
Tobacco Money Feeds My Family
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

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

Blaktastik is an explorative look at contemporary and alternative South Carolina Black culture and how Generations Y and Z are redefining blackness using new and creative ways. This film series

This documentary is the story of Ward Sutton, a certified mortician and undertaker. Sutton has the ability and proper credentials to locate mostly unmarked graves, dig up the bodies, and

As the nation looks to Richmond, VA, to reckon with its Confederate legacy, this filmmaker sets out to uncover the housing system’s revisionist history: which has left her hometown divided

HOTEL CLERMONT documents the last days of a storied Atlanta hotel and the lives of its residents, who occupy the fringes of Atlanta society. Until it was officially shuttered in

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

Down on the Blues Alley in Holly Springs, Mississippi, you might meet David “Fox” Caldwell, the beloved owner of Aikei Pro’s Record Shop. Established in 1960 and a landmark on

Forty years after his career was ruined by his mother’s murder, the Vietnam draft, the end of his record label, and a wrongful conviction, “Mad Lads” front man John Gary

An exploration into the fantastic, revolutionary world of Black Nerd Culture in America. Blerd Nation is a transformative documentary series that shines a spotlight on Black American enthusiasts of comic

When neighborhood friends from Church Hill in Richmond, VA launch their music careers as teens in the face of Jim Crow, segregation in the music industry, and the early civil

I met Tommy by pure chance a few years ago, while filming a project with autistic teenagers. I was immediately struck by his love for life and his desire to

It was a politically hot summer in 1986 in Durham, North Carolina, long a textile and tobacco town. Recently elected Mayor Wib Gulley faced a fierce campaign by Christian fundamentalists
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