Can’t Stop the Water
For 170 years, a Native American Cajun community has occupied Isle de Jean Charles, a tiny island deep in the bayous of South Louisiana. For these Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians, their land
For 170 years, a Native American Cajun community has occupied Isle de Jean Charles, a tiny island deep in the bayous of South Louisiana. For these Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians, their land
A father’s search to find the healthiest building materials leads him to the completion of the nation’s first hemp house. Hemp with lime is a non-toxic, energy-efficient, mildew-resistant, fire-resistant, and
For years, independent investigative journalist Rhiannon Fionn traveled the country collecting stories about coal ash, America’s second-largest stockpile of trash. What she discovered is that it’s likely making people sick,
HOLLOW TREE is a feature documentary that tells the interconnected stories of three young women coming of age in Louisiana during a time of rapid climate change. As they learn
As a prolonged drought intensifies the conflict between two pastoral tribes over grazing lands in Kenya’s northern rangelands, an orphaned shepherd boy searches for a path forward while his village
More than 50 years after their family farms were forcibly taken to create the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, former residents are protesting the government’s current use of
“The Mississippi Delta: Dreams and Reality” is a short-form documentary that follows the daily lives of five individuals living in the Mississippi Delta region, exploring their hopes and dreams for
Local filmmakers lay out the past 100 years of man v. nature in the Louisiana Homeland/Wetland and extrapolate into the future both grim and heroic possibilities. Director | Daneeta Loretta
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