Sandbox Fund (Fall Cycle)

Sandbox Fund (Fall Cycle) is sponsored by Sundance Institute Documentary Fund (in collaboration with Sandbox Films). The Sandbox Fund offers grants, engagement events, and other opportunities for independent artists seeking to explore the intrinsic link between science and culture through innovative storytelling. It is administered by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund.

Sandbox Films - sundance. org The Sandbox Fund offers grants, engagement events, and other opportunities for independent artists seeking to explore the intrinsic link between science and culture through innovative storytelling. The program is administered by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, in collaboration with Sandbox Films .

Grants are offered to independent artists who are working at the intersection of science and nonfiction storytelling. The partnership identifies and supports nonfiction projects that inspire a deeper interest in science, especially among those who don’t think of themselves as science enthusiasts. Eligibility & How to Apply U.S. and international feature-length nonfiction projects are eligible.

Applications must be submitted through the Sandbox Fund application portal . The Fund offers grants two times a year, with two separate application windows. Grant-making decisions occur generally in the winter and summer, in collaboration with Sandbox Films.

Deadline: August 10, 2026 Applicants will be notified within 4-6 months of the deadline. The Sundance Institute | Sandbox Fund is seeing a continued high level of interest. To ensure we can thoughtfully review all applications in a timely manner, we are updating our eligibility requirements for the Fall 2026 cycle and beyond.

Each project is now limited to a maximum of two submissions. If you are submitting a project for the second time, we ask that the project be re-submitted only once it has reached a later stage of production and reflects significant progress since the previous application.

If you have already applied with a project two or more times, the project is no longer eligible for consideration, unless you have been specifically invited to resubmit by program staff. The fund offers support to projects at all stages of development, production, and post-production.

Average grant sizes are as follows: Development (up to $40,000) Production (up to $100,000) Post-Production (up to $100,000) Selection criteria for the Sandbox Fund will emphasize creative narrative techniques and projects that highlight diversity in science, specifically those that feature characters, topics, or disciplines that broaden and redefine what it means to be a scientist or to do science.

Sandbox Films is a documentary studio that illuminates the art and beauty of scientific inquiry. Mission-driven. Artist-friendly.

Non-profit. We collaborate with production partners and visionary filmmakers around the world, providing co-production and financing opportunities for feature-length documentary projects at every stage of production. We’re a collective that brings together clashing viewpoints, industries and personalities.

We celebrate both the precision and peculiarities of the process. Because science should be embraced for what it really is: humankind’s weird, messy, brilliant way of navigating the world. More info at: sandboxfilms.

org A Tale of Sea Dogs and Other Creatures Director & Producer : Katerina Suvorova Producers : Aruan Anartay, Assel Yerzhanova A young Kazakh scientist fighting to save the Caspian seal from extinction must embrace the ancient mythic world of the sea to succeed, a choice that comes at an unbearable physical cost.

Director & Producer: Charlie Shackleton Producers : Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing A mother and son revisit the medical emergency that reshaped their lives and the remarkable fragments that remain of that time. Director : Marley McDonald Producer : John Cardellino An all-archival adventure documentary that explores the creation of the American Museum of Natural History.

Told through the interconnected stories of its extraordinary artifacts, the museum reveals a deep human desire to freeze time, amass treasures, and understand our place in the world. The Pulse of the Volcanoes Director & Producer: Anaïs Taracena Guatemala is restless land crossed by 37 volcanoes that have been eternal witnesses to tragedies, wars, and rebellions.

Are these mountains of fire the voice of a wounded land, or the guardians of a history still seeking justice? Director & Producer : Pauline Blanchet Producer : Ljubomir Stefanov How do we remember the past when our history has been faked? A political vision to rebuild a capital on the foundations of an unfinished city erased a collective memory, casting a dark shadow over Skopje’s future identity.

Chorwet (The Rhino Friend) working title Director & Producer : Dylan Habil Producer : Lucinda Van de Rheede Zacharia Mutai balances fatherhood with his bond to the last two northern white rhinos, revealing a tender, deeply human view of care, loss, and endurance on the front lines of a crucial mission that might be the species’ final stand. Director & Producer: Emma D.

Miller Producers : Colby Day, Florrie Priest When a retired theater director begins creating internet videos featuring intimate conversations with his growing collection of ventriloquist dummies, his daughter attempts to repair their relationship by exploring the psychological depths and possibilities of his strange new hobby.

