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Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films to K-12, colleges, universities, and public libraries providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in educational film distribution.
Docuseek Founders and Distributors
Bullfrog Films
P.O. Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
Phone: (610) 779-8226
Email: video@bullfrogfilms.com
Website: www.bullfrogfilms.com
Bullfrog Films is the world's leading publisher of films about the environment and related social-justice issues. Bullfrog defines “environment” to broadly include more than 800 titles at the intersection of environmental and climate justice, human and civil rights, indigenous and gender studies, sustainability and globalization, social and environmental science, health and law, peace, and more.
Icarus Films
32 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: (718) 488-8900
Email: mail@icarusfilms.com
Website: icarusfilms.com
Icarus Films is a leading distributor of documentary film and video. Over 750 films and videos, mostly independent productions, provide innovative and informative views of our rapidly changing world. Icarus distributes the works of Fanlight Productions and dGenerate Films.
Other Participating Distributors
371 Productions
790 N Milwaukee Street Suite 328
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: (212) 277-9000
Email: artemis@371productions.com
Website: 371productions.com
371 Productions was founded in 2003 by documentary filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein. 371 Productions produces premium content (such as major-award winner Ghosts of Attica), which has been broadcast on PBS, across multiple platforms and prides itself on a commitment to stories that might not otherwise be told while lifting up the voices and careers of women and filmmakers of color.
AndanaFilms
300 route de Mirabel
07170 Lussas – France
Phone: +33 4 75 94 34 67
Email: contact@andanafilms.com
Website: www.andanafilms.com
AndanaFilms is an international sales company dedicated to documentaries with a strong relationship with filmmakers, and focus on working hand in hand with them on the financing front – to help secure funds. Their editorial line consists of one-hour programs in the fields of society, politics, history and art, and feature length documentaries with an international scope.
Autlook Filmsales
Bernardgasse 39/9
1070 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 670 208 7881
Email: welcome@autlookfilms.com
Website: www.autlookfilms.com
Autlook is a European distributor and one of the leading sales agents for feature documentaries, hybrids and doc series. Autlook offers a full spectrum of customized festival, sales and distribution strategies maximizing audience engagement and revenue as well as fostering filmmakers’ careers.
BayView Entertainment
210 West Parkway, Suite 7
Pompton Plains, NJ 07444
Phone: (201) 488-6110
Email: contact@bayviewent.com
Website: www.bayviewentertainment.com
For over 20 years, BayView Entertainment has been a full service media company committed to acquiring, developing, producing, marketing, and distributing audio-visual content. With a catalog of over 3,500 titles across a wide range of genres, BayView has been home to some of the biggest names in the industry, including titles that have been nominated for or won Independent Spirit Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and NAACP Image Awards, as well as premiered at festivals such as TIFF, Sundance, Slamdance, SXSW, Tribeca, and Fantasia.
Buffalo Rose Productions
www.facebook.com/buffaloroseproductons
Buffalo Rose Productions represents Emmy® award-winning filmmaker Roberta Cantow, whose work as a filmmaker, editor and documentarian has included poetic, experimental, narrative and documentary forms as well as hybrids of these forms.
California Newsreel
44 Gough Street, Suite 303
San Francisco, CA 94103-5424
Phone: (415) 284-7800
Email: contact@newsreel.org
Website: newsreel.org
California Newsreel has produced and distributed cutting-edge social issue films for activists and educators since 1968. Today it is the oldest, independent non-profit documentary center in the country and the first systematically to integrate media production and distribution with the media needs of contemporary social change movements.
Cinema Politica
5333 Avenue Casgrain, Suite #1101
Montreal, QC H2T 1X3
Canada
Email: info@cinemapolitica.org
Website: www.cinemapolitica.org
Cinema Politica is a non-profit media arts organization dedicated to supporting the work of independent, political filmmakers in Canada and beyond. Our organization is made up of an alternative exhibition network, dedicated distribution arm, and a Video On Demand platform for cutting edge, socially engaged cinema.
Cinétévé
83 rue de Rivoli
75004 Paris
Phone: +33 1 48 04 30 00
Email: contact@cineteve.fr
Website: cineteve.com/en
Cinétévé is an independent audio-visual production company, which has been active for more than 30 years producing films and television programs that cover a vast amount of social, political, cultural, and educational topics.
Clarity Films
2600 10th Street, Suite 412
Berkeley, CA 94710
Email: info@clarityfilms.org
Website: clarityfilms.org
Clarity Films was formed in 1979 to produce and distribute films of historical and social value. The mission is to encourage a re-examination of the past to better inform social progress in our future and to stimulate thought provoking discussion around issues of major social concern in today's society.
