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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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HILLBILLY

Appalachia is as old as it is complex. Comprising Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Virginia, as well as parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, the region and its

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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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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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Gee's Bend: Welcome to the Hole

GEE’S BEND: WELCOME TO THE HOLE

Gee’s Bend, Alabama, also known as Boykin, is an African-American majority community in the rural American South most notably known for its rich, intergenerational legacy of quilting. “Gee’s Bend: Welcome

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HEADWATERS DOWN: THE LOWER JAMES

HEADWATERS DOWN: THE LOWER JAMES (HWD:TLJ) is a feature-length documentary that follows five friends as they attempt to finish a multi-year project: exploring every inch of Virginia’s James River, one

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Digging Them Up

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

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Shrink It & Pink It

SHRINK IT & PINK IT

Industrial Design – often thought of as design for mass manufacturing – is dominated by White male designers. This lack of diversity on design teams has significant consequences for those

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The REAL Mayberry

The REAL Mayberry is a portrait of the past, present, and future of Andy Griffith’s hometown of Mt. Airy, NC. In some ways, Mt. Airy is still the quaint, beautiful

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