Director : Matthew Crotty Producers : Francesca Roth, Claire Vaye Watkins A film exploring the lifeways along the largely underground Amargosa River, which surfaces at the Borehole, a hot spring created by an environmental disaster and now the center of a rural community and a place of healing on the internal fringes of the American West. Narrated by Claire Vaye Watkins.

Directors : Anupama Srinivasan, Anirban Dutta Producers : Anirban Dutta, Ryan Krivoshey In New York City, a multiethnic team of scientists and researchers chase, study, and combat mosquitoes to protect the city’s population from the deadly viruses these tiny insects carry.

Producers : Susan Bedusa, Bennett Elliott, Douglas Tirola In a dreamlike 1950s town square built inside a warehouse, we will investigate our memory care crisis, the healing potential of filmmaking, and the fragility of reality itself by collaborating with three participants and their families to film scenes centered around their most important memories.

Director & Producer : Jessica Bishopp On a remote Icelandic archipelago, a team of marine ornithologists study elusive seabirds in global decline. On the same archipelago, two young women and the lost seabirds they rescue come of age.

The Mammoths that Escaped the Kingdom of Erlik Khan Director & Producer: Tamara Kotevska Producers : Sigrid Dyekjær, Anna Hashmi, Enrico Saraiva, Harry Vaughn, Jean Dakar In the northernmost part of the Yakut Tundra, Vladik, a young Dolgan reindeer herder, is at a crossroads when he has to make a decision to either follow in his father’s ancestral footsteps or join the modern mammoth tusk hunters.

Director & Producer : Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Producers : Yoni Brook, Susan Norget, James Doolittle, Emma Mørup A 1970s children’s fantasy novel in which the time-thieving Men in Gray infiltrate an imaginary city is the point of departure for a documentary that explores our relationship with time in an era where it is accelerated, fragmented, and commodified as never before.

Directors & Producers : Arlieta Hall, Brittany Alsot Chicago comedian Arlieta Hall turns to her greatest tools, stand-up comedy and improvisation, to navigate the heartbreak and humanity of caring for her father, who is living with Alzheimer’s disease.

Director & Producer : Sasha Wortzel Producer : Danielle Varga An ode to the Florida Everglades, told through the prescient writings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and those who today call the region home. Producers : Lindsey Dryden, Shaleece Haas, Jonna McKone When a filmmaker with a rare form of dwarfism seeks out people with bodies like hers, she enters a community in flux.

She joins forces with little people artists to trace a troubled history of being put on display. Together they forge a vision of disabled beauty and power. Artificial Clouds is a creative documentary that explores the ecological impact of artificial intelligence through a journey from mineral extraction to electronic ruins in Chile.

Director : Josefina Buschmann Mardones Producer : Daniela Camino Valdivia A young boy from a fisherman’s family and a female marine researcher embark on a quest to tag whale sharks for the first time in Peru. Producers : Chémi Pérez, Joel Cazorla, Sofia Tapia In Praise of Invasive Species For some, hunting and destroying “invasive species” such as Burmese pythons or Japanese knotweed is a moral issue.

For others, the idea is pseudoscience and contrary to our concept of nature. This film examines the heated politics of the new wild. Director : Mila Aung-Thwin My Friend the Bear, a feature documentary, will show the unprecedented, decades-long relationship between a severely dyslexic researcher and a bear.

Their story challenges our basic ideas of how humanity fits into the rest of nature. Director : Drew Xanthopoulos Producers : Bennett Elliott, Drew Xanthopoulos, Andrea Meditch (EP) Sing at My Wake is an observational documentary that explores an innovative green deathcare company while chronicling the emotional journey of a family embracing this novel end-of-life option.

Director : Jonathan Pickett Producers : Josh Polon, Sarah Stewart, Jonathan Pickett Two young rocket engineers, propelled by the memory of African dreamers and a resilient belief in their homeland work on building the first Congolese Space Program.

Producers : Maisha Maene, Leo Nelki, Josune Hahnheiser, Dale Dobson After discovering a turtle population gripped by a pattern of mysteriously savage, sexually-charged destruction, a young ecologist becomes the first to map a “vortex of extinction” playing out in a wild population – and descends into an ethical and existential spiral that transcends species. Director : Ljubomir Stefanov Producer : Maya E.

