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Caged Lion
A devoted fan vows to remain in his basement until the Detroit Lions make it to the Superbowl.
Boogie Bob & Chuck Berry
In the mid 1960s, Bob Baldori and his band The Woolies became the backup to the backup to a musician visiting Lansing. That night began a 50-year friendship between Baldori who would become a boogie woogie music pioneer and the Father of Rock n’ Roll Chuck Berry. The two would record a couple albums at […]
Blue Sunshine
Aravind, a high school teacher, wants to transition from male to female while working for a school in a small town in South India. Aravind’s parents do not know that Aravind is already taking hormone treatment for the transition. When his parents force a marriage upon him due to their financial situation, Aravind gains courage […]
Diblings
I was 26 when my father died, and five months later I found out we weren’t biologically related & that I had seventeen new half siblings. As someone with disabilities, I searched for answers about this new reality. What I found was a long history of unregulated practices within a multi billion dollar industry spanning […]
Cross Country
Anthony intends to leave his small town for New York City, however, his god-fearing mother struggles to let him go.
Down by the Riverside
In the summer of 1969, the world-renowned folk musician Pete Seeger built a boat and launched a movement. An intimate portrait of Pete, his spouse Toshi, and the participatory grassroots community they anchored in the Hudson Valley for over forty years, Down by the Riverside tells the story of how an unconventional campaign to save […]
Marqueetown
No one fights to preserve a multiplex, but some people will risk everything to save a marquee. Through booms and busts, Delft Theatres Inc. – and its innovative gem, The Nordic – endured in Marquette Michigan for almost 100 years, even as the world changed endlessly around them. Local kid Bernie Rosendahl’s modern crusade to […]
Fitting Descriptions
Dina is an middle-aged stage actor and a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults). Haunted by a past humiliation, she tries to jump-start her failing on-camera career with a rebrand: Dina’s agent orders her to solicit random passersby for first impressions of her. As she weathers the resulting IRL likes, comments and just plain indifference, Dina’s […]