MPT recognizes the importance of local and independent filmmakers and their unique ability to capture truths about the world with artistic integrity, intelligence, and balance. MPT supports these artists and gives viewers access to their voices and viewpoints. These producers' programs provide viewers with a better understanding of the world, an open door to the arts, and actionable information to improve their daily lives.

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Undivide Us

Monday, August 5th @ 9pm (premiere); Tuesday, August 6th @ 1am and 4am; Wednesday, August 7th @ 9pm (MPT2/Create)

America is at a crossroads where politicians, traditional media, and social media fan the flames of toxic partisanship that have led many Americans to question whether they can trust their fellow citizens. Through the intimate lens of six focus groups across three American cities, the film explores the twisted landscape of toxic polarization, revealing how it drives us to places fundamentally un-American places. Yet, within these divisions, the film uncovers the potential for healing conversation and the rediscovery of the value of local community, mutual respect, and democracy. 

A Passion for Oysters

Monday, August 5th @ 9pm (MPT2/Create)

The humble oyster has inspired shooting wars, piracy, social and environmental conflict, and libraries of legislation for more than two centuries. The conflicts continue today, even with oyster populations reduced to 1% of their historical bounty. Within a few dozen square miles of its lower sections where it meets the Chesapeake, the Choptank River contains all the pieces of the oyster puzzle.  This film explores the  challenges oysters present for protection and restoration unique among Bay seafood, and  evokes the history, and cultures, the art and science surrounding the Chesapeake oyster, with an eye to explaining the roots of the never-ending conflict over its existence.

P.O.W.: Passing on Wisdom

Thursday, August 1st @ 10pm (MPT2/Create)

Vietnam Prisoners of War recall their experiences and the inspirational story of how they not only survived their imprisonment, but found growth and gratitude afterwards. In their reflections can be seen the humanity that belies the unfathomable circumstances they survived, and how the Naval Academy's principles of leadership and camaraderie helped guide them through the darkness. Their stories are juxtaposed with those of recent Naval Academy Midshipmen who are facing the COVID pandemic and applying those same foundational values to their own experiences of trauma and post-traumatic growth, of communication and disinformation, of the trials of solitary confinement and isolation.

The Hoy Boys

Sunday, July 21st @ 6pm (premiere)

Working class twin brothers Tom and Frank Hoy hustled up copyboy jobs in 1953 and eventually became White House news photographers for two major DC newspapers. Frank shot pictures for The Washington Post, and Tom did the same for The Evening Star. Theirs is the story of American journalism when it mattered most. Tom and Frank's work was seen by hundreds of thousands of people daily. In rediscovering their iconic photographs, The Hoy Boys provides a lens through which we can view both the complexities of the past and the chaos of  today's media landscape.

The Best We've Got: The Carl Erskine Story

Sunday, July 14th @ 4:30pm

From the dirt-poor alleys of Anderson, Indiana, to a record-breaking MLB career with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Carl Erskine achieves the American dream and spends a lifetime giving it to others.

Teilhard: Visionary Scientist

Sunday, July 21st @ 4pm

Teilhard de Chardin was a French priest-paleontologist-visionary who was suppressed by his Jesuit order for advocating evolution.  Told largely in his own words, with a mix of archival film and images, expert interviews and commentary, and recreations, "Teilhard: Visionary Scientist" explores Teilhard's theories and how he was exiled to China by the church as a way to silence him.  The film also explores his role as part of the team that made the remarkable discovery of Peking Man, the most important fossil discovery in history to that point.