Archived Festival Film

P.S. Burn This Letter Please

A box found in an abandoned storage unit unearths a time capsule of correspondences from a forgotten era: the underground drag scene in 1950’s New York City. Firsthand accounts and newly discovered footage help cast a long overdue spotlig... read more

Archived Festival Film

Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped Abroad

In 1994, Tom Hargrove was kidnapped in Colombia by the FARC. With a $6M ransom price and without support from the authorities, Tom’s wife and sons pick up the phone (and a Video8 camcorder) to negotiate directly with the largest terrorist... read more

Archived Festival Film

Television Event

With great detail, Jeff Daniels traces the production, controversy and impact felt by the 1983 airing of the TV movie The Day After, a fictional account of a Soviet nuclear attack on the US. read more

Archived Festival Film

Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

In 1989, a black youth was murdered in Brooklyn when he was misidentified as the boyfriend of a local white girl. The aftermath of Yusuf Hawkins' death exploded into a social movement, exposing racial prejudices that continues to plague us toda... read more

Archived Festival Film

Dear Mr. Brody

In 1970, eccentric hippie millionaire Michael Brody, Jr. decided to give $25 million away to anyone who needed it, sparking a media frenzy and thousands of letters from strangers all requesting his help. read more

Archived Festival Film

All the Streets Are Silent

The convergence of skateboarding and hip hop culture in downtown New York in the 1990s and the rise of Supreme. read more

Archived Festival Film

Girls Can't Surf

Under the radical glow of Australian sun, peroxide hair and fluorescent surf-shorts, a dark wave of male chauvinism crashed down on 1980’s surf culture. Girls Can’t Surf shares the untold story of pioneering women who surfed against this ... read more

Archived Festival Film

Dirty Little Secret

The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is retold in song and animation. read more

Archived Festival Film

Radical Love

Radical Love explores the subversive political activism and deep connection of Michael and Eleanora Kennedy, a husband-and-wife legal team who represented a who’s who of the 1960s’ politica... read more

Archived Festival Film

Esther In Wonderland

Drawn to the expressiveness of hip hop and breakdance, Esther (Naian González Norvind) tests the boundaries of her restricted existence as a young married woman in a Hasidic community in 1990s Crown Heights. read more