New Day Films

New Day Films

Long before influencers and the “creator-economy” existed, four feminist filmmakers frustrated with mainstream distribution channels founded New Day Films. Operating as a filmmaker-run collective since 1971, New Day now has 140 filmmaker members and a collection of over 300 titles.

New Day’s catalogue includes many groundbreaking social issue films, winners of Academy Awards and other prestigious honors, and new films from an upcoming generation of independent filmmakers. New Day’s tradition of personal and collective empowerment—controlling their own distribution—is constantly evolving.

To wit, while historically focused on educational audiences, New Day has not been blind to the changes in the media landscape over the past 50+ years. And so, wanting to see its films reach as wide an audience as possible, we are proud that New Day is partnering with OVID to bring its films to individual “at-home” viewers on OVID.

New Day will be a dedicated destination and collection on the OVID platform, and many of its filmmakers will be highlighted as well. A large project encompassing hundreds of films from many filmmakers, it will be rolled out on OVID over the upcoming months.

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  • Badger Creek

    Directed by Jonathan Skurnik, Randy Vasquez • Documentary • 2017 • 27 minutes

    Badger Creek is a portrait of a Blackfeet (Pikuni) family, the Mombergs, who live on the lower Blackfeet Reservation in Montana near the banks of Badger Creek. In addition to running a prosperous ranching business, the...

  • Momentum

    Directed by Michelle Aguilar Ficara • Documentary • 2024 • 53 minutes

    Chris ‘Coco’ Cocores was born into a broken home riddled with childhood traumas–street fighting was a way to cope. By age 25, Chris was an amateur mixed martial arts fighting champion and a month away from the biggest fight of...

  • The Mayor

    Directed by Theo Rigby • Documentary • 2013 • 11 minutes

    The Mayor is an intimate portrait of a small-town Southern Republican Mayor and his profound and unexpected connection to a mixed-status family of Mexican immigrants. Paul Bridges, the conservative Republican Mayor of Uvalda, Georgia, spea...

  • The Thick Dark Fog

    Directed by Jonathan Skurnik, Randy Vasquez • Documentary • 2013 • 57 minutes

    Walter Littlemoon attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota sixty years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950, was still to “kill the Indian and save the man.” The children were not allowed ...

  • Drunk on Too Much Life

    Directed by Michelle Melles • Documentary • 2021 • 77 minutes

    Drunk on Too Much Life is an intimate and powerful documentary following the filmmaker's 21-year-old daughter’s mind-opening journey from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels towards expansive worlds of creativity, connection...

  • The Year We Thought About Love

    Directed by Ellen Brodsky • Documentary • 2015 • 68 minutes

    The Year We Thought About Love goes behind the scenes of the oldest queer youth theater in America. In a twist on the common image of LGBTQ youth as victims, the film reveals the troupe members as artists and activists, celebrating the ...

  • Three Ocean Advocates

    Directed by Andrea E. Leland, Cynthia Abbott • Documentary • With Tess Felix, Barbara Crites, Dick Ogg • 2021 • 0 minutes

    Three Oceans Advocates focuses on: Tess Felix, an artist living in California; Dick Ogg, a fisherman from Bodega Bay, CA; and Barbara Crites, an underwater photographer from ...

  • Ellavut Cimirtuq (Our World Is Changing)

    Directed by Jacqueline Cleveland, Mischa Hedges, Sonia Luokkala • Documentary • 2023 • 30 minutes

    Many coastal villages in Alaska are under imminent threat from thawing permafrost, sea-level rise and erosion. The accelerated retreat of Arctic sea ice has left shorelines unfrozen and exposed. As ...

  • Whose Water

    Directed by Kate Levy • Documentary • 2023 • 65 minutes

    Across the United States, millions of people lack access to safe, affordable water and sanitation. Whose Water travels to five drastically different regions of the country that are facing the impacts of this troubling trend. Through the sto...

  • Someone You Should Meet

    Directed by Salome Chasnoff, Debra Chasnoff • Documentary • 2024 • 30 minutes

    Someone You Should Meet focuses on an extended family gathering organized by two filmmakers who only recently learned they were related through their great-grandparents. As the family explores their shared history and ...

