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Environment & Nature

Black Mountain Spaces

From the 1940’s to the 1970’s, Central Appalachia lost, in some cases 75% of it’s Black population due to out-migration. The patterns of the Great Migration saw the abandonment of

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Mountain Top Removal

Throughout southern Appalachia mountaintop removal coal mining is on the rise, blasting and leveling highland forests and streams. The process literally changes the geology of the region. Citizens negatively impacted

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A CITY IN THE FOREST

In Atlanta, a diverse intersectional movement defends an urban forest from Cop City, a plan for the country’s largest police training facility. This film paints a prismatic portrait of the

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Wild Yogi

Wild Yogi is a visual ode that presents the life of young Tikaram Yogi, as he journeys through the heart of Nepal in search of the divine. Tikaram’s metamorphosis into

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UTICA

UTICA puts a face to issues surrounding food security and access, community development, and agriculture. The stakes are high for Utica as access to one of life’s necessities — food

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Rock Castle Home

In the mid-1930s, the Blue Ridge Parkway was born. As Rock Castle Gorge became part of the National Park Service’s plan to lure tourists to the Blue Ridge, farm families

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Mossville

There once was a town called Mossville; a community rich in natural resources and history, founded by former slaves and free people of color, where neighbors took care of one

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MOMMA

Some say that grief is love that has nowhere to go. This film explores grief as love that’s begging to be repurposed. Momma intimately displays a mother’s love and her

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Jackie & Shadow

Jackie & Shadow is a love story about two bald eagles who reside near Big Bear Lake in San Bernardino County, California. Over the past 10 years, the wild eagles

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