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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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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Bag it - 65 minute version
A film by Suzan Beraza
Is Your Life Too Plastic?
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Bag It - 78 minute version
A film by Suzan Beraza
Is Your Life Too Plastic?
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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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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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The Choice of a Lifetime: Returning From the Brink of Suicide
A film by Nila Bogue
Transforming suicidal despair into the will to live
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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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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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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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Deadly Deception - General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment
A film by Debra Chasnoff
Grassroots activists successfully expose a corporate giant's environmental record and push GE out of the deadliest business of all.
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The Double Burden
A film by Marlene Booth
What is it like to grow up in a family where mothers have always worked outside the home?
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Downpour Resurfacing
A film by Frances Nkara
Poet, meditation teacher, and somatics pioneer Dr. Robert Hall opens his own story of child sexual and physical abuse and conveys how he transformed their repercussions into a life of confidence and peace.
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Eager For Your Kisses, Love and Sex at 95
NEW! A film by Liz Cane
A 95-year-old man's determination to keep love and sex in his life
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Eating Alaska
A film by Ellen Frankenstein
A wry search for the "right thing" to eat
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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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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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Father's Day
A film by Mark Lipman
A son searches for the meaning of his father's death
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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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Gay Youth
A film by Pam Walton
Breaking the silence surrounding gay and lesbian teens.
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The Gillian Film
A film by Joanne Hershfield
The Gillian Film is a moving portrait of an exceptional young woman who works at a local veterinary clinic, rides horses, takes dance classes, and is developmentally disabled.
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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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