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Roleplay

ROLEPLAY is a feature documentary that follows a year in the life of a group of American college students as they confront the sexual violence and toxicity on their campus

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Raising Bertie

Bertie County, North Carolina is like many rural counties struggling economically due to the closures of manufacturing plants. Bertie’s second largest employer, Wrangler, closed in 2003. The largest employers now

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MIAMI 1980

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

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They Tried to Bury Us

Directed by Bree Newsome Bass, THEY TRIED TO BURY US highlights the evolution of Bree’s activist organizing since 2015 when she scaled the flagpole at South Carolina’s capital and removed

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Althea

Director Rex Miller began searching for Althea Gibson’s story because of a photograph that hung on the wall of his childhood bedroom. Taken in 1960, it shows two brown-skinned women,

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THE CONTENDERS

First-time filmmaker Chris Davis’ THE CONTENDERS is a documentary set on the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina, following the lives of Charles Singleton (62) and his young family as they

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Martin F. Jue Documentary

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

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Carter Country

Set in the small town of Plains, Georgia, “Carter Country” follows the unlikely rise of Jimmy Carter from a one-term governor to President, as seen through the eyes of his

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