Residents at Echo Glen Children’s Center reflect on what they miss about being “out.” Created through the SHARE screenwriting program at the juvenile detention facility in Snoqualmie, Washington, this short combines images and poetry from students at Echo Glen High School with voiceover performances by students from Renton High School - a collaboration designed both to protect Echo students’ identities and to build an emotional bridge between youth who might otherwise never connect.

At Echo Glen High School, a juvenile detention facility in King County, WA, students examine the fragile moment between good and bad decisions while building community, as the voiceover traces one student’s early struggles with incarceration. Voiceover performed by a student at Shoreline College.

A teenage competitive swimmer's passion for the water turns to fear as relentless comments about her weight from her male coach erode her confidence — until an unexpected friendship with an older woman learning to float helps her to remember what makes her body great

In the aftermath of an assault, a survivor uses jiu jitsu to confront her trauma.

After an unexpected layoff, a first-generation Oromo woman must navigate financial uncertainty while supporting her family back in Ethiopia.

Alzira, a retired seamstress, starts having intense dreams about her gambling partner.

Three lifelong friends meet every day for coffee. One afternoon, when one of them doesn’t show up, the others begin to sense the unspoken weight of memory, absence, and the tenderness that binds them.

In this chapter of Aaron Johnson’s “Dark and Tender”, ten Black men journey to the Big Island of Hawaii to workshop the touch and listening practices from the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project. Part cinéma vérité, part elucidated teaching, the film slows down with the men as they reclaim and rebuild platonic intimacy and trust. Holding space for each other, they shake off violent narratives of Black masculinity and seek to restore a vital and basic human need in their lives – tender touch.