In Accordance With Narrative Short  |  2020 |  7 minutes Directed by Sarah Ema Friedland & Alessandra Lacorazza | A Meerkat Media Production At a border check point, pregnant people are forced to endure invasive and emotionally abusive measures in order to get an abortion. The dialogue in this film is taken verbatim from State-mandated …

Mami Narrative Short  |  2019 |  11 minutes Directed by Alessandra Lacorazza | A Meerkat Media Production Carolina (Carmen Borla), a young Latinx immigrant woman lives with her mother (Maga Uzo) in the United States. She is the caretaker and sole lifeline to her isolated mother, who suffers from incapacitating depression. The burden of tending to …

Public Money Short Documentary  |  2018 | 14 minutes | PBS POV Shorts A film by the Meerkat Media Collective Directed by Jay Arthur Sterrenberg | Produced by Zara Serabian-Arthur & Raj Kottamasu Across New York City, a bold experiment in participatory democracy is underway. Since 2012, the city council has steadily increased investment in …

Slothrust – The Couch Incident Music Video | 2012 | 4 Minutes 12 Seconds Video for ‘”The Couch Incident” from “Of Course You Do” (Ba Da Bing Records) Production Team Producer: Meerkat Media Collective Director: Bryan Chang Director of Photography: Eric Phillips-Horst Assistant Director & Production Manager: Amelia Woodside Creative Producer: Slothrust Links SLOTHRUST http://slothrust.com …

La Noche Buena Short Narrative | 2015 | 17 Minutes A young American tries to connect with a distant family acquaintance in Cuba but only alienates himself further. The film is the first American short narrative to be shot in Cuba since 1959. Press Interview on NoFilmSchool: nofilmschool.com/2015/11/film-shot-cuba-embargo-alex-mallis And in Remezcla: remezcla.com/features/the-team-behind-noche-buena-on-what-it-was-like-to-film-their-short-in-cuba/ Process The film is …

The New Che of Havana Short Documentary | 2016 | 7 Minutes A Cuban skateboarder and artist must reconcile looming changes and a nascent free-market economy with his desire to continue operating his tattoo shop – currently illegal in Havana. Un skater y artista cubano lucha por conciliar los cambios que se avecinan y la …

Living Fossil Experimental Short | 2014 | 2 min 25 seconds Every spring thousands of horseshoe crabs spawn along Mid-Atlantic beaches under the glow of the full moons; a reoccurring ritual for the last 450 million years. Citizen scientists venture out along the shores of Brooklyn, NY to keep tally of the animal’s population. The film attempts …

Into The Streets Short Documentary | 2014 | 9 Minutes Over 400,000 people took to the streets of Manhattan as a unified front against climate justice inaction. Diverse perspectives converge as a popular movement unfolds. Meerkat mobilized four different crews to cover this historic march from all different perspectives. We quickly edited the film over …

Direct Democracy at Occupy Wall Street Short Documentary | 2011 | 8 Minutes A look into the “HOW” of the Occupy Wall Street movement: the consensus process. The community of occupiers at Liberty Plaza have sparked the process of building a movement that now transcends any one physical landmark. The tools to keep the movement …

After Trayvon Short Documentary | 2014 | 5 Minutes One day after George Zimmerman was acquitted of the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a group of young men gathered in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, and discussed Trayvon’s death, Stop and Frisk, and daily life. Shot on location in Fort Greene Park, July 15th, 2013, on …