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 ...

Academy Award® Winner. In a nondescript warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain over 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives ha...

Academy Award® Nominated. A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family’s lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Best Student Film Award presented by Family Theater Productions at the 2022 Windrider Summit.

A Chinese teenage girl travels with her mom to the United States as a translator, in order to find her older sister, who was abandoned under the One-child policy. When she secretly finds her sister on s...

Best Student Film Award presented by Family Theater Productions at the 2023 Windrider Summit.

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.

Directed by 2-time Academy Award Winner Ben Proudfoot. CT Creative Storytelling Award recipient at the 2024 Windrider Summit.

Young lawyer Noah Cox grapples with his own past as he attempts to use a progressive new law and digital system to win grace for his developmentally disabled client, John...

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

Inspired by true events, THE WIND PHONE follows the emotional journeys of seven strangers. Each is drawn to the same remote, eerie phone booth on a Japanese cliffside, although their conversations couldn’t seem more different. One caller seeks forgiveness for a fatal transgression while another g...

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.

This film is a portrait of Milt Abel II, the son of Kansas City jazz legend Milt Abel Sr. Milt II became a head pastry chef at The French Laundry and Per Se, and sous pastry chef at two-Michelins star restaurant, Noma. As his career was rising, his father’s was coming to an end. Finding himself a...

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...

Uncover the deep spiritual significance of America’s newest federal holiday with pastor Rasool Berry. Learn how Scripture inspired the faith of enslaved people, travel to the church where America’s first Juneteenth celebration took place, and uncover why newly liberated men and women credited God...

This bilingual dramedy short follows an overworked Cuban-American millennial rushing to pack for a trip to Havana. When her eccentric Abuelo drags her on a last-minute hunt for a rare car part, she confronts her own privilege in a race against the clock.

In a world where Black women are expected to be invulnerable to pain, five Black women confront their personal struggles and explore healing through art.

“Sheng nu” (“leftover women”) is a term used to describe single women who are 27 or older in China. Most of these women live in cities and lead rewarding professional lives. The term was coined in 2007 by a government organization responsible for the protection and promotion of women’s rights and...

Inspired by actual events, this film takes place in a Middle Eastern community where music has been banned by Jihadists who have imposed their strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law. The film's hero, Karim, is a young pianist whose music gives his disheartened neighbors strength and inspirat...

Inspired by a 911 call placed during a school shooting incident in Atlanta, Georgia.

As society's belief systems are seemingly changing, or even reverting in time, one Ohio artist is challenging his community by saying, "bring me your mistakes". Inspired by recent events, Billy Joe White and his Red Rose Tattoo Studio are promoting one simple concept…ERASE THE HATE. Beneath the...

In this film, we learn about Paul and Millie Cao who lost their youth to the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Forty years later, they have become successful professionals in Southern California and are rediscovering themselves on the dance floor.

His footprints aren’t on the moon. But his fingerprints are on statues across the United States.

Undertakers wait on a family’s final farewells as one son struggles to say goodbye to his dead father.