Abigail Disney

The Quilters

Follows the daily lives of several quilters inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Center, a Level 5 maximum-security prison in a small town two hours south of St. Louis, MO. From design to completion, the men reveal their struggles, triumphs, and sense of pride in creating something beautiful in this windowless, sacred space deep within the prison walls.

Release Date:2024-06-15

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

The First Step

Van Jones navigates increasingly tense and isolating political and racial divides in his attempt to become a “bridge builder” during the Trump administration.

Release Date:2023-02-17

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

You Resemble Me

Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.

Release Date:2022-11-04

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:7

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.

Release Date:2022-10-21

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:26

The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales

Abigail Disney looks at America's dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less. As a way to imagine a more equitable future, Disney uses her family's story to explore how this systemic injustice took hold.

Release Date:2022-09-16

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Character:Self

Vote Count:3

The Art of Rebellion

Artist, activist, and single mother, Lydia Emily, defies a crippling diagnosis and unforgiving healthcare system in a film about one woman’s will to survive.

Release Date:2022-09-07

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Birds Like Us

The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves and the ones they love.

Release Date:2022-06-30

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:4

Body Parts

An eye-opening investigation into the making of Hollywood sex scenes, shedding light on the real-life experiences behind classic scenes of cinema and tracing the legacy of exploitation of women in the entertainment industry.

Release Date:2022-06-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:11

My Name Is Andrea

A rousing portrait of feminist writer Andrea Dworkin, one of the most controversial and misunderstood figures of the 20th century, who fought passionately for justice and equality for women.

Release Date:2022-06-10

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:2

Boycott

As a wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court.

Release Date:2021-11-18

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

Missing in Brooks County

Missing in Brooks County follows the journey of two families who have come to Brooks County to look for their loved ones who went missing. As they search for answers, they encounter a haunted land where death is a part of everyday life. A gripping documentary mystery, it is also a deeply humane portrait of the law enforcement agents, human rights workers, and activists who come face to face with the life and death consequences of a broken system.

Release Date:2021-08-20

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

Rebel Hearts

A group of pioneering nuns bravely stand up to the Catholic Church patriarchy, fighting for their livelihoods, convictions and equality against an all-powerful Cardinal. From marching in Selma in 1965 to the Women’s March in 2018, these women have reshaped our society with their bold acts of defiance.

Release Date:2021-06-25

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

Holler

In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.

Release Date:2021-06-11

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:40

Reality Winner

A state of secrets and a ruthless hunt for whistleblowers – this is the story of 25-year-old Reality Winner who disclosed a document about Russian election interference to the media and became the number one leak target of the Trump administration.

Release Date:2021-03-17

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

Women in Blue

Following three female police officers in Minneapolis, Women in Blue charts their progress and efforts to remake the department to become more inclusive. When the killing of Justine Damond results in the resignation of Chief Harteau, it threatens the gains women have made in the department.

Release Date:2021-02-08

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

Mayor

David Osit’s thought-provoking documentary is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office.

Release Date:2020-12-02

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:6

Disclosure

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

Release Date:2020-06-19

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:134

For the Love of Rutland

After an attempt to bring Syrian refugees into the predominately white New England town of Rutland, Vermont, unleashes deep partisan rancor, a longtime Rutland resident emerges as an unexpected leader in a town divided by class, cultural values, and divisive politics.

Release Date:2020-05-28

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

The Assistant

A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

Release Date:2020-01-31

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:462

Afterward

In this timely and fearless personal documentary, director Ofra Bloch engages with the people she was raised to hate and dismiss. Seen as a victim in one context and a perpetrator in the next, the film points towards a future – an “afterward” – that attempts to live with the truths of history in order to make sense of the present.

Release Date:2020-01-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

American Woman

A political activist helps take care of a group of America’s most wanted fugitives, including a well-known, recently radicalized heiress.

Release Date:2019-09-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:15

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).

Release Date:2019-07-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:4

A High School Rape Goes Viral: Roll Red Roll

This film is a true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled “boys will be boys” culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America. Like many small towns across the country, Steubenville, nestled in a valley in eastern Ohio, lives and dies by its high school football team. So when a teenage girl was sexually assaulted at a pre-season football party in 2012, no one came forward with information. True-crime blogger Alex Goddard set out to uncover the truth, piecing together the details of the crime through cell phone footage and photos that made their way to YouTube, as well as a nearly minute-by-minute account of events on social media. In the process, she uncovered both the perpetrators and the entire culture of complicity that enabled them. The ensuing trial, which made national headlines, cut to the very heart of nationwide debates about rape culture.

