Summer Lightning

The Antidote weaves together stories of everyday people who are making the intentional choice to lift others up in powerful ways, taking action in the face of fundamentally unkind realities that are once unfortunate facts of life in America and deeply antithetical to our founding ideals.

A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Explores the racial wealth gap in America through the story of People Trust, a homegrown community bank in Little Rock, Arkansas, working to uplift a community that has been largely excluded from the financial engines that create wealth.

A 91-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor donates his violin of 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old schoolgirl from the nation’s poorest congressional district, and unexpectedly, his own.

Jordan Goudreau finds himself in over his head and on the run after mounting the failed Venezuela coup and being chased by the American government who he spent his life fighting for.

At the outset of Operation Desert Storm, a mortally wounded Kurdish surgeon reflects on his history—both personal and political—as he observes the bombing of Baghdad from a well outside the city.

A young man steals a car but is unprepared for what he finds in the back seat.

A documentary that explores the unexpected culture clash in Creede, Colorado—a remote mining town that invited a theater company in 1966 to revive its economy. What followed was a decades-long negotiation of identity, values, and belonging, as queer artists and progressive ideas took root in a place proud of its conservative heritage. With personal stories, tense town meetings, and reflections from original members like Mandy Patinkin, the film reveals how this tiny town became a powerful, poignant mirror of America’s larger divisions—and a testament to the complexity of living side by side.

A dark and uncomfortable comedy in which a heart-warming dinner party reunion turns into a violent nightmare as the host and the guest revisit their traumatic shared history to extreme ends.