Stories from outside the box.
BUGLE FILMS
Our mission is to make the world more empathetic – one story at a time.
Our Films
Grains of Sand
Filmed over eight years, GRAINS OF SAND accompanies the filmmaker’s mother and mother-in-law, artists and close friends, as they enter their ninth decade. Through conversation, memories and artwork, they explore together the lifelong project of becoming oneself.
Connection
The Corona virus is not over. Nor are the divisions between us. Race and economic situations separate us far more than any ocean. CONNECTION is a personal, 4 part documentary which builds a political and historical chronicle of our time through personal stories of daily life from around the world.
Bourj Stories
BOURJ STORIES is a hybrid project that portrays Syrian refugee students in an observational documentary and at the same time integrates their stories and reflections on daily life through short films which they make. The filmmakers accompany the students – young teenagers who left war-torn Syria with their families and now live in a refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon – over a period of years.
A Growing Thing
25 years after the end of apartheid, a black South African mother is training to become a leader in her township community. With only a 5th grade education, Jabulile Ndaba, a tall black woman with a contagious sense of humor, never thought of herself as a manager. Now she is a leader-in-training at a women’s project near Johannesburg. The project, Kopanang, enables women to earn money through embroidery – and enables Jabulile to learn management skills.
Brown Bread
In the hills of Northern California, an unusual family gathers for their reunion. As they join hands around the table, their colorful mix of races looks like the American dream of integration. Their ability to laugh and to love across boundaries of social and racial division made this family possible. But their differences still drive them apart. A personal documentary about what it means to grow up in an adoptive family.
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