THE LOWCOUNTRY
Charleston’s genteel reverie was shattered by shootings that exposed the underbelly of the city’s tourist mythology. Can black and white residents arrive at conciliation or will immutable Southern politeness censor
Charleston’s genteel reverie was shattered by shootings that exposed the underbelly of the city’s tourist mythology. Can black and white residents arrive at conciliation or will immutable Southern politeness censor
Big Charity is a feature-length documentary film about the tragic demise of the most important medical institution in the state of Louisiana, New Orleans’s 280-year-old Charity Hospital. This political and
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,
YOU’RE MUSLIM? is about Najma’s upbringing, identity, and community. This story will be told from an honest, raw and reflective space. Archival footage will visualize the African American Muslim experience.
Tuscarora Nation explores the powerful, often overlooked history of the Indigenous Tuscarora people of eastern North Carolina—from their early resistance to Euro-Colonial forces to their ongoing fight for federal recognition
Filmmaker Nadine Natour turns her lens on her parents and her hometown, Appomattox, VA, to capture the story of her parents’ emigration from Palestine to the United States. A view
TEACH explores the historic role of grassroots education and community schools in the Deep South of the 1950s and 60s, that were an integral part of the Southern Freedom Struggle.
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
n 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Southeast Georgia. The victims were predominantly Black women, manufacturing trip flares for the Vietnam War. Over 50
In 1980, two events – the Cuban Mariel exodus and the McDuffie riots, shattered the image of Miami as a tourist paradise, revealing instead, a place torn by racial tensions
Jones Farm is a lush, 688-acre farm situated in the heart of western Alabama. Three generations of black women explore their very different ties to this place that shaped them
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