Gayle Nosal

In a Ugandan refugee settlement, five teenaged girls approach their uncertain futures to create lives of their own choosing with tenacity, tenderness and imagination.

Wimana Beatrice, an aspiring journalist and Congolese refugee, recounts her tenacious pursuit of education in Uganda's Kyangwali Refugee Settlement. Beatrice invites us into her world to understand the challenges facing young women East African refugees. Through her own eyes and voice, Beatrice personalizes the trauma of leaving the DR Congo as a young child, the struggle to access school as an older girl student, and the realities of growing up in a refugee camp.

Mission Wolf: Experiment in Living tells the story of rescued wolves in the Rocky Mountains and the volunteers who keep them alive.

"I didn't have nowhere to go and if I didn't come here, what would I have done?"

Honu Home is a peer-operated respite facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, providing accommodations, food, and mental health services to individuals re-entering society from a correctional facility.

With cameras in hand, five Costa Rican women reveal what it means—and what it takes—to be coffee producers in an industry that often makes them invisible. Stronger Than Coffee (Más que un café in Spanish) is a series of five short films about the women who grow the world's coffee, told entirely in their own voices.

NO MATTER WHAT is an uplifting documentary about Cassy, a resilient woman from rural Colorado, and her family’s unwavering support as she navigates addiction and incarceration to rebuild her life.

A long form, personal project responding to photos and objects that once belonged to my mother and now belong to me.

The project is inspired by the statement from John Berger, “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”

“It’s like a refuge. It’s like therapy. It’s like a city.”

Portraits and stories from the Denver Skate Park

One woman’s experience living with late-stage Alzheimer’s dementia is connected to the work of two women artists who use mixed-media, film and photography to evoke story. This exhibition is a multi-layered, collaborative, and interpretive look at how the language of artmaking resides in and arises from a deep, inner world of imagination and memory.

Now 88 years old and recently a widow, Nahid was born in Iran in 1935. She grew up highly educated with a father in the military. In her twenties, her father sent her to Colorado to be married. Since then, Nahid has only returned to Iran twice.

With photographs, archival photography, Persian poetry, and interviews, Nahid reveals a singular look back on the history of Iran and her perspective of America.