Current Projects
I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole
Jim Tushinski
Jim Tushinski
I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole is a feature-length documentary about pioneering gay filmmaker Wakefield Poole, whose career as dancer, choreographer and director spanned the golden years of Broadway, television, gay porn and gay liberation. Poole's story is an incredible tale of reinvention as he survives fame, career setbacks, loss and drug addiction to emerge today, in his 70s, admired by many as an influential artist, yet still dismissed by others as a pornographer.
I Believe in Unicorns
Leah Meyerhoff
Leah Meyerhoff
I Believe in Unicorns tells the story of a teenage girl living with her disabled mother who runs away with an older boy only to discover that their new life together is not the fantasy she had imagined. From director Leah Meyerhoff (Twitch) and producers Allison Anders (Gas Food Lodging), Heather Rae (Frozen River), Josh Hetzler (Seed), Robert Profusek (Holy Rollers) and Ryan Silbert, I Believe in Unicorns is scheduled to shoot in the Bay Area in 2011.
IMPACTO! The Ongoing Legacy of the Chicano Power Movement in the Development of Silicon Valley
Adrian Tepehua Vargas
Adrian Tepehua Vargas
IMPACTO! explores the American civil rights movement from the perspective of Silicon Valley’s Chicano/Latino community. The video-film examines the evolution of the local movement beginning in the 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s through the present. Activities such as voter registration and citizenship drives gave impetus to progress in education, employment, health and welfare, and politics that have served as models for social justice action across California and America. The examination of this movement utilizes the spoken and visual testimony of the activists and is juxtaposed with social justice issues of today.
In My Lifetime
Robert E. Frye
Robert E. Frye
In My Lifetime takes on the complex realities of “the nuclear world”, and searches internationally for an answer to the question "Is there a Way Beyond?. This documentary is part wake up call, part challenge for people to engage with the issue of ridding the world of the most destructive weapon ever invented.
In the Cobbler's Shoes
David Marks
David Marks
In the Cobbler’s Shoes tells a story about a good-hearted man in a timeless trade who shares his unique perspective on the world of shoes and the people who wear them. The documentary is a modern fable, the tale of Misak Pirinjian, son of a shoemaker who took on his father’s trade over twenty-five years ago; a man with a unique and fascinating perspective.
In the Shadow of the Water Tower
Lewis Smithingham
Lewis Smithingham
The grandiose and the provincial mingle in expressionistic frenzy in In the Shadow of the Water Tower. Through a collection of 16mm home-movie footage and stylized re-imaginings, the film recounts the true story of one Curt Paul Smith, complete with baseball-playing bison, experimental liver operations, madcap Hawaiian fever dreams, and wildlife massacres in 1950's Canada. And not necessarily in that order.
In-World War
DJ Bad Vegan (aka Brant Smith)
DJ Bad Vegan (aka Brant Smith)
From the filmmakers behind the underground graffiti sensation Quality of Life comes In-World War, a smart and quirky indie sci-fi feature that tells the futuristic story of a debt-ridden and depressed beta tester trapped in a buggy virtual reality simulation of the "war on terror." Every time he tries to log out, he wakes in a different body in a different city as his corporate creditors close in.
Indian Rodeo: Original American Cowboys
Jeanne Davis
Jeanne Davis
What is a cowboy? Today there are two kinds: rodeo athletes and working ranch hands. Still, images of the Marlboro man and John Wayne come to mind. Looking past the media driven notion that a cowboy is necessarily an enemy of an Indian, one discovers the horsemanship skills of Native American cowboys have helped shape all rodeo events today. Further, Indian Rodeo facilitates the maintenance of Native American heritage. Indians are great American cowboys.
Inequality for All
Jacob Kornbluth
Jacob Kornbluth
As we find ourselves at a critical juncture in our nation’s history, Inequality for All (inspired by Robert Reich’s best-selling book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future) is a feature-length documentary explores the causes and consequences of the widening income gap in America and ask what it means to the future of our economy and our nation.
The Integral Cinema Project
Mark Allan Kaplan
Mark Allan Kaplan
The Integral Cinema Project is a research, production and educational initiative exploring the application of Integral Theory for cinematic theory, development, production and distribution. A comprehensive model for Integral cinematic media theory and practice will be developed and tested through the creation of a series of short cinematic experiments and a feature-length narrative transmedia project. This research endeavor will be documented in a documentary and the results disseminated through various publications, media, and educational workshops.
Iron Mountain
Todd Dayton
Todd Dayton
Iron Mountain was once the most productive copper mine in California. Today it’s one of the world’s most toxic places -- a federal Superfund site since 1983. While the EPA essentially manages Iron Mountain, its owner has been in a decades-long battle for control of his property, which he plans to both re-open to mining and transform into a spiritual park complete with the world’s largest statue of Christ.