Rudolph Valley of the Night (working title) Valley of the Night is a science-fiction documentary that envisions a near future world in Phoenix, AZ, the hottest city in the United States, where nighttime becomes a place of natural refuge as people adapt to survive the extreme temperatures of the day.

In the magnificent Badlands of South Dakota, a seemingly ‘bad’ barren landscape is revealed to be teeming with life, buried histories, and crucial lessons about stewardship in a rapidly changing world.

Directors : Hannah Jayanti (Director), Alexander Porter (Co-Director) Producers : Hannah Jayanti (Producer), Alexander Porter (Producer), Keith Wilson (Consulting Producer) Captions Will Be Needed is filmmaker Natalia Almada’s cinematic response to living with a rare cancer. A magical-realist, science-fiction documentary about embracing uncertainty during an era that believes in technology’s omnipotent power to answer all questions.

Director : Natalia Almada Producers : Natalia Almada, Josh Penn, Esther Robinson A journey deep into southern Galicia, one of Europe’s most vulnerable wildfire zones, where wild horses have roamed the mountains for centuries under the watch of local cowboys. During the hottest summer ever measured, humans and animals alike struggle to cope as inextinguishable fires draw closer.

Producers : Signe Skov Thomsen, Malene Flindt Pedersen An extended Colombian family with a fifty-fifty chance of losing their memory grapples with their fate as researchers race against time to access the answers within them. Director : Juliana Schatz Preston Producers : Guillermo Zouain, Wendy Muñiz, Tanja Tawadjoh An environmental nuclear bomb looms in Utah.

Two intrepid scientists and a political veteran race the clock to save their home from an unprecedented environmental catastrophe. Producer : Fletcher Keyes The River is a vivid, character-driven film about Louisiana’s complex relationship with the Mississippi River.

Director : Caitlyn Greene Producers : Sara Archambault, Caitlyn Greene, Department of Motion Pictures Untitled PMSR Film explores postmortem sperm retrieval (PMSR), a medical procedure that extracts sperm from men in the 72 hours after their unexpected death, by embedding in deeply personal experiences of love and grief. A revolutionary agent is dispatched to steal technology from his colonial oppressors to use against them.

Can he help his people without losing himself in the maze of the diaspora?

Directors: Daniel Chein, Mark Mushiva Ya Mushiva Producers: David Felix Sutcliffe, Daniel Chein River of Grass explores the entwinement of past colonial violences and present-day ecological urgency in the iconic and imperiled Florida Everglades, told through the prescient writings of the late environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and those who today call the region home.

Producers: Danielle Varga, Sasha Wortzel Untitled Scientist Project Director & Producer: Jiayan “Jenny” Shi At the elite MIT, a Ghanaian alum follows four African students striving to become agents of change for home: Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Over an intimate, decade-long journey, all must refine their ideas about the world and themselves, and, ultimately, how to transform youthful ideals into action as adults.

Director & Producer: Arthur Musah Todo Lo Sólido (All That Is Solid) tells the story of an island sinking into the Caribbean Sea. As a nameless drifter searches for explanations about the island’s destiny, reality and fantasy merge to reflect on the construction of a nation and the burden of progress.

Directors: Luis Gutiérrez Arias, Zaina Bseiso Producers: Zaina Bseiso, Luis Gutiérrez Arias, Joie Estrella Horwitz A young chemistry student contemplates the nature of black holes.

With Their Backs To The Sky Bridging bat disease ecology and conservation, this collaborative journey invites us into the tightly entangled lives of bat catchers, field biologists, and old-world fruit bats within the heavily exploited forest ecosystems of Madagascar. Joy persists in the face of storms that flood, mudslides that flatten, and fires that consume.

Producers: Angelo Andrianiaina, Kendall Fitzgerald As Ladakh is flooded with light, local engineers in Hanle work with astronomers and nearby nomadic communities to create a new kind of sanctuary: for darkness and starlight. But the dark sky holds a different dream for each of them. What will they discover about themselves, others, and the cosmos as they embrace the dark?

Producers: Mikaela Beardsley, Raghu Karnad Brigidy Bram: The Kendal Hanna Story In this intimate portrait circling fact and fiction, the true story of prolific painter Kendal Hanna reveals a case study of how we codify genius. Directors/Producers: Laura Gamse, Kareem Mortimer Climate in Therapy is a feature documentary that follows seven climate scientists as they confront a previously unknown field of study: their own emotions.

