Desolation to Destination: Greater Zion Golf
As it was announced that LPGA and PGA Tours were going to be stopping in Greater Zion at the new Black Desert Golf Course, this project sprouted. Golf is what we often point to as the start of tourism to the area. The first golf course, Dixie Red Hills, opened here on July 4, 1965, as a seven-hole (yes, seven – with two more holes to follow shortly) course, and today we boast 14 outstanding courses. We’ve come a long way.
Directors: Greater Zion Convention & Tourism Office
Producers: Greater Zion Convention & Tourism Office
Dominique
This short documentary follows Dominique and her tight-knit family in Spearfish, South Dakota, portraying the simplicity and warmth of their daily life. From bonding over target practice and gardening to Dominique’s infectious positivity at the restaurant where she works, the film showcases their resilience and joy amidst everyday life.
Directors: Christopher Larson, Jordan Layton
Producers: Kristi Larson, Christopher Larson
God Make Me An Artist
God Make an Artist is a feature documentary which chronicles the life and work of sculptor and Mississippi native, Benjamin Barnes Watts. The film, 3 years in production, follows Watts through every stage during the creation of an original commissioned statue for the national headquarters of Kappa Sigma in Charlottesville Virginia.
Directors: Benjamin Smith
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It’s Not About the Question
What happens when social change leaders meet? Strangers from a wide range of regions and issue areas met up to share a unique experience of getting to know each other in a radical way.
Directors: Gabriel Diamond
Producers: Phil Collis
Life of Intent: Growing Desert Roots, A
At 19, Shelly suffered a serious traumatic brain injury that marked the beginning of her adult life. She began documenting her journey through photos, and this habit became a passion that led her on a brave path toward acceptance and meaning-making.
Directors: Caroline Boyd
Producers: Rachel Helling, Caroline Boyd
Miles Beyond Remission
After being told he’ll never reach remission, a six-time cancer survivor sets out to be the first of his kind to run a marathon on every continent, with a moving message: if cancer is global, so is surviving.
Directors: Christopher Nicholas
Producers: Sarah Stewart, Jason Israel, Jon Brogan, Nick Martini, Davey Spens, Meredith Rodriguez, Scott Mellin, Lawrence Thomas, Marion Blanche, Oliver Denton
Ogiek: Guardians of the Forest
Get a rare glimpse inside the lives of the Ogiek Indigenous People of western Kenya, who have struggled for decades to reclaim their territory. A recent court ruling has edged their dream closer to reality.
Directors: Jackie Lebo
Producers:
Paternal Prism, The
A man reflects on his relationship with his late father and how their connection through a multi-generational hobby provides togetherness between the two.
Directors: Jon Tinsley
Producers:
Return, The
After being apprehended at the US border and separated from his father for six months, 12-year-old Geovanny returns home to Guatemala. But he’s not the same. Formerly a star student, Geovanny drops out of school. Meanwhile his father finds himself in massive debt from the journey to the US and fears he may lose his land—the source of his livelihood—and maybe even his life. But an unexpected call from the U.S. holds the promise to change everything.
Directors: Jeremy S. Levine
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Sack Race With Knives: The Curious Art of Kevin Titzer
In this short film, join sculpture artist Kevin Titzer on a race against time. Tasked with creating a monumental art installation at the University of Southern Indiana’s Pace McCutchan Gallery, Titzer faces a daunting challenge with only two weeks on the clock. Returning to his hometown of Evansville, Indiana, Titzer’s journey is captured by filmmaker Jordan Barclay. Witness the entire process as Titzer scours the local area for materials, then meticulously assembles the art installation, all while the countdown to completion ticks away.
Directors: Jordan Barclay
Producers: Jordan Barclay
Team Sport, A
Ultra-runner Courtney Dauwalter is one of the greatest athletes in the history of the sport. Continuing to shatter records, in 2023 she became the first person ever to win the Triple Crown of Ultra-running (winning three iconic 100+mile races back-to-back in one Summer). But who is the team behind Courtney and her remarkable success?
Directors: Alexis Berg, Julien Raison
Producers: Sarah Stewart, Oliver Denton, Laura Mittelberg, Marion Blache
This Land
In 1974 a group of Mohawk Indians occupied a defunct girls camp in New York’s Adirondack mountains and established a community they called Ganienkeh. Aiming to practice a more traditional lifestyle, and asserting aboriginal title to the land, they stayed for three years, having occasional violent clashes with the local residents.
Directors: Mike Bradley
Producers: Mike Bradley
Through Thin Ice
Along the shores of the Great Salt Lake, a scientist’s twilight run is upended when her dog plunges through rare lake ice, catalyzing a desperate series of choices. After an improbable rescue, she questions whether she always makes rational decisions. Told from two perspectives, the film explores how we assess risks, make decisions, and the role of chance.
Directors: Gabrielle Kardon, Arthur Veenema
Producers: Arthur Veenema, Gabrielle Kardon
Under the Hat: The Complicated History of the Pith Helmet
What becomes of the relics that haunt our collective consciousness? From the not-so-long-ago confederate monuments to the chilling remnants of Nazi memorabilia. Among these charged artifacts stands the pith helmet, emblematic of colonial brutality, an icon shrouded in a complex and disturbing past.
Directors: Olympia Stone
Producers: Olympia Stone
Wintering Grounds, The
For most of the year, bands of world class freestyle kayakers roam the land in search of waves. But when the rivers freeze, everyone finds their way to a special spot on the Chattahoochee River on the Alabama-Georgia border. Squatting in an abandoned parking lot, they spend the winter training for the next world championships on North America’s best winter whitewater.
Directors: Jeff Springer
Producers: Paige Martin Swift
YISRAEL IS LOVESICK
Yisrael was born into a loving American ultra-Orthodox Jewish family from Jerusalem. As he grew up and discovered that he was attracted to both men and women, everything changed. Suddenly, the whole future he’d imagined for himself disappeared, and in its place remained confusion and uncertainty. Yisrael’s Orthodox parents embraced him, yet to this day they can’t accept that he’s bisexual. He is now 28 years old and through this film he is trying to figure out what he is really looking for.
Directors: Yisrael Rohn Rigler
Producers: Yisrael Rohn Rigler
