Mary Beth was paralyzed under a tidal wave of grief and depression after the untimely death of her best friend, Allison. But when Mary Beth and another close friend, Alia, discover Allison’s very real, yet heartbreaking, diary footage of her breast cancer journey, it leads them, with 25 of Allison’s devoted friends, to Ireland to scatter her ashes at the Cliffs of Moher. Upon returning home, they realize their grief had not subsided, not one bit. Together, Mary Beth and Alia embark on an odyssey back to Ireland with a death midwife/psychologist, Dr. Staci, and unwittingly begin unraveling answers to the complexities of their sorrow to find a sense of hope.

This film features three different ultra runners that discuss their personal experiences with mental health related issues. The purpose of this documentary is to bring awareness and acceptance to mental health being an integral part of our overall wellbeing.

Heirloom tells the story of a mother and daughter who set out to discover why Italian Americans love to garden. Along their journey, they meet notable members of the Italian American community (like Isabella Rossellini), and even travel to Italy itself.

Heirloom is a recipient of the Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum grant. Spearheaded by Hollywood directors Anthony and Joe Russo, the Film Forum is an initiative to fund films depicting and exploring the Italian American experience for the benefit of future generations.

"Climbing Eros" takes place on a Greek island in the Saronic Gulf. The short film explores the stages of a pilgrimage through the eyes of director Charles M Pepiton and his young son who walk the island—from the deserted lighthouse on one end to the peak of Mt. Eros—whilst artist Rebekah Wilkins-Pepiton collects botanicals to create inks for painting. Each finds a means to reconcile with loss and return to the earth and to themselves. The film features two meditations written for the film by Damon Falke—one of confession, one of returning to materiality—that knit the threads of hiking and gathering around Jean-Luc Marion’s notion that “loving requires distance and the crossing of distance.”

A documentary chronicling nearly 30 years of activity in Seattle's illegal underground renegade BMX community.

Honor Thy Mother is the untold story of over 35 Aboriginal women from Canada and Native women from tribes in Washington and Alaska who migrated to Bainbridge Island, the traditional territory of the Suquamish people, in the early 1940s. They came, some still in their teens, to pick berries for Japanese American farmers. Many, just released from the Indian Residential Schools, fell in love in the berry fields and married Filipino immigrants. Despite having left their homeland and possible disenfranchisement from their tribes, they settled on the Island to raise their mixed heritage (Indipino) children. The voices of the Indipinos, now elders, are integral in the storytelling of their mother’s experiences marrying Asian men and settling in a foreign land. They share their confusion of growing up with no sense of belonging in either culture, growing up in poverty as the children of berry farmers, some with no running water, electricity or indoor plumbing, growing up in a post-World War II racist society and educational system. Many grew up in homes burdened with their father and mother’s memory of the 227 Bainbridge Island Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes after President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19th, 1942. Brought to light, in the oral history interviews of the adult Indipinos, is the effect that historical trauma has on children, more specifically children whose mothers grew up in Indian Residential Schools.

A salad vendor living life in a future city successfully makes a phone call.

A young woman finds herself trapped in a surreal wasteland, and begins to question the nature of her reality.

Riley and his girlfriend spend the weekend alone in a secluded cabin. After a brutal fall while hiking, Riley must fight for his life and crawl to safety.

An introduction to zucchini racing and the racers at the San Juan County Fair in Friday Harbor WA

A hidden gem of an urban farm becomes a safe haven in the pandemic in A PLACE TO GROW. In a time when community is harder and harder to find, Sierra makes meaningful connections to the earth and with the people around her.

Gian Lawrence is a fly fisherman and outdoorsman with a unique origin story. Growing up in Puyallup and Tacoma’s Hilltop, he fell into a life of crime, violence and destitution until a near-death experience opened his eyes and his soul to the outdoors and a sport largely inaccessible for young black men like himself, fly fishing.

“It Gets in Your Blood” is a short documentary by Ed Hartman. The film is about Richard Lyford, a filmmaker who made 9 films before he was 20-years-old, worked for Disney on Fantasia, Dumbo, and Pinocchio, and went on to direct an Academy Award-winning documentary. In spite of all of this, very few know who he is, or why he is important to filmmaking, today.

Jason Thienel becomes the first UltraMarathon runner to attempt completing the NoBusiness 100 UltraMarathon twice in one push.

Going through my mini DVs shot over the past decade, I rediscovered a forgotten night sequence of Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton leaving a brasserie where we had dined together in Montparnasse. The excerpt stayed with me for a while.