports Movies of All Time" - Sports Illustrated
• Winner, Tokyo International Football Film Festival Grand Prix
• Screened at film festivals in Tokyo, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Sao Paulo
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A small group of die-hard Philadelphia soccer fans are incredulous when Major League Soccer denies them a team, so they take matters into their own hands. Calling themselves the Sons of Ben, they invent their own logo, chants, and songs, and show up at MLS games rooting for "Philadelphia!!!" even though they lack a team. Quickly growing to 1,500 members, their quixotic quest is a story about dreams, brotherhood, and the love of soccer.
RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE:
THE MAKING OF A WESTERN OPERA (2020)
Directed by Kristin Atwell Ford
Produced by Quantum Leap Productions & Arizona Opera
Narrated by Peter Coyote
• WINNER OF THREE 2021 ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMMY® AWARDS
Best Arts & Entertainment Program
Best Director (Long Form)
Technical Achievement​
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Follow a classically trained composer as he adapts a dime novel masterpiece into a grand opera. In 1912, Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage flew off bookshelves around the world and today is considered iconic. A century later, Craig Bohmler and a team of musicians, singers, and painters translate cowboy culture and the beauty of the west into the realm of Puccini and Verdi.
ALMOST AN ISLAND (2021)
Directed by Jonathan VanBallenberghe
Produced by Sharon Wahl​
• Funded by Vision Maker Media
• Distributed by American Public Television
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​​ALMOST AN ISLAND is a cinematic portrait of the Goodwins, an Inupiat family living above the Arctic Circle in Kotzebue, Alaska. Through observing three generations of one family over the course of four years, ALMOST AN ISLAND explores what it means to be indigenous in the dramatically changing Arctic.
PRECIOUS KNOWLEDGE (2012)
Director: Ari Palos
Funded by: ITVS, Latino Public Broadcasting, Arizona Public Media
National Broadcast on PBS's Independent Lens
Best Documentary Feature (Special Mention), 2011 San Diego Latino Film Festival
"Downright revelatory." -- Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post
"Gripping" -- Ed Morales, Univision
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Arizona’s epic battle to ban ethnic studies in public schools comes to life in this gripping film that has been shown at over 100 special event screenings across the country.
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LUNA: TELL ME DO YOU MISS ME (2006)
Director: Matthew Buzzell
Distributed by: Rhino Home Entertainment
Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival
"3 1/2 Stars" - Rolling Stone
The four members of the celebrated New York-based indie-rock band LUNA confront the ceiling of their ambition, the harsh realities of their modest success, and their conflicted feelings about each other as they embark on their final world tour and uncertain futures. Laced with moments of both humor and melancholia, Tell Me Do You Miss Me earnestly exposes the underbelly of a touring rock band in their final days together.
BEYOND THE BORDER - Más Allá de la Frontera (2000)
Director: Ari Palos & Eren McGinnis
Distributed By: ITVS, Dos Vatos Films
Broadcast on over 60 PBS stations
Best Documentary, Great Lakes Film Festival
Four sons in a Mexican family leave behind their parents and sisters, struggling to overcome cultural, class and language barriers in Kentucky. By following the Ayala brothers as they leave their home in Michoacan, Mexico, and relocate to the Bluegrass Region, the story explores a range of complexities surrounding the immigration experience.
