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18/10/2022

It's been quite a journey to get The Secret Song Film to the finish line, but we're so excited to announce our premiere at the Orlando Film Festival on Oct. 30!

28/07/2021

Thrilled that our film ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE has been nominated for TWO Emmy Awards. Congratulations to our collaborators at Retro Report and VICE!

10/11/2020

We’re excited to announce that SKY BLOSSOM, Bret’s latest edit, will be premiering in theaters nationwide on November 11.

Director Richard Lui spent three years following the lives of children and teenagers caring for family members with tough medical conditions. They are cheerleaders, breadwinners, and students, but they also stay at home doing things often seen only in hospitals. It’s a raw, uplifting window into the lives of some of the 24.5 million young people stepping forward as frontline American heroes.

LEARN MORE: SkyBlossom.com

15/10/2020

Our latest film, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE, premiering NOW on VICE TV Retro Report Susie Banikarim Victor Couto Kyra Darnton Karen Sughrue

14/10/2020

Please watch an early release of our latest ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE (before the 10/15 broadcast premiere on VICE TV at 7:30PM EST) ... with Susie Banikarim, Kyra Darnton, Victor Couto, Karen Sughrue, and the entire Retro Report team!

The nation’s leading reporters and media figures who covered Trump’s 2016 campaign offer a candid analysis of their role and mistakes in the 2016 election. E...

14/10/2020

calls our latest, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE, "a valuable history lesson featuring some of the biggest names in media." Check it out for an exclusive Jeff Zucker clip. Premiering 10/15 at 7:30PM EST on VICE TV

The new doc “Enemies of the People,” airing Thursday on VICE TV, examines the media’s role in the 2016 election. Here, see an exclusive clip of CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s postmortem.

13/10/2020

We’re thrilled to announce our latest feature documentary, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE (Co-directed and Edited by Bret in collaboration with Retro Report) will premiere on VICE TV, October 15 @7:30PM!

A candid and dramatic journey behind the scenes of the 2016 election: journalists reflect on their mistakes covering Donald Trump and the decline of public trust in news.

16/06/2020

What will school look like in the fall? Three Marin County schools tested the waters before the school year ended, in a project we edited for Edutopia.

In one county in California, alternative education and special education students are starting to return to school with new heightened health protocols.

30/04/2020

Our latest mini-doc follows San Francisco landscape architect Patricia Algara as she imagines a new space in the hills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

A mini-documentary about San Francisco-based landscape architect Patricia Algara, who designs imaginative places for children and pollinators.

07/10/2019

It’s been a long time coming, and now
on PBS premieres tonight and and tomorrow night (10/7, 10-8). Tune in!

https://www.pbs.org/show/retro-report-pbs/

Watch Retro Report on PBS videos on demand. Stream full episodes online.

26/09/2017

Here's the painful followup to our latest edit for VICE. https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/ascending-afghanistan-rising-women-return-home/587674ed1825c0a5205f2dce

On August 6, 2015, a team of 13 young Afghan women set out to make history as the first women in the country to summit the Afghan mountain peak of Mir Samir. Watch as VICE Impact documents their return and reception.

19/09/2017

In Bret's latest film edit for VICE, a group of Afghan women risk everything in the hopes of furthering women's rights.

25/05/2017

We're incredibly honored that "Madeline's Story," a piece we worked on with the smart folks at KQED Learning, has been nominated for a NorCal Emmy!

It's been years since Madeline, a senior at Oakland Tech High School, has seen her mother, a Mexican immigrant who was deported after overstaying her visa. M...

27/10/2016

Should 16- and 17-year-olds be allowed to vote? In a project for KQED Learning, we talk to some teens who say they should be able to weigh in on Nov 8.

San Francisco voter decide on Proposition F this November, which would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in local elections. If it passes, San Francisco wou...

10/10/2016

Who's watching Vice News Tonight? Reactions?

13/09/2016

Wow.
NetflixDan Krauss Jason Spingarn-KoffDebbie Hoffmann
https://www.netflix.com/title/80106307

Witness the wrenching emotions that accompany end-of-life decisions as doctors, patients and families in a hospital ICU face harrowing choices.

