Arcadia Pictures, founded 1988, is a non-profit production company dedicated to the creation of innovative documentaries exploring the interaction between politics, culture and religion in a variety of times and places.

Films include commissions from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Jewish Museum, the National Gallery, Vienna’s Künstlerhaus and other museums. We have produced content for PBS, the Sundance Channel, Bloomberg TV, ORF Austrian National Television, 3SAT (German-language public television), and SBS TV Australia. Our many international co-productions include work in Israel, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Austria, Bulgaria, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the UK, and ex-Yugoslavia, involving negotiation of distribution and financing with partners from a wide variety of backgrounds. We have had success interpreting challenging international topics for US audiences, as well as bringing American culture to the attention of foreign viewers.

Funders include the National Endowment for the Humanities; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; the Ford, Rockefeller, Getty, Annenberg, Surdna, Gottesman and Rosa Luxemburg Foundations; Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, the US Dept. of Education, Program for Art on Film, European Integration Fund, and private sector support from Mobil, Lufthansa, Creditanstalt, and the Österreichische Nationalbank.

We believe that film is a powerful educational and spiritual tool. Our projects often include extensive outreach partnerships with national and international organizations: Facing History and Ourselves, Anti-Defamation League, National Council of Churches, National Civic League, American Association of Museums, and many other community groups, religious institutions and government offices.