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Showing 153 Films sorted by Genre: 'First Time Filmmaker'
![The Man Who Stole Banksy](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3508/medium_The_Man_Who_Stole_Banksy__MARCO_PROSERPIO__1.jpg)
The Man Who Stole Banksy
In 2007, the anonymous graffiti artist Banksy painted a series of political works around Palestine, only to have them cut down ...
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![The Night Eats the World](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3573/medium_Night_Eats_the_World___Laurent_Champoussin__1.jpg)
The Night Eats the World
Following one hell of a party, Sam wakes up to the worst-ever morning after—blood-stained walls, an empty apartment building, a...
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![The One I Love](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2404/medium_One-I-Love_-The_web_1.jpg)
The One I Love
Ethan and Sophie escape to a country retreat for a last ditch attempt to save their ailing marriage. It soon morphs into an une...
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![The Party's Just Beginning](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3482/medium_The_Party_s_Just_Beginning_Still.jpg)
The Party's Just Beginning
Liusaidh is a sharp-witted, foul-mouthed, heavy-drinking twenty-something who is still reeling from a recent loss. Written by,...
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![The Proposal](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3560/medium_TheProposal__Jarred_Alterman__1.jpg)
The Proposal
When artist-turned-filmmaker Jill Magid learns that the archives of Mexico's most famous architect are being held in a private ...
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![The Public Image is Rotten](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3172/medium_THEPUBLiCiMAGEiSROTTEN__TOBIAS_DATUM__web1.jpg)
The Public Image is Rotten
Within months of the demise of the Sex Pistols in 1978, lead singer Johnny Rotten (aka John Lydon) formed post-punk outfit Publ...
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![The Sensitives](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3140/medium_TFF17_Sensitives_DrewXanthopoulos_1.jpg)
The Sensitives
Meet the Sensitives, people who are debilitatingly sensitive to modern life—electricity, chemicals, you name it. Their symptoms...
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![The Serengeti Rules](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3500/medium_THESERENGETIRULES__TIM_CRAGG__1.jpg)
The Serengeti Rules
A band of young scientists discover a radical new theory of the natural world—one that could help confront some of the biggest ...
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![The Spring](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3251/medium_TheSpring-web01.jpg)
The Spring
In August 2016, seven female filmmakers, all under the age of 25, traveled to Central Florida to film the women of Weeki Wachee...
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![The Suitcase](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3252/medium_Suitcase_Still-web1.jpg)
The Suitcase
The ordinary life of a Boston bred baggage handler is turned upside down when he steals a suitcase that contains terrorist plan...
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![Thumper](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3178/medium_TFF17_Thumper_1.jpg)
Thumper
This suspenseful crime drama follows Kat Carter (Eliza Taylor), the troubled new girl in a school harboring a deep secret. When...
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![Time is Illmatic](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2451/medium_time-is-ill-matic_nas_rooftop_web.jpg)
Time is Illmatic
Released 20 years ago on April 19, 1994, Nas’ Time is Illmatic has remained one of the most influential hip hop albums of all t...
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![To Dust](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3497/medium_TO_DUST_LILY_ROSENTHAL_1.jpg)
To Dust
Traumatized by the death of his wife, a Hasidic cantor obsesses over how her body will decay. He seeks answers from a local bio...
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![Tomorrow We Disappear](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2419/medium_Tomorrow_We_Disappear_web_1.jpg)
Tomorrow We Disappear
The puppeteers, performers, and magicians of the Kathputli colony in Delhi are the last slumdweller– artists of their kind. Whe...
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![Traitors](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2374/medium_Traitors_web_band.jpg)
Traitors
In Sean Gullette’s feature debut, Malika is the lead singer of an all-female punk band and sees music as a means to escape a du...
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![Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3553/medium_Unbanned_002_noBug.jpg)
Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1
Through interviews with Michael Jordan, Spike Lee, and more, this vibrant documentary tells the origin story of the Air Jordan,...
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![United Skates](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3529/medium_United_Skates__Christopher_Vanderwall__1.jpg)
United Skates
Credited with incubating East Coast hip-hop and West Coast rap, America’s roller rinks have long been bastions of regional Afri...
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![Untogether](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3564/medium_Untogether__xx__01.jpg)
Untogether
Former writing prodigy Andrea tries not to fall for her one-night stand, while her sister Tara throws herself into a newfound r...
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![Viola, Franca](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3201/medium_Viola_Franca-IMG_5894-A-web1.jpg)
Viola, Franca
It's Sicily in 1965, and Franca is forced to marry her rapist to avoid becoming a pariah in her traditionalist community, but s...
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![Virgins](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3547/medium_Virgins2-1920x1080.jpg)
Virgins
Teenage Lana is languishing in her run-down hometown on Israel’s sun-soaked north coast—until an older, attractive writer arriv...
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![Virunga](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2421/medium_Virunga_web_1.jpg)
Virunga
Virunga is Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and the last natural habitat for the endangered mountai...
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![WASTED! The Story of Food Waste](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3242/medium_Wasted-stack-of-can-web1.jpg)
WASTED! The Story of Food Waste
Each year, $218 billion—or 1.3 billion tons—of food is thrown out. With nearly a billion people worldwide facing starvation, fo...
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![Wendy's Shabbat](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3453/medium_Wendy_s_Shabbat_Jeanne_Tyson_1.jpg)
Wendy's Shabbat
After mourning the loss of her husband Jack of nearly 60 years, Roberta Mahler sought to connect with her Jewish community to e...
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![When Lambs Become Lions](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3535/medium_PREFERRED_WHEN-LAMBS-BECOME-LIONS_1-1920x1080.jpg)
When Lambs Become Lions
In the Kenyan bush, a crackdown on ivory poaching forces a silver-tongued second-generation poacher to seek out an unlikely all...
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![Where Thoughts Go : Prologue](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3646/medium_Where_Thoughts_Go__xx__1.jpg)
Where Thoughts Go : Prologue
An intimate social virtual-reality experience, Where Thoughts Go is set in a world where all human thoughts exist as sleeping c...
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