New Day film makers shoot fearless, relentlessly independent documentaries. They win awards, play in major film festivals and have wide influence through US and international broadcast. Below you will find a selection of our titles, listed alphabetically, for your immediate screening pleasure.
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A Village Called Versailles
A film by Leo Chiang
One community's political awakening in the aftermath of tragedy.
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Against the Grain: An Artist's Survival Guide to Perú
A film by Ann Kaneko
Is freedom of expression a right or a privilege? Four Peruvian visual artists defy tyranny through their work and ignite change.
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Ask Not
A film by Johnny Symons
They went into the closet to serve their country. Now they're coming out to change it.
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At Home In Utopia
A film by Michal Goldman
Cooperative living in complicated times.
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Bachelorette, 34
A film by Kara Herold
Bachelorette, 34 examines the pressure society puts on women to find Mr. Right.
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Breaking Silence: The Story of the Sisters at Desales Heights
A film by Tommie Smith
An examination of social and cultural change, and the impact of such change upon individuals
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Carved from the Heart
A film by Ellen Frankenstein
Carved from the Heart intertwines the process of carving and erecting the Healing Heart totem pole with the participants' stories of personal loss, grief, substance abuse, suicide and violence.
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Conversations with Willard Van Dyke
A film by Amalie R. Rothschild
A candid portrait of a filmmaker photographer who believed that film could change the world.
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Deep Down: A story from the heart of coal country
A film by Jen Gilomen & Sally Rubin
Beverly and Terry grew up like kin on opposite sides of a mountain ridge in eastern Kentucky. Now in their fifties, the two find themselves in the midst of a debate dividing their community and the world: who controls, consumes, and benefits from our planet’s shrinking supply of natural resources? While Beverly organizes her neighbors to stop Miller Brothers Coal from advancing into her hollow, Terry considers signing away the mining rights to his backyard—a decision that could destroy both of their homes. This tale of social change examines the environmental, human, and cultural impacts of our actions.
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Downside Up
A film by Nancy Kelly
What happens when a poor, working-class town decides its best hope for survival is contemporary art? A personal and family story about MASS MoCA, America's largest museum of contemporary art.
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Finding Our Way
NEW! A film by Mark Lipman
Men talk about their sexuality
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Five Days to Change the World
A film by Robert Richter
Student activists at the largest world peace conference in history take charge of their own destiny.
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Freedom Machines
A film by Richard Cox, Janet Cole, and Jamie Stobie
This award- winning PBS special dramatically redefines "disability" through personal stories of technology. A riveting reflection on America's largest minority: 55 million people with disabilities.
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Gaining Ground: Building Community on Dudley Street
NEW! A film by Mark Lipman and Leah Mahan
An inside view of community organizing at its best.
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Girl Trouble
A film by Lexi Leban & Lidia Szajko
The compelling stories of three girls entangled in San Francisco's juvenile justice system. The film documents the girls' successes and setbacks and exposes a failing juvenile justice system.
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Going On 13
A film by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Dawn Valadez
Four girls. Four years. The change of a lifetime.
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Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
A film by Paco de Onis
Sometimes a film makes history; it doesn’t just document it. So it is with Granito: How to Nail a Dictator”, the astonishing new film by Pamela Yates. Part political thriller, part memoir, Yates transports us back in time through a riveting, haunting tale of genocide and returns to the present with a cast of characters joined by destiny and the quest to bring a malevolent dictator to justice.
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Growing Up Female
A film by Jim Klein and Julia Reichert
Selected for the National Registry of the Library of Congress, Growing Up Female is the very first film of the modern women's movement. Produced in 1971, it caused controversy and exhilaration. It was widely used by consciousness-raising groups to generate interest and help explain feminism to a skeptical society.
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Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street
A film by Mark Lipman and Leah Mahan
Holding Ground is at once a cautionary tale of urban policies gone wrong and a message of hope for all American cities.
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It's Elementary - Talking About Gay Issues in School (Educational Training Version)
NEW! A film by Debra Chasnoff
All kids are affected by anti-gay prejudice, and all adults have the ability and responsibility to address it. This Educational Training version of the film, in partnership with the partner 136 page curriculum guide, serves as a guide to community organizing, professional development, and K-8 curriculum.
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It's Still Elementary
A film by Debra Chasnoff
Ten years after the original "It's Elementary" the filmmakers investigate the impact on the original students who were filmed learning about LGBT people. A riveting story about the impact of documentary film and activism.
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Kicking High in the Golden Years
A film by Grania Brolin
Managing the changes of advancing years
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Letters Not About Love
A film by Jacki Ochs
Based on letters exchanged between a Russian and American poet, a touching portrait of two countries and two people is revealed — a provocative exploration of language, culture and genuine communication.
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
A film by Rick Goldsmith
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world.
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One Wedding and a Revolution
A film by Debra Chasnoff
The frantic planning inside city hall for the first government-sanction same sex marriage. Lesbian rights pioneers Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon officially tie the not after 50 years together.
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