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 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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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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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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At Home In Utopia
A film by Michal Goldman
Cooperative living in complicated times.
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Becoming American
A film by Ken Levine
A Hmong refugee family resettles in the United States: Culture shock, prejudice and gradual adaptation.
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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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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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Code of the West
NEW! A film by Rebecca Richman Cohen
Medical marijuana and the political process
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Daddy & Papa
A film by Johnny Symons
A story of gay fathers in America
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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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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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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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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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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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Finding Our Way
NEW! A film by Mark Lipman
Men talk about their sexuality
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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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Frontier Youth
NEW! A film by John Kane
Growing up in neighboring towns divided by a steel border fence.
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Gaining Ground: Building Community on Dudley Street
NEW! A film by Mark Lipman and Leah Mahan
An inside view of community organizing at its best.
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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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