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Season 1
Elizabeth Lo captures the romance of urban dog life in "Stray"
In the United States, stray dogs are not allowed to live on the street. They are whisked away to live in concrete cells. The approach is very different in some cities in Europe and Asia, where stray dogs are allowed to live freely...
Joe Brandmeier hits the road to interview married couples in "I Do?"
Joe Brandmeier was an average married guy who accepted the ups and downs of being coupled. But then a particularly tough patch in his marriage prompted him to think more deeply about the institution. Brandmeier became deeply curio...
Pamela Littky spends 10 years following kids voted "Most Likely to Succeed"
Hollywood photographer Pamela Littky was overtaken by a nagging curiosity ... what happens, she wondered, to the thousands of kids named Most Likely to Succeed in high schools all across America? Littky embarked on her first docum...
Jesse Alk explores Kolkata's mysterious native dogs in "Pariah Dog"
Jesse Alk's father, Howard, was a documentarian who died when Jesse was a child. Decades later, Jesse wound up retracing his father's footsteps to Kolkata, India, where Howard had documented West Bengali musicians in the early '70...
Dani Connor Wild discovers she's a filmmaker while locked down in northern Sweden
Dani Connor Wild was volunteering for a wildlife photographer in northern Sweden when the Covid pandemic descended and locked her in place. For the next six months she lived alone in a town of 20 mostly elderly residents and found...
Michael Lucid goes back to school to tell the story of "Dirty Girls"
In 1996, Michael Lucid was a senior at the Crossroads school in Santa Monica, California. He noticed a social phenomenon that had the school buzzing and wanted to know more. So he grabbed a camcorder and began documenting a group ...
Pat Taggart unearths the story of a lifetime in "Billboard Boys"
In 1982, three young men from Allentown, Pa., climbed aboard a billboard in a competition to win an $18,000 mobile home. Times were tough, owning a home was an inaccessible dream, and the three competitors were determined to win. ...
Tommy Avallone stalks a legend in "The Bill Murray Stories"
The internet is awash in what are known as "Bill Murray stories." Murray crashing a bachelor party. Bill Murray joining a random kickball game. Bill Murray washing a stranger's dishes. Tommy Avallone traveled to two continents to ...
Jeremy Workman tracks an obsessive pedestrian in "The World Before Your Feet"
When Jeremy Workman learned his friend, Matt Green, planned to walk every street in New York City, Workman did what any sensible filmmaker would do: he grabbed his camera and followed along. Three years and 600 hours of footage la...
How Daniel Weinshenker became "The Story Whisperer"
Daniel Weinshenker is a poet and creative writer whose literary journey has led him to a new and unexpected artform—helping ordinary people document their lives through digital storytelling. The stories that ensue are tiny documen...