12/09/2016

A new season of Retro Report starts today with The New York Times. First up, this timely collab with Fork Films. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/us/phyllis-schlaflys-lasting-legacy-in-defeating-the-era.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

Mrs. Schlafly, who died Sept. 5, mobilized forces to block passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, which had been ratified by all but three needed states before it was tabled.

09/09/2016

If you haven't started following and , you'd better start. via http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/us/california-today-movies.html?_r=0

Welcome to California Today, a morning update on the stories that matter to Californians (and anyone else interested in the state).

11/07/2016

Postcard from Fire Country at the G2 Green Earth Film Fest:
Just in time for another punishing California fire season, our look at the devastating Rim Fire and how climate change is affecting wildfires hits the G2 fest in LA. Screening Saturday, Aug 6 at 4pm.

20/06/2016

Required viewing ... because there's a little troll in all of us.

19/06/2016

Here's Bret's latest edit for the The New York Times ... the story of an 1966 Air Force accident over Spain that lead to a frantic search for missing hydrogen bombs, radiation exposure for US airmen, and questions about whether the event caused a cancer cluster among the 1600 men involved.

The Air Force says that there was no harmful radiation at the crash site, but interviews with dozens of men and details from declassified documents disagree.

10/03/2016

So Watson won Jeopardy, but can artificial Intelligence beat the world champion at the ancient game of "Go?" We don't know, but it's happening right now! For some perspective, check out the latest collaboration from Retro Report and Quartz.

09/03/2016

An Oakland teenager breaks down the human cost of our immigration policies in this short piece we collaborated on with KQED.

https://youtu.be/QkSWEM_0yxw KQED's News Education project recently asked local middle and high school students to consider some of the major political issue

28/01/2016

Thirty years ago today, the space shuttle Challenger crew "Left the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God." While making our film, "Go or No Go," the people we met, the stories we heard, and the lasting legacy of that fateful day have stuck with us as much as any project we've ever worked on.
http://www.retroreport.org/video/major-malfunction-lessons-from-challenger/

On January 28, 1986, seven astronauts "slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God." America’s space program was never the same.

25/11/2015

Long overdue, the next project in our i+create series, a profile of larger-than-life DJ John Beaver. An incredibly talented musician by night, a gifted zookeeper by day, and 100% positive human being 100% of the time, John has really changed our outlook on what it means to be alive and what makes life worth living.

https://vimeo.com/139547217

A mini-documentary about larger-than-life SF Bay Area DJ John Beaver, who spends his nights spinning music for the masses and his days caring for endangered wildlife…

30/09/2015

What can we say?!? We're absolutely THRILLED to have receive an Emmy for Bret's piece on the Space Shuttles Challenger, Columbia, and the nature of calamity. Thank you team Retro Report and The New York Times for creating a space for us to explore the deep legacies of events like these!

23/07/2015

WOW! We're humbled and honored that Bret's piece "Go or No Go" for has just been nominated for an Emmy! Thanks to everyone who has supported us all these years! The News & Documentary Emmy Awards http://emmyonline.com/news_36th_nominations

NOMINEES FOR THE 36th ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS ANNOUNCED 0 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Google+ 0 Pin It Share 0 LinkedIn 0 StumbleUpon 0 Email -- 0 Flares × VIEW FULL RELEASE IN Award Presentation at David Geffen HallAt Lincoln Center New York, N.Y. – July 22, 2015 – Nominations…

13/07/2015

Remember Waco and the raid on David Koresh and the Branch Davidian compound? We sure do. But what we didn't realize before Bret edited his latest piece for and was how long a shadow that tragedy still casts today. Have a watch!
http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000003795356/the-shadow-of-waco.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

In 1993, federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and generated a legacy of fear that continues to shape antigovernment groups today.

26/05/2015

We're excited to announce that our film "Go or No Go: the Challenger Legacy" won Best Use of Archival Footage in a non-TV platform last week in London at the FOCAL International Awards!
http://www.retroreport.org/video/major-malfunction-lessons-from-challenger/

On January 28, 1986, seven astronauts "slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God." America’s space program was never the same.

14/04/2015

Thanks to The Webby Awards for choosing Bret's film"Go or No Go: The Challenger Legacy" as an honoree in the Best Editing category. And thanks to Retro Report for all your support!

http://pv.webbyawards.com/2015/online-film-video/performance-craft/best-editing/honorees

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