Documentary

In a remote village in Alaska, local singer/songwriter Byron Nicholai engages a new generation of Yupik natives using rap and beatboxing. Retelling traditional stories, he is helping young people forge a stronger connection to their cultural heritage and values, including…

Along the shore of Lake Michigan, artist and educator Geo Rutherford scours through the detritus, collecting fragments of a fragile ecosystem to piece together a picture of The Unseen; the past, present, and future of The Great Lakes. Director Biography…

A realist’s assessment of the declining health of urban wilderness and our fleeting opportunity to restore it. This is the story of one man’s obsessive quest to re-wild Toronto’s ravines by bringing the offspring of ecological elders, or mother trees,…

A parallel inquiry into the mysterious appearance of a pair of strange birds on a Brooklyn fire escape alongside a personal study of human fertility and twinning. Exploring human/non-human entanglements and (odd)kinships spawned in assisted reproductive technologies, the film tracks…

Every year, thousands of people journey from their homes in Arizona & Mexico to Magdalena de Kino in Sonora, mostly on foot or horseback. This cultural phenomenon extends over 3 centuries and represents a tradition that predates modern political boundaries.…