The second annual YES Award is a free event featuring the works of 6 current and recent graduate filmmakers and media arts majors from some of […]

Two Gripping Films to launch the 2022 Newburyport Documentary Film Festival!

AT THE SCREENING ROOM: As fire seasons grow longer, more destructive and more deadly, it is clear that our approach to reducing wildfire risk is failing.

AT THE FIREHOUSE: With the Covid crisis we have realized that working in a hospital means to be confronted to life and death in a very direct way.

AT THE FIREHOUSE: Fashion designer Amy Powney decides to use award money to create a sustainable collection, aiming toward a much bigger, societal change.

AT THE FIREHOUSE: Oren has Asperger syndrome. As an adopted child, it's very difficult for him to adapt. Suddenly, his life changes with the help of the camera, which becomes an extraordinary therapy tool.

AT THE SCREENING ROOM: In March 1945, the US launched a massive air raid on Tokyo, unleashing an intense firestorm. Decades later, three elderly survivors race against the clock to preserve some memory of this forgotten tragedy.

AT THE FIREHOUSE: Discover the vast and beautiful places where things go to die, and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world's scrap. This film scratches beneath surfaces to reveal the pathos in the ugliness we leave behind.

Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary with dramatized sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board of how these solutions could regenerate the world for future generations.