"Atomic Cover-up" is the first film to explore the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki from the unique perspective and startling images of the brave cameramen who risked their lives filming in the irradiated aftermath. It reveals how this historic footage was seized, classified top secret, and then buried by American officials--for decades--to hide the full human costs of the bombings as a costly nuclear arms race raged. "Powerful" -- Alex Gibney. "Utterly haunting'--Joan Walsh, The Nation

Atomic Cover-up

"Atomic Cover-up" is the first documentary to explore the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the unique perspective and startling images of the cameramen who risked their lives filming in the irradiated aftermath. It reveals how this historic footage was seized and then buried by U.S. officials--for decades.

When the Covid-19 pandemic worsened the existing food insecurity crisis in Portland, OR, a small group of laid-off restaurant workers started a mutual aid kitchen to deliver free, high quality meals to community members in need.

Crisis Kitchen

When the Covid-19 pandemic worsened the existing food insecurity crisis in Portland, OR, a small group of laid-off restaurant workers started a mutual aid kitchen to deliver free, high quality meals to community members in need.

"Pho the People" is a film about Maryam Tu and her social justice food project, Pho the People. Pho the People was created as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter uprising around the U.S. The story captures Tu, a first-generation Vietnamese American, navigating her identity, race, and devotion to her community during a time of isolation and racial unrest. "Pho the People" explores cultural reclamation, resilience and activism through food.

Pho the People

"Pho the People" is a film about Maryam Tu and her social justice food project, Pho the People, that she conducts from her front porch.

Puppet Regime unravels the political repression faced by activists in Oklahoma, which has traditionally been regarded as both a media flyover state and a conservative stronghold. The documentary follows a group of artists that build protest puppets in response to Trump's 2020 Juneteenth rally in Tulsa. Towering 10 feet high, the puppets joined protesters as they interrupted the heavily militarized MAGA block party during Trump's white supremacist rally in one of the most conservative states.

Puppet Regime

Independent grassroots short documentary about artists in Oklahoma using protest puppets to protest fascism and racism.

Filmed in a classroom, TOMORROW is the new music video and depicts a rebellious uprising of diverse students led by JamarzOnMarz fighting for inclusivity. Dovetailing this is a wholesome narrative of his characterâs first queer romance. Facing the Principalâs clippers for having âextremeâ Afro-styled hair, JamarzOnMarz is dragged by the hair into the Principalâs office to have his hair shaved, his friends rise to the occasional and twerk and krump the mean Principal into a dazed stupor!

TOMORROW

With lavender-tinged uniforms, the queer students revolt with satisfying consequences!

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