By accident, three kids video a suicide at Niagara Falls. Word gets around this desperately poor town. On-edge residents ask about also leaping: doing the ultimate YouTube. The kids' answer: auditions. Tell everyone they didn't get the part.

Official selection at Cannes Shorts Center, Sedona, Newport, LA, and Hollywood DV Film Festivals. Created with Barton’s “video theater” improvisational approach to filmmaking. Was created in the voice of children flung through the air by the atomic bomb. To create this effect, a trampoline was used with the camera on its side, so that the children appear to be flying.

Women of '69, Unboxed is a documentary film directed by Peter Barton that showcases the experiences of 19 women who graduated from Skidmore College in 1969, during a time when it was an all-women college. The film explores the challenges these women faced in regards to marriage, careers, and the decision to have children. Women of '69, Unboxed has won two awards at film festivals and offers a poignant and inspiring testament to the strength and resilience of these women.

Disabled veterans at a fictional version of Walter Reed create a springboard DIVING team called The Brew Angels, after their favorite fuel. Their morale is low and their rehab facility, like the real Walter Reed, is threatened with closing. Conquering their fears and inhibitions, the vets hop out onto the high board and take flight, reclaiming futures they thought had been stolen from them.Their coach is their night nurse, a former high school star who could use some rehab herself.The success of the team draws attention to the way all vets are under-served and under-respected these days.

A portrait-in-motion of Company 'd' from Memphis, dancers with Down syndrome who are all about POSSibility, says self-advocate Amanda, not disability.Our movie features a poignant performance to "Somewhere", from West Side Story, interviews with dancers and parents, an exploration of tough issues like aging parents and the difficulty of finding meaningful work.

This video was created as part of the outreach and recruitment for Common Cents, a powerful, joyous program that began in NYC schools and is spreading to other parts of the country.Teddy and Nora Gross began with a simple idea: pennies are everywhere, often overlooked, treated with condescension. Not unlike young people.They created an organization that mobilizes students to collect pennies door to door and bring them in to school. Those pennies add up. A few years ago they created a giant Penny Field at Rockefeller Center filled with their Harvest. Total amount collected: nearly A MILLION DOLLARS.The beauty part is that the funds collected go back to each school and a student-run committee decides what group in the community will receive a grant to further its good work. So students become activists with clout, the power of the purse, able to make real changes in their neighborhoods. So they're more likely to continue to want to change the world in the future, since they've been successful in this first enterprise.We created some original music for the video, having fun We- Are -The -World-style.

Barton is always looking for stories of courage, journeys of people facing daunting odds.
This documentary follows the battles of two Parkinson’s patients to remain active, creative,
joyful and productive in spite of their illness. They fight back by painting, dancing, exercising,
writing, singing and, most dramatically, BOXING.

Barton worked on this film after graduating from Yale Drama in 1966. During that period, the ongoing Vietnam War inspired his idea for a movie about a young climber who sought to escape the violence on the streets. The film's script initially faced some disagreements, but the wife of one of Barton's teachers helped them cast a young black/latin/Native American kid who fit the scenario perfectly. The legendary Haig Manoogian, mentor to Martin Scorsese, suggested they do a documentary about the young actor, Riff, instead. Thus, the documentary took shape, combining Barton's scenario with Riff's personal experiences. The resulting film won an award equivalent to a student Academy Award, though Barton was only credited as an associate director and scenarist. Following this accomplishment, he met with Stan Lee and cherished the memory. He ran into Riff years later on the Upper West Side, where he still had his infectious smile and a love for art.

A groundbreaking documentary shown at the First Women's Film Festival in 1971. A loving portrait of Jane Giese, single mother of five in the Ironbound section of Newark. We track Janie's growth and empowerment as she realizes she is a valuable worker in the home and can be an influential organizer/activist in this working-class community.