Pureland Pictures is a Brooklyn based film and commercial production company founded in 1999 by award-winning filmmaker Emily Abt. Our documentary features have aired on networks such as Showtime and PBS and our first narrative feature premiered at Sundance 2009 and was released theatrically by Strand in 2010. Toe to Toe is currently airing on Showtime, Starz and the Sundance Channel.

Pureland creates documentaries with the narrative strength of fiction and scripted content with the realism of documentaries. For our corporate, advertising and non-profit clients we fuse cinematic artistry with a solid understanding of messaging strategy to create persuasive media tools.

"TOE TO TOE gives an unusually honest, compassionate and challenging view of contemporary youth, neither sugarcoated nor prurient...If TOE TO TOE were a young adult novel, it would be embraced and argued about in classrooms and eagerly read by thoughtful teenage girls throughout the country...The film's observations about race, class and friendship are clear and accessible without being overly didactic...this ethical seriousness is the real distinction of TOE TO TOE."