Founded by Oscar and Emmy nominated producer/director Frederick Marx (Hoop Dreams) in 2003, the organization produces documentary films about people overcoming social-economic barriers to create social change.
In Newark, New Jersey, 32 boys from across different races, classes, and cultures meet to discuss violence, anger, girls, homophobia, masculinity, and coming manhood.
[1] Journey From Zanskar tells the emotional story of 17 small children who leave home and family, possibly forever, in order to save their dying Tibetan culture.
The film will also show the price society pays for not initiating teens and how communities are answering the call by co-creating their own functional rites of passage today.
Finally, the film will not only show teens who have been transformed by rites of passage, but also how their metamorphosis has revolutionized their relations with family, friends, teachers, and bosses, thereby creating positive changes rippling across homes, schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, cities and farms across the planet.