Direction: Judith Helfand

Direction Daniel B. Gold · Judith Helfand

Synopsis The hazards of bio-accumulation, pollution, and the makeup of what we commonly hope are benign plastics are tackled in this documentary.

Direction Judith Helfand

Synopsis A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code.

Direction Daniel B. Gold · Judith Helfand

Synopsis For the past two decades researchers, activists, scientists, and progressive politicians have struggled to rouse the public and the federal government to take action on global warming. Concurrently, naysayers, industry funded think-tanks and lobbyists have worked tirelessly to challenge, convolute...

Direction Judith Helfand

Synopsis Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during pregnancy. Refusing to confine the tears, rage, laughter and hope to dinner table conversations, Helfand invites...

Direction Judith Helfand · David Cohen

Synopsis Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's...