In a nondescript warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain over 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its...
Nyma Tang gets the flowers she deserves, here and now, for her series The Darkest Shade, which sparked a conversation on YouTube around the need for inclusion in the beauty...
Bianca Bonnie gets the flowers she deserves, here and now, for bringing together a song, a dance from Harlem, and the internet, creating the blueprint for viral dance trends with...
Young lawyer Noah Cox grapples with his own past as he attempts to use a progressive new law and digital system to win grace for his developmentally disabled client, Johnny Reyes.
Founded in 2012, Breakwater Studios has become a world leader in short-form humanist storytelling. Nominated for two Academy Awards ®, Breakwater Studios is celebrating our first decade in our mission...
Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawaii who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress, on...
The French Laundry, run by legendary chef Thomas Keller, has often been recognized as the best restaurant in the world, but few know the story of its original founder, Sally...
From director Ben Proudfoot and executive producers Shaquille O’Neal and Stephen Curry, The Queen of Basketball is an Academy Award® winning, electrifying portrait of Lusia “Lucy” Harris, who scored the...
Oscar®-winning director Ben Proudfoot brings the inspiring untold story of UNICEF to life in this new short documentary IF YOU HAVE. From World War II to COVID-19, during some of...
A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family’s lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Immunocompromised and facing eviction days before Christmas 2021, a single mother of two is at the end of her rope. Overwhelmed with thousands of applications, will the local COVID relief...
In 1992, at the height of the AIDS pandemic, activist Terence Alan Smith made a historic bid for president of the United States as his drag queen persona Joan Jett...
Nearly 20 years ago, an investigation by The Boston Globe into sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests ignited a firestorm of scandal that has traveled around the world. For many...
In the twentieth century, Volvo put the modern seatbelt into every car in America. Now, the Virtual Experience team at Volvo Cars is using Unity’s interactive RealTime 3D visualization to...
The UN Headquarters, Metlife Stadium and the Oculus at the World Trade Center all have one thing in common: they were added to the New York skyline by the iconic...
The next revolution in filmmaking is virtual production, where the digital and physical worlds combine. Studios like Baobab and Magnopus are at the forefront of that revolution, using augmented reality...
When they made their groundbreaking design software free to the public, Unity triggered a creative boom in the indie video game space overnight. By lowering the barrier of entry to...
Unity’s Realtime 3D engine is a once-in-a-generation innovation that brings the power of design and virtual reality to everyday people, revolutionizing the trillion dollar entertainment, manufacturing, and construction industries.
Vonnie Farmer always fought for the underdog. Ready to take charge of her own destiny, she opened her own cargo & freight company. After partnering with Amazon Freight, Vonnie now...
When Utopia Warehouse opened its doors, they faced logistical challenges with their transportation infrastructure. Everything changed when they got a call from Amazon Freight. With Amazon Freight as their partner,...
Calvin wanted Gayla to teach him how to smoke a cigar at the Hollywood bowl. She said she would. Then she disappeared. So he found her and they haven’t been...
There’s no wrong way to picnic at the Hollywood Bowl. But some people take it a little farther than others. Laura shares her story (and a few recipes).
Kristina’s mom Betty was a mainstay at the Hollywood Bowl—just ask Phoenix’s Thomas Mars. Or the elevator attendants. Or security. Or the servers. Or pretty much anyone else.
When Rigo brought a friend to the 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular at the Hollywood Bowl, he had no idea that one day he and his husband would call it...
EdTech innovator RedShelf is making education more accessible for millions by digitizing university course materials for more than half of America’s campuses.
In the United States, about two thirds of released prisoners are rearrested within three years. Joe was determined never to go back. This is Joe’s story of pugilism, prison, and...
For child actor Devon Michael, the coveted role of Anakin Skywalker in George Lucas’ hotly anticipated THE PHANTOM MENACE was the part of a lifetime. Chosen as one of George’s...
Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors to make one of the greatest astrophysical discoveries of the twentieth...
Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Dr. Peter Kim, the founder of Activ Surgical, introduces a revolutionary new device that could save thousands...
Life on the Bering Sea is one of the most treacherous and rewarding ways to make a living. For Captain Sean Dwyer, the youngest captain in the region, it’s all...
As told by his granddaughter, the Olympian Kara Goucher, whose career he inspired. When his son-in-law was killed in a tragic car crash, World War II veteran Calvin Haworth became...
As told by his colleague and friend Abe. A devout christian, Jerry Givens was Virginia’s chief executioner, before he became an advocate of abolishing the death penalty.
As told by her cousin Robert. Angela Chaddlesone McCarthy was a teenage mother raised on a Native American reservation who overcame great odds to become a Kiowa tribe legislator in...
As told by his daughter Mikki, the first in the family to graduate from college. A hard-working bricklayer from the projects, Humberto Trujillo helped build the main Phoenix post office...
Few places experience the seasons as vividly as coastal Maine. For local photographer Nick LaVecchia, this ever-changing landscape is a kick in the pants, inspiring him to seek out the...
As told by her twin sister, fellow nurse and lifelong dance partner Rosalie. Rosary Castro-Olega was a retired nurse who returned to the front lines to fight the virus, ultimately...
Fifty years later, the real Melvin Dismukes, portrayed by John Boyega in Kathryn Bigelow’s DETROIT, chronicles his first-hand experience of the infamous Algiers Motel Incident, for which he was wrongly charged with first-degree...
As the son and grandson of fish fryers in coastal Massachusetts, Dan Portelance dreamed of a life elsewhere as a famous chef. Just when his goal was within reach, his...
A team of seven expats living in Tokyo are changing (and challenging) the formula of indie game creation with their highly anticipated mystery exploration game, Vane.
Step into the world of the Northways, a Canadian couple who live together, travel the globe together, and make cutting-edge virtual reality game together, Fantastic Contraption.
Using a combination of rescanned and remastered archival documentary footage and new cinematic recreations, “George” tells the story of one soldier’s experience and memory as a Canadian soldier in the...
After-hours on a quiet suburban street somewhere in South Carolina, young Thomas Brush has spent the last three years creating Pinstripe, an adventure platform game about heaven and hell –...
McManus & Morgan is the oldest (and once most prosperous) paper shop in Los Angeles. Aardvark Letterpress is a family-run printing business dating back to the 1940s. Located on the...
“Did you ever hear the story of how the chickens saved my life?” Inspired by the extraordinary true story of a brilliant young poultry scientist in WWII Canada, Dinner with...
