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Ross Kauffman

Ross Kauffman

Directing

Biography

Ross Kauffman is an American director, producer, cinematographer and editor.

Known For

Independent Lens
6.6

This acclaimed Emmy Award-winning anthology series features documentaries and a limited number of fiction films united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of their independent producers and featuring unforgettable stories about a unique individual, community or moment in history.

Independent Lens

1999
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
6.9

A behind-the-scenes look at San Diego Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book convention, and the fans who attend every year.

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

2011
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
6.8

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.

Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

2004
Wild Wild Space
6.9

Follow three rocket and satellite companies – Astra Space, Rocket Lab, and Planet Labs – and the quests of their idiosyncratic founders to conquer the burgeoning space industry.

Wild Wild Space

2024
Boy Boy Girl Girl
N/A

A dark comedy about a gay couple trying to adopt a newborn from a drug-addict and her abusive girlfriend.

Boy Boy Girl Girl

2018
Winding Path
N/A

Eastern Shoshone medical student Jenna Murray spent summers on the Wind River Indian Reservation helping her grandpa in any way she could. When he suddenly dies, she must find a way to heal before realizing her dream of a life in medicine.

Winding Path

2024
Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas
N/A

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the world through act or invention—directed by the world's most celebrated documentary filmmakers.

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas

2012
Tigerland
6.0

Fifty years ago, a young forest officer in India rallied the world to save tigers from extinction. Today, the work continues in Far East Russia, where the guardians of the last Siberian tigers risk everything to protect the species.

Tigerland

2019
What Would Sophia Loren Do?
6.5

Nancy Vincenza Kulik, an Italian-American grandmother from Fort Lee, New Jersey, has experienced many challenges and triumphs. But she always meets life's journey with love, resilience and joy, inspired in part by another Italian grandmother, movie star Sophia Loren.

What Would Sophia Loren Do?

2021
The Woman Who Wasn't There
6.7

Tania Head was the ultimate 9/11 survivor. She had the grimmest story. None of it was true.

The Woman Who Wasn't There

2012
Of Medicine and Miracles
N/A

This riveting documentary chronicles the monumental task of curing cancer, as seen through the harrowing experiences of one young girl, her family, and a doctor on a mission.

Of Medicine and Miracles

2022
In a Dream
4.6

Over the past four decades, artist Isaiah Zagar has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. In A Dream is a documentary feature film that chronicles his work and his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Julia. It follows the Zagars as their marriage implodes and a harrowing new chapter in their life unfolds. An exploration of the fallout that ensues when the line between art and life is blurred beyond distinction.

In a Dream

2009
E-Team
6.0

E-Team is driven by the high-stakes investigative work of four intrepid human rights workers, offering a rare look at their lives at home and their dramatic work in the field.

E-Team

2014
Project Kashmir
N/A

From directors Senain Kheshgi and Geeta V. Patel comes PROJECT KASHMIR--a feature documentary in which the directors, two American friends from opposite sides of the divide, investigate the war in Kashmir and find their friendship tested over deeply rooted political, cultural and religious biases they never had to face in the U.S. PROJECT KASHMIR explores war between countries and war within oneself by delving into the fraught lives of young people caught in the social/political conflict of one of the most beautiful, and most deadly, places on earth--Kashmir.

Project Kashmir

2008
Waterproof
N/A

Big John and Johnny Jr., East Hampton, New York lifeguards give the best of themselves to train, compete and ultimately ensure the safety of locals and tourists alike.

Waterproof

2019
Wait for Me
N/A

In 1985, a young man from a well-to-do family took a bicycle trip across southern Europe, potter into Bangladesh, traveled through India, and disappeared while hiking in the rugged foothills of the Himalayas. He was never seen or heard from again. Wait For Me is the story of a mother's spiritual and emotional search for her son ceaseless emotional trek, propelled by an unconditional love and an unwavering belief that he may still be alive.

Wait for Me

2008