Inside a Michigan prison, a dedicated chef’s gourmet culinary training program gives incarcerated men new skills — and new hope. Through the interwoven and diverse stories of four key characters, the film subtly addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time, employing food as a prism to tell deeper stories of purpose, resilience, and redemption.

Coldwater Kitchen world premiered at DOC NYC in 2022 and was honored with a James Beard Media Award in 2023. The film was selected for the 2025 American Film Showcase, a premiere diplomacy program that organizes screenings and workshops with American filmmakers in more than 60 countries.

The film team’s robust impact campaign is ongoing and includes the men featured in the film, who have engaged audiences at dinner-and-movie events in Metro Detroit and at Platform by James Beard Foundation in NYC.

In July 1967, Detroit erupted in one of America’s most violent civil disturbances. Using more than 400 reels of home movies donated by Detroiters – along with a tapestry of archival materials – 12th and Clairmount transports viewers back in time to explore the causes and aftermath of one of Detroit’s most pivotal moment in history.

Premiering in 2017, this feature film became a centerpiece of community engagement related to the 50th anniversary of the Detroit Rebellion. It screened widely throughout Metro Detroit and Michigan, in combination with panel discussions and educational events.

Writing for Variety Magazine, film critic Owen Gleiberman called 12th and Clairmount, “a revelatory portrait of the city … illuminating and innovatively crafted.” Ahead of its New York premiere at DOC NYC, CriterionCast described the film as, “a devastating piece of non-fiction filmmaking … part oral history and part sociological scholarship.”

Investigative journalists embark on a 2,000 mile journey along the US/Mexico border to dissect President Trump’s $20-billion proposal to build a wall from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, exploring the history, heartache and hope that comes from living on one of America’s most controversial stretches of land. With rare footage from some of the most remote reaches of the United States, this topical, feature film reveals the unknown issues and details the unintended consequences that a wall would have on security, commerce, smuggling, environment, property rights and human life.

The Wall premiered in 2018 as politics at the southern border reached a boiling point. Community screenings were hosted nationwide by newspapers across the USA TODAY NETWORK, many of which contributed to the film and comprehensive report.

“The Wall: Untold Stories, Unintended Consequences” was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.

For over 50 years, the unassuming, affable Bill Eisner has photographed fire in Detroit, amassing an unprecedented and priceless visual history of the Detroit Fire Department.

His archive is gargantuan: hundreds of thousands of photographs, Super 8mm film reels, boxes of video tapes and hours of audio cassette dispatch recordings. This remarkable collection tells the story of firefighters at work in a city that has burned more than any other in America. And it tells the story of Eisner, whose single-minded pursuit has made him as deeply engrained in the Detroit Fire Department as any firefighter.

This short film premiered at The Fillmore Detroit in 2015 to a sold-out crowd of firefighters, fire buffs, fire photographers and of course, Bill Eisner. Luckily for everyone in attendance, there wasn’t a 3-alarm fire in Detroit that night. If there had been, Eisner might have left before taking the stage to talk about his life’s work.

The fragile ecosystem of Isle Royale National Park is dominated by the predator / prey relationship between wolves and moose. But on the biggest island in the biggest lake on Earth, things have unraveled. With wolves dwindling and moose booming, the National Park Service must decide how to manage these iconic species in a wilderness setting that’s historically taken a hands-off approach. As climate change forces precedent-setting actions, does the resiliency of wilderness depend on human intervention?

This short film premiered at the Detroit Film Theatre in 2016 and screened at film festivals throughout Michigan, accompanied by panel discussions with researchers and ecologists from Michigan Technological University.

The film continues to be used in public education, shaping a generation of young people who will address the biggest environmental challenges facing humanity.