Ace in the Hole is a film about a San Francisco junkyard and its owner, Bill Kennedy. For the past 25 years, Ace served as an indispensable resource for local industrial and kinetic artists. It has recently been forcibly shut down by Judy Broadhead, the landlady, and nobody knows exactly why. Through Ace and Billy, this film questions disappearing arts spaces in San Francisco and the United States and what that means for our cultural communities.

Each day women receive messages from the media that they are not young enough; not sexy enough; not good enough.  In the documentary Ageless, explore what it looks and feels like to be an aging woman in America.  See revealing personal and expert interviews integrated with thought-provoking images, and inspiring commentary and music.  Pictures of anti-aging advertisements and women in the media will be shown to humorously yet accurately depict the country’s absurd obsession with youth and beauty. Gain greater insight into these issues through the mosaic of stories, including those from people in the plastic surgery industry, and a view of a growing movement to support women as they age.

American Dreams tells the inspiring true story of the remarkable Rafael Morales family who immigrate to the U.S. from Mexico and dramatically rise from the picking fields of Sonoma county to achieve the American dream. Overcoming poverty, speaking only Spanish, and facing other daunting obstacles in an unfamiliar new country, the family perseveres and the family’s dreams become reality—one son graduates from Harvard Law School, another son is appointed an adviser to the President of Mexico, and two daughters raise families while working as teachers.

American Mosque will tell the story of the Muslim community in Yuba City, California and the arson that destroyed its newly constructed mosque in 1994. The film will explore the repercussions of the unsolved crime and reveal the human impact of Islamophobia. By portraying a multigenerational Muslim community in California’s farmland, American Mosque will challenge common assumptions of Islam in the United States and who participates in and shapes the American experience.

An exploration for and about the people of the United States: who we are as a nation and what we think of one another. The goal is to get all Americans to think about their own identity, about how they define who is and who is not an American, and, mostly, to discover if we are as disparate, estranged and polarized a people as it sometimes seems that we are.

In 1908, an American woman who aspired to become a concert pianist was nonexistent. Yet, against all odds, talented Olga Samaroff Stokowski, aka Lucy Hickenlooper, rose from complete obscurity to become America’s first international concert artist, Juilliard professor, author and famous conductor’s wife. Set against the rich historical tapestry of late 19th and early 20th centuries, An American Virtuoso is the compelling story of the American pianist who paved the road that American musicians and women of today can now walk.

Margaret Slachta defied Nazis and Communists in her fight for social justice. A teacher and activist, she was the first woman elected to Hungary’s parliament in the 1920s. Her vision of social intervention on behalf of the poor, combined with a strong feminist streak and devout Catholic faith, led to heroic acts of courage during the Hungarian Holocaust of 1944–45, when Slachta and the Grey Sisters (the order she founded) saved over 1,000 Jewish lives.

This hour-long documentary explores the extraordinary life of China's first feminist, Qiu Jin. During the reign of the country's last dynasty, Qiu Jin boldly challenged traditional gender roles and demanded equal rights and opportunities for women. An accomplished writer, skilled martial artist and leader of a revolutionary army that attempted to overthrow the corrupt dynasty, she emerged as a national heroine who redefined what it meant to be a woman in 20th-century China.