Jennifer Steinman Sternin

Director, Producer, Editor

Dear Santa is a family-oriented docu-series that takes audiences on an inspiring holiday journey as children across America write letters to Santa and kindhearted human "elves" step up in unexpected ways to make their Christmas wishes come true.

Dear Santa, the Series

An extraordinary high school teacher is honored for a unique 40+ year project, mailing letters to former students from their teenage selves.

Hi, I'm Nancy Rubin

A short documentary film featuring beloved sisters Gramma and Ginga who, at ages 104 and 99, accidentally became the world's oldest internet superstars.

Gramma and Ginga: The Movie

'Dear Santa' shines a light on the 100-year-old 'Operation Santa' Program of the United States Postal Service. Each year, hundreds of thousands of letters to Santa arrive at Post Offices around the country. Through Operation Santa, the United States Postal Service makes it possible for the public to safely adopt these letters and make children's dreams come true.

Dear Santa

Ups and downs of an adorable group of six dogs on their fascinating and surprisingly suspenseful quest to become guides for Guide Dogs for the Blind, the ultimate canine career.

Pick of the Litter

A diverse cast of non-professional runners attempt to complete the most difficult ultramarathon race series on Earth. Their dramatic journey takes them across the World's most picturesque yet brutal landscapes, pushing their bodies, hearts and spirits through a myriad of external and internal obstacles.

Desert Runners

This documentary follows the 2016 Minnesota House of Representatives campaign of Ilhan Omar, a Somalian immigrant who attempts to unseat a 43-year incumbent and other challengers.

Time for Ilhan

Six American mothers, each grieving the death of a child, journey to South Africa to volunteer with impoverished children. The strength of the people they meet and the reality of the poverty they witness deeply affects them. They ultimately discover hope and healing as a result of serving others, and through the unexpected friendships they form with each other.

Motherland

Empowered celebrates the heroes of our times - scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, policymakers and citizens behind the renewable energy revolution. An energy system without fossil fuels allows us to save the planet.

Empowered, Energy Heroes

An unexpected encounter at a motel swimming pool may hold the key to redemption for a young runaway mother and a free spirited older woman, both of whom have a shockingly similar secret.

The Other Road

Alan Joyce was born a fighter. He came into this life unwanted and unfortunate. Becoming a jiu-jitsu black belt and a father brought him stability, but he still feels unmoored due to his mysterious roots and troubled upbringing.

Born a Fighter

She Started It is an award-winning documentary that provides a rare look in the lives of five ambitious young women entrepreneurs (Thuy, Stacey, Sheena, Brienne and Agathe) who will stop at nothing to pursue their startup dreams.

She Started It

One man's struggle with crippling chronic pain drives him to create. But his masterpieces are temporary. They are washed away by the tides within hours of completion.

Washed Away

Captured over two years, "Daddy Don't Go" is a feature length documentary about four disadvantaged fathers in New York City as they struggle to beat the odds and defy the deadbeat dad stereotype.

Daddy Don't Go

From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders' extra-marital affairs to financial schemes undermining our economy, dishonesty seems to be a ubiquitous part of the news. But it's not just true in the headlines - we ALL cheat.

(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies

Explores how our culture's narrow definition of masculinity is harming our boys, men and society at large and unveils what we can do about it.

The Mask You Live In

High in the Indian Himalayas, in the epicenter of the exiled Tibetan world, a maverick Tibetan impresario stages an unexpected spectacle: a western-style beauty pageant.

Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile

The voices of the dead come to life in this true-crime series which offers a unique look at some of the nation's most shocking murders. Each of the seven episodes will examine one case from start to finish, taking viewers inside the murder from the victim's point of view.

Final Witness

A voyeuristic peak into the lust and obsessions that have fueled some of the more brutal acts of violence to grab headlines around the world.

Scorned: Love Kills

MINE is the powerful story about the essential bond between humans and animals told against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. MINE explores how tragedy intensifies that bond and is told from the perspective of original guardians, rescuers, and adoptive parents of the voiceless victims of Katrina.

Mine

A documentary in which actors interpret the legally touchy subject of artist Steve Kurtz, who is being held as a suspected terrorist because of his work.

Strange Culture

The Love Lab

Car Stories celebrates race car drivers and their passion for the sport.

Car Stories

A battered woman flees her abusive husband and escapes to a remote community where she finds friendship in a dying old man.

Planting Melvin

Humans Being

Independent View

Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented communities and universal challenges found across America. The series has been awarded numerous Emmys and Peabodys, and has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards.

Independent Lens

HardiHood

This was a 30 minute program about the Bay Area and various things around there that were interesting.

Evening Magazine

The remarkable journey of filmmaker Harpreet Kaur, who travels from the rural villages of Punjab to the capital of India with children of farmers, who've committed suicide. She confronts the government's highest officials with the hope that they will understand the effects of their policies and avail the opportunity to help these children.

A Little Revolution: A Story of Suicides and Dreams

This documentary series focuses on extreme construction projects -- be they the biggest, tallest, longest or deepest in the world -- and the machines used to create extraordinary structures.

Megastructures

Eden Eats

Over twists, presses, and wash-and-goes, filmmaker Cheryl Dunye joins other clients and hairstylist DiAna DiAna in her South Carolina salon to discuss the current impact of AIDS on Blacks in the south, and what has changed and stayed the same since DiAna was featured in a seminal short video by Ellen Spiro thirty years ago.

DiAna's Hair Ego Remix

It's about everything and one thing: choice.

Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness

TIME FOR ILHAN chronicles now-U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's first campaign for office - a hard-fought three-way race for state representative in America's largest Somali refugee community. With tension and urgency, the film shows how gender bias, cultural tradition and fake news all play a part in contemporary American politics. As much a campaign drama as a personal portrait, TIME FOR ILHAN stresses the need for citizens to exercise their right to vote, the importance of passion in leadership, and how essential it is to a community and country of immigrants that government representation be diverse and inclusive.