Directors: Nathan Grossman, Olof Berglind Conscious is a hopeful and cinematic experience, taking us closer to understanding the strength and frailty of the human mind. Using mesmerizing visuals, textured sounds, and compelling stories, the film takes the audience on an immersive and illuminating journey into other minds. What can a neuroscientist and three people living with dementia tell us about consciousness in a technological age?

Director/Producer: Suki Chan Producers: Aimara Reques, Teresa Grimes Fire of Love is an unexpected love story of two intrepid scientists – Katia and Maurice Krafft – who die in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: seeking to understand the mystery of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.

Poetic in style and playful in spirit, Fire of Love uses the Kraffts’ spectacular archives to chart a story of creation and destruction, of nature and humanity, and of Maurice and Katia’s love – both for each other and the planet.

Premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival where it received the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary Director/Producer: Sara Dosa Producers: Shane Boris, Ina Fichman Facing unprecedented global threats from new viruses and geopolitical competitors, America is in crisis as it grapples with the issue of why, after 30 years of effort, there are still too few Black & BIPOC scientists in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields to help secure its future competitiveness.

Director/Producer: Thomas Allen Harris Postmortem is at once a personal memoir, true crime, and cultural interrogation. Filming the behind-the-scenes experience of staging the Postmortem stage play, we expose another layer: the true story beneath the art, and the ways rigorous artistic creation can reveal deeper, collective truths.

Three Mexican women—all indigenous scientists and activists—partner with mushrooms to fight for their lands and cultures. The Queendom combines documentary with science fiction to explore the perspectives of both the humans and their most powerful allies: the fungi.

Director/Producer: Otilia Portillo Padua Producers: Paula Arroio, Elena Fortes Did you know clownfish change sex, penguins parent in same-sex pairs, and bonobos (our closest relatives) are matriarchal? Debunking myths that females are “inferior” and being queer is somehow “unnatural,” Second Nature follows LGBTQ scientists who prove that nature is far more diverse than we’ve been taught.

Producer: Jennifer Steinman-Sternin Untitled Animal Project explores contemporary global supply chains through the lens of the animal experience. Through multiple locations around the world, the film weaves the ways in which food industries affect various species – with a focus on exploring the elusive idea of animal sentience.

Director: Jessica Kingdon Producers: Jamie Gonçalves, Nathan Truesdell How do you watch the climate crisis unfold without losing hope? Untitled Thwaites Film tells the story of a small, female-led research team’s last trip to a vulnerable Antarctic ice sheet. Director/Producer: Emelie Mahdavian Producers: John D.

Sutter A leading specialist in bioluminescence, world-renowned marine biologist Edith Widder uses the language of light to communicate with the most mysterious creatures in the deep sea. Now, as the impact of human life on the planet is increasingly felt in our oceans, Edie’s work has become especially urgent in order to understand, protect, and illuminate the remarkable life beneath the surface.

Director & Producer: Tasha Van Zandt My Chemical Information System My Chemical Information System discovers the curious workings of Gyula Dékány’s mind, who is on the brink of creating extremely complex molecules that could revolutionize the treatment of all major neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer and Parkinson’s disease.

Directors: Márton Vizkelety, Zoltán Moll Herbaria is an excursion to the world of botanical archives, their processes and their artistic and political derivations in relation to diverse fields such as film preservation and ecology. Director: Leandro Listorti Producer: Paula Zyngierman, Leandro Listorti Can science solve racism in America?

How Free People Think follows Stanford psychologist and MacArthur “genius” Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt on her journey to uncover and overcome bias: the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do. Inspired by her bestselling book Biased, we join Jennifer on her quest as a Black mother and scientist determined to protect her family — and to find a practical way forward in the fight for racial equity.

Directors: Lacey Schwartz Delgado, Mehret Mandefro Producers: Tom Yellin, Jo Budzilowicz, Gabrielle Tenenbaum An aging inventor living at the fringe of society makes one last attempt to achieve his lifelong dream: to build a zero emission aircraft, using gyroscopes as propellers. As the story progresses, we understand his traumatic family past holds the key to his obsession.

