Frederick Marx

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years.

Jean, a small-town child preacher grows up in an institution without speaking. When involuntarily released, he ends up in an abandoned motel where he meets Cory – a “hard knocks” woman. Together they embark on a strange journey of healing.

They survived war, yet over the years, U.S. military veterans from four generations must find their own unique bridge of connection in order to survive and thrive back home.

Zanskar is one of the last remaining original Tibetan Buddhist societies with a continuous untainted lineage dating back thousands of years. In nearby Tibet and Ladakh, in Sikkim, Bhutan, and Nepal, traditional Tibetan Buddhist culture is either dead already or dying. The horror of Chinese government design in Tibet is being matched by the destruction of global economics elsewhere. Zanskar, ringed by high Himalayan mountains in northwest India, one of the most remote places on the planet, has been safe until now. But that’s changing. As economic growth descends on Zanskar it will bring with it an end to this unbroken Buddhist social tradition. Will the native language, culture, and religious practice be able to survive?

Dreams from China, shot from 1983-85 while working in Tianjin and Beijing, is a highly lyrical, diary-like film essay, lending perspective to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. "Extremely sincere...presenting a paradox of Chinese politics and society." (New York Times)

"A masterpiece of compilation film" (Berlin Kinemathek), Dream Documentary uses footage from other films to create a surreal and foreboding societal landscape

"You are not fit to be a citizen of the United States," said a U.S. Representative to Werner Marx, German-Jewish refugee, distinguished sailor in the U.S. Navy during WWII, American Communist -- as he tried to have him de-naturalized in a hearing of the House Committee of UnAmerican Activities. House of UnAmerican Activities draws on a wealth of family archives (stills, home movies, documents, and a video interview with the filmmaker's mother), as the filmmaker searches for the father he never really knew and for the meaning of a troubled era.

On Black Mountain takes place at a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center in the hills north of San Francisco, CA. 22 women Veterans experience a 4-month mindfulness meditation-based workshop to confront and face the demons from their military service: of sexual harassment, rape, and abuse, gender and race discrimination, career exploitation, and the lies and hypocrisy from their commanders.