Based on the bestselling book, The Book Thief tells the inspirational story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany.
2014
The Hot Flashes
An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women challenge the current high school state champs to a series of games to raise money for breast cancer prevention.
The Invisible Bicycle Helmet
Two female entrepreneurs create a revolutionary bicycle helmet everyone told them would be impossible to engineer.
The Other Shore {NY Premiere}
Follow world record holder and legendary swimmer Diana Nyad, as she comes out of a thirty-year retirement to re-attempt her elusive dream: swimming 103 miles non-stop from Cuba to Florida without the use of a shark cage.
The Red Pill {NY Premiere}
Paralympian Anjali Forber-Pratt was adopted from India as an infant and became paralyzed shortly after arriving in the U.S. Despite daunting obstacles, Anjali is now a PhD student and world record holder in 200m wheelchair racing.
The Worlds of Bernice Bing {NY Premiere}
Chinese American lesbian artist Bernice Bing is known for creating art on her own terms. The film illuminates her life, from her art studio in the epicenter of San Francisco’s beat scene to her groundbreaking community work in northern California.
Tina For President
Tina, a shy 8th grader, runs for class president against the school bully in order to stand up for her friend and herself.
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
Breaking racial and gender stereotypes, the African-American stand-up comedienne Jackie “Moms” Mabley has long been an icon in the comedy world.
Wild Horses
Cruelty, courage, love, and memory collide as two generations of women bear witness to the brutality common to wild horse roundups in the American West.
Work-in-Progress: Councilwoman Castillo
Councilwoman Carmen Castillo is a chambermaid from the Dominican Republic, who has been cleaning hotel rooms for over nineteen years and is likely the first hotel housekeeper to hold public office in the U.S.
Work-in-Progress: Radical Grace
Catholic Sisters Jean, Chris and Simone are so passionate about social justice that they’ll risk their place in the church they love, in order to be true to their faith. From the halls of Congress to St. Peter’s Square, we follow the sisters as they transform the Catholic Church and American politics.
Work-in-Progress: Trapped
A look at the impact of restrictive abortion laws in the southern United States, and their disproportionate effect on women living in poverty.
