Production
An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school.
Created and directed by the award-winning filmmakers Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin, Brick City, is a documentary series that captures the daily drama of a community striving to become a better, safer, stronger place to live. Against great odds, Newark’s citizens and its Mayor, Cory A. Booker, fight to raise the city out of nearly a half century of violence, poverty and corruption.
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him.
Feature documentary following fashion designer Jay McCarroll's year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show and selling his clothing line to stores.
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A cop on vacation at a mountain resort comes to the rescue when the resort is taken over by violent criminals.
Puerto Rican coffee farmers fight a plague of beetles and other menaces with homegrown biological warfare, good humor, and strong coffee.
Five short stories linked together by a traveling salesman.
Feature-length behind-the-scenes documentary for Larry Fessenden's 2006 feature film, THE LAST WINTER.
This documentary tells the story of the bachata, Dominican Republic’s blues. It centers on the figure of singer, guitarrist, and songwriter Luis Vargas. It is also a tribute to the unknown heroes that transformed the bachata from a rejected music of the cabaret and whorehouses to a national pride and Dominican youth’s prefered urban music.
This film spans one hot day in New York and follows the lives of many of its inhabitants as they go about their business.
When a young mayor finds his reelection plans challenged by a crusading former evangelical pastor, a battle begins for the hearts and souls of the faithful. Amidst car caravans, cockfights, reggaeton concerts, and jujitsu work outs, the Machiavellian mayor is reborn and christened "The Boss" by his supporters. Accusations fly of malfeasance, mismanagement of funds, vote buying, and incitement of violence as the campaigns roll forward. All politics is local and from this perverse passion play uncomfortable truths emerge about the mechanics of democracy in America’s biggest colony.
