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 Hard Straight
NEW! A film by Goto Toshima
A gang member, a mother, and a small-time dealer. They served their sentences, they're on parole. Now they're about to discover that walking out the prison gates is just the beginning.
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abUSed: The Postville Raid-70 minute version
NEW! A film by Luis Argueta
The devastating effects of US immigration enforcement policies on children, families and communities.
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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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Another Side of Peace
A film by Ellen Frick
If we who've paid the highest price possible can talk to each other why can't our leaders do the same?
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Children in No Man's Land
NEW! A film by Anayansi Prado
A documentary that uncovers the plight of unaccompanied immigrant minors entering the United States.
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Children Of War
NEW! A film by Bryan Single
A group of former child soldiers undergo a remarkable journey of trauma therapy, emotional healing, and homecoming.
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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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Concrete, Steel, & Paint
A film by Cindy Burstein and Tony Heriza
Men in prison. Victims of crime. A daring idea...
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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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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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Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas
A film by Robert Richter
A powerful examination of the limits of free speech
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Eating Alaska
A film by Ellen Frankenstein
A wry search for the "right thing" to eat
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Fallon NV: DEADLY OASIS
A film by Amie Williams
Sixteen children have been diagnosed with leukemia in Fallon, NV, and sadly three have died. While officials, scientists, and journalists descend, the film probes the loaded question of a "cancer cluster".
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Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins
A film by Robert Richter
The struggle to find and reveal the truth about torture training at a U.S. military school.
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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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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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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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Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia
A film by Jenny Cool
As mortgage market "meltdowns" and the environmental crisis bespeak its wider consequences, HOME ECONOMICS bursts the bubble of the American Dream of homeownership and reveals the deep human costs of suburbanization and automobilization. |
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Hungry for Profit
A film by Robert Richter
Is Third World famine the price we're paying for our food?
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If the Mango Tree Could Speak
A film by Patricia Goudvis
Ten children ages 12 to 15 share their experiences growing up in the midst of war in Guatemala and El Salvador.
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In the Name of Love
A film by Shannon ORourke
What motivates the thousands of Russian women who sign up with agencies to meet and marry American men?
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La Caminata
A film by Jamie Meltzer
Revealing the other side of the immigration debate.
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Leona's Sister Gerri
A film by Jane Gillooly
A provocative film about abortion
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