Collective Eye Films
10926 SE 54th Pl
Portland, OR 97222
Phone: (971) 236-2056
Email: orders@collectiveeye.org
Website: www.collectiveeye.org
Collective Eye Films is an educational film distribution company that represents compelling documentaries which explore the untold stories of our time. Their films build bridges between cultures and provide unique perspectives by exploring social, political, environmental, and spiritual issues to bring provocative and entertaining stories to the screen.
Dance Camera West
200 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 621-2200
Website: www.dancecamerawest.org
Dance Camera West aims to foster ground-breaking creation of dance film, by supporting teaching, production, distribution of dance films. DCW presents an annual international festival held at renowned arts venues throughout Los Angeles, along with informative and educational events throughout the year, to bring dance off the stage and onto the screen, utilizing the language of film to reach a wider audience.
Deckert Distribution
Gottschedstr. 18
04109 Leipzig, DE
Phone: +49 341 215 66 38
Email: info@deckert-distribution.com
Deckert Distribution is a world sales company for documentaries and stands for excellent, director-led, award-winning films.
dGenerate Films
c/o Icarus Films
32 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: (718) 488-8900
Email: info@dgeneratefilms.com
Website: www.dgeneratefilms.com
dGenerate Films distributes contemporary independent film from mainland China to audiences worldwide. dGenerate Films is dedicated to procuring and promoting visionary content, fueled by transformative social change and digital innovation. dGenerate Films distribution is managed by Icarus Films.
Distrib Films
32 Court Street, Suite 2107
11201 Brooklyn NY
Email: fsk@distribfilms.com
Website: www.distribfilmsus.com
Distrib Films is a leading distributor bringing acclaimed international movies to the US.
Dutch CORE
Bart de Graaffweg 2
1217 ZL Hilversum, The Netherlands
Email: info@dutch-core.nl
Website: dutch-core.com
Dutch CORE represents all Dutch public broadcasters, the Belgian Broadcaster VRT and a number of Dutch independent producers. As their international sales company, our team brings a high quality selection of Dutch and Flemish programmes available for TV channels, streaming platforms and other media services around the world.
EPF Media
324 S. Beverly Drive, PMB 437
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Phone: (323) 301-3663
Email: info@epfmedia.com
Website: www.epfmedia.com
EPF Media is a distributor and producer of innovative documentaries from around the world that educate and raise awareness of social issues, cultures and the arts. EPF Media is committed to releasing films that inspire people and bring positive change to our communities.
Face to Face Media
1818 Grant Street
Vancouver BC V5L 2Y8
Canada
Phone: (604) 251-0770
Email: marcuse@facetofacemedia.ca
Website: facetofacemedia.ca
Face to Face Media is an independent media production company founded in 1993 that specializes in documentaries for public broadcast and educational video collections for use in professional development and in the classroom. The production offices are based in Vancouver, Canada. The principals of the company are Gary Marcuse and Betsy Carson.
The Fanlight Collection
c/o Icarus Films
32 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: (718) 488-8900
The Fanlight Collection has long been a leading source for films on the social issues of our time, with a special focus on healthcare, mental health, professional ethics, aging and gerontology, disabilities, the workplace, and gender and family issues. Founded by independent filmmakers nearly 30 years ago, Fanlight's goal has been to create a select collection of educational programs independent in their vision, emotionally and intellectually engaging in their approach, and accurate and up-to-date in their content. The Fanlight Collection is an imprint of Icarus Films.
Film Movement
237 West 35th Street, Suite 303
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (866) 937-3456
Email: info@filmmovement.com
Website: filmmovement.com
Founded in 2002, Film Movement is a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. It has released more than 250 feature films and dozens of shorts culled from prestigious film festivals worldwide, including Oscar-nominated films.
Films of Anand Patwardhan
Email: anandpat@gmail.com
Website: patwardhan.com
The Films of Anand Patwardhan is the complete filmography, spanning 50 years, of India’s most important and controversial documentary filmmaker. For more than four decades, Anand Patwardhan has been India’s leading documentary filmmaker, tracking the country’s unraveling from its pluralist post-Partition ideals to a Hindu hegemony. Patwardhan's film work provides an unparalleled portrait of contemporary India.
First Hand Films
Neunbrunnenstraße 50
8050 Zürich
Switzerland
Phone: 41 44 312 20 60
Email: stories@firsthandfilms.com
Website: www.firsthandfilms.com
First Hand Films is an award-winning international sales company, theatrical distributor and a producer based in Zürich. Run by Esther van Messel since 1998, it has sold thousands of licenses worldwide for its many award-winning films.
