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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Brooklyn Matters
A film by Isabel Hill
A riveting look at how big real estate, politics, community voices, and a desperate need for jobs and housing clash in one of the largest development proposals in the history of New York City.
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City of Borders
A film by Yun Suh
Israelis and Palestinians find an island of peace at Jerusalem's only gay bar.
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The Collector of Bedford Street
A film by Alice Elliott
An Academy Award nominated short documentary that follows Larry Selman, an intellectually disabled community activist and fundraiser who collects thousands of dollars for charities while living at the poverty line.
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A Day's Work, A Day's Pay
A film by Jonathan Skurnik
A Day's Work, A Day's Pay follows three welfare recipients in New York City from 1997 to 2000 as they participate in the largest welfare-to-work program in the nation.
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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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Drunks
A film by Peter Cohn
The groundbreaking feature film about Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Eating Alaska
A film by Ellen Frankenstein
A wry search for the "right thing" to eat
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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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Golden Venture
A film by Peter Cohn
The epic tale of 286 Chinese immigrants on a freighter that ran aground off New York in 1993. With immigration dominating political debate, the fate of the Golden Venture passengers is more relevant than ever.
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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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Land of Opportunity
NEW! A film by Luisa Dantas
The frontlines of the unprecedented rebuilding process in New Orleans.
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Liberty: 3 Stories about Life & Death
A film by Pam Walton
An extraordinary celebration of life & lesbian community.
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Maid in America
NEW! A film by Anayansi Prado
Award-winning PBS documentary about the Latinas who clean your homes and help raise your children.
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Mama C: Urban Warrior in the African Bush
NEW! A film by Joanne Hershfield
Born in Kansas City, living in Tanzania - artist, activist, citizen of the world.
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The New Old Country
A film by Faye Lederman
American Jews flock from across the country to New York City's Lower East Side, revealing an intricate web of nostalgia, collective memory and the elusive nature of recorded history. |
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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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The Smith Family
A film by Tasha Oldham
"The Smith Family" is a riveting accountof one family's uncommon struggle to keep faith and family |
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Special Circumstances in English and Spanish with subtitles in English
A film by Marianne Teleki
This award- winning film follows ex-political prisoner, Hector Salgado to Chile 30 years later to confront those responsible for his own torture and the death of his friends.
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STAGES
A film by Meerkat Media Collective
A moving portrait of aging Puerto Rican women and urban teenagers collaboratively creating a play out of the stories of their lives.
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Taken for a Ride
A film by Jim Klein and Julia Reichert and Martha Olsen
Why does America have the worst public transit in the industrialized world, and the most freeways? |
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Third Ward TX
A film by Andrew Garrison
Third Ward TX introduces Project Row Houses--the nation's most impressive public art project and a bold experiment in how to build communities.
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View from a Grain of Sand
A film by Meena Nanji
Three Afghan women tell how international interventions, war, and the rise of political Islam has stripped Afghan women of rights and freedom over the last 30 years.
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Which Way Is East
A film by Lynne Sachs
Two American sisters reflect on both the war and contemporary life in Vietnam
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Wo Ai Ni Mommy
A film by Stephanie Wang-Breal
How Fang Sui Yong became Faith Sadowsky.
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Writings on the Wall
A film by Angad Bhalla
The hopes and dreams of India's film poster artists. |
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