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MADIE SUE

This is the story of the filmmaker’s grandmother, Mrs. Madie Stanley. She was born in 1939 in Greenville, North Carolina, and was the first and only child of her mother

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Martin F. Jue Documentary

Martin F. Jue, a reserved Chinese American engineer from the Mississippi Delta, built a global ham radio empire from brilliance and grit. Now, in his final years, he faces an

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We All Die (working title)

Americans have had a fluid relationship with death. In the 19th century it was romanticized and even embraced. Today death is a forbidden topic – something relegated to sterile hospital

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The Rise and Fall of Liberty

The Rise and Fall of Liberty examines Durham’s development and shifting economy through the lens of its last tobacco auction house. In its prime, Liberty Warehouse was a central part

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DEVIL TOWN (Working Title)

Donate DEVIL TOWN examines the sordid history of a now sleepy small town in the American South, Phenix City, Alabama. It was here that local officials once allowed violent murders

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Tiny

The untold story of Tiny Broadwick, the fearless circus performer known as “The Doll Girl,” who became the first person to make a freefall parachute jump. Never-before-seen photos reveal how

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Down In the Hollow

Nathan Roark uses hand-cut firewood in his wood stove for warmth and cooking in his hand-built house which he shares with his wife and two kids in the Blue Ridge

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MOMMA

Some say that grief is love that has nowhere to go. This film explores grief as love that’s begging to be repurposed. Momma intimately displays a mother’s love and her

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A Puppet Intervention

Forget anything that comes to mind when you think of a puppet show. The documentary film A Puppet Intervention brings to the screen radical puppetry as alternative community theater –

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Uncensored

Uncensored is a documentary that recounts the peril journalists endured while covering Colombia’s narcoterrorism violence in the 1980s and 1990s during the reign of Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel. In 1985,

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Queen of Everything You See

Queen of Everything You See is a remarkable and joyful story, told and filmed by fourteen-year-old Holly James over a one-year period in her small, northern California, coastal town. Though Holly

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