Brave Girls

Cover-Up

He's devoted his career to uncovering stories the powerful want buried. From My Lai to Abu Ghraib, dig into the life's work of journalist Seymour Hersh.

Voices from Within

"Voices from Within" brings you into a world most people never see-a mental institution. For the first time in the history of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, cameras were allowed inside and placed into the hands of four individuals in care: Jimmy, Lee, Kevin, and Calvin, who have been residents for a combined 160 years. All of them have series mental illnesses.

La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered

On May 5th, 1991, people took to the streets of Washington D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood to protest the police shooting of Daniel Gómez, a young man from El Salvador. Through testimony, song, poetry, and street theatre, La Manplesa weaves together the collective memory of one of D.C.’s first barrios and dives into the roots of the ‘91 rebellion. As people across the world take to the streets to demand an end to police brutality, the film honors the largely untold stories that have come before us, and explores how artists prompt us to remember what we still have to fight for.

The Most Beautiful Deaths In The World

As a deadly US-backed war raged in the 1980s, tens of thousands of Salvadorans made the Washington, DC, region their new home. This mass migration gave birth to a new artistic movement. Columbia Road in Adams Morgan became a hotspot of Salvadoran resettlement, where artists brought meaning to a uniquely Salvadoran-Washingtonian identity. In the process, they shaped the city’s vibrant, longstanding, and thriving cultural scene.

Fly by Light

For the first time, four DC youth play in mountain streams, sing under the stars, and confront the entrenched abuse of their past. As they return to the city, each faces an unforgiving series of roadblocks that challenge their efforts to build a better life. From street corners to mountaintops, Fly By Light is an intimate exploration of the emotional journey to rewrite a young person's future.

Resurgence

Resurgence tells the story of Jonas Gilham, a poet from Washington, DC, on a journey to transcend his own learned toxic masculinity from the street to prison, where self-education and egalitarian principles transformed a very troubled boy into a man committed to guiding other men through their own personal revolutions. After 17 years behind bars, Jonas offers his voice into the critical conversation about how we as a society can heal and prevent violence by reimagining masculinity to build a better, more equal future.

Desert Poems

Desert Poems is a film built around a poem by Sami Miranda that speaks to objects left in the desert by migrants crossing into the US.