
THE CONTENDERS
First-time filmmaker Chris Davis’ THE CONTENDERS is a documentary set on the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina, following the lives of Charles Singleton (62) and his young family as they

First-time filmmaker Chris Davis’ THE CONTENDERS is a documentary set on the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina, following the lives of Charles Singleton (62) and his young family as they

Can stories save lives? Filmmaker and occasional superhero Dawn Dreyer bet on it. What starts as a terrible idea (making an animated documentary when you can barely get out of
In Atlanta, a diverse intersectional movement defends an urban forest from Cop City, a plan for the country’s largest police training facility. This film paints a prismatic portrait of the

Today, the red wolf is facing a decision that will ultimately decide its fate as a species. Over the course of its history, it has gone from abundant to extinct

“Whoever Gets Fired The Most Times Wins,” a short documentary film project on the story of survival in the time of DOGE. Ordinary federal workers organized to save their agency,

Three working-class women from across North Carolina take part in a bold grassroots experiment—testing whether ordinary people, not institutions or heroes, can reclaim democracy by uniting rural communities against a

Big Charity is a feature-length documentary film about the tragic demise of the most important medical institution in the state of Louisiana, New Orleans’s 280-year-old Charity Hospital. This political and
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