Tackling some of the most urgent questions of our time with a formidable formal and intellectual sophistication, the richly observed documentaries of Brett Story invite us to see, with fresh eyes, the social and political structures that shape our lives. In THE HOTTEST AUGUST, interviews with a wide array of New Yorkers reveal the pervasive anxieties underlying everyday life in an age of climate catastrophe and rising social tensions, while THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES is an at once devastating and poetic meditation on the ways in which an unjust carceral system touches almost every aspect of American society.