Windrider Studios is a curated library of short films, Q&As and discussion guides offered as a resource to the good work of those in the Windrider community.

A husband and wife have grown apart over the years. He lives on the floor, she lives on the ceiling, and their marriage hangs in the balance.

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.

At the dawn of their teenage years, Raphaël and Rémi are twins who see their fraternal attachment crumble while one of them, suffering from an increasingly marked disability, remains a prisoner of childhood. During one last summer surrounded by nature, time seems to want to stand still.

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.

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

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.

Kim Hill was the vocalist for the emerging hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas. Until she quit.

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 ...

After a blow up during basketball practice, Olivia struggles to face a deeper devastating reality in rural Montana.

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

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, Johnny Reyes.

A man thinks back to his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in China in the 1990s. What would his life have been like if things had gone differently?

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

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...