Vatsala Goel

Director of Photography

Donyale Luna: Supermodel chronicles the remarkable life and career of Donyale Luna, the first Black model to grace the cover of both Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Born Peggy Ann Freeman in Detroit, Michigan, Luna became a larger-than-life character who broke barriers in the fashion industry, challenged the prevailing ideals of beauty, and influenced culture — all before her untimely death at age 33.

Donyale Luna: Supermodel

An exploration of the nexus of art, race and justice through the story of art collector Agnes Gund who sold Roy Lichtenstein's painting "Masterpiece" in 2017 for $165 million to start the Art for Justice Fund to end mass incarceration.

Aggie

During 1880-1968 over 4,000 African Americans were lynched at the hands of white mobs. These lynchings were commemorated through souvenir postcards that would ultimately be subverted by Black activists to expose racist violence in the U.S.

Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day'

The dance and alchemy between the choreography of glassblowing and the connection to the human form. 

Before it Breaks

Blood and Glory is a drama about the friendship between two homeless veterans living on the streets of LA. Jackie is a dreamer and hustler who is trying to get her life back on track. She also takes care of her battle buddy Rosa, who suffers from debilitating PTSD. The day that Jackie finally gets a job interview, she wakes up with a super heavy period. Without money for pads or tampons, Jackie has to figure out how to get through the day without letting  blood stain her clothes or dignity.

Blood and Glory

In the 1950s Sugar Pie DeSanto and Etta James grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood of San Francisco, where they created musical friendships that changed the direction of R&B.

Sugar Pie DeSanto Rocks

The story of Las Vegas activist Ruby Duncan and a band of ordinary mothers who launched one of the most extraordinary, yet forgotten, feminist, anti-poverty movements in U.S. history.

Storming Caesars Palace

Queer Possibilities: A Conversation

Join Ed Ayers - award-winning historian and co-host of the hit podcast BackStory - as he travels to places that define the most misunderstood parts of America's past.

The Future of America's Past

In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.

Sorry to Bother You

As Lamu packs his sack to migrate towards the city to work along with the labour contractor, his aging mother grieves in silence. Even her other two sons are not around to console her. While the eldest is working on the field, the youngest has set out early this morning towards the government office. He hopes to be employed in the village itself.

Train Chaar Baje Ki Hai

An awkward evening unfolds in a lower middle class Marathi household. On a mundane evening, a young man (who has come to India on a vacation from his job abroad) comes to meet his classical music teacher, only to discover that his Guru has lost all interest in life, has stopped taking food and has stopped speaking to people.