First Run Features
630 Ninth Avenue Suite 1213
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 243-0600
Email: info@firstrunfeatures.com
Website: www.firstrunfeatures.com
First Run Features, founded in 1979, is one of the largest independent distributors in North America, releasing between 15-20 films a year in theaters nationwide and an additional 30-40 films annually to schools, libraries and other educational institutions; on home video on DVD and Blu-Ray; to television broadcasters; and online through a diverse group of innovative digital partners, including Docuseek.
GOOD DOCS
Email: outreach@gooddocs.net
Website: gooddocs.net
GOOD DOCS is a leading distributor of independent human-rights documentaries. For the past nine years, it has been building a collection of acclaimed films that amplify diverse stories at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, immigration, mental health, labor, disability, and the environment. The GOOD DOCS collection empowers students and communities to learn, engage, and take action towards a more equitable world.
Green Planet Films
PO Box 815
Stonington, CT 06378
Website: greenplanetfilms.org
Green Planet Films seeks to advocate for environmental and arts education, with an emphasis on documentary film, to global and local audiences. We connect and engage viewers by presenting films dedicated to documenting the precarious relationships between nature and humanity. We support this advocacy by developing and maintaining a media library for distribution to educational and public institutions, non-profits, businesses and individuals.
Hypnotic Pictures
Email: info@billmorrisonfilm.com
Website: billmorrisonfilm.com
Bill Morrison is an Academy® Award-nominated filmmaker who has been called “the poet laureate of lost films” (New York Times, 9/21/2021). He has premiered feature-length documentary films at the New York, Sundance, Telluride and Venice film festivals. Decasia (2002) was the first film of the 21st century to be named to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) has been listed as one of the best films of the decade (2010s) by the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, and Vanity Fair, among others. His most recent film, Incident (2023) won the Best Short Film Award from International Documentary Association in 2023, the Cinema Eye Honors for Outstanding Nonfiction Short, and was nominated for an Academy Award in Documentary Short in 2025.
Ideas Roadshow
Website: ideasroadshow.com
Ideas Roadshow was founded in 2012 by Howard and Irena Burton. Howard is a documentary filmmaker, author of six books and numerous essays. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy and was the Founding Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Irena is executive editor and producer of all Ideas Roadshow content and in charge of our publishing and production company. She is a qualified barrister and solicitor, court interpreter and lecturer.
Impronta Films
Website: www.improntafilms.com
Impronta Films has over twelve years of combined experience in the Media Industry in roles as Producer, Sales Coordinator, Market and Festival liaison and Associate Producer across different markets worldwide. As well as working in Business Development for almost a decade for a major Broadcaster.
Journeyman Pictures Ltd.
4-6 High Street
Thames Ditton
Surrey KT7 0RY
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)20 8398 4616
Email: info@journeyman.tv
Website: www.journeyman.tv
For over twenty years Journeyman Pictures has distributed and co-produced provocative, profound and original factual content, working with the top players in the industry. One of the leading independent suppliers of award-winning stories to the global theatrical, broadcast, digital and educational markets, Journeyman prides themselves on a position at the spearhead of the factual agenda. With a very successful catalogue covering a myriad of subjects and styles, from award-winning festival docs to hot new investigations and bold character stories.
Kartemquin Films
1901 W. Wellington
Chicago, IL 60657
Phone: (773) 472-4366
Email: info@kartemquin.com
Website: kartemquin.org
In 1966, Kartemquin Films began making documentaries that examine and critique society through the stories of real people. Their documentaries, such as The Interrupters, Hoop Dreams and The New Americans, are among the most acclaimed of all time, leaving a lasting impact on millions of viewers. With a noted tradition of nurturing emerging talent and acting as a leading voice for independent media, Kartemquin is building on over 45 years of being Chicago’s documentary powerhouse.
KimStim Films
417 13th Street #2
Brooklyn, New York 11215
Email: info@kimstim.com
Website: www.kimstim.com
KimStim Films, founded by Ian Stimler and Mika Kimoto in 1999, releases overlooked, under-appreciated masterworks of world cinema to home video and theaters. Since its inception KimStim has compiled a diverse and critically lauded series of works by world famous directors.
Lightdox
33 côte Perrière
74000 Annecy
France
Phone: +33 (0) 6 20 65 33 03
Email: hello@lightdox.com
Website: lightdox.com
Lightdox is a Swiss and French-based international sales and distribution agency representing powerful documentary storytelling. We are passionate about high-quality author-driven documentaries with a distinctive cinematic language and emotional impact.
Means TV
Email: contact@means.media
Website: means.tv
Means TV is the world's first worker-owned, anti-capitalist streaming service with a library of films, documentaries, and shows with new programming added all the time, including a daily news show.
