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A profile of ballet teacher Kirsta Sendziak. Kirsta runs the School of Classical Ballet, which operates out of the Dance Complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A short documentary by Susan Young.

This short documentary features Somerville, Massachusetts, artist and gravestone carver Andrew Carr. A painter by training, Andrew uses his design and carving talents to make unique and meaningful memorials for people who have died. A film by Susan Young. Music by Kevin Connolly. Sound by Jimmy Henson. Funded in part by the Somerville Arts Council and the Mass Cultural Council. Nominated for a New England Emmy Award in 2026.

A short documentary by Susan Young, a Cambridge-based filmmaker and photographer. This film features poems and poetry written by Cambridge, Massachusetts, based poets who have competed in an annual poetry contest as part of the Cambridge Sidewalk Poetry program. Poets (and poems) included in this short film are: Susan Blanker (Untitled), Anne Dane (Stay), Elijah Frydman (The Nightingale and I), Chris Thibault (First Try), Aelen Unan (Where Were You Born), and Elissa Warner (A Mother’s Wish). This 8-minute documentary was funded in part by the Cambridge Arts Council and Mass Cultural Council. Cambridge Sidewalk Poetry is a public art collaboration between the Cambridge Arts Council, the Cambridge Department of Public Works, and the Cambridge Public Library.

Massachusetts-based bird photographer Dan Oh discusses how he developed a passion for birds. “Bird watching is for old people, people who have nothing better to do,” was his initial response when someone at his church invited him on a birding excursion. Now, he feels that “God has given me this desire and passion,” says Oh, who goes birding every day but Sunday. That passion can be seen in Oh’s stunning photographs and video footage featured in this short documentary by Danielle Mannion and Susan Young.