Release Date:2019-06-23

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Women, War & Peace II

In a year when women are mobilizing and running for office in unprecedented numbers, see how some of the biggest international stories of recent memory are shaped by women. An all-female cast of directors present four never-before-told stories about the women who risked their lives for peace, changing history in the process.

Release Date:2019-03-25

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:4

Roll Red Roll

At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was raped by members of the beloved high school football team. The aftermath exposed an entire culture of complicity—and Roll Red Roll maps out the roles that peer pressure, denial, sports machismo, and social media each played in the tragedy.

Release Date:2019-03-22

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:58

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

Release Date:2018-12-07

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:37

Same God

In 2015, a black, female professor at a prominent Christian college wore a hijab and said that Christians and Muslims worship the Same God. The firestorm that followed exposed the rifts among evangelicals over race, Islam, religious freedom...and Donald Trump.

Release Date:2018-09-24

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Explained

This documentary series, made in partnership with Vox, explain some of the world's current trends, from politics, to science to pop culture.

Release Date:2018-05-23

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:112

Netizens

Cynthia Lowen’s powerful documentary Netizens highlights three women as each wages war against one of the internet’s most malevolent forces: prevalent and un-policed misogyny, harassment, and stalking. Directed at thousands of women daily by way of social media, it lies in plain sight, and its ramifications never remain only online. The film deftly depicts not only the forms digital abuse can take, from non-consensual pornography to invasion of privacy, but also the consequences for its victims.

Release Date:2018-04-22

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:2

Call Her Ganda

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer's mother)--galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

Release Date:2018-04-19

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:14

The Tale

An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

Release Date:2018-01-20

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:440

Naila and the Uprising

The remarkable story of Naila Ayesh, who played a key role in the Palestinian uprising known as the First Intifada (1987).

Release Date:2017-11-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

Liyana

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

Release Date:2017-07-15

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:5

That Way Madness Lies...

One woman and her family trek the broken mental health system in an effort to save her brother as he descends into madness. Beginning as a testimony of his sanity, his iPhone video diary ultimately becomes an unfiltered look at the mind of an untreated schizophrenic.

Release Date:2017-05-11

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Love the Sinner

A short documentary exploring the connection between Christianity and homophobia in the wake of the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

Release Date:2017-04-20

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

When God Sleeps

Iranian musician Shahin Najafi flees his homeland and heads to Cologne, Germany after harsh criticism by several clerics over the release of his song speaking out against human rights abuses resulted in a fatwa being issued.

Release Date:2017-04-20

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:9

Lovesong

Neglected by her husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend, Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies before circumstances force them apart. Years later, Sarah attempts to rebuild their intimate connection in the days before Mindy’s wedding.

Release Date:2017-02-17

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:186

Bending the Arc

About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all.

Release Date:2017-01-23

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:9

Shadow World

A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the 20th century, have pulled the strings of the arms trade, hidden in the shadows, feeding the shameful corruption of politicians and government officials and promoting a state of permanent war throughout the world, while they cynically asked for a lasting and universal peace.

Release Date:2016-10-14

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:14

Cameraperson

As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.

Release Date:2016-09-09

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:76

Would Jesus Wear a Sidearm?

Release Date:2015-10-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Trials of Spring

When 24-year-old Hend Nafea is arrested and tortured for demonstrating peacefully in Cairo's Tahrir Square, her pursuit of justice reflects post-revolution Egypt at an uncertain crossroads.

Release Date:2015-06-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Hot Girls Wanted

A first-ever look at the realities of the professional “amateur” porn world and the steady stream of 18-to-19-year old girls entering into it.

Release Date:2015-05-29

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:664

The Armor of Light

Following the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. Reverend Rob Schenck, anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, breaks with orthodoxy by questioning whether being pro-gun is consistent with being pro-life.

Release Date:2015-04-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:17

From This Day Forward

When director Sharon Shattuck's father came out as transgender, Sharon was in the awkward throes of middle school. As the Shattucks reunite to plan Sharon's wedding, she seeks a deeper understanding of how her parents' marriage, and their family, survived intact.

Release Date:2015-04-11

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:5

She's Beautiful When She's Angry

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971.

Release Date:2014-12-05

Department:Production

Job:Co-Producer

Vote Count:51

Land Ho!

Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz's buddy comedy Land Ho! follows former brothers-in-law Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) and Colin (Paul Eenhoorn) as they travel through Iceland. The pair of 70-year-olds find themselves in need of an adventure to break out of their rut, and soon the extroverted Mitch has talked Colin into the trip. Along the way they have various amorous encounters, and attempt to recapture the spirit of their youth.

Release Date:2014-07-11

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:63

Out in the Night

Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American lesbians are violently and sexually threatened by a man on the street. They defend themselves against him and are charged and convicted in the courts and in the media as a 'Gang of Killer Lesbians'.

Release Date:2014-06-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:8

Food Chains

This call to arms documentary details the questionable ethics of the food supply industry, pointing out the power of huge supermarket chains to dictate low wages and inhumane labor conditions for farmworkers in the United States.

Release Date:2014-04-26

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:16

Hateship Loveship

A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.

Release Date:2014-04-11

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:146

Vessel

A fearless sea captain, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.

Release Date:2014-03-09

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:13

Seeds of Time

Seeds of Time follows agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler's global journey to save the eroding foundation of our food supply in a new era of climate change.

Release Date:2013-11-10

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

Open Heart

Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life-or-death journey seeking high-risk heart surgery in Sudan. Their hearts ravaged by a treatable disease from childhood strep throat, they have only months left to live. Open Heart reveals the intertwined endeavors of Dr. Emmanuel, Rwanda's lone government cardiologist fighting to save the lives of his young patients, and Dr. Gino, the Salam Center's head surgeon, who is fighting to save his hospital, Africa's only link to life-saving free cardiac surgery for the millions who need it.

Release Date:2013-01-15

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:5

The Iran Job

This eye-opening documentary follows American basketball player Kevin Sheppard during his 2008-09 season playing for a professional team in Iran. Although Kevin is nervous, he makes many friends, including several politically active Iranian women.

Release Date:2012-09-28

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:8

The Queen of Versailles

With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the innate virtues and flaws of their American dream. We open on the triumphant construction of the biggest house in America, a sprawling, 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired by Versailles. Since a booming time-share business built on the real-estate bubble is financing it, the economic crisis brings progress to a halt and seals the fate of its owners. We witness the impact of this turn of fortune over the next two years in a riveting film fraught with delusion, denial, and self-effacing humor.

Release Date:2012-07-06

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:203

The Invisible War

An investigative and powerfully emotional documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military, the institutions that perpetuate and cover up its existence, and its profound personal and social consequences.

Release Date:2012-01-20

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:111

Women, War & Peace

What if you looked at war as though women mattered? What if you looked at peace as though women mattered? These two questions were at the heart of this critically acclaimed five-part special series.

Release Date:2011-10-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Lost Bohemia

For over a century, Carnegie Hall rented affordable studio apartments atop the famous music hall to artistic tenants such as Marlon Brando, Paddy Chayefsky and Isadora Duncan. As a privileged tenant, director Josef Birdman Astor began to videotape his neighbors whose lives intersected with decades of artistic history, but his project changed when the landlord served everyone with eviction notices for a conversion to offices. Astor chronicles the protracted battle to save the apartments and pays homage to their rich heritage.

Release Date:2011-05-20

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:4

Return

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

Release Date:2011-02-10

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:3675

Children of Invention

Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears

Release Date:2010-08-10

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:15

Sons of Perdition

An inside look at polygamist teens who have become religious refugees in mainstream America.

Release Date:2010-04-24

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:12

Secrets of the Tribe

What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe – and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.

Release Date:2010-01-22

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:8

Family Affair

Chico Colvard interviews family members 30 years after a dirty family secret is revealed. He finds out how his three sisters survived severe abuse at the hands of their father and how they cope as adults.

Release Date:2010-01-20

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Playground

Libby Spears goes undercover in southeast Asia to infiltrate the vast network of people involved in human trafficking (specifically, sex slaves), and discovers that not only are a significant number of its victims children, but also that the United States is one of the industry's biggest customers. When she returns home to learn more, she discovers the roles that the educational system and law enforcement have played in keeping the issue off the radar.

Release Date:2009-09-04

Department:Production

Job:Co-Executive Producer

Vote Count:2

Sergio

Charismatic, charming and complex, Sérgio Vieira de Mello was the world's go-to guy, a man who could descend into the most dangerous places, charm the worst war criminals, and somehow protect the lives of the ordinary people to whom he'd devoted his life. The documentary tells the story of his most treacherous mission ever... a mission in which his own life hangs in the balance.

Release Date:2009-01-20

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:18

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country.

Release Date:2008-11-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:12