  • Life on the Ganges

    Directed by Indira S. Somani • Documentary • With Gauri Shankar • 2017 • 10 minutes

    In Varanasi, India the boat rides on the Ganges River are part of the spiritual experience and the film introduces the audience to the river, an auspicious event called “Dev Diwali,” and one particular boatman, w...

  • How I Live

    Directed by Meghan Shea, Michael Rogers • Documentary • 2020 • 87 minutes

    How I Live' chronicles the journeys of four children with cancer, in Guatemala, El Salvador, Egypt and Myanmar, as they and their families confront the realities of accessing care and treatment.

    Following their journeys f...

  • Crossing Lines

    Directed by Leena Jayaswal, Indira Somani • Documentary • With Indira Somani, Shipra Somani • 2009 • 32 minutes

    Being born and brought up in the U.S., Indira Somani led an American life, but at home, her world was Indian because of her father's immense love for the country. Crossing Lines takes ...

  • A Sentence Apart

    Directed by Theo Rigby, Jason Sussberg • Documentary • 2012 • 11 minutes

    The United States imprisons more people, per capita, than any country in the world. Behind 2.4 million prisoners lies an infinite ripple effect of incarceration on the family and community. A Sentence Apart follows three st...

  • The Last to Know

    Directed by Bonnie Friedman • Documentary • 1981 • 45 minutes

    Acclaimed at the New York Film Festival, THE LAST TO KNOW presents the real worlds of four addicted women, three in recovery, and one still drinking and using drugs. In their own words and in their own environments, these four very di...

  • Gaucho del Norte

    Directed by Sofian Khan, Andres Caballero • Documentary • 2015 • 57 minutes

    Far from his family in Chile, sheepherder Eraldo Pacheco must endure harsh conditions and loneliness in the high desert and isolated mountain pastures of the American west as he strives for a better life for his family. ...

  • Undeterred

    Directed by Eva Lewis • Documentary • 2019 • 76 minutes

    Undeterred is a documentary about community resistance in the rural border town of Arivaca, Arizona. Since NAFTA, 9/11 and the Obama and Trump administrations border residents have been on the front-lines of the humanitarian crisis caused b...

  • The Flashettes

    Directed by Bonnie Friedman • Documentary • 1977 • 20 minutes

    Focusing on their hopes and aspirations, this upbeat film movingly shows how the rigorous training helps to produce more than just muscle, but a positive self-identity and pride. Andre, a young man, returns to his community after coll...

  • The Peace Patriots

    Directed by Robbie Leppzer • Documentary • With Janeane Garofalo • 2005 • 78 minutes

    When the United States invaded Iraq twenty years ago in 2003, there was a huge protest against this war across the country and around the world, which was largely ignored by the American mainstream media. In an ...

  • I Was Born in Mexico, But...

    Directed by Corey Ohama • Documentary • 2013 • 12 minutes

    I Was Born in Mexico, But… is a creative portrait of a young woman who thought she was American but finds out as a teen that she is undocumented. Because she doesn’t want to appear on camera, found footage from American culture illuminate...

  • An Act of Worship

    Directed by Nausheen Dadabhoy • Documentary • With George Shakkour • 2022 • 95 minutes

    Told through the lens of Muslims living in the United States, director Nausheen Dadabhoy offers a counter-narrative of pivotal moments in U.S. history and explores the impact of anti-Muslim rhetoric and policy...

  • Auction

    Directed by Joel Fendelman • Documentary • 2015 • 8 minutes

    The town of Gonzalez, Texas is not what it used to be, Main street is desolate, the population is shrinking, but the culture and history live on through story and communal gathering at this once a week tradition that has been alive sinc...

  • North Putnam

    Directed by Joel Fendelman • Documentary • 2024 • 90 minutes

    Crafted with empathy, a hyper-real reporting lens and skillfully lush cinematography, North Putnam depicts a year in the life of a rural Indiana school district and the community it serves. Multiple storylines intersect, culminating in...

  • Band of Sisters

    Directed by Joel Fendelman • Documentary • 2004 • 7 minutes

    On April 25th, 2004, 1.15 million women marched to the nation’s capital in Washington D.C. to protect and advance abortion rights. Band of Sisters is a retro feeling snapshot of the march filmed in multiple 16mm film stocks using a 1960...