Documentary

Backyard Wilderness reveals the unexpected wonders of nature right outside our doors. Through the eyes of a young girl, viewers will discover the hidden secrets of her backyard and are reminded that true connections are found beyond Wi-Fi—sometimes all it takes is stepping outside. Presented in partnership with Westchester Land Trust and filmed locally in Westchester.

This new version of the original Screenagers movie addresses issues that elementary school aged kids, parents and educators are facing, i.e., smartwatches in class, unhooking from and monitoring video gaming, social media pressures, exposure too young and what research shows is a healthy amount of screen time. With many solutions to these and other challenges. A Q&A discussion follows the film.

INTO THE LIGHT is a documentary that discusses how to achieve meaningful recovery from serious mental illness and schizophrenia with education, medication and advocacy. Featuring over 25 interviews of patients, parents, leading medical professionals, healthcare professionals, and advocates from across the USA. A Q&A with the Executive Producers, Dr. Rob Laitman, MD and Dr. Ann Mandel Laitman, MD follows the film. Admission is free.

999 reveals the hidden story about 999 unmarried, young Jewish women registered for government service in a supposed shoe factory and ended up in Auschwitz. Who were these young women? Why were they chosen? How did a handful survive over three years in the death camps? 94-year-old Edith Grosman—#1970—and a few other survivors reveal the truth of this almost completely ignored piece of women's history, the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz.   Based on the international best seller 999: The  Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz (translated into 19 languages) this documentary pairs with the book to educate and inform a wider public about this historic #MeToo story. A Q&A with the filmmaker and author Heather Dune Macadam follows the film. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing.

Personal Statement  is an Emmy-nominated feature-length documentary that follows Karoline, Christine, and Enoch through their senior year and into college. They work tirelessly as peer college counselors to realize better futures for themselves and their peers. They struggle and they stumble, but refuse to succumb to the barriers that prevent so many low-income students from attending and graduating from college.

A century after the debut of Alfred Hitchcock's first feature, he remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. But how does his vast body of work and legacy hold up in today’s world? Mark Cousins, the award-winning filmmaker behind Women Make Film, The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, and The Story of Film: A New Generation, tackles this question and looks at the auteur with a new and radical approach: through the use of his own voice. As Hitchcock rewatches his films, we are taken on an odyssey through his vast career- his vivid silent films, the legendary films of the 1950s and 60s and his later works- in playful and revealing ways.