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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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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Barbie Nation
A film by Susan Stern
The new Barbie Nation Collector's Edition DVD plumbs the cult of the Barbie doll, revealing attitudes about sexuality, body image, gender roles and creativity. Starring Barbie creator Ruth Handler.
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Bonecrusher
A film by Michael Fountain
An intimate journey inside the lives and work of coal miners.
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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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Crossing Lines
A film by Indira Somani & Leena Jayaswal
"Crossing Lines" is about an Indian American woman's struggle to stay connected to India after the loss of her father. Like most second-generation ethnic Americans, Indira Somani has struggled with identity issues, since her parents migrated to the U.S.
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Daddy & Papa
A film by Johnny Symons
A story of gay fathers in America
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Eating Alaska
A film by Ellen Frankenstein
A wry search for the "right thing" to eat
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First Person Plural
A film by Deann Borshay Liem
A Korean adoptee bravely unites her biological and adoptive families.
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The Garifuna Journey
A film by Andrea Leland
A first voice testimony celebrating the resiliency of the Garifuna people of Belize and their traditions.
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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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Jamsie King of Scratch
A film by Andrea Leland
A spirited musical journey from the U. S. Virgin Islands. 79-year old James Brewster is an uncompromising, humorous, and provocative musician known for his playful compositions and lively performances. |
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Living Broke in Boom Times
A film by Paco de Onis
Living Broke in Boom Times depicts the epic movement of poor Americans organizing to end poverty as documented in a decade-long journey by filmmakers Peter Kinoy and Pamela Yates.
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Maybe Baby
A film by Shannon ORourke
A ground- breaking film and one of the first of its kind to deal with brand new technologies and ideas of family and birth.
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Mr. Cao Goes to Washington
NEW! A film by Leo Chiang
An idealistic rookie challenges politics polarized by race and partisanship.
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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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Our Disappeared (Nuestros Desaparecidos)
A film by Juan Mandelbaum
Through a casual Google search director Juan Mandelbaum finds out that Patricia, a long-lost girlfriend from Argentina, is among the thousands who were kidnapped, tortured and then "disappeared" by the military during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
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She's Just Growing Up, Dear
NEW! A film by Julia Tell
Coping with incest and abuse
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Silences
A film by Octavio Warnock-Graham
What happens when an interracial person's identity is completely ignored by his white family and friends? |
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Sin País (Without Country)
A film by Theo Rigby
With intimate access and striking imagery, Sin País (Without Country) explores one family's journey as they are separated by deportation.
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States of Unbelonging
A film by Lynne Sachs
The core of this meditation on war, land, the Bible, and filmmaking is a portrait of Revital Ohayon, an Israeli filmmaker and mother killed in a terrorist act on a kibbutz near the West Bank
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Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai
A film by Lisa Merton
How the simple act of women planting trees changed a nation...
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The Family Journey: Raising Gender Nonconforming Children
A film by Jonathan Skurnik
How do you accept and love your transgender child?
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There Once Was An Island:Te Henua e Nnoho
A film by Briar March
The Human Face to Climate Change
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Thy Will Be Done
A film by Alice Bouvrie
A documentary that explores the point of tension where gender, family relationships, and faith, intersect.
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