Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe. This is a film about parents and children: how trauma never leaves a family, and how hope and resilience is also passed down. It asks the question: Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear?

An experimental documentary portrait of director Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter's grandfather

Meet Brian Boland—the beloved, eccentric hot air balloonist and artist from the rural Upper Valley of Vermont.

Eleven year-old Irish girl Bobby navigates romance, growing pains, and a difficult home life in this coming-of-age tale set in the Catholic immigrant community of 1956 Murray Hill, Manhattan.

Eleven year-old Irish girl Bobby navigates romance, growing pains, and a difficult home life in this coming-of-age tale set in the Catholic immigrant community of 1956 Murray Hill, Manhattan.

An experimental documentary portrait of director Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter's grandfather

An experimental documentary portrait of director Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter's grandfather

An experimental documentary portrait of director Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter's grandfather