Addressing what the NY Times calls “A National Crisis of Boyhood,” the series culminates in the 4th episode, a nearly hour-long studio discussion with 32 boys, aged 15 or 16. Different across race, class, and culture, the boys discuss violence, anger, girls, homophobia, masculinity, and coming ma...

Boys to Men – Al-Tran’s Story. Brilliant in evoking what he's missing in life by not having a father or father-figure, someone to "take me by the hand into adulthood," Al-Tran runs headlong into his fears and shrinks away. A painfully poignant portrait emerges of a supremely talented teen implod...

Spencer’s Story is the perfect complement to Jamie's story in the hit series "Adolescence", revealing how boys’ rageful impulses start with being bullied. We see how Spencer, despite a loving, attentive family and all the support possible from schools, doctors, and social workers, implodes in rag...

Boys to Men – Cisco's Story. In real time we see how Cisco, a talented, compassionate, well-intentioned Puerto-Rican teen, gets derailed from a promising future by questionable family decisions.

“Dozens of poignant moments… unflinching… a real-life glimpse into the emotional turmoil of modern ...

Zanskar es una de las últimas sociedades budistas tibetanas originales que ha mantenido una línea ininterrumpida y pura durante miles de años. En el cercano Tíbet y Ladakh, así como en Sikkim, Bután y Nepal, la cultura budista tibetana tradicional ya ha desaparecido o está en peligro de extinción...

This five film series tells a different kind of “Hero’s Journey” than the one the public is used to. This journey requires a different kind of bravery, not facing bullets and IEDs, but facing tears of anguish and loss, facing acceptance of extreme fear, facing rage at betrayal, facing paralyzing ...

A former Army Paratrooper and sniper, challenged by suicidal ideation, divorce, and alcoholism, fights to reconnect with his family and resume a place of leadership in civilian society.

12 suicidal Veterans undergo an ancient 12 day Vision Fast ceremony – out in the wilderness with minimal shelter, fasting, alone – seeking transformation.

Winner of 4 "Best Documentary" awards at international film festivals.

22 women Veterans learn the tools of meditation and sensory awareness to confront military sexual trauma, PTSD, and the ghosts of war, regrounding themselves in sisterhood and community.

"Best Documentary" winner at the San Diego GI film festival.

Marine Captain Kalani - suicidal, homeless, and alone - experiences transformation through emotionally authentic healing circles.

Winner of 6 "Best Documentary" awards at international film festivals.

The philosophical underpinning to the entire five-film series. The greatest minds highlight community-based, non-medicalized solutions for Veterans returning home.

Zanskar is one of the last remaining original Tibetan Buddhist societies with a continuous untainted lineage dating back thousands of years. In nearby Tibet and Ladakh, in Sikkim, Bhutan, and Nepal, traditional Tibetan Buddhist culture is either dead already or dying. The Tibetan genocide, by Chi...

The villages are burning. Worldwide. An estimated $500 billion is spent yearly on teen dysfunctions in the U.S. alone: drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy and STDs, school dropouts and expulsions, gang and property crimes, traffic accidents, ADD, ADHD, depression and violence…

Culturally appr...

Marx focuses on a group of teen boys - all 15 or 16 - from a range of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds as they navigate troubled lives and shifting notions of manhood. The result is an intimate and accessible snapshot of the deeper crisis in American masculinity, laying bare the root...

Jean, a small-town child preacher grows up in an institution without speaking. When involuntarily released, he ends up in an abandoned motel where he meets Cory – a “hard knocks” woman. Together they embark on a strange journey of healing.

“Frederick Marx, best known for co-directing HOOP DREAMS...

HIGHER GOALS is the half hour, “stay-in-school” version of HOOP DREAMS. Broadcast nationally on PBS, it was nominated for an Emmy award as “Best Daytime Children’s Special.” With Tim Meadows of Sat. Night Live fame, along with NBA All-Star Isiah Thomas, William Gates, and Skip Dillard, the film a...

"A foreigner's personal confrontation with the historic political and economic changes taking place in China. Shot when Marx was working in Tianjin and Beijing, the film is a diary-like account of his alienation and acclimation, a highly lyrical film essay lending perspective to the 1989 tragedy...

In this fiction period drama, 12 year old Karl Feinstein is squeezed between his parents hidden Communist Party activities and the social pressures of an all-American teen. He learns that sometimes manhood means doing what authority says is wrong.

"A documentary that mixes personal and public hi...

"Especially impressive, Dream Documentary uses found footage, inventive editing, and an effectively selective soundtrack to comment on the ways that we look at the third world." - J. Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

"A well-titled fantasy with a conscience." - P.G. Springer, C-U News Gazette

"Compelli...

"In a single six minute take a college teacher grades an entire short story from a beginning writer, adding his comments and corrections. Simultaneously, his woman-friend cleans the kitchen while listening to the story and commenting herself. The film was shot in sync using two 16mm cameras in ...

Co-produced and edited by Frederick Marx. Directed by Chuck Olin and Produced by Chuck Olin & Pam Marks. This film is a testament to those who struggle every day to defend their human rights.

"Brilliant... a masterpiece about the international struggle for human rights... focusing on the success...