Bradford Young

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital...

A look at the source story, core human themes, the challenges and process of bringing the story to the screen, casting, creating realistic characters...

This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.

The Donda 2 Performance Experience takes place in Miami, FL at the Loandepot Park with performances by additional special guests. Kanye performs...

Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in...

A Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn are having trouble conceiving a child - a problem that defies cultural expectations and leads to a shocking...

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous...

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the...

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's...

In a small Indian village, Lila is learning to dance from her mother, Devadasi, a Bharatanatyam dancer. She falls in love with low class Shyam, who...

A candid portrait of writer/director Nora Ephron, directed by her son, journalist Jacob Bernstein.

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are...

Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and...

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and...

Every kid wants to be cool and fit in - life's a blast even when you're different. When Mo's reflection is revealed, he sees a body that doesn't...

A high-concept, in-your-face experimental short showcasing the unique beauty, energy and exuberance of one of NYC's last underground subcultures:...

Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself...

REkOGNIZE is a three-channel video installation and a meditation on photography, memory, and movement. Artist and Academy Award-nominated...

In a tiny after-hours club, Nina Simone finds a way, for one moment, to be free.

A visual celebration of the beauty, strength, perseverance and spirit of the Black community in these troubling times.

Part jazz history, part true-crime tale, Kasper Collin’s new documentary employs extensive archival footage and new interviews to tell the...

Ava DuVernay focuses on the history of female MCs in the hip hop industry in this short documentary that features Missy Elliott, Salt-N-Pepa, Eve,...

American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

The untold story of the fastest man in the world, Butch Reynolds, whose legendary career was derailed by a faulty drug test in one of the greatest...

A lesbian teenager unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Mounting pressure from home, school,...

A documentary following the efforts of Earnestine Smith, an 80-year old American, to return to Liberia in order to rebuild her life following the...

Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is...

Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.

Adam Sandler hits the stage for a thrillingly unpredictable comedy special featuring songs, jokes, party-crashing dogs, and plenty of love.

The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure, and sublimation are nonnegotiable.

The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure, and sublimation are nonnegotiable.

Elena Ramirez is a disadvantaged prostitute who learns that she has a life threatening medical condition, and must make attempts to earn a visa in...

The Door, by Ava DuVernay, is a celebration of the transformative power of feminine bonds, and a symbolic story of life change.

FREE ANGELA is a feature-length documentary about Angela Davis and the high stakes crime, political movement, and trial that catapults the 26...

Story of a U.N. worker in a department that was to represent humankind in the event of alien contact. The man falls in love with a mysterious woman...

A complicated friendship between a young Somali and Nigerian man unfolds against the chaos of gentrification and displacement in the small immigrant...

Inspired by some of the greatest musical recordings and performances 'behind bars', Young imagines a time and place where jails and prisons are no...

Inspired by some of the greatest musical recordings and performances 'behind bars', Young imagines a time and place where jails and prisons are no...

Leigh’s video work Untitled (M*A*S*H) (2018) imagines a fictive order of black nurses operating on the front of the Korean War, a conflict that...

The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure, and sublimation are nonnegotiable.

A complicated friendship between a young Somali and Nigerian man unfolds against the chaos of gentrification and displacement in the small immigrant...

Youth In Trouble is the ninth edition to Boys On Film, the world's most successful short film series. This compilation features eight complete films:...