Gravitas Ventures (Firm)
1) Searchers
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Alternately humorous and touching, SEARCHERS draws on encounters with a diverse set of New Yorkers as they navigate their preferred dating apps, searching for their special someone.
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In recent years, at-home DNA tests have become a popular gift. Sometimes the tests reveal more than just a family’s heritage or health history, uncovering things that were intentionally stashed behind a wall of secrecy. The documentary FILLING IN THE BLANKS is one such story. When Jon Baime expresses interest in learning about his family heritage at 54 years old, his dad demands Jon not take one until, to quote his 92-year-old father exactly, “I’m...
4) She Is
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Isabella, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, discovers a sense of empowerment through dance and sets out on an international journey to help other survivors of sexual abuse and sex trafficking find healing.
6) The Holly
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Goes deep inside a gentrifying community in Denver, where a shooting case involving an activist becomes a window into the political machinations of urban development and the city's gang activity.
10) Doctor Who Am I
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Infamous Doctor Who screenwriter, Matthew Jacobs, is reluctantly dragged back into the American 'Whoniverse' to face the fandom that brutally rejected his work 25 years earlier.
11) Oyate
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, Indigenous people are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them in an effort to embark upon the process of decolonization.
12) The Exiles
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Documentary filmmaker, Christine Choy, tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned project she began shooting in 1989. Driven by Choy’s iconoclastic voice, THE EXILES is about the enduring love for one’s home, the fragility of historical record and remembrance, and the power of film to intervene and bear witness.
13) Plastic Earth
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
The first documentary feature film of its kind to cover the solutions and technologies being worked on in the world today to combat and eventually solve the plastic crisis that our world is facing.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Working hard to support her daughter, Monica's a single mother trying to make ends meet while trapped in rural poverty. From years of struggling and feeling confined, she becomes anxious that she still has a chance to leave. But the surroundings begin to take hold as she gets caught in threatening circumstances. She starts to feel suffocated and loses trust in the people around her as the desire to leave and obtain a better life for herself and daughter...
15) The Sixth Secret
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
At a late-night séance, attended by twelve people, the medium announces that three secrets will be revealed before midnight. However, as the bodies pile up, so do the secrets, leading to the darkest of them all.
16) Downwind
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living… downwind.
17) The Year Between
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A college dropout moves back home to the suburbs where she is diagnosed with a mental illness. There, she learns to coexist with her well-meaning and aggravated family, while navigating a new normal… just not really well.
20) Warrior Spirit
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A feature length documentary film about the first native american UFC champion Nicco Montano. Montano is on a quest to defend her UFC title. The film lifts the veil on the dark world of extreme weight cutting in the UFC and how the multi billion dollar UFC company exploits their fighters for millions of dollars.