Monument to Love features a journey of Jacky Comforty with his mother, Ika Comforty Ovadia, for over 25 years to research, document, and uncover the narrative of the Jewish people during the Holocaust in Bulgaria. As the journey progressed, Ika’s personal story unfolded. She shares memories and r...

The Optimists: The Story of the Survival of the Bulgarian Jews, explores how different ethnic and religious groups stood by each other in Bulgaria even during the Holocaust. Bulgaria’s experience offers valuable insight into how people can build bridges between different communities of different ...

Freedoms Under Assault is a powerful full-length documentary that chronicles the systematic destruction of a world-class university and the politically motivated culture war against its faculty over a two-year period. A perfect storm of an autocratic university president collaborating with a supe...

Balkan Jazz tells the life story and music of Niko Nissimov and his Jewish friends from the Bulgarian Jazz band, The Optimists. The movie charts their rise to stardom as a band in late 1930s Bulgaria. The beginning of WWII changed everything for them as Bulgaria joined the Axis powers. Anti-Jewis...

In 1942, Nazi Germany destroyed an innocent Czech village—Lidice—to avenge the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. A mastermind of Nazi genocide,Heydrich was the highest ranking Nazi successfully attacked during the war. All 192 men of the town were murdered, all women sent to Ravensbruck concent...

A two-year longitudinal award winning video study of an elementary school student who moves from a self-contained, special education classroom to a typical general education classroom. This program charts development in a way a one-time glimpse cannot, while offering clear and genuine reflections...

This program about "outsider art" profiles three, self-taught Chicagoans. Each is a seeker--and discoverer--of hidden possibilities: in things thrown away, abandoned places, anonymous people, their younger selves.

A dramatic documentary film about the Holocaust in Bulgaria and beyond. It is based on witnesses testimonies and 35 years of research. Archival film and photos are blended with animated paintings by artist Martha Aladjem Bloomfield, showing situations we have testimony about but no visual repres...