When a private police foundation in Atlanta tries to raze an urban forest to build the country’s largest police training facility, a diverse, decentralized, and intersectional movement defends the forest from what they call “Cop City.” A City in the Forest paints a collective portrait of the country’s most urgent social justice story, where a web of activists fight back against environmental racism, political corruption, police violence, and the criminalization of dissent. 

A bartender serves a variety of Atlanta characters in a mysterious speakeasy, as they perform and candidly open their hearts about surviving 2020.

“Olive” is a short documentary that follows Olive Hagemeier, an energetic older woman, on her daily routine of salvaging, repackaging and redistributing food, and occasional other types of “waste”, across Atlanta, GA. Presented in a quiet observational style, this film is both a character study of a committed and enigmatic volunteer, as well as an ethnographic work that places the audience in the heart of a decentralized, volunteer-run mutual aid network in a “post-COVID” American city.

“Beneath the Concrete, The Forest” is a short experimental documentary that takes us inside an ongoing struggle inside the city of Atlanta, GA between two sides to determine the future of Weelaunee, the biggest contiguous urban forest in the country.

Filmmaker Lev Omelchenko documents his grandmother Lida, as she tends to her homestead in rural Ukraine on the day of her 70th Birthday.

Byrd is my neighbor and friend. I caught him smoking his handrolled newspaper cigarettes before we both moved to new homes.