MediaStorm
Los Gatos, California
Email: info@mediastorm.com
Website: www.mediastorm.com
MediaStorm is an award-winning film production and interactive design studio whose work gives voice and meaning to the most pressing issues of our time. Their stories demystify complex issues, humanize statistics, and inspire audiences to take action on issues that matter. They are widely recognized for their work, receiving 17 Emmy® Award nominations and two Alfred Dupont Awards.
MPI Media Group
16101 South 108th Avenue
Orland Park, IL 60467
Phone: (800) 323-0442
Email: webmaster@mpimedia.com
Website: mpimedia.com
MPI Media Group is a leading producer, distributor and licensor of films, home entertainment, historical footage and more. Founded in 1976 by brothers Malik and Waleed Ali, Chicago-based MPI Media Group remains one of the largest independent entertainment companies.
National Film Board of Canada
P.O. Box 6100
Station Centre-ville
Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3H5
Phone: (514) 283-9000
Website: www.nfb.ca
National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and alternative dramas.
Nerds Make Media
Website: www.nerdsmakemedia.com
Nerds Make Media develops eLearning, instructional video and other educational media to use as effective training resources.
Pragda LLC
515A S. Henry St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (718) 473-0647
Email: education@pragda.com
Website: pragda.docuseek2.com
PRAGDA distributes the newest Latin American, Spanish, and Latinx cinema. Its films are inspiring, challenging, and entertaining, covering a wide array of the region’s hottest topics, including the global economy, DACA, immigration and exile, feminism, education, modern politics, and more.
Scorpion TV
3a, 140 Grays Inn Rd
London WC1X 8AX
United Kingdom
Phone: +44(0) 207 278 8829
Email: david@scorpiontv.com
Website: scorpiontv.com
Scorpion TV is an international production and distribution company focused on worldwide sales of award-winning films and television shows. Working closely with the independent film and television community, Scorpion provides a culturally diverse body of films.
Strange Attractions (Peter Friedman) produced non-fiction films on diverse subjects, including portraits of extraordinary people, gay and aids-related issues, contemporary biology, and subjective essays on matters such as humanity's relationship to nature, to mortality, and to existential questions. Friedman’s films have won many top awards, including the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, the Los Angeles Film Critics' Award, a Peabody Award, an Academy Award nomination, The Prix Europa in Berlin, and The Prix Italia in Rome, among others. Peter Friedman passed away in 2025.
Sudu Connexion
23 rue Baudin
93310 Le Pré Saint Gervais
FRANCE
Email: contact@sudu.film
Website: www.sudu.film
Sudu Connexion is a sales and distribution company dedicated to films from Africa and its diaspora, founded in 2016. Working with a network of more than 1,680 festivals across five continents, their films (short, medium, and feature-length, all genres) have been broadcast on numerous television channels, VOD platforms, and airlines, and have been released in theaters in French-speaking Africa, Kenya, and France.
Tecolote Films
Email: tecolotefilms@gmail.com
Website: www.tecolotefilms.net
Tecolote Films represents films by the late Mexican documentary filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky (1977-2017). Hailed as "one of the best documentary filmmakers of his generation” (Film at Lincoln Center) and a major figure of recent Latin American cinema, Polgovsky was an influential and accomplished director, photographer, and cinematographer. His work was screened at numerous film festivals and prestigious institutions including Cannes, Venice, Sundance, Berlinale, Cinéma du Réel, Morelia, the Museum of Modern Art, the Flaherty Film Seminar, and Film at Lincoln Center.
Terra Nova Films
9848 South Winchester Avenue
Chicago, IL 60643
Phone: (773) 881-8491
Email: tnf@terranova.org
Website: terranova.org
Terra Nova Films aims to foster a greater understanding of life in its later years through the media of film and video.
Video Project
145 Ninth St. Suite 230
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 981-9710
Email: orders@videoproject.org
Website: www.videoproject.org
Video Project believes documentary films can shape minds and change lives. Founded in 1983, they are recognized as one of the leading documentary film distributors to educational institutions in the US, curating and distributing cutting edge social interest documentaries that explore the most pressing issues facing our society.
Viewpoint Productions
Email: mail@viewpointproductions.tv
Website: viewpointproductions.tv
Viewpoint Productions is a production company aimed at creating rich, developed films that are full of character and story, wrapped in artistic vision.
Women Make Movies
115 W. 29th Street, Suite 1200
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 925-0606
Email: orders@wmm.com
Website: www.wmm.com
For over 50 years, Women Make Movies has been championing women filmmakers and their stories, supporting women producers and directors from the beginning and planting the seeds for a diverse and inclusive filmmaking landscape. As the world’s leading distributor of independent films by and about women, Women Make Movies amplifies historically ignored voices and challenges the mainstream media.
