Untitled Safer Schools Project UNTITLED SAFER SCHOOLS PROJECT explores the landscape of 21st century school security in the United States, illuminating the complex ways in which we as a nation struggle to understand and prevent violence, and endeavor to create safer schools. Charting the paths of architects, entrepreneurs, security consultants, teachers, students, and parents, the [...]

Midnight Traveler MIDNIGHT TRAVELER follows the struggles of a family of Afghan filmmakers on the run from the Taliban. Told from refugee-Director Hassan Fazili’s unique perspective, their story provides unprecedented access to the refugee experience and its portrayal in Western media. Date: September 14-18 Time: 10:00am - 8:00pm Location: Storyforms Barn, 21 Winter [...]

Jacinta JACINTA is a portrait of a family in Maine that is fractured by a cycle of addiction, incarceration, and crime. Date: September 14-18 Time: 10:00am - 8:00pm Location: Storyforms Barn, 21 Winter St., Rockland

Hwangsa HWANGSA is a cinematic portrait of enormous dust storms, hazardous air quality, and the stories of the people along the path of the dust as it travels around the globe. Touching down in cities and towns from the Taklamakan Desert of Western China to the shores of California, we meet eight characters confronted by [...]

Area 2 Over 100 African American men claim to have been tortured by Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and his “Midnight Crew” of detectives between 1972 and 1991. AREA 2 explores the Chicago police torture saga through the stories of a broad spectrum of people connected to it, many of whom have never shared their [...]