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 [...]

Not far from Los Angeles, lies the unfinished California City. In this grid of thousands of crumbling streets, former LA gang members try to reinvent themselves, while being constantly haunted by their turbulent past.

The Mountain and the Magic City In the shadow of a northern mountain, a place once known as The Magic City stands on the brink of collapse, abandoned by industry and torn apart by a national park that threatens to unite or divide it. This is the story of what happens when the American dream [...]

A Taste Of Sky In the dizzying heights of Bolivia's capital of La Paz a gastronomical revolution is offering the possibility of hope to the country’s impoverished youth. We follow the trials and tribulations of GUSTU, the innovative cooking school and world-class restaurant of South America's poorest country. Date: 5/13/2016 Time: 5:30pm [...]

Midnight Family The Ochoa family operates a for-profit, independent ambulance in Mexico City. When they hear of an emergency over their illegal police radio, they rush to the scene with twin motives: saving lives and getting paid. Date: 5/13/2016 Time: 5:30pm Location: Points North Campus Schedule

The Feeling Of Being Watched A filmmaker digs into tales of surveillance inside her Arab neighborhood in Chicago’s south suburbs and discovers that her hometown was the subject of the largest FBI terrorism investigation conducted before 9/11. The Feeling of Being Watched follows a filmmaker’s personal journey to discover the truth about why her community [...]

Rescue Breath After his son holds up a bank while high on heroin, Kevin Blankenship, a successful doctor who reinvented the urgent care system, is forced out of retirement to battle the opioid epidemic that has swept through his home state of West Virginia. In his six-month, farming-based recovery center, addicts attempt to let go [...]