Northern Light Productions

17/09/2026

Our Senior Producer and Project Manager, Jenny Alexander will be at the AASLH and NCPH Joint Conference this Friday in Providence, Rhode Island. Hope to see you there!

09/09/2026

☀️Phoenix, here we come! The NLP team is traveling west for the Association of Science and Technology Annual Conference (ASTC) in Arizona. Make your way over to booth 611 to say hello and get a sneak preview of our new virtual jetpack simulator.

21/08/2026

Leaving Angola will be making it's Southern Premiere at Sidewalk Film Festival! The film will be screening Saturday August 29th at 7:30pm in the Carver Theater.

Filmed over seven years with rare access inside America’s largest maximum-security prison, Leaving Angola is a story about finding family and uncovering one’s true potential in an unlikely place – about hope in a place once designed to extinguish it – and about the possibilities and limits of change in the state with the highest rate of incarceration per capita in America.

Buy tickets here: https://www.goelevent.com/Sidewalk/e/LeavingAngola

14/08/2026

Thank you to the Woods Hole Film Festival for a very special weekend!

It was wonderful to share Leaving Angola with the Woods Hole audience. Justin came up from Louisiana for the screening, and his reflections and updates during the Q&A made the evening especially powerful.

We were also grateful that Leaving Angola was named Second Runner-Up for the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Woods Hole has a long history for Northern Light — The Dhamma Brothers received Best Feature Documentary there in 2007 — which made returning with this film especially meaningful.

Andy was also honored to attend as a board member of the International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers and present the One World Award during the festival.

Next stop: our Southern premiere at the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham on Saturday, August 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Carver Theatre. Hope to see you there! Tickets: https://www.goelevent.com/Sidewalk/e/LeavingAngola

22/07/2026

WBUR features Leaving Angola

We're grateful to Erin Trahan and WBUR 90.9 FM for this thoughtful feature on Leaving Angola.

The article looks at the seven-year journey of making the film, following Justin Singleton and Derek Moss inside Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola), and gives a behind-the-scenes look at how the film came to be.

We're especially thankful to Justin, Kelly Garrett, Derek, and everyone who trusted us to tell this story.

Leaving Angola screens next at the Woods Hole Film Festival on Friday, July 31 at 7:45pm.

Read the WBUR article here:

When Concord filmmaker Jenny Phillips died unexpectedly in 2018, she had a third documentary in the works. Her husband and a longtime collaborator vowed to finish the film, which screens as part of this Woods Hole Film Festival this month.

17/07/2026

Hot off the press, NLP project featured in the Cape Gazette!

Our team made their way down to Lewes, Delaware for a short film that will be an introduction to the new Maritime Museum. Historic Lewes held a soft opening for the museum on Wednesday, April 15. The full museum will reopen in December. The film is scheduled to debut soon after.

01/07/2026

Leaving Angola is returning to the big screen for the Woods Hole Film Festival! The film is screening at 7:45pm on Friday, July 31st at The Simon Center at Falmouth Academy. Tickets are on sale on the Woods Hole Film Festival website.

https://woodshole.elevent.io/events/LeavingAngola

24/06/2026

At Northern Light Productions, we have always believed that the most meaningful stories often lie beyond the obvious path — in remote landscapes, overlooked histories, complex institutions, and places where listening matters as much as filming.

The North Cascades: An Elevated Journey is a powerful example of that approach. To tell the story of this extraordinary national park, our team moved beyond the paved road and into the backcountry — carrying equipment through snow, rain, heat, wildfire smoke, and rugged terrain to follow the landscape from lake level to alpine summit and down the eastern slopes. The production demanded planning, flexibility, technical expertise, and respect for the place itself.

But the goal was never simply to capture beautiful images.

It was to uncover the story the landscape was already telling.

Across elevations and ecosystems, the North Cascades reveal a larger truth: nothing exists in isolation. Water, wildlife, glaciers, forests, climate, culture, and human experience are all connected. The people featured in the film bring that idea to life — a teenager humbled by the scale of the mountains, an Upper Skagit hiker reflecting on ancestral connection, climbers aware of the privilege of access, a pilot reading the glaciers from above, and a family finding joy along the trail.

That is the work we strive to do at NLP: ask bigger questions, listen closely, and craft films that help audiences see familiar places in new ways.

Every institution has stories waiting to be told. Some are hidden in archives. Some are carried by communities. Some are written into the land itself.

Our job is to find them, earn them, and bring them to life.

12/06/2026

In April, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights opened the Change Agent Adventure: Children's Gallery!

Inside this interactive gallery, children explore activities that build civic and social skills, such as empathy, belonging, justice, and “upstandingness”—the courage to stand up for what’s right. Media elements leverage the gallery’s playful “retro-futuristic” vibe to inspire a sense of curiosity and adventure, and include a fantastical "Earthpod" transport experience, a place to create your own change agent badge, and a "Silent Disco" with themed playlists and large projections.

In collaboration with Atelier Brückner, DaVinci Development Collaborative, and Kubik Maltbie.

08/06/2026

A handful of interactives NLP has worked on for the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia.

Our team worked to highlight the people, organizations, and events in Atlanta that shaped the Civil Rights Movement. Through immersive exhibitions, dynamic events, and community-driven programs, the Center connects history to the present, helping individuals and institutions move from reflection to action.