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03/26/2025
We're thrilled to announce that our latest feature documentary, HER/MINE, will be premiering at the San Francisco International Film Festival on April 20th!
HER/MINE is an intimate meditation on memory and motherhood that follows filmmaker Alexandra Shiva as she explores the secrecy surrounding the childhood loss of her mother. Learn more about the film through our website, linked here: https://gidalyapictures.com/portfolio/hermine/
We're so excited to share the film with you and will continue updating as future screenings become available! To buy tickets to the SF premiere, click here: https://sffilm.org/event/her-mine/
02/05/2025
"How to Dance in Ohio" is now streaming on Peacock TV! We are so grateful for all the support the film has received and are thrilled that we get to keep sharing it with you. Click this link to watch now: https://bit.ly/htdiopeacock
07/25/2024
One month since One South: Portrait of a Psych Unit premiered on Max 🎉 It’s been so special to finally share this film with you all! Thank you for all your support ❤️🫂🎞️
07/22/2024
Thank you for inviting Lindsey Megrue and Alexandra Shiva to speak about One South: Portrait of a Psych Unit! 🎞️
🎧 To listen to the full episode, visit:
Two looks behind traditionally closed doors
07/11/2024
"My hope is that more people will embrace DBT not just as therapy but as a toolkit for personal growth." – Dr. Rachel Reich 👩⚕️
Read the full interview with Psychology Today below, and catch Dr. Reich on One South: Portrait of a Psych Unit on Max 🎞️
On HBO's new documentary "One South: Portrait of a Psych Unit", it's all DBT, all the time. Fan favorite Dr. Rachel Reich explains the skills she used to manage on-camera anxiety.
07/09/2024
"One of the areas that's still stigmatized in mental health with college students is inpatient" – Dr. Laura Braider from Northwell Health on News 12 Long Island 📻 🗞️
Dr. Laura Braider is part of the HBO documentary “One South: Portrait of a Psych Unit,” which is bringing the facility to a global audience.
07/08/2024
Listen to Directors Lindsey Megrue and Alexandra Shiva along with Dr. Laura Braider from Northwell Health discuss One South: Portrait of a Psych Unit on WNYC's All Of It With Alison Stewart 🎧
Be sure to watch One South now streaming on Max! 📺
And the verdict is… Stream it! Thank you Decider 😊🎉
You can watch One South: Portrait of a Psych Unit now on Max 📺
The two-part docuseries is an unsparing look at a psych unit at a Queens hospital that is the only one in the country that specializes in treating college students.
06/29/2024
What an amazing start to the weekend! #3 on Max 🤩
To stream both parts of One South: Portrait of a Psych Unit, please visit: bit.ly/onesouth_hbomax 📺
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Gidalya Pictures is an award-winning documentary production company based in New York City and founded by filmmaker Alexandra Shiva in 2001.
Alexandra’s most recent film, THIS IS HOME: A REFUGEE STORY, is an intimate portrait of four Syrian refugee families arriving in Baltimore, Maryland and struggling to find their footing in the first 8-months. The film premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2018, where it won the Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary, and broadcast on EPIX.
Her previous film, HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO, documents a group of teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum preparing for an iconic American rite of passage — a Spring Formal. The Peabody Award winning film premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and aired on HBO to great critical acclaim.
Alexandra’s second documentary STAGEDOOR follows five kids through a musical theater summer camp program in the Catskills. STAGEDOOR premiered at SXSW in 2005, had its theatrical debut at Film Forum in New York in 2006 and aired on Sundance Channel.
After spending extensive time in India, Alexandra launched her documentary career producing and directing BOMBAY EU**CH, a feature-length documentary that follows a makeshift family of eunuchs as they struggle to survive in modern Bombay. In 2001, the film was awarded Best Documentary at New York’s New Festival and the Special Jury Award at the Florida Film Festival and was released theatrically.
