A New Color features acclaimed mural artist and educator, Edythe Boone on her life’s mission to positively touch as many people as she can.  This verité documentary film captures Edy’s spirit as we witness her in action - teaching, painting, community building, and telling stories, often all at the same time. Refusing to be inhibited by barriers of class, color, gender, or age, this unlikely hero shows it is possible at 74 to empower young people and to motivate elders to contribute and continue learning.   Audiences will come away from the film with hope, understanding and a sense of connection – inspired to live a life that matters.

Before street photographers took Manhattan by storm, there was Helen Levitt. An artistic pioneer and the ultimate photographer's photographer, Levitt lived as a total enigma, determined to dodge the public eye in favor of what she loved most: capturing New York street life at play and in quiet rest. 95 Lives uncovers the many, colorful lives of this formidable and private figure, revealing the untold story and unforgettable art of camera-shy photographer Helen Levitt.

No Mouse Music! is a feature-length documentary about the life and vision of Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz and his adventures searching out America's roots music. A displaced person from Germany after WWII, Strachwitz helped to bring Cajun music out of Louisiana, norteño music out of Texas and country blues out of the country and into the living rooms of middle America. Through one man's amazing journey, we will experience the rich panorama of American regional music.

Six engaging characters confront mediated life: Talley wants to connect with people, or at least their avatars. Peter wants to be free from pre-fab reality. Roy wants get out of this movie and go back to real life. Twenty-first century personalized media has fragmented society into a loose constellation of filtered micro-communities. This makes working together for social justice impossible. Rectangle empowers the audience, evening the odds between media practitioners and the rest of us.

Like an abandoned alien spaceship the building of Dostoevsky’s Drama Theatre stands on the bank of Volkhov River, only a kilometer away from the walls of famous Novgorod Kremlin. An architectural freak, unloved and uncared for, it sails high above the comforting provinciality of Novgorod the Great. Erected during the final years of Soviet Rule, this remarkable example of post-modernist architecture has, for many decades, continued to mock the ancient and Soviet heritage of the city, as well as the mediocre tastes of its populace. The circumstances of theatre's uneasy survival, its persistent inability to fit into the Novgorod’s surroundings, and its slow but sure demise at the hands of greedy bureaucrats, expose some deeply hidden flaws of Russian society, the corruption of its political system and the hypocrisy of its laws.