A Newinferno

Year: 2025
Location: Phoenix, az

Producer/Director: Nita Blum Jonathan Pickett

A New Inferno - in production Summer 2025- follows the Phoenix Fire Department’s emergency division during the July 2025 heatwave as they respond to heat stroke calls and implement an innovative, live-saving technique: ice immersion therapy.

BREAD

Year: 2024

Location: Phoenix, az

Producer/Director/EDITor: Nita Blum // Production Audio by: Daniel Reddick

Bread, Fields to Loaves, a documentary, delves into the intricate journey of bread-making, tracing it from farmers' hands to our tables. Focused on the heroes of this local industry—the farmers, artisan bakers, and communities—we honor their role in creating this daily sustenance. Employing an observational filmmaking style, the project aims to vividly capture these individuals, serving as a visual homage to those nurturing our nourishment. This cinematic narrative serves as both an appreciation of their efforts and a meditation on the significance of this everyday staple.

This film is supported in part by the Phoenix City Council through the Arts and Culture Department.

Tracing canals

Year: 2022
Location: Phoenix, az
Producer/Director: Nita Blum

Water is life, especially in the desert. Phoenix, Arizona, is the 5th largest city in the country, with over 5 million people to date, but without water, it would not exist. The history and functionality of water canal systems in Phoenix trace back to the origins of the ancient people of the Sonoran Desert (note: The O’odham people living in the region today refer to these ancestors as Huhugam while archaeologists tend to use the term "Hohokam") Phoenix rises from the ashes on the shoulders of history using the precious resource of water. "Cement, Earth & Water: Tracing Our Canals" speak with experts in the field to understand the history of water in the valley of the sun and debunks the mystery behind the ancient canals onto which Phoenix's current water system is built.

Healing calls

Year: 2022
Location: oracle, az
Producer/Director: Nita Blum

Musician Raquel Denis Explores her roots as she focuses on a budding music career. Her music is ripe with rich and complex emotion that permeates the core of what it means to live through trauma and transmute pain through art.

painting identity

Year: 2023
Location: Phoenix, az
Producer/DIRECTOR: Nita Blum

Winner : UTV BEST DOCUMENTARY 2023

Official Selection: Flagstaff International Film Festival 2023

Follow Shela Yu's transformative process, as she paints the city, adding beauty to city landscapes that shapes a unique identity that remedies the homogenization of place.

Sonic Study No.1

Year: 2023
Location: Phoenix, az
Producer / Director: Nita Blum

Peer into the subculture of the new age healing industry through an ethnographic lens in this observational piece following Sedona healers, Kym Griffith and her partner Rahelio.

Lawns in the Desert?

Year: 2022
Location: Phoenix, az
Producer/Director: Nita Blum

‘Why Lawns in the Desert?" Focused on the specifics of the why. Why do Phoenix homeowners make the decision to maintain a lawn in a desert landscape? You decide what the future for the Sonoran desert will hold.