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Windrider Conversations presented by MJ Murdock Charitable Trust.

Craig Detweiler, Co-founder of the Windrider Summit, sits down with Destin Daniel Cretton at the 2023 Summit. Cretton is the director of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Just Mercy and Short Term 12, and a 2023 Sundance ...

Windrider Conversations presented by MJ Murdock Charitable Trust.

Watch the full film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmvKNpEJJ-c. Jonathan Cipiti, Creative Director of the Windrider Institute, sits down with the winners of the CT Creative Storytelling Award: Cristina Costantini, Alfie Koetter,...

The French Laundry, run by legendary chef Thomas Keller, has often been recognized as the best restaurant in the world, but few know the story of its original founder, Sally Schmitt. In an emotional final interview before her passing in March 2022, Sally tells her own story as a pioneering chef o...

A dead car battery leaves Safa stranded alone in a strip mall parking lot.

Despite the grit, the harassment, and the struggle, these three chefs have carved a well-deserved space for themselves in the culinary industry. Watch as a butcher, chef, and restaurateur speak of their shared experience as women facing and overcoming institutionalized sexism.

A personal story of grief, those we look up to, and how the interactions we may deem insignificant may play a huge part in how we live our lives.

When a haunting black hole appears in their yard, a pregnant couple must face their fears of miscarriage, to eliminate the phenomenon before it consumes them.

Windrider Conversations presented by MJ Murdock Charitable Trust.

Rebecca Jones, PhD, professor at Ouachita Baptist University, sits down to discuss 2023 Best Student Film – Black Whole with filmmaker Brett Alan Calkins.

Watch the full film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmvKNpEJJ-c. Matty “Square” Ruggiero and his childhood friends, the Union Street Boys, tell their story of what it was like to grow up in South Brooklyn, where money was tight but friendships were tighter.

Bill and Tonya Martin don't speak English anymore. This is the story of Martinese.

Kintsugi is a 16th century process of mending broken shards of pottery. Visual artist Mako Fujimura and Kintsugi Maker Kunio Nakamura, invite us to imagine how this ancient artform might help us find healing in the midst of trauma and come to a deeper understanding of the redemptive character of ...

A portrait of a girl holding onto things (especially sheep).