Films & series

Our Projects

Original documentaries exploring healthcare, education, community leadership, and the people whose work leaves a lasting impact. Each film offers a deeper look at the ideas, partnerships, and moments that shape how we understand our world.

Official Selection · New York Lift-Off Film Festival
More Than a Vacation — film poster

More Than a Vacation

Our documentary short has been selected for the New York Lift-Off Film Festival — the first festival honor for Regret-Free Productions and the collaboration between RIT’s Global Public Health program and the RIT School of Film & Animation.

A group of students journeys to the Dominican Republic for an immersive, cross-cultural research experience—where curiosity becomes action and learning extends far beyond the classroom.

The story begins here. Enjoy the trailer while the full documentary completes its festival journey.

Films & series

Featured Projects

Agents of Change

Documentary seriesIn development

A documentary series following extraordinary individuals who turn purpose into action, proving that meaningful change often begins with one person willing to make a difference.

University students in a classroom with the founder

More Than a Vacation

★ Official Selection · New York Lift-Off Film Festival 2026
Documentary shortRIT Global Public Health × RIT School of Film & Animation

What begins as a student journey to the Dominican Republic becomes an immersive, cross-cultural research experience, where collaboration with local healthcare professionals demonstrates how education, innovation, and partnership can change lives.

Directed & produced by John Oliphant · Edited by Marissa Lawton & Carson Munn
Students and an EMT inside a mobile ambulance in the Dominican Republic
Toward a limited series

Stories all over the worldUnderstanding what moves us to act.

Regret-Free Productions is developing a documentary series that follows each story beyond the individual—into the communities, relationships, and circumstances that surround it. Along the way, we experience a place through its culture, history, and everyday life, revealing not only what happened, but the world in which it became possible.

A community leader kneeling among a group of schoolchildren with their hands raised
In development

Miss Julie’s School of Beauty

Julie Chapus · Rochester, NY

A school for survivors of human trafficking — now officially open. We followed this story closely through the years leading up to the launch, and hope to return to tell it in full now that it’s a reality.

In development

Dr. Jallah Kennedy

Liberia · Global health

A nurse and epidemiologist who stood for academic integrity at great personal risk in Liberia, was forced to flee, and now leads a nonprofit doing vital work across Africa — alongside high-level international research and development.

Dr. Jallah Kennedy in conversation with students around a table
The vision

A network of uplifting stories about ordinary people who make a difference.

More documentaries. More places. One growing series — just getting started.

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