Every June at Maplewood Middle School in NJ, 6th-grade students participate in a rite of passage: they write a letter to their future 18-year-old selves. For over 25 years, this extracurricular assignment has encouraged students to imagine and reflect on who they are and who they will become. After the letters are completed and sealed in a self-addressed, stamped envelope, two dedicated Language Arts teachers collect them and then hold onto them for six years. When a class is about to graduate, the teachers mail the letters from their past selves. For 25 years no one was allowed behind the curtain to witness and capture this amazing ritual, until now. “Dear Future Me,” a new documentary short film in two parts, features both high school seniors opening their letters and 6th graders writing to their future selves. The results are surprising, emotional and heartwarming. Since none of these students have been in school since March due to the Covid-19 pandemic, students have a unique perspective this year and the letters take on even greater meaning. But even more than reminiscing about their middle school selves, the letters prompt reflections of identity, race, sexuality and just how much can change in six short years.

Dear Future Me

In MS DIVA TRUCKER, a long-haul trucker turns to YouTube to combat loneliness and social isolation. In the process, she creates an empowering online community whose impact reaches far beyond America’s highways. This short documentary charts the story of a woman discovering her own strength and persevering in an indifferent and cruel world. It's an inspirational road movie—with a contemporary twist. Through vlogging on YouTube, Tamara discovers a supportive community of women who share her struggles of life in the margins. In an industry that is 96% cis male, it is difficult for these women to see themselves succeeding. Tamara's words of wisdom and encouragement offer women a model and a path forward.

Ms Diva Trucker

As America’s voting infrastructure crumbles, can a scrappy Silicon Valley startup gain the trust of a sleepy town in rural Mississippi in order to test drive the future of voting technology?

How We Vote Here

It is well known that we have to save the oceans because they are full of plastic waste. But what about the waters in Switzerland? Little is spoken or reported about this. "Lit(t)erweise" / (By the Lit(t)er) is a documentary web series that deals with littering in Swiss waters.An underestimated local topic that also has global impacts.A professional fisherman, a waste diver, and an environmental activist, three people who are actively doing something about waste in Swiss waters or are affected by it, lead through the problem.

By the Lit(t)er // Lit(t)erweise

A Mississippi artist creates life-size dolls so real they astound!

The Doll Lady

Verda Byrd has been living her entire life as a black woman. Only until the age of 70, Verda made a shocking discovery. She was adopted and her biological parents were actually white.

70 Years of Blackness

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