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  • LaPorte Indiana - Extra: Burrhead Featurette #2

  • Hoodox - Streaming Platform Teaser

  • Vital Passage: A Holocaust Rescue Story

    ‘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 ...

  • Pressing On: The Letterpress Film - Trailer

    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...

  • MTXE: Mental Toughness Xtra Effort

    Two Warren Central high school wrestlers talk about their lives and the challenges they face beyond the mat that have made them the men they are today.

  • Glass Breakfast: Featuring Pierre Obando

    An online archive project serving as a space for the appreciation and conversation about art.

  • Black Unscripted - Trailer

    Told through the personal stories of five individuals, Black Unscripted is a fearless
    exploration of the way America’s need to define blackness has challenged the identity of an
    entire community

  • To Be Black: A Celebration of Black Voices - Quentessa Williams

    Tocarra chats with Quentessa Williams, a mother, pastor, and education advocate, about her family, raising children in modern America, mental health, and finding joy through faith and music.

  • Worth The Wait

    Coach Yeagley turns the Indiana University Intramural Soccer team into the power house it is today.

  • Not Pictured - Trailer

    From the quarry, to the field house, to the battlefield: a lost Hoosier name comes home to Assembly Hall. In 1940, the Indiana University [men's] basketball team won their first
    national championship, but not every member of the team got to play in the championship tournament. For decades, the na...

  • Kojak: A Fuller Life

    Former high school basketball star, Kojak Fuller, uses his life's tragedies to help the youth in his community flourish.

  • In Closing - Trailer

    American film director Ira Mallory explores the closing of Broad Ripple High School and its legacy in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 2018, the announcement that four potential public high schools in Indianapolis may close sparks widespread outcry. Among the schools slated for closing is Broad Ripple H...

  • 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...

  • LaPorte Indiana - Extra: Al Brinklow Featurette

  • Glass Breakfast: Featuring Robert Pulley

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

  • Still Afloat

    "Still Afloat" captures the harrowing experiences of Puerto Ricans during Hurricane Maria and its devastating aftermath. Through personal narratives, the film documents the destruction, the struggle for basic necessities, and the community's resilience in the face of ongoing challenges. As the hu...

  • Larry from Gary - Teaser

    A dedicated dance teacher continues inspiring his current and former students even after the arts high school in Gary, Indiana where he's taught for decades is shut down by the state.

    By seeing a person who's devoted his life to teaching have to leave his position because of the financial crisi...

  • 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

  • Kawergosk: Home Made of Cloth - Trailer

    After fleeing war in Syria and crossing the border into Kurdistan Region, Iraq, Syrian Kurds attempt to build a life in Kawergosk Refugee Camp. Music, food, and education provide families some comfort and meaning while they struggle with camp conditions and the persistence of waiting. Kawergosk: ...

  • The Long Run: Wes Doty’s New Life - Trailer

    Wes Doty endured years of extreme heroin use before running across the solution to his recovery.

  • The Deaners of Fairmount - Trailer

    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.

  • No Limits: An Arts Series Focused on Access for All

    The No Limits Art Series aims to strengthen inclusiveness and remove social barriers in the arts for individuals with disabilities. The Indiana Blind Children’s Foundation (IBCF), through a grant by Lilly Endowment Inc., organized high school students from the Indiana School for the Blind and Vis...

  • 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 ...

  • When We Were Syrian: Early Lebanese in Indianapolis - Trailer

    In a self-narrative search, filmmaker Josh Chitwood pieces together his fragmented Syrian-Lebanese heritage in Indianapolis. In his findings, he explores the ingredients of his own family’s identity and discovers the assimilating tale of early Arabs in America.

    Written and directed by Josh Chitw...