In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, two national motorcycle festivals are held over the weeks around the Memorial Day holiday. One festival is primarily white, the other is predominantly black. While
Knoxville, a city of about 200,000 at the base of the Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, is an unlikely venue for The Big Ears Festival—“America’s (the world’s?) most thrillingly diverse festival,”
If you closed your eyes and were asked to see an apple, could you do it? Could you visualize an apple, or your home, or a family member’s face? THE
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
Randy Lewis knows that losing his dairy business would mean losing his livelihood – his farm is limping along through an economy that has decimated most other family farms in
Inventor of the famous “Purdie Shuffle”, the most recorded drummer of all time, Bernard Purdie’s life and legacy is explored in this feature documentary as he continues to tour internationally
Don’t Get Trouble in Your Mind: The Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Story is a documentary portrait of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band from Raleigh, North Carolina, and their
While tobacco kills, for some it’s their livelihood. Why grow this killer crop? Cynthia Hill and Curtis Gaston explore this question in their film, Tobacco Money Feeds My Family. For
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