HOW TO MAKE A QUILT: Inside a Missouri Prison (2023)
Director: Jenifer McShane
Director of Photography: Scott Alexander Ruderman
HOW TO MAKE A QUILT: Inside a Missouri Prison provides us with a unique opportunity to observe how art can restore an individual’s view of themselves and others. We will follow the daily life inside the prison sewing room and the progress of several quilts from design through production and into the arms of a foster child.
Pay Or Die (2023) ***Streaming on Paramount + 11/14/23***
Distributor: MTV Documentary Films / Paramount +
Directors: Rachael Dyer, Scott Alexander Rudemran
Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins
Director of Photography: Scott Alexander Ruderman
Today, nearly 2 million Americans are being held for ransom. Without insulin, they’ll be dead in days. PAY OR DIE follows families on the receiving end of these ransom notes, revealing the harrowing reality of life with chronic illness in the richest country in the world. From a mother-and-daughter struggling to rebuild their lives after losing their home when they had to spend their rent money on insulin, to a young adult diagnosed with type 1 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic, to a Minnesota family thrust into the national spotlight when their 26-year-old son dies from rationing his insulin, "Pay or Die" lays bare the human cost of America’s insulin affordability crisis.
FRUIT IS RIPE (In Production)
Director: Yuqi Kang
Director of Photography: Scott Alexander Ruderman
We witness four seasons of transformation at Caicai's innovative passive solar greenhouses, where a group of brave new immigrants from China are attempting to make it in a new country by creating alternative farming solutions in Alberta. Fruit is Ripe takes us on a journey that follows Chinese organic produce from seedling to dinner table. As seasons come and go, we are invited inside the homes of dreamers as they forge a new life, encountering both adversity and joy along the way.