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Randomly selected films from the Hoodox library.

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  • The Aviators: A Father/Son Story

    After tragedy strikes, a son seeks to connect with his father through the joy of flight.

  • Finding Hygge - Trailer

    Hygge, the Danish art of creating joy and coziness in life's everyday moments, has exploded in popularity amidst growing division and distrust around the world. But finding hygge in one's own life can be more complicated that it seems. This globe-trotting film presents a surprising, funny, and of...

  • LaPorte Indiana - Extra: Pappas Featurette

  • Third Space: Global Preparatory Academy & Beatriz Vasquez

  • The Little Engines That Could

    Near the heart of Maine and in the bitter cold of winter, magical century-old traditions endure thanks to the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway, Maine Locomotive Works and Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad. For the first time in one hundred years, these survivors from Maine's narrow gauge ra...

  • More Than Corn - Episode 1: Spring is Here

    Premiering and streaming exclusively on Hoodox beginning June 17th, 2021.

    Genesis and Eli, husband and wife farmers based in Noblesville, Indiana, share their journey to produce delicious, local food. While some may call it the 'simple life,' More Than Corn explores the challenges of starting an...

  • Glass Breakfast: Featuring Gnat Bowden

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

  • Welcome to the Dollhouse - Trailer

    Welcome to the Dollhouse explores the societal rules and expectations of how women celebrate their bodies and how they use them to show love and power. As the Disdress Dolls shimmy, shake, and strip their way across the stage, they challenge concepts of power and femininity. By offering a vulnera...

  • Last Man Fishing - Trailer

    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...

  • LaPorte, Indiana

    Tucked away in the back room of a B&J’s American Cafe lies a secret history waiting to be discovered: 18,000 dog-eared studio portraits from the 1950s and 60s. From baby pictures to graduation shots to young soldiers heading off to war and beyond, each of these photos hints at a personal story wa...

  • More Than Corn - Episode 4: People Over Product

    Genesis and Eli, husband and wife farmers based in Noblesville, Indiana, share their journey to produce delicious, local food. While some may call it the 'simple life,' More Than Corn explores the challenges of starting and operating a produce farm in the Midwest.

    New episodes will be released t...

  • Hannah Myers Lindgren - Who's Who in Hoosier Documentary

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

  • Worth The Wait

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

  • Glass Breakfast: Featuring Im-ple-ment Archive

    The Im-ple-ment Archive is a union of craft and tool, metal and earth, marrying the skills of Linda Tien and Ellen Kleckner playfully in the landscape of the uncanny valley. The archive is colored by a reinforcement of the perseverance and fluidity of individual and collective identity. One hesit...

  • Instrument of Peace: The Brother Gabriel Story

    Brother Gabriel, a friar based in Bloomington, IN, shares how his love of skateboarding supports his faith.

  • Onward Ever - Trailer

    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...

  • Third Space: Butler University Lab & Meredith Setser

  • 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 ...

  • Hellbender in the Blue

    From New York to Appalachia, the two-foot long eastern hellbender salamander is an indicator species for our river health. The population has declined noticeably since the early 1980s. In the Blue River watershed of southern Indiana, communities from all over the state are working towards dam rem...

  • Our Wetlands: Working to Protect Us

    Since becoming a state, Indiana has lost nearly 90% of its wetlands. Often thought to be swampy, mosquito breeding grounds, wetlands may wrongfully be the most underrated and underappreciated natural area. These rich habitats are home to a variety of wildlife, including birds, amphibians, and ben...

  • 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 Hannah Myers Lindgren - Food First

    A behind-the-scenes look at Food First with director Hannah Myers Lindgren.

  • Chatterbox - Trailer

  • Daniel Arthur Jacobson - Who's Who in Hoosier Documentary

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