“I’ve always needed to tell my stories,” says filmmaker William David Caballero. “Growing up, American media sent a clear message that the lives of low-income people of color didn’t matter.”
When it came to depicting the lives of misfit runaway teens in the twisted drama “BURN,” writer-director Makoto Nagahisa was determined to shoot in Tokyo locations that felt unmistakably authentic to the world he was building.
In 2018, a high school sociology teacher in a small Tennessee town gave his students an assignment: to investigate a local cold case from 30 years prior.
In “Rock Springs,” a woman relocates to a new town with her family following the death of her daughter’s father. While settling into their remote home, they discover something lurks amid the town’s nearby woods.
“Humankind has a biological and evolutionary necessity to absorb and tell stories,” says filmmaker Jeffrey Walker.
In “Kikuyu Land,” Andrew H. Brown explores a land battle in Kenya, shedding light on the legacy of the Indigenous people and the decades of mistreatment they’ve endured at the hands of a corporation profiting from their labor.