Features
Burnt out educators, activists fighting for minimum wage in the restaurant industry, unemployed factory workers voting against their own best interests, single parents holding down four jobs to get...
Trailers
For too many people, the American Dream — the idea that, in the U.S., you can start with nothing but achieve anything — isn’t just a fantasy, but a complete hoax. Jennifer Siebel...
Films
Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s third feature documentary has secured distribution. Deadline reports Vertical Entertainment acquired North American rights to “The Great American Lie.” The...
“When the family you’re born into [and] the zip code where you’re born determines your destiny, that tears at the fabric of The American Dream,” says one of the characters...
Festivals, News, Women Directors
Nine women-directed narrative and documentary features (out of a total of 29 premieres) will make their debuts at next year’s Sundance Film Festival. Among the much-anticipated first-time...
Documentary, News, Videos
Sometimes you wear the mask, and sometimes the mask wears you. After the success of her documentary Miss Representation, which details the mainstream media’s pernicious effects on girls, Jennifer...
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