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Civil Rights & Social Justice

American Union

American Union is a documentary film about coal miners and Amazon workers in Alabama as they unite, sparking a resurgence in the labor movement and inspiring a new era of

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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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Pelada

Four soccer-playing filmmakers abandon jobs, renew passports, trade novels for Lonely Planets, and travel the world in search of pick-up games: impromptu scenes that arise anywhere, between anyone. As we

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The Radical Experiment of Haiti

A Haitian-American filmmaker retraces her ancestral link to a 19th-century abolitionist who led free African Americans to Haiti in a radical pursuit of liberty, only to confront what the nation’s

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Signs & Wonders

In a world that too often overlooks race and disability in the same breath, Valerie McMillan, a Black interpreter and only hearing child of deaf adults (OHCODA), confronts a legacy

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Seven Acres and a Church

Seven Acres and a Church is an urgent call to action following Ms. Georgia Benton, a community matriarch, as she leads the fight to preserve First Bryan Baptist Church—the oldest continuous

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Monsoon Modern

MONSOON MODERN

Monsoon Modern: A Place for Peace is an architecture documentary about much more than buildings. It tells the story of a group of architects in Sri Lanka that successfully devised

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15

The Brunswick 15 (working title) is a documentary that chronicles and brings context to the experiences of fifteen young rural Blacks along the crossroads of race, education and politics and

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