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  • Spring Slow Moments: Blatchley Nature Preserve & Meltzer Woods

    This short slow moment film takes you to Blatchley Nature Study Club, a private preserve along the banks of the White River in Hamilton County and Meltzer Woods, one of Indiana's last remaining fragments of old growth forest. It’s an early spring day: you’ll hear the cacophony of birds, creaks of...

  • LaPorte Indiana - Extra: Tonagels Featurette

  • Glass Breakfast: Featuring LAA Office

    Glass Breakfast is an online archive project serving as an alternative space for the appreciation and conversation of contemporary art.

  • Not Pictured

    From the Quarry, to the Fieldhouse, to the battlefield: a lost Hoosier name comes home to Assembly Hall.

  • Hometown Media

    This film follows the life of a local newspaper, chronicling the daily operations, the people it serves, and the community it fosters. Through interviews and candid moments, the film highlights the dedication of the newspaper staff and the significant impact they have on preserving local culture ...

  • Snag in the Plan

    10 to 15 years ago when biologists caught and tracked bats in Southern Indiana, for every three bats captured, one was a northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis). Now, scientists are lucky to find one or two during a week-long search. In July 2019, researchers went looking for the norther...

  • 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.

  • Indy Creatives: Elle Roberts

    Elle Roberts is a Near-Eastside resident and artist in Indianapolis.

    Find out more about her work at shehive.org.

    by Kurtis Bowersock

  • LaPorte Indiana - Extra: Sermon Featurette

  • Winter Slow Moments: Cataract Falls

    Sometimes the best way to enjoy a snowfall is from a window while sipping on a hot beverage. With that in mind, we invite you to slow down, settle in and embrace the stillness of the season with us as we premiere a new Slow Moments film* that explores a familiar Indiana landscape in winter: Catar...

  • ROOT BLACK - Trailer

    The story of the African-Diasporic relationship to land, nature, and farming.

    Featuring a family's history of sharecropping in Mississippi by weaving the past and the present and how Black farmers today are reclaiming their connection to land and growing food as a source of healing and nourishme...

  • Nurk

    A portrait of Professional Drone Racer, Paul Nurkkala.

  • 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.

  • Waking Up a Steam Locomotive

    This documentary explores the detailed process of reviving Fort Wayne's historic steam locomotive, the 765. From its early morning preparations to its journey across Indiana, the film showcases the care and precision involved in maintaining this piece of history. As the locomotive rolls through s...

  • Beyond El Barrio

    “Beyond El Barrio” explores the rich, untold history of Indianapolis’ Latino community and the lasting impact of the city’s once-thriving Latino neighborhood – El Barrio.

  • Stories and Legends: Historic Preservation in Muncie, Indiana

    "Stories and Legends," which won an Aurora Award for Platinum Best of Show, explores historic preservation while tracing the efforts to restore structures in several of Muncie's nationally recognized historic districts, including the hospital where bank robber John Dillinger stayed (Whitney Hospi...

  • Soul Food Project: A More Than Corn Story

    Soul Food Project:
    A More Than Corn Story

    Spend a year with urban farm Soul Food Project as they push the limits to find out if there’s such a thing as growing too much too fast.

    Featuring Danielle Guerin, a Hoosier and business graduate-turned-farmer whose passion brought Soul Food Project to ...

  • Glass Breakfast: Featuring Esteban Garcia Bravo

    An Interview with Esteban Garcia Bravo for Glass Breakfast.

    Directed and edited by Ian Carstens. Produced by Danile Luis Martinez and Ian Carstens. Starring Esteban Garcia Bravo.

  • Behind-the-Scenes with Rachel Hardy - Black Unscripted

    A behind-the-scenes look at Black Unscripted with director Rachel Hardy.

  • ROOT BLACK

    The story of the African-Diasporic relationship to land, nature, and farming.

    Featuring a family's history of sharecropping in Mississippi by weaving the past and the present and how Black farmers today are reclaiming their connection to land and growing food as a source of healing and nourishme...

  • Onward Ever

    In weaving together interviews from city infrastructure workers, environmental activists, illustrators and sculptors, youth volunteers and more, Onward Ever explores the need for a clean and viable river system, on which so many people along Indiana’s White River depend. In doing so, the film ask...

  • Feel of Vision - Trailer

    Lonnie Bedwell was raised in the small town of Dugger Indiana. It’s where he learned to hunt and fish with his brother, where he signed up for the Navy, where he raised his three daughters and where his life changed forever.

    In 1997, Lonnie, a US Navy veteran, was shot in a brutal hunting accid...

  • Andrew Quinn - Who's Who in Hoosier Documentary

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

  • Counting the Cost

    A mother recollects her family's experience in leaving an Amish community.