TAKIN PLACE is an observational documentary film directed by Cyrus Dowlatshahi about ordinary people and everyday life on the South Side of Chicago. As they work, chill, hustle and survive, Dowlatshahi reveals the common aspects of all neighborhoods and communities around the world: a desire to share, grow and celebrate.
2016
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
30 minutes
Director:
Cyrus Dowlatshahi
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
17 minutes
Director:
Nicholas Zafonte
Two college friends reunite fifteen years later in a secluded summer home, for a writers' retreat. As they attempt to write a movie together, Sean, still a carefree musician and Emily, now an uptight lawyer, try to recapture the intimate friendship they once shared.
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
16 minutes
Director:
Brandon Kramer
CITY OF TREES tells a deeply personal story about the struggle to implement a high-stakes, stimulus-funded green job-training program at the height of the recession. CTY OF TREES follows the point-of-view of three long-term unemployed DC residents hired by the program Charles, Michael, and James; and Steve, the director tasked with managing the multi-million dollar stimulus grant. When local racial tensions and a marginalized communitys entrenched distrust of outsiders complicate a seemingly simple goal of putting unemployed people back to work by planting trees, CITY OF TREES thrusts viewers into the inspiring but messy world of job training and the paradoxes changemakers face in urban communities everyday.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
11 minutes
Director:
Anietie Antia-Obong
Six year-old Priyanath imagines himself to be a superhero taking down imaginary villains with his extraordinary powers. But when he learns of a real danger near his home, Priyanath must decide if hes actually got what it takes to be a real life superhero.
Experimental
United States
Runtime:
9 minutes
Director:
H. Paul Moon
Combining cinematic western landscapes with intimate poetry recitation, MINING THE MOTHER LODE is an agrarian dirge on wasted resources, our culture of consumption, and brokers who trade on our most precious resource: water.
Narrative Feature
Hong Kong, SAR China
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
20 minutes
Director:
Dax Phelan
A year after his wife's murder, once-successful Hong Kong businessman Leonard To (Jason Tobin) is still reeling from the tragedy. Having lost his job, friends and all sense of order in his life, Leonard becomes obsessed with a mysterious stranger he sees at his wife's grave, believing him to be responsible for her death.
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
17 minutes
Director:
Thomas Southerland
A 70 year-old Kentuckian loses sleep after buying a second-hand lamp.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
25 minutes
Director:
Viraj Nayar
Carl Reed, a 27 year old single father and recently released ex convict, struggles to find work before the week is up in order to pay his overbearing grandmother rent money before she kicks him out of the house. As his crunch for time nears its deadline, he is forced to choose between doing the right thing and doing what put him in jail in the first place.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
9 minutes
Director:
Christian Strevy
My name is Jason Gunner Jackson, and I know, without a doubt, that I am a target of a multi-agency program that intends to surveil, track, and document my life.
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
25 minutes
Director:
Michael R Faulkner
Following in the footsteps of Paul Pena (Genghis Blues), Beatboxer, Shodekeh, travels across the world from Baltimore, MD to Kyzyl, Tuva, Russia to take part in a festival celebrating the 50th Birthday of the legendary musician, Kongar-ool Ondar. While there, he collaborates and competes with some of the worlds best Tuvan throat singers in pursuit of a goal to create an oasis of unity with music. Music is the language in this exploratory documentary filled with rare recordings and open landscapes.