Collective Eye Films

Rita Davern’s family has always been proud to say that their great grandparents once owned Pike Island, a beautiful piece of land at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. When Rita relates what happened to the people who lived there before her family owned the land, some family members react with understanding, others with arguments and anger. Rita’s attempts to understand what happened and why leads her on a journey that requires...

President Obama declared Bears Ears a national monument in December 2016. One year later, President Trump reduced the monument by 85 percent. While the political debate continues, this documentary seeks to transcend the rhetoric, following the inhabitants of San Juan County, and revealing the mutual ideals between opposing ideologies: love and awe of a beloved land.

Winner of the Best Documentary at the Harlem International Film Festival 2021 and Best Documentary Feature at the National Black Film Festival 2021. Mamie Lang Kirkland was seven years old when she fled Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 with her mother and siblings as her father and his friend, John Hartfield, escaped an approaching lynch mob. John Hartfield returned to Mississippi in 1919 and was killed in one of the most horrific lynchings of the...

An inspiring and compelling one hour documentary that invites viewers into the lives of contemporary Native American role models. It focuses on the under reported themes of Nation Re-Building, Tribal Justice, and Cultural Revitalization. Through the personal and professional stories of American Indian Attorneys, Tribal Judges and their colleagues, the program provides an overview of the major historical, governmental, legal, judicial, and intertwining...

A documentary series that follows patients and their doctors in the first generation of FDA-approved clinical trials for stem cell, CAR-T cell, and antibody therapies. Granted unprecedented access to groundbreaking trials taking place at top research facilities in the United States, our crew filmed through the duration of ten clinical trials that used regenerative medicine to treat brain cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, HIV, spinal cord...

A feature documentary film focusing on the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935. Following the recent construction of a monument dedicated to Fascist general Rodolfo Graziani, the film addresses the unpunished war crimes he and others committed in the name of Mussolini's imperial ambitions. The stories of three characters, filmed in present-day Ethiopia, Italy, and the United States, take the audience on a journey through the living memories and...

From initial lockdown to the first vaccines, Class of COVID-19 unveils untold and thought-provoking stories of courage and hope during a global pandemic. The stories move far beyond school buildings to show the fears, challenges, and triumphs of exemplary teachers and students. Faced with struggles around mental health, inequities in school resources, and racial injustice, the characters evolve to become true leaders in their communities and prove...

"Documentary focusing on several eccentric street dog caretakers in Kolkata, India."--Container.

After the global success of his Un Certain Regard winner Rams, director Grimur Hakonarson returns to his native Iceland with another humanist farmland fable. Bitterly funny and deeply affecting, the film plays out a timely political allegory against a jaw-dropping natural landscape, aided by a brainy, tenacious anti-heroine and Hk̀onarson's dry Nordic humor. When we first meet Inga, she is mid-wifing a calf, in the middle of another back-breaking...

In the 1950s, a young woman leaves the Swiss mountains for the shores of Beirut, where she falls in love with a quirky astrophysicist. The pair live in bliss until the civil war threatens their peaceful existence.