Albuquerque’s Rusty Tidenberg, auto mechanic and drag-racing aficionado, shocked friends and family by coming out as trans. Followed for eight years by filmmaker Harrod Blank, Rusty guides us through the aftermath of her transition, as growing acceptance among her straight-talking Southwest community still doesn’t ease her romantic and professional woes. A sensitive and unpredictable love letter to people who fight to be unapologetically themselves.
The documentary A DANGEROUS IDEA: Eugenics, Genetics and The American Dream reveals how biologically determined politics has historically disenfranchised women and people of color, provided a rationale for state sanctioned crimes committed against America’s most vulnerable citizens, and now gains new traction under the Trump administration.
“Tomorrow, We Carry On” highlights Dulce Garcia, the Dreamer who risked the life she leads in America to sue the President for rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Winner of the 2019 San Diego Latino Film Festival Migrant Voices competition.
Ellen Brodsky’s delightful film about a young group of Texas history students who embark on a quest to return General Santa Anna’s wooden leg to Mexico. Don’t know who Santa Anna is? Watch the trailer!
On the banks of the Ganges, in India’s holiest city, the gods descend to earth once a year to celebrate. And the boatmen carry the faithful who come to honor them.
Director Frances Causey examines the impact of white privilege on American society today through the lens of her family’s colonial past as slave owners.
Short film docu-series featuring three women from Micronesia who are transforming their lives and the lives of their families through higher education. Part of the Pacific Pulse online series, Pacific Islanders in Communications.
Trailer for 39 1/2, an independent feature film which mixes narrative drama, comedy and animation to follow the journey of a single, female filmmaker pushing 40 and determined to have a child by virtually any means necessary.
In Adios Amor, the discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot—Maria Moreno, a migrant mother driven to speak out by her twelve children’s hunger. Years before Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta launched the United Farm Workers, Maria picked up the only weapon she had—her voice—and became an outspoken leader in an era when women were relegated to the background.