Directors: Francisco Forbes, Ferran Romeu, Matthew Barton Producers: Inés Massa, Salvador Sunyer Space is a Monstrous Animal In 1986, Adolfo Chaves was a child who loved to play in the backyard of his house in rural Costa Rica, where he could see the clouds travelling in the sky. One windy day, he watched on television how the first Costa Rican astronaut was going into space.

With those images in his memory, Adolfo is now one of the members of the first space mission formed only by Latin Americans. He is beginning a 15-month training that may see him fulfill his greatest dream: to travel to outer space… for only 15 minutes. Director: Natalia Solórzano Vásquez Producer: Karolina Hernández The deep sea has come to represent a final frontier of human discovery; the last wilderness on earth.

The film follows a group of biologists through the intricate process of discovering deep-sea species as they piece together the unknown ecosystems of the largest biome on the planet. Director: Eleanor Mortimer There’s a new drug on the horizon that promises to make people with dwarfism taller—and it’s threatening to erase the very community it aims to serve.

As Little People grapple with their uncertain future, director Julie Wyman confronts her own complicated diagnosis of dwarfism. At the heart of the film lies the question: if you could give up the qualities that make you different, would you? And at what cost?

Director & Producer: Julie Forrest Wyman Logline: All Light, Everywhere is an upcoming feature documentary exploring past, present, and future relationships between technology, vision, and power.

From arcane theories of sight to the emergence of virtual reality and police body camera programs, the film takes a kaleidoscopic investigation into how the reality of what we see is constructed through the tools, beliefs, and practices of how we are taught to see.

Producer: Riel Roch-Decter Logline: Take a journey with young minds around the globe as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world: the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Watch these passionate innovators find the courage to face the planet’s environmental threats while navigating adolescence.

Producers: Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, Laura Nix Logline: The Most Unknown is an epic documentary film that sends nine scientists to extraordinary parts of the world to uncover unexpected answers to some of humanity’s biggest questions. How did life begin? What is time?

What is consciousness? How much do we really know? Director and producer: Ian Cheney Audience Engagement Grant Logline: Welcome to Green Bank, West Virginia, the only town in America where, by federal decree, the use of cell phones, WiFi, and other wireless technology is banned.

Ironically, Green Bank is also home to the world’s most powerful radio telescope, a place where astronomers search for clues to unlock the history and future of our galaxy. The Quiet Zone follows this close-knit community with one foot in two worlds, past and present, whose way of life depends on the survival of the telescope at the very moment when it’s threatened with closure.

Director: Katie Dellamaggiore Producers: Nelson Dellamaggiore, Tracie Holder Code for Bias (Working Title) Logline: Merging cinema vérité and graphic visual elements, the film captures MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that most facial-recognition software does not accurately see dark-skinned faces.

Through Joy’s transformation from scientist to tireless advocate, Code for Bias (Working Title) sheds light on the impacts of AI on civil rights and democracy, and it explores what it means to be human in the 21st century. Director and producer: Shalini Kantayya Logline: Time stands still as a scientific drilling ship retrieves sediment cores from the seabed at the equator.

A work of ethnographic sci-fi, Edge of Time intertwines Jorge Luis Borges’ meditations on immortality with scientists’ reflections on oceanography, time, and extinction. Director & Producer: Stephanie Spray Logline: Two biologists set out on an undertaking as colossal as their subjects — deciphering the complex communication of whales.

Dr. Michelle Fournet and Dr. Ellen Garland journey to opposite hemispheres to uncover a culture eons older than our own.

Director: Drew Xanthopoulos The Invisible Extinction ( formerly: Missing Microbes) Logline: Facing an international public health crisis – the disappearance of our microbes (the ‘good bugs’ that live in us and are passed down from mom to baby) – two globetrotting scientists race to save our health, while four patients with life-threatening diseases triggered by this loss fight for their lives.

Directors & Producers: Steven Lawrence & Sarah Schenck Wildcat ( formerly: Raising Khan) Logline: After returning from Afghanistan with severe depression and PTSD, Harry Turner went to the Peruvian Amazon to end his life. There, he met conservationist and scientist Samantha Zwicker, and through their work together raising orphaned wildlife he is finding a reason to live.

Directors: Melissa Lesh & Trevor Frost Producer: Melissa Lesh & Trevor Frost Logline: Six people live for one year in a NASA psychological experiment, simulating the first human habitat on Mars.

Directors & Producers: Katherine Gorringe & Lauren DeFilippo Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know Logline: Follow scientists on their quest to understand and capture the first image of a black hole while exploring the limits of our knowledge of the universe.

