Dana O'Keefe
Directing
Known For

Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
2073

Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.
I Am Greta

A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.
Barry

Tour guide, historian and flaneur "Speed" Levitch travels the nation visiting those monuments that rarely make it into travel guides, from the shoe gardens of San Francisco to the luckiest subway grate in New York City.
Up to Speed
Explores the definitive story of the Burning Man festival, filmed over three years with the co-operation of the Burning Man Project, the non-profit behind it, and featuring archive from the last 30 years.
The Man Will Burn

This provocative consideration of the lasting influence and draw of Hitler provides insight into the resurgence of white supremacy, antisemitism, and the weaponization of history.
The Meaning of Hitler

Based on newly declassified files, the film explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
MLK/FBI
Chronicles Jimi Hendrix's transformative journey from an unknown sideman to a revolutionary guitar icon, exploring his arrival in swinging 1960s London, his breakout and how he ignited a cultural shift that changed music history.
Jimi
A definitive and unvarnished examination of multi-billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Musk
Explores the legacy of Fania Records and the Fania All‑Stars who pioneered salsa in the United States. The record label is credited with helping to inspire a cultural movement that led to the global dominance of Latin music today.
Pa'l Pueblo: Fania for the People
A deep delve into the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise. Described as a thriller 'in the tradition of Graham Greene or John Le Carré', the film will offer access to those involved in the murder of Moise, who was shot inside his home in July 2021. It will also feature secret footage from Haiti’s prisons and an encounter with a fugitive who witnessed the killing.
The Hands That Held the Knives

A meditative atour of three different, fascinating and distinctive Japanese listening cafés that offer an immersive, musical sanctuary amidst the chaotic streets of Tokyo.
A Century in Sound

Journalist Lawrence Wright brings his multilayered one-man play to the screen as he discusses how a reporter remains objective while covering highly charged issues such as 9/11, Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's past and the history of Islam. Wright examines the Muslim religion, Al-Qaeda's rise to power and bin Laden's complicated relationship with the rulers of Saudi Arabia in this riveting documentary from Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney.
My Trip to Al-Qaeda

The Great Clown Panic of 2016 wasn’t about clowns. It was about you.
Clowns

Against a backdrop of magnificent landscapes and epic tableaus, banal conversations take place between characters who are comically oblivious to their surroundings.
Meaningless Conversations in Beautiful Environments
A short film about an implacably blank face. And a very distinctive walk.
Vladimir Putin in Deep Concentration
There are only four outdoor phone booths left in all of New York City—this is a late night conversation with one of them.
Dead Ringer

A contemporary re-imagining of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr explores the idea of history as a contested narrative.
Aaron Burr, Part 2

A megalomaniac undertakes a doomed enterprise in order to become enshrined in the annals of history