Stories WITH IMPACT
The Invisible Threads production arm specializes in creating impactful films and multimedia projects that uncover the forces shaping human experiences — power, pain, and joy. It focuses on stories that highlight wellbeing and personal and political health, emphasizing the complex interplay between individual lives and societal systems. Kate’s latest film project, PUBLIC DEFENDER, a New Yorker short doc about a liberal D.C. public defender representing suspects in the Jan. 6 attack, models restoring humanity one relationship at a time. The Washington Post film BRING THEM HOME screened at film festivals nationwide and helped change U.S. policy and public opinion around state hostage-taking. And the DOC NYC premiere and long festival run of FIGHT OR FLIGHT has invited audiences to reframe their understanding of trauma and recovery.
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With more Americans now held hostage by foreign governments than by terrorist groups, BRING THEM HOME is an intimate window into one family’s ordeal.
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LOOSE TRUTH explores how truth became a casualty of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when trauma and conspiracy theories fueled a war on reality that persists today.
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Rapper Killer Mike delivers a history lesson — and a plan for the next 100 years — in GEN. ORGANIZED.
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President Trump's impeachment inquiry exposes cracks in the political system. In IMPEACHED, The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus, Christian Caryl and Erik Wemple diagnose what's at risk.
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ACCESS CONTROL, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb explores how until 1979, politicians controlled Americans’ access to Congressional affairs. C-SPAN changed everything.
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LESSON LEARNED? questions whether the media is any savvier in covering the political motivations for foreign conflicts. It delves into how the media’s coverage of the Iraq war was miserable, and when President Trump wades into dangerous waters with Iran, it is a new test for the press.
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FREE JASON tells the behind-the-scenes story of how The Washington Post fought for freedom of its reporter from an Iranian prison and rallied for press freedom everywhere.
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What happens when a liberal public defender represents right-wing January 6th rioters? PUBLIC DEFENDER takes on America’s epidemic of division and misinformation with humanity and comic relief, modeling how to restore trust and accountability one conversation at a time.
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OUTSIDE THE REVOLUTION delves into the brutal repression the Cuban government masks with propaganda, and the risks journalists and artists take to expose it.
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GRAPHIC WARNING explores how videos of police and vigilantes killing Black men and women may help to bring justice, but, as Kevin B. Blackistone, argues they also dehumanize the victims.
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In PLEASE RISE, NFL player Kenny Stills and broadcaster Bob Costas argue that athletes vilified for protesting police brutality were victims of a cynical system focused on profits, not patriotism.
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"At least we know he's real"
Democrat Paul Taylor works at a corner store on the east side of Charleston. He says he’s considering supporting Donald Trump for president because it’s clear how bad the guy is.
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Trump's policies separated this mother and son. Still grappling with the trauma, she is fighting for restitution.
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"I don't like the socialism"
He loves Trump, so he voted for Bernie Sanders
