Moving Forward is a heartfelt, inspiring film about reclaiming one's inner light and finding strength not in perfection, but in progress

Red is a color found everywhere in our lives, yet we never draw attention to it. It grows, festers, and overpowers without anyone noticing. It clouds our minds and the way we perceive the world around us. It's time for us to wake up and start noticing.

An angel watches his son and daughter as they visit his gravestone at the cemetery.

After becoming a mental health service user, a former social worker reflects on the profession from both sides of the helping relationship. Through personal narration and original music, the film reveals the emotional labor, dedication, and human connections that exist behind workloads, case numbers, and professional roles.

Saltwater Psalms is a six-minute visual poem built from fragments of the natural world. Instead of a linear story, the film moves through a living collage of water, shoreline, foliage, animals, food, and sunlight. Each image becomes its own reminder that the body knows how to come home when it is given space to breathe.

The work reflects a season of emotional exhaustion and rebuilding. The film does not chase a narrative arc. It rests inside stillness, repetition, and the softness of everyday beauty. The viewer is invited to witness what healing looks like when it is not performed. Quiet waves. Moving shadows. A fruit sliced open. Wings in flight. The warmth of the sun on the skin.

Through these simple elements, the film becomes a gentle act of self-reclamation. It holds the idea that renewal is not always grand or spoken. Sometimes it is found in the world as it already is, waiting for you to pause long enough to see it.

This documentary delves into the purpose behind the creation of Palate, a coffee shop built to support the fight against human trafficking, and the community impact that has grown from its mission. Through the story of its founder, a survivor whose vision sparked the shop’s creation, the film reveals how Palate grew from a single mission into a wider community movement centered on hope, empowerment, and survivor‑led healing. By exploring the mission behind the shop, the impact it has had on the community, and the ways its influence extends far beyond its doors, the documentary highlights how meaningful change can begin with one person’s story and the courage to reclaim it.

Art therapist Jamie Silvestri reflects on the work and impact of her organization ArtVan, which has brought mobile art therapy to low-income communities in rural Maine for over twenty years. By guiding individuals to explore and use materials to create whatever comes from the heart, Jamie expresses how art can transform, heal parts of ourselves nothing else can reach, and open worlds of understanding—a truth she knows from her own experience with trauma.

Lost in his deepening mental confusion, Francisco discovers that he has been living for decades with early-onset Alzheimer's, diagnosed at age 51. Now, at 78, during a particularly intense crisis of the disease, he sees his perception of reality fracture. Between memory lapses and moments of disorientation, his wife and son become his safe haven, helping him face the truth through routine, creativity, and, above all, love. The family attempts to preserve what the disease insists on erasing: Francisco's identity, affection, and dignity. A silent struggle against oblivion.

Amber, a worker at a mushroom cultivation farm, loses her partner- sending her on a roadtrip to find a rare psychedelic mushroom in order to find closure.

Days before a school tragedy strikes, a single mother's effort to relocate her family in search of a better future is unknowingly racing against time.

America follows Valerie, a single mother who refuses to break. Determined to give her children, Daniel and Georgia, a better life on the West Coast, she pushes forward against all odds. But on the eve of their move, tragedy strikes. A school shooting shatters their world, forcing Valerie to confront an unthinkable question: Are her children victimsЙ or perpetrators?

Our short film is a raw and urgent exploration of resilience and sacrifice through the lens of a mother's fierce love. America lays bare the devastating impact of gun violence and its ripple effects on families and schools across America.

One year after our first journey to the Amazon, we return not only to a place, but to a way of living. Through physical challenges and unexpected discomfort, this film captures a quiet process of transformation. A story about moving through discomfort to uncover an inner strength.
More than a journey, a confrontation. More than a retreat, a return.