Documentary Shorts

Documentary Shorts

Documentary shorts created by award-winning mediamakers.

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Documentary Shorts
  • The HoodTrophy Bino Story: Breaking the Generational Curse

    Dive into the captivating narrative of HoodTrophy Bino - a California hip-hop artist from the projects of South Central and Palmdale, discovered by Soulja Boy in jail, and destined to overcome the generational curse of poverty and incarceration plaguing all of the males in his immediate and exte...

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  • The Language of Light: Ricky Maynard

    An Indigenous Tasmanian photographer, Ricky started as a darkroom technician at the age of 16. In viewing the racist treatment of Indigenous people in the past via colonial photos, Ricky started questioning the photographer's role, the influence of the image in society and its persuasive power. I...

  • Echoes of Immortality

    This is an experimental film about "love." When we become entangled in the complexities of reality, our limited bodies intertwine within it. Confronted with challenges and dilemmas, we forget that our own selves and the surrounding environment are inextricably intertwined, triggering distorted an...

  • Journey in India: The Land of Colors

    Join Street Art Sans Frontières on an incredible three-week journey across India, where we transform the vibrant streets of Mumbai, Jaipur, and Chandigarh with art. Discover the challenges and triumphs of bringing participatory street art to local communities, fostering cultural exchange and crea...

  • The Jazz Photographer

    “The Jazz Photographer” is a mini-documentary that delves into the world of Bobby Roebuck, exploring how he captures the essence of jazz through his lens. Through his photography, Roebuck tells a compelling story of the genre's evolution and the artists who bring it to life.

  • Mushroom's Quest

    A compassionate and determined young woman, embarks on a heartfelt journey across continents to discover her roots. Armed with little more than a dream and a prayer, her story unfolds against a backdrop of hidden truths, unexpected revelations, and unwavering love.

  • A Race In The Sun

    An exploration of cycling culture through the eyes of Ayesha McGowan who rose through the ranks of the New York City underground cycling world to break barriers as the world's first African American woman to become a professional cyclist.

  • Superadapted, Partners of the Same Dream

    "SUPERADAPTADOS, partners of the same dream", is about the start-up of a factory of adapted tricycles, managed by young people with motor disabilities. These bikes will be donated to other kids with disabilities. A unique case of its kind in the world.

  • Pushing The Limits

    Jean Maggi, shortly after birth, contracted a disease for which he could never walk. Since then only one thing has been proposed: to exceed every limit for “live standing." When he reached the highest route in the Himalayas with his adapted bicycle, he marked a true world landmark. This documenta...

  • Fotonovela

    An old photograph triggers a search for identity.

  • La Magia De Las Pompas

    Art and science come together in soap bubbles. In this documentary we get closer to soap bubbles to learn all their secrets

  • Sombras De Beirut

    Lebanon is the country with more refugees per capita in the world, reaching a third of the population. How is it managed? Interviews with refugees and researchers go deep into the situation. The violence replicates, the scape is repeated.

  • Despues De La Lluvia

    The documentary 'After the Rain' immerses us in three stories of struggle and overcoming in post-conflict Colombia against the backdrop of male violence, the FARC conflict and respect for the rural environment. Overcoming violence and abuse, supporting rural development and fighting climate chang...

  • Square The Circle

    How to be a circle in a square world? In a two-dimensional space, out of time, a person seeks their belonging to the world through a journey to infinity.

  • Islandtrification

    Islandtrification documents the journey of Kānaka Maoli families resisting predatory gentrification on Maui, Hawaii, which has a deep history of displacing locals due to economic development-agribusiness and remains the prime spot for the world elite to build their multimillion-dollar estates.

  • The Blues

    After the brutalization and death of Tyre Nichols, Memphis protestors and citizens came together in honor of his life and against the violence of the several Memphis policemen that took his life, This is a visualization of January 27th through January 31, the day before Nichols' funeral.

    *This f...

  • A Life in Boxes

    As a son uncovers the multiple lives of a father he never knew, his father's life choices reveal a complex truth that echoes throughout a grieving family; peeling back the layers of who Darryl Tarrance truly was.

    In the summer of 2021, young filmmaker Tayton T. Troidl sets out on a journey of fa...

  • PRessure

    PRessure is a short documentary that shows both the benefits, and the physical and mental costs of being a competitive varsity track athlete. This film follows two track runners, Cheikh M'Baye and Jason Bright, reflecting on their previous school year of track.

  • Rivalries: Palmeiras x Corinthians

    It’s “us versus them”. The Brazilian football ultras of Palmeiras and Corinthians started a war that seems not to have an end in sight. In the complex and hostile metropolis of São Paulo, PELEJA investigated how all of this began and why it matters so much for those who love football, and for tho...

  • The Black Mans Guide To World Travel - Medellin Colombia

    Most documentaries are great to watch .. this one will get you out of your seat and make you plan your next move..

    History has been told by the Victor . We only know history through the European Perspective .. I am not here to change history but rather create a more inclusive history for our chi...

  • Africa, USA

    Africa, U.S.A. follows Naomi, a young 25-year-old discovering herself, as she explores Igbos Landing, an area where Igbo descendants decided to rebel and where African descendants built the historical Harrington School; Oyotunji Kingdom- a real Yoruba Village in South Carolina; and, Africatown lo...

  • Unbelievable! The Art Williams Story

    “Unbelievable!" provides the audience with a glimpse into the life of Art Williams. From his humble beginnings working alongside his mother and father in the cotton fields at the tender age of four, to his family’s experiences as part of the Great Migration, to breaking the color lines in the Det...

  • Free(d)-by-Faith

    When a young man from Fairfield—one of the most dangerous cities in Alabama—grows up without a father figure to form him as a man, how does he find his way out of the poverty, violence, and desperation that surrounds him?

    FREE(d) by Faith tells the story of Dion Watts, a man who found faith in t...

  • We Went Out

    We Went Out is a short film based in Toronto that explores coming of age in the in-between spaces of a city.

    In the spring of 2021 Rosina Kazi called to ask if I would contribute to a project she was curating as part of the 2021 Luminato Festival. The project would become a five-part docu-music ...

  • Why So Many Black People Are Buying Guns

    The number of Black gun buyers in the U.S. is rising and it’s not because of the NRA, which historically supported limiting Black people’s right to bear arms publicly. Black gun owners in the U.S. find Second Amendment rights apply differently to them. So what does it mean to be a Black gun owne...