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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At Home In Utopia
A film by Michal Goldman
Cooperative living in complicated times.
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Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy
A film by Alice Elliott
Two remarkable advocates for people with disabilities - Diana Braun, who has Down Syndrome, and Kathy Conour, who has cerebral palsy - met four decades ago and vowed to fight for independent lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Embracing Our Sexuality
NEW! A film by Mark Lipman
Women talk about their sexuality
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Everyday Heroes
A film by Rick Goldsmith
Youth, race and national service: AmeriCorps behind-the-headlines
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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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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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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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Growing Up Female
A film by Jim Klein and Julia Reichert
Selected for the National Registry of the Library of Congress, Growing Up Female is the very first film of the modern women's movement. Produced in 1971, it caused controversy and exhilaration. It was widely used by consciousness-raising groups to generate interest and help explain feminism to a skeptical society.
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Hearts and Hands
A film by Pat Ferrero
A social history of 19th century women and quilts
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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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It's Still Elementary
A film by Debra Chasnoff
Ten years after the original "It's Elementary" the filmmakers investigate the impact on the original students who were filmed learning about LGBT people. A riveting story about the impact of documentary film and activism.
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Kicking High in the Golden Years
A film by Grania Brolin
Managing the changes of advancing years
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Letters from the Other Side
A film by Heather Courtney
Post-NAFTA immigration stories from the Mexican women left behind.
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