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An Apollo Legend

One night a week, the stage at the Apollo Theater is an amateur's battleground, where performers have competed for stardom since 1934. Today, the legend of Ella Fitzgerald lives on in the hearts of those who pray for their own big break.

MediaStorm | 2008 | 18 minutes

Caught in the Crossfire

Post 9/11, Arab-Americans are caught in the crossfire of the War on Terrorism, and are finding out how cold the welcome can be when one belongs to the wrong immigrant group at the wrong time.

Icarus Films | 2002 | 54 minutes

Clotheslines

The symbolic and artistic role of laundry in womens' lives.

Roberta Cantow | 1981 | 32 minutes

The Crabs, The Birds, The Bay

Every spring nearly one million migrant shorebirds (sandpipers and plovers) stop to feed on horseshoe crab eggs along the beaches of Delaware Bay.

Bullfrog Films | 1997 | 19 minutes

Downtown Dream

Five people in a Rust Belt town struggle to reinvent their lives and their dreams in contemporary America.

Icarus Films | 2013 | 45 minutes

Egg Cream

The beloved chocolate soda drink, born in immigrant neighborhoods at the turn of the 20th century, is explored in this short film about a simple beverage and its meaning to generations of Jewish Americans.

Icarus Films | 2020 | 15 minutes

A Fierce Green Fire

* New title added January 2023 *

An exploration of the environmental movement, including grassroots and global activism, spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change.

Face to Face Media | 2012 | 101 minutes

A Fierce Green Fire

The documentary of record on the environmental movement.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 101 minutes

Fight Hate With Love

Prison-survivor and activist Michael Ta’Bon leads a one-man movement in his community to help other young men avoid the revolving door of the prison system he’s been trapped in since he was a teen.

MediaStorm | 2017 | 79 minutes

The Five Demands (57 mins)

A riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever.

Icarus Films | 2023 | 57 minutes