Headed by producer/director Aaron Schock, Hecho A Mano Films (“Hand Made Films”) is a New York City-based documentary production company specializing in visually compelling, character-driven, point-of-view storytelling.

Emmy-nominated director Aaron Schock holds a MA in public policy from Columbia University and worked for many years in social research at Columbia and in non-profit community development in the South Bronx before making documentary films. 

His most recent project is the three-part docu-series INSTANT LIFE (co-directed & produced with Mark Becker), which tells the stranger-than-fiction story behind the Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys novelty toy.  An A24 production, the series premiered at Sundance as a work-in-progress and will be released soon. 

His feature documentary CIRCO premiered as the Los Angeles and BFI London Film Festivals, won the grand jury prize at the Hamptons International Film Festival (among other awards), was distributed theatrically in the US, UK, and Canada and shown nationally on PBS’s Independent Lens and internationally on HBO.  A First Run Features Release. 

His short film LA LAGUNA received a 2017 Cinema Eye Honors Award, and won Best Documentary Short at Woodstock Film Festival and the Panavision Best North American Short at the Palm Springs Film Festival, among other awards.  The film is distributed by Cinema Guild.