From home movies to the front lines of modern media journalism, a lens has long framed Erik Castro’s life. In this deeply personal documentary, we embark on a personal journey exploring Erik’s life over five decades, from a childhood shared with five siblings in 1970s Los Angeles, lovingly captured by his mother’s 8mm camera, to his evolution into a seasoned visual storyteller documenting family life in Sonoma County. He made a choice to pursue a career in photojournalism while being a stay-at-home dad, the two roles pulling him in opposite directions. Blending dreamlike imagery with raw footage from early film projects, intimate home videos, and the voices of the unhoused and marginalized, Creating a Photojournalist is a meditation on fatherhood, storytelling, and the creative influence that his family and documentary subjects have had on his work. —Kelly Clement

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OH WHALE
Directed by Winslow Crane-Murdoch 
When KATU-TV reporter Paul Linnman arrived at an Oregon beach on November 12,  1970, he had no idea that the story he was chasing would forever define his career. (US 2025, 26 min)

ROLLING FILM, ROCKING HISTORY, AL MAYSLES CAPTURES THE BEATLES
Directed by Bart Weiss 
Documentary legend Al Maysles tells the story of how he and his brother David shot the Beatles’s first trip to the USA at the dawn of Beatlemania. (US 2025, 12 min)