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  • LIMINAL: Indiana in the Anthropocene

    Liminal is a meditative aerial film that illustrates our state as a microcosm of this new planetary epoch. It captures features of this global phenomenon within the boundaries of our state, collapsing the global into the local. This event is part of the Unearthed initiative, Indiana Humanities’ m...

  • Bike Story

    When a bike shop owner and a filmmaker discover four vintage bicycles tucked away like time capsules in a dark corner of an old building, they take on the challenge of bringing them into the present while exploring the gripping nostalgia of bikes in the past.

  • LaPorte Indiana - Extra: Dunk Featurette

  • Gun Control

    Six months after finishing production on IMBPREZ, the filmmakers worked with Brian to create Gun Control, a piece centered around his experience confronting very impactful childhood trauma through art therapy. Some of the stories and themes that came to light in the feature documentary are furthe...

  • To Be Black: A Celebration of Black Voices - Tiffany Dow

    Education advocate and mother, Tiffany Dow, joins Tocarra to discuss equity and accessibility in education, school choice, and cheesy disaster movies.

  • Last Man Fishing

    A cinematic look at a vastly changing seafood system through the lens of small-boat fishermen and experts around the United States. Narrated by best-selling author Mark Bittman, the film explores the dichotomy between the industrial fishing model and sustainable fishing methods that focus on cons...

  • Pressing On: The Letterpress Film

    The modern world was born on a printing press. Once essential to communication, the 500-year-old process is now in danger of being lost as its caretakers age. From self-proclaimed basement hoarders to the famed Hatch Show Print, Pressing On: The Letterpress Film explores the question: why has let...

  • Vital Passage: A Holocaust Rescue Story - Trailer

    ‘Vital Passage’ chronicles a pair of midwestern Jewish merchants’ amazing story as they risked their business and livelihood to provide a vital passage for German Jews to escape the Holocaust and come to America.

    For 85 years (1906 through 1991) Plaut’s Dry Goods store was a fixture on Goshen’s ...

  • The Deaners of Fairmount

    An intimate look into the lives of some hard-core James Dean fans who moved to Fairmount, Indiana to live in James Dean's hometown.

  • LaPorte Indiana - Extra: Burrhead Featurette #2

  • Big Enough, Small Enough - South Bend in Transition

    South Bend is haunted by deep wounds in the city’s past while grappling with its fragile future. For more than 50 years after Studebaker closed it has struggled to determine its identity, but it is beginning to change rapidly. What type of place is South Bend to South Benders in 2020? Rustbelt ci...

  • Toboggan 'Bout Town - Trailer

    Four friends rally their hometown of Noblesville, IN to help them build a ten-foot toboggan and send them to race in the U.S. National Toboggan Championships in Camden, Maine.

    Produced by 12 Stars Media.

  • Bike Story - Teaser

    When a bike shop owner and a filmmaker discover four vintage bicycles tucked away like time capsules in a dark corner of an old building, they take on the challenge of bringing them into the present while exploring the gripping nostalgia of bikes in the past.

  • Justice for Batman: The Mark Racop Case

    Mark Racop, a batmobile maker from Indiana, is accused and raided by California police while being forced into a criminal court case.

  • Behind-the-Scenes with Katelyn Calhoun - Snag in the Plan

    A behind-the-scenes look at Snag in the Plan with director Katelyn Calhoun.

  • Fleeing Silesia - Trailer

    By the end of World War II, nearly all the 4.5 million people from the state of Silesia, Germany were interned in camps, had fled, or were expelled from their home, which today only exists in the memories of those who survived.

  • Saboteur - Trailer

    Saboteur explores the early life of Gabriel DeLobbe, a current Fort Wayne resident who was a Belgian resistance fighter during the Second World War. DeLobbe was only 14 years old in 1940 when the Nazis invaded his hometown of Charleroi. By the time he was 18, DeLobbe was sabotaging German supply ...

  • Third Space: Butler University Lab & Meredith Setser

  • The Amateur Circus - Trailer

    Tucked away in northern Indiana, the city of Peru, Indiana is the circus capitol of the world. Thousands of visitors and townspeople come to this town for two weeks to see the annual amateur circus.

  • Indy Creatives: Ryan Hunley

    Ryan Hunley is designer in downtown Indianapolis.
    Check him out at: 2ndcreative.com

    Indy Creatives is a series of short documentaries highlighting artistic people in the Indianapolis area.

    By Kurtis Bowersock

  • Hoodox - Streaming Platform Teaser

  • Nurk

    A portrait of Professional Drone Racer, Paul Nurkkala.

  • Laurie

    "Laurie" tells the story of a woman who uses art as a healing agent to help those around her as well as herself.

  • Katelyn Calhoun - Who's Who in Hoosier Documentary

    Learn more about Hoosier filmmakers in the Who's Who in Hoosier Documentary series.