Documentary Shorts

Documentary Shorts

Documentary shorts created by award-winning mediamakers.

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Documentary Shorts
  • 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.

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  • 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...

  • Why African Americans Are Taking Up Arms

    Aug 25, 2022 According to surveys, one in four African Americans owns a gun, a number that has risen sharply in recent years. African Americans are disproportionately more often the victims of shootings, including those by police. Many are turning to gun clubs as they learn how to handle their w...

  • Upcyclers

    Upcyclers have the drive to make an impact on Mother Earth, they are more than designers, they are planet warriors, activists and social justice advocates. The world has been waiting for a fashion revolution and now they are here, on the frontlines preventing landfill waste and fighting for the r...

  • The Spiral

    A short film shows the decisions that face ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) families every day and asks, "what would you do?"

  • Food Apartheid

    About 23.5 million people live in food deserts in the U.S., areas where affordable, healthy food options are greatly limited if non-existent. There is so much that can be done.

  • Sherod

    "SHEROD" is a story about finding oneself and starting over. In this short documentary, Sherod "Sha Stimuli" Williams discusses his journey of self discovery from hip-hop artist to husband and father while navigating the business side of music, relationships and love.

  • Thoughts Create Form

    A humorous view of the epidemic of "Homelessness of Art" fought out in the streets of NYC with a performance piece of, Do Thoughts Create your Life? The film looks at the locations where consistent thoughts have created Physicality. It is a documentary about an experiment that you are now a part ...