11:24 minutes | 2024

Give a bear hug to the things that scare you the most.

A documentary about the artist Heidi Schwegler. Faced with a crisis in her art practice, Schwegler leaves for unfamiliar settings, and begins to see her surroundings in new ways.​

Director: Stephen Funk

Producer: Stephen Funk

​Key Cast: Heidi Schwegler

Existential Action Thriller >

9 minutes | 2026

Ageless synchronized swimmer Julie Vigeland continues to find herself in the pool - a place where aging dissolves into a dance of healing, connection and joy. Some people age gracefully. Julie Vigeland does it in sequins, underwater.​

Director: Scott Ballard

Producer: Scott Ballard

Key Cast: Julie Vigeland

25:27 minutes | 2024

Devin Reuben is training to be the first certified nimiipuu whitewater guide of his generation. The nimiipuu (Nez Perce) have a long history of river travel– in fact, they introduced the practice to settlers– but centuries of displacement and disconnection means Tribal members are now largely absent from their ancestral rivers. Devin says, “it's one big step for us: not just me, all of us. We're slowly bringing our culture back.”​

Director: Anna Lueck

​Producer: Clark Shimeall

Key Cast: Devin Reuben

Key Cast: Louis Reuben

Key Cast: Clark Shimeall

Key Cast: Robin Pace

Cultural Advisors: Josiah Blackeagle, Tiyana Blackeagle 

Camera: Anna Lueck, Clark Shimeall, Pox Young

Going Upriver >

7:16 minutes | 2026

At 73, kiteboarder Mikaya Heart lives out of her 1983 Toyota pickup in the Columbia River Gorge. As she glides across the wind-swept water, Mikaya reflects on her philosophy of yielding to nature’s forces rather than resisting them; a lesson embodied in both her minimalist lifestyle and her approach to kiteboarding. In her voice and movement, we discover a life stripped to its essentials and lived in harmony with the elements.​

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Director: Ryland Brooks

Directory: Hadley Brooks

Key Cast: Mikaya Heart

Color: Thom Lyons

Sound Mix: Noah Woodburn

Cinematography: James Allen

Cinematography: Zippy Etzel

Editor: Ryland Brooks

25:42 minutes | 2025

When news anchor Paul Linnman arrived in Florence OR on November 12th, 1970, he had no idea that the story he was about to tell would forever define his career. Following a small Oregon town, an exploding whale, and the man who made the story famous, Oh Whale is about how we don't get to choose our fate, only what we make of it.

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Director: Winslow Crane-Murdoch

Producers: Luke Terrell, Rachel Gardell, Cecilia Brown