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 with an initial selection of films starting mid-July. Many more titles will then be added in August and September.
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Yurumein (Homeland)
Directed by Andrea E Leland • Documentary • With Cadrin Gill, Edgar Adams • 2014 • 50 minutes
YURUMEIN (your-o-main) is an important untold story of Carib/Garifuna resistance against slavery that deserves its place in the annals of the African Diaspora. The film recounts the painful past of the ...
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The Garifuna Journey
Directed by Andrea E. Leland & Kathy Berger • Documentary • 1998 • 46 minutes
A first voice testimony celebrating the resiliency of the Garifuna people and their traditions. Shot entirely in Belize, the filmmakers worked closely with Garifuna tradition bearers, anthropologists and cultural activ...
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Silvio Rodriguez: My First Calling
Directed by Catherine Murphy • Documentary • With Silvio Rodriquez • 2022 • 25 minutes
My First Calling explores the little-known story of global music giant Silvio Rodriguez, who intimately recounts coming of age on the youth brigades of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign, where at only 14-years ...
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My Brooklyn
Directed by Kelly Anderson • Documentary • With Jamel Shabazz, Craig Steven Wilder, Kelly Anderson • 2012 • 76 minutes
My Brooklyn follows director Kelly Anderson's journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. The film documents the redevelopment of Ful...
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Benevolence, A Journey From Prison to Home
Directed by Joanne Hershfield • Documentary • 2018 • 62 minutes
Benevolence, a Journey from Prison to Home follows the journey of five women as they are released from prison and move onto Benevolence Farm in Alamance County, NC. Benevolence Farm is a working farm that serves as a transitional ho...
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Deej
Directed by Robert Rooy • Documentary • With DJ Savarese • 2017 • 73 minutes
Abandoned by his birth parents and presumed incompetent, DJ Savarese (“Deej”) found not only a loving family but also a life in words, which he types on a text-to-voice synthesizer. As he makes his way through high scho...
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How To Power A City
Directed by Melanie La Rosa • Documentary • With Costa Constantinides, Juan Shannon, Thomas Meyer • 2024 • 73 minutes
"How To Power A City" is a singular film as the first clean energy documentary that puts communities at the center. It showcases local solutions in the US and Puerto Rico, while ...
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Elephant Path / Njaia Njoku
Directed by Todd McGrain • Documentary • With Andrea Tukalo, Sassely Bernard • 2018 • 52 minutes
With unprecedented footage, Elephant Path / Njaia Njoku captures the beauty and behavior of the rare and elusive Forest Elephants. Our guides - Sessely Bernard, a tracker and elder of the Bayaka peop...
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Expanding Sanctuary
Directed by Kristal Sotomayor • Documentary • With Linda Hernandez • 2023 • 21 minutes
An immigrant mother becomes an unexpected community leader during a groundbreaking campaign to end the Philadelphia police’s data-sharing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Expanding Sanctuary tel...
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My Dear Children
Directed by LeeAnn Dance • Documentary • With Judy Favish, Tess Peacock, Alex Dunai • 2018 • 56 minutes
My Dear Children is a journey that reveals a heartbreaking and little-known humanitarian tragedy. One hundred years ago, Jews in what today is Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus suffered through wh...
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Nobody Wants Us
Directed by Laura Seltzer-Duny • Documentary • With Simon Neufeld, Irving Redel, Annette Lachmann • 2020 • 43 minutes
Through the stories of three teens, we learn about the inherent goodness of others at a time when the world seemed to be against them. With the help of a Virginia maritime lawyer...
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Rollout
Directed by Danny Abel • Documentary • With Laureen Wanguba, Evelyn Nyaaga, Florence Kabuga • 2024 • 16 minutes
Rollout is a journey alongside residents of a tight-knit Kenyan community, as they face mounting pressure from a government they don’t trust, to get a Covid-19 vaccine they fear may ca...
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Side by Side: Out of a South Korean Orphanage and Into the World
Directed by Glenn Morey and Julie Morey, co-directors • Documentary • 2018 • 38 minutes
What happens when the lives of children are reset by adoption, sent to grow up in new countries and families of a different race, language, and culture? To find out, the Side by Side project spent 10 years fi...
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The Interpreters
Directed by Sofian Khan, Andres Caballero • Documentary • With Khalid Awda, Paul Braun, John McCain • 2019 • 59 minutes
As the American involvement in the war-torn region winds down, these abandoned allies are faced with an impossible choice – wait for the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) they’ve be...
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What These Walls Won't Hold
Directed by Adamu Chan • Documentary • With Isabella Borgeson, Rahsaan Thomas, Lonnie Morris • 2023 • 43 minutes
Transcending the grim realities of the COVID-19 pandemic, Adamu Chan's powerful documentary, What These Walls Won't Hold, paints a poignant portrait of resilience and hope blossoming ...
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Who Am I To Stop It
Directed by Cheryl Green and Cynthia Lopez • Documentary • With Dani Sanderson, Kris Haas, Brandon Scarth • 2016 • 86 minutes
Who Am I To Stop It is a documentary about the traumatic brain injury community made by a filmmaker with disabilities from brain injury. It follows three artists as they ...
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With a Stroke of the Chaveta
Directed by Pam Sporn • Documentary • With Zoe Nocedo Primo, Gricel Lombillo • 2007 • 28 minutes
With a Stroke of the Chaveta takes viewers into the legendary cigar factories of Cuba to witness the survival of the collective reading of literature while tabaqueros roll cigars. We learn how throug...
