Personal profiles that take us through the inner lives of remarkable people. Scientists, artists, and athletes reveal their goals and aspirations in layers on camera. Content warning: Flashing lights (Two Sun) Accessibility: Closed captions available

At once a fiction and of reality, Two Sun explores the relationship to the self. Our truths, the stories we live, and the inevitable cycle of losing and finding ourselves once more. Who do we put it on for? What context is valuable? Hinging on a single conversation between selves, and a monologue addressing them both, the film embarks on the journey of return.

Two Sun

A Black scientist brings together local Black farmers to combat the effects of climate change and create opportunities in Black agriculture for new generations in the Arkansas Delta. Produced with Reel South and the National Multicultural Alliance.

Black Ag

Jenna Murray is an Eastern Shoshone MD/PhD student at the University of Utah. Her
most formative childhood experiences were spent on her family’s Wind River Indian
Reservation ranch, where she loved nothing more than helping her grandfather. When
her active, 70-year-old “Papa” suddenly dies of a preventable health issue, Jenna
grapples with her dream of a career in tribal health while facing her own mental health
crisis.

Winding Path

In a poetic mix of dance, visual narrative and documentary, Saturn Risin9 follows queer performance artist Saturn on their return home to the Bay Area. We follow their journey of perseverance centering self-discovery, affirmation, healing and creative expansion, poetically told through fantastical imagery and nonlinear narrative.

Saturn Risin9

An exploration of cycling culture through the eyes of Ayesha McGowan, who rose through the ranks of the New York City underground cycling world to break barriers as the world’s first African American woman to become a professional cyclist.

A Race in the Sun

After witnessing the 1971 oil spill in San Francisco Bay, John Francis is determined to travel across America on foot — and in silence.

A Symphony of Tiny Lights

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