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Pit Crew

A diverse group of aspiring stock car mechanics in the South seek an opportunity to join NASCAR pit crews as the sport reckons with the pandemic and the acknowledgement of

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Miss Nancy Minds Their Manners

Miss Nancy Minds Their Manners is an earnest and heartfelt documentary film that follows 74 year old “Miss Nancy” Rascoe through the engaging task of teaching manners to children in

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Spies of Mississippi

Spring of 1964 and the civil rights community is gearing up for a major operation nicknamed Mississippi Freedom Summer. Hundreds, if not thousands, of mostly-white student activists from the North

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MEANT TO BE MADDIE

Volatile politics, changing social norms and an ever-growing list of transphobic legislation provide a backdrop to this coming of age story of a North Carolina transgender teenager and her family.

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Los Jets

In a small southern city, a group of “outsiders” will show the world what it means to be a champion. This is the real story of Los Jets–a North Carolina

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Ethel Mae Elliot, left, and Lena Mae Perry, right, perform at The Branchettes 23rd Anniversary in 1996, Long Branch Disciples of Christ, New Grove, North Carolina. Photo by Roland L. Freeman, from the documentary film STAY PRAYED UP.

STAY PRAYED UP

Making music and making a life are one in the same in this celebratory documentary about a legendary NC gospel group and their 82 year old matron who’s powerful testimony

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Alamance County, 2020

Set in a small North Carolina community, Alamance County, 2020 captures a single year when the ground shifted beneath everyone’s feet. As the pandemic shutters schools and storefronts, the rhythms

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A Chef’s Life

Chef Vivian Howard was making a name for herself in the New York City restaurant world when her father, a hog farmer from Eastern North Carolina, made her an offer

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Brother Joseph and the Grotto

Brother Joseph and the Grotto tells the “true fairy tale” of Brother Joseph, the tiny Bavarian hunchback monk who built Ave Maria Grotto, a miniature city of recycled materials in

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