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A young transgender man named Brandon navigates love, life, and trying to pass as a boy in rural Nebraska.

A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.

In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

A recent divorcee's holiday celebration with her adult children derails when she falls for her daughter's charming new boyfriend. A comedy influenced by "The Graduate," told from the perspective of a protagonist inspired by Mrs. Robinson.

Story of a woman and her three lovers.

Maya, an Iowa woman aspiring to be a dancer, meets Elsa. They decide to run away to Rapid City for a dance contest. On their journey through the Badlands, reality catches up with them, altering their plans.

The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. Who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men.

Sundance prizewinner. Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.

The documentary compiles interviews of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine.

A documentary look at calypso, mostly through the conversation and performances of two singers from Trinidad and Tobago, Lord Kitchener, nearing 70 when the film is made, and Calypso Rose. We see them practicing and in concert; both talk about their early careers. On hand with Lord Kitchener are Lord Pretender and Growling Tiger. Lord Kitchener looks back on London in the late 40s, when he and calypso rose to international popularity. Fifteen years later he returned to Trinidad, taking a year to re-establish his popularity. Intercut with scenes from Trinidad's Carnival, younger singers compete in an annual singing contest as Lord Kitchener serves as MC.

A man recalls the story of how his bees implanted in him a bee television, causing him to lose all perception of space, time, and self in the deserts of the American West.

When Clinton's decided heterosexuality was placed under fire during the Starr Investigation and ensuing Impeachment Hearings, gay people strongly identified with the President's discomfort and outrage. Today, public ambitions inspire (or even require) lying, covering up, and shading personal truths for survival. Barney Frank - the first openly gay politician on Capitol Hill - understands a thing or two about survival on Capitol Hill. After overcoming his own sex scandal in the early 90's, Frank emerged as one of Clinton's most eloquent and sympathetic defenders during the Impeachment Hearings. Well-loved for his political wit, Barney Frank has also emerged as one of the most popular Congressmen in the United States. Via interviews, news clippings, and exclusive footage shot during the Clinton Impeachment Hearings, "Let's Get Frank" is an intelligent and humorous look not only at life on Capitol Hill, but also at the dynamics of political scandal.

On a dark and stormy night in a secluded cabin in the woods, a young man faces challenges while trying to relieve his boredom.

The Lives of Hamilton Fish is a film whose story is told through songs. Two men both named Hamilton Fish were pronounced dead on the front page of a Newspaper in 1936, one was a famous statesman and the other, a notorious cannibal.

Wang Dang is the real-time story of a washed-up director who's come to an unnamed film school to speak on the adventures of his career and ends up entertaining two nubile graduate students in his seedy off-campus motel room.

The work of two artists, Henri Matisse and Henri Bonnard, during the World War II period, is explored in this documentary.

Documentary about the career and eventual death from AIDS of actor Rock Hudson.

Chronicles the confrontations and destruction of housing in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, that dispossessed hundreds of people during the gentrification wave, to pave way for new developments and market housing.

Inspired by a true story, THE CHOICE is a short film about Tracy and tells the story of their grandmother, Mrs. Ruth Wilson, who is trapped between loving the sinner and hating the sin so she turns to her Priest for guidance.

A digital public artwork and computer-generated animation of urban circulation patterns which is projected on city sidewalks or concrete floor. The video allows the viewer to hover above images of virtual figures and moving masses of pedestrians.

Struggling to cope with the death of his father, 10 year old Micah unwittingly falls into the grasp of The Molok, an ancient creature who feeds on human memories.

Did you know that a seafaring American tribe explored the shores of North America 7000 years ago? Or that these ancient Americans rivaled their European counterparts in navigational skills several millennia before the Vikings? The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People follows U.S., Canadian, and European scientists from the barrens of Labrador - where archaeologists uncover an ancient stone burial mound - to sites in the U.S., France, England, and Denmark, and to the vast fjords of northernmost Norway where monumental standing stones testify to links among seafaring cultures across immense distances. This film represents the first publication in any medium that has synthesized these new discoveries and attempted to draw a picture of the northeastern sea peoples, whom scientists refer to as the Maritime Archaic.

Documentary film about the black men who came from the West Indies (primarily Barbados and Jamaica) to work on the construction of the Panama Canal from 1881 to 1914.