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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A Sentence Apart
NEW! A film by Theo Rigby
The United States imprisons more people, per capita, than any country in the world - A Sentence Apart follows three families as they cope with the infinite ripple effects of incarceration in the U.S.
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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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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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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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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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Betty Tells Her Story
A film by Liane Brandon
The classic film about beauty, identity and a dress.
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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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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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Code of the West
NEW! A film by Rebecca Richman Cohen
Medical marijuana and the political process
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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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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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Domestic Violence and Law Enforcement
A film by Peter Cohn
Three Cities, Three Departments, One Common Goal.
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Every Mother's Son
A film by Kelly Anderson & Tami Gold
Three women - Kadiatou Diallo, Iris Baez and Doris Busch Boskey - lose sons to police brutality and unite to fight for reform and accountability in law enforcement.
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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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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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Foo Foo Dust
A film by Gina Levy
The award-winning "Foo-Foo Dust" explores the relationship between a crack-addicted prostitute and her junkie son living together in one room in San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
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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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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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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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Immigrant Nation!: The Battle for the Dream
NEW! A film by Esau Melendez
The story of the immigrant rights movement and the story of single mother and activist Elvira Arellano who is fighting against her deportation.
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In Whose Honor?
A film by Jay Rosenstein
An award- winning and compelling documentary that takes a critical look at the long running practice of using American Indians as sports mascots.
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I'm Just Anneke
A film by Jonathan Skurnik
A family accepts their gender nonconforming child just as she is.
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Let's Get Real
A film by Debra Chasnoff
An in-depth look at name-calling and bullying in middle schools today, told entirely from a youth perspective.
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