A Park Grows in Brooklyn

A visual poem exploring the beauty of Henna, a tradition shared by women of many cultures and religions across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

A documentary short about the growing number of African children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The film was screened at the United Nations Headquarters (NYC) for World Aids Day in December 1999, and before members of US Congress as part of a briefing on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in April 2000.

"Our war is not against each other. It is against the hatred taking the lives of our children." In memory of Eyal Ifrah zt"l, Gil-Ad Sha'ar zt"l, Naftali Fraenkel zt"l, Mohammed Abu Khdeir (pbuh), Sa'ad Dawabsha (pbuh), Riham Dawabsha (pbuh), Ali Sa'ad Dawabsha (pbuh). "Roads" written, performed and recorded by Portishead.

A mini-documentary short about Jhon Su, a lover of world fashion, and his hip, eclectic boutique, "Ysasu", a hidden treasure in a tiny Parisian street on the border of northeastern Paris' creative and immigrant communities of Montmartre, Barbès, Château Rouge and La Goutte d'Or. Here, Jhon and Ysasu collaborate with French graffiti artist DaCruz in order to celebrate "fashion in the street".

Chosen via a highly selective audition and interview process due to limited funding, the members of Off the Curb learn how to overcome disadvantages and setbacks in life through the art of dance.

"The unthinkable had happened: the Jews of Jerusalem's Old City were being exiled, fleeing for their lives before the Jordanian Army's onslaught..." Original story published in the book "Stories of Spirit and Faith: Fascinating Tales from Life in Aleppo" by Rabbi David Sutton, in conjunction with Miriam Zakon (Ralph and Rachel Tawil Edition, Artscroll Sephardic Mesorah Series, Mesorah Publications, © Copyright 2007). "Taksim Violin, Maqam Hijaz" performed and recorded by Rafi Shawat. (Produced for the non-profit initiative ISRAELrealNATION.)

Following the white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally, parallel counterprotests, and the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia on 12 August 2017, residents of Norfolk, Virginia gather in order to demand the removal of "Johnny Reb", a memorial to Confederate soldiers who lost their lives during the Civil War towering eight stories high over the Downtown Banking District at the intersection of East Main Street and Commercial Place. Still photographs by Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham. "Poor Black Annie" performed by Clayton Horsley and recorded by the Blue Ridge Institute and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Bringing together historic footage of the August 1963 March on Washington and the 1960's in the modern State of Israel, "We Have a Dream" explores what it means "to hope" and "to be free". (Produced for the non-profit initiative ISRAELrealNATION.)

In their own words, Holocaust survivors Henri Borlant, Marcel Jabelot, and Violette Jacquet-Silberstein share their experiences of deportation and incarceration in concentration camps during World War II.

Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwind uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant, who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest black mass movement in world history. It explores Garvey’s dramatic successes and failures before his fall into obscurity. Among the film’s most powerful sequences are interviews with people who were part of the Garvey movement decades ago. These interviews communicate the appeal of Garvey’s revolutionary ideas to a generation of African Americans, and reveal how he invested hundreds and thousands of black men and women with a newfound sense of pride.

Follows a Mississippi family's attempts to deal with an increasingly violent and erratic child.

When Clinton's decided heterosexuality was placed under fire during the Starr Investigation and ensuing impeachment hearings, gay people strongly identified with the President's discomfort and outrage. Today, public ambitions inspire (or even require) lying, covering up, and shading personal truths for survival. Barney Frank - the first openly gay politician on Capitol Hill understands a thing or two about survival on Capitol Hill. After overcoming his own sex scandal in the early 90's, Frank emerged as one of Clinton's most eloquent and sympathetic defenders during the impeachment hearings. "Let's Get Frank" is an intelligent and humorous look not only at life upon Capitol Hill, but also the dynamics of political scandal.