Alma Har'el

Byron Bowers: Spiritual N***a

After a life-altering revelation while tripping on psychedelic mushrooms, comedian Byron Bowers stumbles straight from the desert into the Decatur Boxing Club, to deliver an intimate set in his hometown Atlanta. Byron talks about his long journey to his first comedy special, the stigma of mental health, and how tripping on mushrooms made him understand his schizophrenic father and altered the way he feels about his Blackness.

Release Date2022-09-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Self (uncredited)

Vote Count2

DAVE

A suburban neurotic man in his late 20s has convinced himself that he’s destined to be one of the best rappers of all time. Now he must convince his closest friends, because with their help, he might actually convince the world.

Release Date2020-03-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count169

Lady in the Lake

When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore in 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course.

Release Date2024-07-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count95

Honey Boy

The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.

Release Date2019-09-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count697

Positive Reinforcement

In a world where intrusive thoughts come with crippling consequences, a hapless musician attempts to conquer the often impossible task of getting out of his own way to be the man he wants to be.

Release Date2024-06-20

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

11/8/16

U.S. citizens in more than 25 states are followed as they set out on the morning of the presidential election, throughout the course of the day, until the polls close in the evening and the results are revealed.

Release Date2017-11-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

You Resemble Me

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

Release Date2022-11-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count7

Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment

Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's album Valtari. The idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. These 16 films are the result. Sad, funny, beautiful and, occasionally, plain bewildering, they represent just some of the available emotional responses to this most contemplative album.

Release Date2013-03-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom

Witness Bob Dylan in an intimate setting as he performs songs from his extensive body of work.

Release Date2021-07-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Bombay Beach

Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea, a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Har'el tells the story of three protagonists. Together these portraits form a triptych of manhood in its various ages and guises...

Release Date2011-10-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count19

LoveTrue

From an Alaskan strip club, a Hawaiian island, and the streets of NYC—revelatory stories emerge about a deeper definition of love.

Release Date2016-04-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count14

Beirut: Elephant Gun

A music video made for the track “Elephant Gun.”

Release Date2007-05-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Jellywolf

Set in a magical realist vision of Downtown LA, a young woman sets out on a journey to discover her inner queendom with the help of a mysterious shaman guide.

Release Date2017-02-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Mockingbird

In a world without art, children, or books, humanity’s future hinges on a love triangle between an android, a man and a woman.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector