documentaries

Indy food-and-drink slingers get the Hollywood treatment, thanks to these local filmmakers and production companies.

Local author and IUPUI professor Dr. Edward E. Curtis IV looks into the hidden history of Indy’s Arab immigrants in both his new book and documentary out now.

Local filmmaker Josh Chitwood explores the little-known history of Indy’s Arab immigrants—including his own family—in a new documentary debuting at the Spirt and Place Festival.

Nearly 40 years after Robert Weide began working on a documentary about Indiana author Kurt Vonnegut, the film finally hits screens this month. We caught up with the director to ask, among other things: What took so much time?

What I remember most were his eyes—those large brown eyes that seemed to see right through you, right into your mind, and to know at once if you were speaking the truth.

“I fear for my own safety in that house.”

“Honestly, I really do feel like if Paul were alive, I would love to just sit down and watch this movie with him,” says Carolla. “I don’t think he’d necessarily appreciate a retrospective on his film career, but I think he would love this movie.”

Filmmaker Bob Weide finally seems ready to tick Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time off of his To Do list. First question: “Why on Earth has it taken you this long?”

“Bobby ‘Slick’ Leonard: Heart of a Hoosier” depicts the impact one man can have on a family, a team, a city.