For over 20 years, BayView Entertainment has been a full service media company committed to acquiring, developing, producing, marketing, and distributing audio-visual content. With a catalog of over 3,500 titles across a wide range of genres, BayView has been home to some of the biggest names in the industry, including titles that have been nominated for or won Independent Spirit Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and NAACP Image Awards, as well as premiered at festivals such as TIFF, Sundance, Slamdance, SXSW, Tribeca, and Fantasia.
EPF Media is a distributor and producer of innovative documentaries from around the world that educate and raise awareness of social issues, cultures and the arts. EPF Media is committed to releasing films that inspire people and bring positive change to our communities.
First Run Features was founded in 1979 by a group of filmmakers to advance the distribution of independent film. Under the leadership of the late Fran Spielman, First Run Features quickly gained a reputation for its controversial catalog of daring documentaries and fiction films. Seymour Wishman continued her legacy over the next 38 years. Today First Run remains one of the largest independent distributors in North America, releasing 10 films a year in theaters nationwide and an additional 20 films annually to educational institutions, on home video, to television broadcasters, and online through a diverse mix of digital platforms.
Over the last 50 years, Bullfrog Films has become the leading US publisher of independently-produced documentaries on environmental and related social justice issues that point the way to living healthily, happily, and with greater concern for the other inhabitants of this planet, and for our descendants.
Icarus Films has been a leading distributor of documentary films in North America since 1978. Led by longtime president Jonathan Miller, we work with independent producers worldwide, releasing twenty-five to fifty new (and classic) films a year, and now represent approximately 1,000 titles.
As the world's leading distributor of films by and about women, Women Make Movies expands the understanding of the complexity and diversity of women’s lives and experiences. Our collection of more than 700 films includes award-winning works by both established and emerging independent media makers from all over the world and explores an incredible range of timely and urgent issues.
An immersive journey through 70 years of images and sounds from Lebanon, marked by beauty, trauma, joy, and forgetting.
Icarus Films | 2026 | 75 minutes | Color/Black and White | French; Arabic; English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Tells a remarkable story of resistance, community care, and the power of everyday people coming together to fight injustice.
Icarus Films | 2026 | 99 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
A group of friends met during #YoSoy132, a 2012 Mexican student-led movement protesting media bias and electoral manipulation during Enrique Peña Nieto's presidential campaign.
EPF Media | 2023 | 97 minutes | Color | Spanish | English subtitles
Explores the underlying causes of the opioid epidemic in America through the life of one boy and five generations of his extended family, filmed over 11 years.
Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 83 minutes | Color | English | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
Interviews with academics, philosophers and theorists shine a spotlight on the complex theories of populist politics and their significance for our current political nexus.
Bullfrog Films | 2025 | 52 minutes | Color/Black and White | English | Closed Captioned
A collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies.
EPF Media | 2024 | 81 minutes | B_W | Polish
When a school shooting shakes a Texas town, a mom desperate to save her sons goes viral. The community confronts the systems that failed their kids.
Women Make Movies | 2025 | 89 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you? In a remarkable story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin radically re-imagines the essential art of mothering.
Women Make Movies | 2025 | 88 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies misclassify women and darker-skinned faces, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms.
Women Make Movies | 2020 | 86 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA is a portrait of Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders.
Women Make Movies | 2022 | 60 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
An intimate exploration of the phenomenon of absent fathers in Black communities, FATHER’S DAY is a meditation on healing, agency, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.
Women Make Movies | 2026 | 75 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles
A hybrid feature documentary about controversial feminist writer and public intellectual Andrea Dworkin, who offered a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy with iconoclastic flair.
Women Make Movies | 2022 | 91 minutes | Color | English | Closed Captioned
Farah, an Iranian woman, was born in 1979 at the end of the Islamic Revolution, shortly after the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Drawing on personal archives and 8mm archival recordings of strangers' lives, she contrasts moments of private joy with public defiance to show lives of women under the regimented oppression in Tehran.
Women Make Movies | 2024 | 82 minutes | Color | Farsi | English subtitles | Closed Captioned
THE MYTH OF THE BLACK WOMAN explores the damaging images imposed on Black women, from the hypersexual Jezebel to the lovable Nurse to the “sassy” stereotype, revealing how these myths were engineered — and how Black women are actively reclaiming their identities and narratives today.
Women Make Movies | 2022 | 95 minutes | Color | French; English | English subtitles
