Streaming Home I

Dear Homeland is the lyrical story of Mexican singer/songwriter Diana Gameros, who left Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to pursue her musical dream in Michigan. Arriving legally but unable to extend her stay as an international college student, she becomes an undocumented immigrant who can’t return to her beloved homeland and family for fear of not being able to re-enter the United States. Moving to San Francisco, she finds community, realizes her musical gift and becomes an advocate for Dreamers and immigrant communities while struggling to change her own status.

Powered only by their spirit, a brave group of natives set off on a 600 mile horse ride to bring awareness to the inter generational trauma their people have endured since colonization.

The new and restored documentary introduces visitors to the early life and works of O’Neill, his troubled family relationships, and the role the cottage played in his dramas. The original film won a Grand Prize “AMI” Award for Best Documentary at the Association of Multi-Image International Festival in 1982.

A short by independent filmmaker Martha Haslanger.

In Brazil, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the region of the Rio Taquari, the increasing and continuous silting of the rivers has led to the overflow of waters and the flooding of lands over the years, causing significant changes in the lives of its inhabitants. This has made it impossible to cultivate the soil and raise livestock, a form of livelihood for local families. Member of one of these families, Ruivaldo Nery Andrade, our guide character, struggles to save his farm, through the construction of a manual system of dikes to contain and alter the course of invading waters and, thus, resume his activities and guarantee the survival of the land.

Kansas 35th year anniversary concert recorded live in Washburn University, Topeka on Feburary 7, 2009, featuring the Washburn University Symphony Orchestra.

An atmospheric and idiosyncratic film of a middle aged man in an empty home with a voicemail message from a young woman. Shot to edit on a single roll of Super 8mm.

Stories Told Live Forever

The beauty and functionality of asbestos sidewalls. With a visit to Levittown, N.Y. and an interview with Norman Denny, vice president of materials for Levitt & Sons, builders. An excellent film on Fifties standardized building processes.

Tells the story of Tong Bo, a drug addict who lives a dark life. His wife Wai Ling who passed away due to sickness, decided to put their only son Tong Zai under the custody of Tong Bo, in hope that their son can warm the heart of Tong Bo and use love to help his father come home.

A psychopath second grader starts knocking off his schoolmates one by one in order to maintain control of the lunchline. Cafeteria hysteria!

A frustrated young woman steps into her backyard to get some air, to be surprised by a mysterious sound in the darkness.

Colors, corruption and turf wars control the violent city streets of L.A. where crime pays and gangs have the ultimate power. An innocent girl is accidentally killed in a drive-by shooting in the East Side Projects and the word is out, the city wants action and the clues point to the notorious "High Rollers" gang of the barrio. The cops are closing in, and the Gang is ready. Two brothers, one a gang leader, one a cop, must face off, but only one will survive!

One day Jonah left his family. He gave no explanation and no goodbye — only a telephone number that redirected to an answering machine. Now, as he drifts deeper into an abyss of paper planets and cardboard comets, his connections to time, reality and home are falling prey to the vacuum of space. The signal from Earth is fading and his memories are blurring into obscurity. Only home can save him now but is it too late for Jonah?

The singer and songwriter Florencia Núñez is from Rocha, a coastal department in southeastern Uruguay. Her first compositions took place at her parents' house, in the classes she shared with the composer Enrique Cabrera, or on the shores of the ocean when she spent the summer in Costa Azul, her usual beach town. Today, she lives in Montevideo, she listens to her songs and wonders: what is the origin of all these melodies? This film is her desire to relive that music that made her grow. A tribute to the music of her department through the reinterpretation of five songs that marked her songbook. With that map in mind, Florencia goes out in search of answers in conversations with authors, interpreters or actors from the Rochense scene who were witnesses or protagonists of the construction of the local folk. A journey through the essence of a department that traces a route between melodies and landscapes, poetry and culture, and voices and roots.

This short film is an endearing portrait of Peter Nhiany, who was forced to flee Sudan during a bloody civil war and now lives in the U.S. hoping to see his family again.