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  • JD Schuyler - Who's Who in Hoosier Documentary

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

  • Justice for Batman The Mark Racop Case - Trailer

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

  • Big Enough, Small Enough - South Bend in Transition - Trailer

    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...

  • 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 Earth Keepers

    In southern Indiana, a married couple decide to leave academia to move to a farm and start a composting business—employing ex-offenders along the way. Now they’re on a mission to avert a looming waste crisis in Indiana, and beyond.

    Supported by: Indiana Humanities, for the INseparable Film Tou...

  • 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 ...

  • Black Baseball in Indiana

    Black Baseball in Indiana is a documentary film celebrating the history of African American involvement in segregated professional baseball (1880s-1950s).

    The film features interviews with Negro Leagues players and historians telling the unsung stories of the Indianapolis ABCs, Indianapolis Clo...

  • Goshen: A Sundown Town's Transformation

    ‘Goshen - A Sundown Town’s Transformation’ explores Goshen, Indiana’s past as a racially exclusionary Sundown Town and how the community is finding ways to acknowledge this history and move forward.

    There have been thousands of such communities in the U.S., but Goshen is among the first to make...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Rocky Walls - Who's Who in Hoosier Documentary

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

  • A Stone's Pace

    Indiana Limestone can be found all over the country. It is known for its uniqueness and beauty and has been turned into some of the most stunning works of architectural mastery. A Stone's Pace takes a look two people who dedicated their lives to shaping the stone and in return shaped their own li...

  • Cos Wars: More Than a Hobby

    Two avid Star Wars fans live out their love of the franchise through costuming.

    Winner of the Crystal Pillar for student production from the Lower Great Lakes Emmy organization. Also screened at the Lake George Film Festival and Hoosierdance Film Festival.

  • Third Space: Center for Inquiry & Anila Agha

  • LaPorte Indiana - Extra: Carolyn Featurette

  • Indy Creatives: Jingo

    Indy Creatives: Jingo De la Rosa is an Illustrator living in Indianapolis, IN.
    View his website: jingoillo.com
    Follow him on Instagram: instagram.com/jingoillo/

    The Indy Creatives project was started to help highlight the talented creatives living in the Indianapolis area... hence the name!

    by ...

  • Last Year at the Crossing - Trailer

    The story of four at-risk teens struggling at a last chance high school in Indiana, and their dedicated school administrator who holds out hope that they can succeed.

  • 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...

  • Dreaming In Public I: Making Art in the Real World

    This half-hour documentary follows Jake Webster and Kay Westhues as they make art, make a living, and struggle to build a community of like-minded artists in South Bend, Indiana. Both Jake and Kay have achieved solid reputations in the art world, and their work is widely collected and exhibited. ...

  • Behind-the-Scenes with Brandon Walsh - Onward Ever

    A behind-the-scenes look at Onward Ever with director Brandon Walsh.

  • LaPorte Indiana - Extra: Larson Featurette

  • Worth The Wait

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

  • 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...

  • 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.