Emily McCann Lesser

Producer

The Suit, inspired by a song of the same name written by the legendary songwriter Hugh Prestwood, follows a salt of the earth older woman and her granddaughter who go in search of the perfect suit for Grandpa, a man who has spent his life "scratchin' the earth.

The Suit

In the throes of a new love, an Iraqi immigrant seeking political asylum and an ambitious American woman start to build their life together in New York. When a crisis strikes, they are forced to navigate its impact on their relationship.

If You See Something

A group of friends gets together for a cannabis-infused, technology free, dinner party only to learn a bomb is headed right for them.

Nuked

A woman wanders the streets of New York City, takes buses and trains, sits in bars and coffee shops, experiencing the city's diverse neighborhoods, while thinking about her life, her loneliness, unrequited love. She finds moments of communion with various people she meets along the way and with the city itself.

Jackals & Fireflies

Reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between them.

Farewell Amor

A closely observed psychological portrait of four women, whose lives are bound together by an incident on the New York City subway.

Materna

Anniversary

An intimate look at the war in Ukraine, as seen through the eyes of Ukrainian artists who remain in their country to make art as a defiant act in the face of aggression.

Rule of Two Walls

The Black Disquisition

Sex, joy and modern science converge in this eye-opening series that celebrates the complex world of women's pleasure - and puts old-fashioned myths to rest.

The Principles of Pleasure

20-somethings Margo and Dan take a trip to the Hamptons. Their picturesque vacation is soon interrupted by the arrival of a strange unexpected neighbor, The Clammer. A queer crisis ensues as they try to determine if he is a friend or foe.

Springs

Late-night series from artist Terence Nance featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.

Random Acts of Flyness S1

For some, it's a paycheck. For others, it's a calling. This docuseries explores the meaning of work for modern Americans in a time of rapid change.

Working: What We Do All Day

Taylor prepares obsessively for the perfect third date with dreamboat Chris, but his efforts backfire, sending the relationship spiraling to a whole new level of intimacy.

Next Level Shit

In the summer of 1991, a closeted teenager's mother nudges him to reconnect with his uncle, who is dying from HIV/AIDS. His uncle wants to talk about their shared identity before time runs out, but he might not be ready to take that step.

Last Summer with Uncle Ira

Sherry, a self-destructive makeup saleswoman, hopes a new man and business venture will provide her a fresh start. After her plans are foiled, she takes control of her life in a dramatic turn of events.

Easy Living

Straight/Curve examines the industries and obstacles responsible for our current body image crisis and showcases the dynamic leaders fighting for more diversity of size, race and age.

Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image

After 11-year-old Gitty discovers a man who can grant wishes hiding in her family's silo, she is forced to choose between saving the man's life and protecting her family.

American Fable

An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself.

A Woman, a Part

A young Nigerian-American financier struggles with love, family, and a prescription drug dependency as his ambitions steer him down a criminal path.

The Price

Within the space of 24 hours, Feña is swept through the extremes of human emotion when people who seemed to disappear when he transitioned are suddenly back in his life.

Mutt

The story of New York City journalists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill lauded in their time as the voice of New York.

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

A young alcoholic woman agrees to attend an AA meeting with her partner. When she unexpectedly runs into her estranged mother, she's forced to confront demons from her past.

Let Liv

Bryan is thrust back into his estranged father's life, fifteen years after he mysteriously disappeared. After learning that his father is suffering from amnesia, Bryan sets off on journey to piece together his fragmented past. But the more Bryan learns, the further he gets from the truth.

Prism

A story of a young mother's struggle to keep her family afloat after an irreversible accident at the town lake changes everything.

Bowline

In a world where puppets and humans co-exist, a string of violent, drug-related crimes are sending shockwaves through the neighbourhood. What the citizens of P-Town need is a hero - what they have is Officer Herbie.

The Fuzz

A neuroscientist invites artist, Sarah Small, to speak at a medical conference on PTSD, trauma, and the brain. During her talk, Small reads a letter she wrote to her childhood sexual abuser, igniting a dance-and-music-centric journey into her psychological landscape, illustrating the non-linearity of memory and transformation.

Secondary Dominance

Desperate to repay a loan shark, a townie has-been decides to race in a charity triathlon with his little brother, setting in motion a scam with the potential to reunite the estranged brothers.

Boy in a Backpack

An intimate study of a young Russian-American doctor's unraveling.

Brighton Beach

Sadiq discovers that his nephew, Gilad's, blood is hallucinogenic. He figures out how to make drug pills from his blood & sell them.

The Golden Goose

A talented, artistically stuck composition student starts seeing escort clients after failing to secure her scholarship. Struck with unexpected sounds during her sexual encounters, she turns them into music and the clients into her muse.

Her Composition

Kate lives in New York. It's her story. The story of a girl who falls in love too quickly - almost instantly to be fair. She's not crazy, she's not stupid - quite on the contrary. But in matters of love, she just has not been taught about the boundaries. The games. The delays. The rules. And everyone keeps reminding her: there are rules. A lot of rules.

Home Is Where Your Heart Aches

An aimless 28 year-old Brooklynite lands in the hospital after drunkenly breaking her hip. An encounter with a cranky elderly Polish woman who speaks no English leads to a job caring for her. Neither likes it, but it's time to grow up.

Late Bloomers

Teenage girls in New York City weaponize misconceptions and privileges to pull off their biggest heist yet.

Valid Glitter

A married couple find themselves trapped in their frozen vehicle after a blizzard and struggle to survive amid plunging temperatures and unforeseen obstacles.

Centigrade

A group of teenagers hanging out after dark in Central Park are hunted down by a masked man.

Central Park

Moonlight Sonata is a deeply personal memoir about a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata. Their lives weave a story about what we discover when we push beyond loss.

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements

Lenny

An original four-part crime documentary series produced in association with HBO Asia and Star World, The Talwars: Behind Closed Doors examines the story of a double murder of a teenage girl and her family's household servant in Noida, India.

Behind Closed Doors

A group of college freshmen pledge an exclusive fraternity but soon realize there's more at stake than they could have ever imagined.

Pledge

Joe, beloved choir teacher, discusses topics of interest. First up, iron!

Joe Pera Talks with You

Serving a life sentence in one of Israel's toughest prisons, Mikki Levy never thought he'd ever see the light of day. But when's he's released early on a technicality, Mikki moves to New York hoping for a fresh start.

First We Take Brooklyn

An upright electrician bumbles into arson to provide for his daughter, but a lethal accident pits him against his best friend and their sociopathic white collar boss.

Man with Van

Lu Zhenxi had a dream since her childhood, to become just like her uncle, a successful entrepreneur. But when her "Big American Dream" comes down crashing, she is left rejected, and returns to China. Now after a fateful meeting with her idol Professor Meng, she must find it in herself to take a second shot.

MBA Partners

What would you do to save your child? A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.

No Letting Go

A sleepwalking teen straps a camera to himself and discovers a sinister family secret.

Uncaged

It is New York City 1935. Booze, big bands, and beautiful bombshells populate this grand city during a Great Depression. Vivienne St. Germain leads a glamorous life of a showgirl thanks to her powerful husband, a former politician named Walter Perry and due to the success of their supper club, Metropolis.

A Cool Dark Place

David Portnoy, a fifteen-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.