Feature Documentary
In New York City’s Lower East Side, a group of elderly Puerto Rican women and youth of color unite to create an original play in twenty weeks. Grappling with obstacles both personal and political in their lives, homes and neighborhoods, the cast members struggle to weave their stories into art.
Stages follows the cast of the New York theater project from their first guarded workshops to their first off-Broadway performance, traversing themes of immigration, gentrification, aging and coming of age. As the cast discovers that stories transform the way we understand ourselves and each other, they find that sometimes, the hardest story to tell is your own.
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Feature Documentary
A self-reflexive feature length documentary about a young idealist trying to change the world through film–set amid Bolivia’s ongoing conflicts over natural resources.
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