Producer: Peter Galison & Chyld King Picture a Scientist ( formerly: The Eyes to See) Logline: Despite the minimal news coverage, sexual harassment and gender inequality against women are no less prevalent in science than they are in pop culture and corporate America.

Directors: Ian Cheney & Sharon Shattuck Confessions of a Good Samaritan ( formerly: The Last Kidney Donor) Logline : Director Penny Lane’s decision to become a “Good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger turns into a funny and moving personal quest to understand the nature of altruism.

Confessions of a Good Samaritan is a provocative inquiry into the science, history, and ethics of organ transplantation, asking an ancient question in a whole new way: Who is your neighbor, and what do you owe them? Producer: Gabriel Sedgwick Logline: Is technology an expression of our humanity or is technology destroying our humanity?

As our society moves increasingly towards a “technopoly” civilization, this visual essay documentary will explore the unintended and often dehumanizing consequences of our society’s embedded belief that technological progress will lead to the betterment of humanity.

Producers: Josh Penn & Elizabeth Lodge Stepp Brigidy Bram: The Kendal Hanna Story Bahamian painter Kendal Hanna endured years of 1950s-era electroshock therapy before emerging to create a body of work described as “a gold mine. ” Artists and scientists collaborate to explore Hanna’s story and the forces that threatened to erase his memory, his work, and his name from history.

Directors: Laura Gamse, Toby Lunn Producers: Kareem Mortimer, Bernard Myburgh Darwin’s Baby follows the venture of an illustrator and a science-philosopher in their pursuit to draw a user’s manual for the human mind. A map of where the inbuilt program ends and the self begins. Directors & Producers: Shenny A.

Madrigal and Daniel B. Arvizu End of Land is an observational portrait of apocalypse, myth, and the human relationship with non-human nature, told through the explorations and interpretations of a mysterious new phenomenon: exploding methane deposits that open portals to the past and leave vast craters on Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula.

Producers: Shane Boris, Anna Fitch, Elijah Stevens From vocalists to emcees, educators to artificial intelligence, our voices are something that define much of who we are, but which we often take for granted. Finding Your Voice explores our unique identity rooted in voice through the lens of science, technology, and culture, and the universal journey to find it. Directors & Producers: Raúl O.

Paz-Pastrana, Daniel Chein In the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas, a young woman scientist studies moths. A young man rediscovers the forest he has grown up with. The film follows their fascinating journey into the secret world of moths, inviting us to witness their beauty, their fragility in the face of rising temperatures and our own hidden connection with them.

Directors: Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan The world’s greatest astronomers have recently calculated that a new planet, never before seen by human eyes, lurks at the edge of our solar system. Now, the race is on to find it, and whoever succeeds will be responsible for one of the most momentous discoveries in history Director: Daniel J.

Clark Producer: Caroline Clark, Nick Andert Old worlds decolonise future worlds, migrant bodies prepare to settle on the moon. Through role-play, magic, and doppelgängers, Red Moon offers an experimental vision and template for future diasporas beyond Earth. How will the first children of the moon understand origins, borders and territories?

Director: Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian The Gender Project (Working Title) ( formerly: Testosterone: The Movie) In an eye-opening exploration of the gender spectrum, we humans increasingly defy binary categories, while science has learned to measure biological sex by myriad factors. Is it time to socially redefine gender in more complex ways, beyond our narrow ideas of chromosomes and testosterone?

It is estimated that over 40% of the planet’s insect species are flying towards a catastrophic demise. As the world enters the 6th wave of extinction, we need to prepare ourselves to live in a flowerless world, with silent forests and the collapse of functioning ecosystems. If we lose insects, who is to say humans aren’t next?

The Age of Loneliness is a look at the global fight to stop the impending insect apocalypse. Producer: Leslie Norville and Bennett Elliott Wilfred Buck is a hybrid feature centering on a Cree elder who’s been called the Indiana Jones of Indigenous star knowledge.

Weaving together his harrowing past and his present life with sky stories, we’ll move between the gutter and the stars to unpack colonization’s impact on Indigenous ways of knowing. Producer: Lisa Jackson, Alicia Smith Doris Duke Charitable Foundation The Charles Engelhard Foundation Entertainment Industry Foundation Occidental Petroleum Corporation