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Featured
Documentary
Zest
Documentary

Lauren Grant is a Des Moines food writer and culinary scientist whose recipes are informed by her experiences living with an eating disorder. She's learned to reimagine what food means to her, with an emphasis on seasonality and the sense of community and culture that food can inspire.

Documentary
Stories from Moshi
Documentary
Stories from Moshi
Documentary

There are just three cancer centers serving the 50 million people of Tanzania. These centers work with limited resources and equipment to battle what are slowly becoming the country's leading causes of death.

Documentary
Travel
Being Human in Iceland
Travel

From the central highlands to the coastal lowlands, from the canyons carved out by rivers to the mountainside pastures filled with sheep, Iceland is a country of unmatched geographic diversity. As a human among all that grandeur, the world feels like the biggest playground. Three friends spend a week driving the coastline and camping among the stars and northern lights.

Travel
Travel
In the Black Hills
Travel

A group friends hike through the Black Hills, a 2.5 million acre ponderosa pine forest in southwest South Dakota.

Travel
Music Video
Distance
Music Video

A man rummages through the boxes of a troubled past. This film is a music video for Distance by Mike Sempert.

Music Video
Documentary
Food Recovery Network
Documentary

Next Course is a branch of the Food Recovery Network at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Students and faculty work to reduce food waste by donating leftover dining center food to local shelters and pantries.

Documentary
Short Film
Street Lamps
Short Film

A man drives down back-roads under a world of street lamps that cast shadows onto his arms and face, and in doing so bring his body into being.

Short Film
Travel, Short Film
Rooting
Travel, Short Film

A story of depression told through 5 chapters and 3000 miles.

Travel, Short Film
Documentary
Kilimanjaro Premium Coffee
Documentary

In downtown Moshi, Tanzania, Joel Mtunga and his sisters roast and package coffee with beans from coffee farms located at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro just down the road.

Documentary
Travel
Fresh Air
Travel

A group of friends spend a spring break in the east Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

Travel
Travel
The Adventures of Mary
Travel

The Adventures of Mary is a follow-behind film about a few backyard adventures in Mankato, Minnesota and the Twin Cities.

Travel
Travel
A Weekend in Okoboji
Travel

A group of friends spend a weekend camping on West Okoboji Lake in northern Iowa.

Travel
Travel
The Colors of the French Quarter
Travel

When you cross North Rampart Street into New Orleans’ French Quarter, you enter a world of overflowing life and sound. The walls that enclose this district incubated the growth of jazz music in its infancy, and one can sense that all the layers of paint have been made powerful by generations of brass commotion ricocheting off them.

Travel
Travel
Chicago in 60 Seconds
Travel

The sounds and sites of the windy city in under a minute.

Travel
Travel
Two Nights in Austin
Travel

A brief exploration of the city of Austin, Texas.

Travel
Travel
Down the Buffalo River
Travel

Some friend disconnect and enjoy a kayak camping trip for 4 nights and 40 miles down the Buffalo River in northern Arkansas.

Travel
Travel
Minneopa Falls
Travel

A barefoot adventure at Minneopa Falls in Mankato, Minnesota.

Travel
Travel
Young Spring
Travel

Three hikers spend a day exploring Backbone State Park in Eastern, Iowa.

Travel
Short Film
Canvas
Short Film

5 painters engage with a blank canvas in unique and interesting ways. This film features an original score composed and recorded by Josh Reznicow and the Linn-Mar High School symphony orchestra.

Short Film
Travel
Holland
Travel

Holland, Michigan is a city that sits on the coast Lake Michigan an hour from Chicago by ferry. In summer, this city sees tulips in full bloom. In the winter, however, this city becomes a beautiful icy tundra.

Travel
Documentary
Street Painting
Documentary

Every Spring, students at Drake University paint a street on campus in the colors of their student organizations. And then there's a giant paint fight.

Documentary