Alice Neel

Andrew Neel

Alice Neel was one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century. She reinvented the genre of portraiture by expressing the inner landscape of her varied sitters, among them Andy Warhol, Annie Sprinkle, Bella Abzug, and Allen Ginsberg. Painting a diverse cross-section of humanity, from Communist Party leaders to art world personalities to her neighbors in Spanish Harlem, Neel created a body of work that serves as a social document of New York and America in the 20th Century. The film tells the story of Neel’s life, exploring the struggles she faced as a woman artist, a single mother, and a painter who defied convention.


New World Order

Luke Meyer & Andrew Neel

New World Order is a behind-the-scenes look at anti-conspiracy activists and the growing underground anti-globalist movement. Filmmakers Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel explore this anti-New World Order movement’s alleged global conspiracy, which focuses on the secretive Bilderberg conference and the 9/11 terror attacks. At the film’s center is Alex Jones (Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly), an impassioned celebrity radio host and underground cult hero, on his ceaseless quest around the country and abroad to expose what he believes is a massive global conspiracy that is threatening the future of humanity. New World Order does not try to prove or disprove conspiracy theories, instead it offers a rare and poignant glimpse into the lives of ordinary people and activists whose lives and actions have been dramatically changed and defined by the power of ideas.


Goat

Andrew Neel

Reeling from a terrifying assault over the summer, 19-year-old Brad Land (Ben Schnetzer) starts college determined to get his life back to normal. His brother, Brett (Nick Jonas), is already established on campus and with a fraternity that allures Brad with its promise of protection, popularity, and life-long friendships. Brad is desperate to belong but as he sets out to join the fraternity his brother exhibits reservations, a sentiment that threatens to divide them. As the pledging ritual moves into hell week, a rite that promises to usher these unproven boys into manhood, the stakes violently increase with a series of torturous and humiliating events. What occurs in the name of ‘brotherhood’ tests both boys and their relationship in brutal ways.


King Kelly

Andrew Neel

King Kelly is an aspiring internet star who performs webcam stripteases. When Kelly's car, filled with illegal narcotics that she must deliver is stolen by her bitter ex-boyfriend on the 4th of July, Kelly and her best friend Jordan embark on an epic whirlwind of drugs, sex, violence and mischief-making as Kelly tries to reclaim what's hers. Kelly’s biggest online fan, a wayward State Trooper, joins the journey as the night spirals into chaos. Made entirely from camera-phone footage, King Kelly is a sensational journey through hedonistic American youth culture and the YouTube generation.


Darkon

Luke Meyer & Andrew Neel

DARKON covers an epic war raging through the realm of Darkon (an American LARP based outside of Baltimore). Skip Lipman, a suburban stay-at-home dad, leads his rebel army in a monumental quest to topple a mighty empire and lead the Realm to new era of liberty and glory. The documentary investigates the LARPers’ lives in the game and out of the game offering insight into the players complex relationship with fantasy and reality. The film is set to the backdrop of the real war then taking place in Iraq, highlighting the American cultural disconnect prevalent during the Bush era wars. DARKON, beloved for its light-hearted romp in the quirky imaginations of suburban Americans, has also been a point of reference as an ethnographic study of our relationship with escapism, war and fantasy.


Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

Sam Fleischner

In this intense, immersive journey, a young boy finds himself lost in the lively, dangerous world of the New York City subway, while his mother fiercely searches for him above ground in a race against the clock as Hurricane Sandy nears.