Indie Productions

In Post-Production

Faith in the Big House

Faith is in the advanced rough cut stage with the narration in second draft and the excruciating process of final rights and clearances in full swing.

The Extraordinary Passage of the Great White Hunter

Our editors are back in the edit room, and Interlock Producer, Karlina Lyons, and her team is working with Board Member Rebecca Hardin to round out the narrative towards the first release of this important work. 

In Development/Pre-production

Xukuru in Brazil: Progress Imperiled

10,000 Xukuru Indians live atop the plateau of semi-arid land that sweeps inland from the coast near Recife, Brazil. They are committed to choosing their own brand of economic revitalization. They have rejected tourism and instead pursue sweeping programs in organic agriculture, public health, education, and legacy exports such as lace. 

The Xukuru are under siege, all of the progress they have made is in immediate jeopardy. Powerful ranching interests and resort developers are blackmailing and attacking their leadership. However capable the Xukuru leadership has demonstrated itself to be, they have requested our help. By mounting a high-profile public awareness campaign we hope to keep members of the tribe a bit safer from the violent race hatred exacerbated by jealousy over their rights to land and water. The backbone of this campaign is the creation of a bold and compelling film and sweeping internet component. 

Aziza!

"Aziza!" is a new documentary profiling the history of belly
dance in the Boston area as it has evolved and thrived
over the past century within various local ethnic groups
including the Armenian, Lebanese, and Greek communities
that have settled here since the early 1900s. This documentary
presents a unique perspective on how music and dance has
played a crucial role in the immigrant experience of these
communities, and how belly dance - a fringe ethnic
art-form - eventually gained popularity in mainstream America.

Visit the Aziza! page

Pioneers: The Epilogue

The people of Sderot, Israel are becoming iconographic. Moroccans and Tunisians, who populated this border development town, have long been a neglected people in Israel.

"As much as Sderot is a symbol being at the epicenter of the Arab-Israeli conflict, it is a kind of Rorschach test - a screen onto which various political factions project their hopes and fears. For the right, it is evidence that only force will stop the rockets; for the left it is evidence that force is not the answer and that the rockets cannot be stopped without a new approach." New York Times, April, 2008

In a short epilogue to the character-driven Israeli film The Pioneers, we 1) focus on the traumatizing effects the conflict has on children and 2) summarize the history of Sderot to promote a context for best-practice domestic and foreign aid to the region.

We believe the exploration of therapeutic methods of treatment that does not re-inscribe violence is essential to survival of the region.