A new documentary puts a camera inside ambulances and emergency rooms across the country, following paramedics as they respond to calls that could be anything from a heart attack to a car crash.

Into the Unknown follows EMS crews in Santa Barbara, Sparks, Denver, Baton Rouge, and Crozet over the course of a year. Director Tom Putnam, who made the firefighter documentary Burn, captures the split-second decisions, physical danger, and emotional weight that come with the job.

The film features paramedics Dr. Richard Carmona, Pat Coyle, Heather Edwards, Nicole Jagers, Niki Johnson, Anthony Judkins, Anne Kellogg, Trevor Oakley, John Tinsley, and Jenn Vazquez.

Executive producers include Steve Buscemi and Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe, who played paramedics on the 1970s show Emergency! Mantooth and Tighe say the documentary is a tribute to the real professionals whose work helped inspire that series.

“Behind every uniform is a human being navigating trauma, loss, exhaustion, and the immense responsibility of making split-second decisions under extraordinary pressure,” according to the filmmakers.

Into the Unknown opens on digital platforms December 4.

IMDb just made history for Indigenous filmmakers. The platform officially added Michif to its list of recognized title languages, giving the Métis language the same structural standing as English or French.

The update comes after years of advocacy led by Métis filmmaker Jordan Waunch, whose anti-western series Shadow of the Rougarou is now the first production credited with Michif as an official title language on the site. Set during the 1885 North-West Resistance, the series features dialogue in Michif, Cree, and Chinook Wawa, weaving a dark story of survival rooted in oral tradition.

“For a long time, Michif has been absent from the systems that catalogue and classify screen work,” Waunch says. “Seeing it recognized on IMDb gives our language a visible place in the global record of cinema.”

He credits the milestone to Elders and Language Keepers including Stella Erasmus Johnson, Bruce Dumont, Don Campbell, Theodore Starr, Lisa Shepherd, Douglas Robertson, and Ray G. Thunderchild.

But the work isn’t done. Waunch says the next step is getting IMDb to recognize distinct Michif dialects and other Indigenous languages still left off the platform.

Shadow of the Rougarou was backed by the Indigenous Screen Office, Creative BC, the Bell Fund, and APTN. The series streams now on APTN+.

This matters because language preservation starts with visibility, and for indie Indigenous creators, that means showing up in the same databases as every other film.

Abramorama has picked up North American rights to “Make Work,” a documentary that follows four choreographers as they develop new ballets at the New York Choreographic Institute.

The film comes from directors Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger, whose previous work “Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan” premiered at the New York Film Festival and was released by Netflix. Their credits include two Emmy nominations and Schlesinger produced “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” which won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance.

“Make Work” opens in theaters March 5, 2027. It premiered at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and screens at DOC NYC.

The documentary goes inside rehearsal studios at the New York Choreographic Institute and New York City Ballet, tracking choreographers Harrison Ball, Sarah Foster-Sproull, Caili Quan, and Houston Thomas as they create original work during two-week residencies. The film shows the process before a ballet reaches the stage: experimentation, collaboration, and the work that gets abandoned along the way.

“We wanted to sit in the room while a ballet is being born, when ideas are fragile, when dancers and choreographers are taking real risks together, and when failure is part of the process,” Saffire and Schlesinger said.

Adrian Danchig-Waring, now artistic director of the New York Choreographic Institute, produced the film and took his final bow as a New York City Ballet principal dancer on October 18, 2026, after 24 years with the company.

The film also includes reflections from choreographers Kyle Abraham, Lar Lubovitch, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, Pam Tanowitz, and Christopher Wheeldon on their creative practices and George Balanchine’s influence on ballet.

The boutique fitness boom wasn’t all good vibes and motivational playlists.

SPIN WARS, a new documentary from director Philip Byron, digs into the messy, billion-dollar rise of indoor cycling studios like SoulCycle, Flywheel, and Peloton. The film premiered at Tribeca and pulls back the curtain on an industry built on ambition, betrayal, and what Byron calls “toxic sweat.”

It’s a high-energy look at how spinning went from niche workout to cultural phenomenon, and the ugly side of “mind, body, soul” branding that came with it. The doc features Katie Couric, comedians Heather McMahan and Mary Beth Barone, author Jill Kargman, and creators Brandon Kyle Goodman and Anna Roisman.

Byron co-wrote the film with James Thayer and produced it alongside Jillian A. Goldstein.

SPIN WARS releases this December. For an industry that sold empowerment and community, the real story behind the scenes is a lot sweatier than anyone let on. Independent filmmakers continue proving that the best stories aren’t always feel-good ones.

Sean Ono Lennon is stepping behind the camera for the first time with “threeASFOUR: FULL CIRCLE,” a documentary about three designers who’ve been challenging the fashion world for over 25 years.

The film follows Gabi Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil, the trio behind avant-garde fashion collective threeASFOUR. They’ve built a cult following by creating clothes inspired by natural forms and pioneering techniques. Their work has landed in global museum exhibitions and on the backs of Björk and Chloë Sevigny.

But acclaim doesn’t pay the bills. The doc shows the constant struggle to survive in an industry obsessed with commerce when you’d rather focus on creativity and collaboration. It’s a moving portrait of artists trying to make it on their own terms.

Lennon co-directed with Brian C. González, who also handled cinematography. Jenny Golden wrote and edited the film, with Beth Levison producing.

“threeASFOUR: FULL CIRCLE” opens at New York’s Film Forum on November 13 before rolling out nationwide this fall.

For independent creators fighting to balance art and survival, this one hits close to home. It’s a reminder that even designers with museum shows and celebrity fans still face the same battle, staying true to their vision when the system wants something easier to sell.