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WILMINGTON ON FIRE: CHAPTER II

Directed and produced by Christopher Everett, WILMINGTON ON FIRE: CHAPTER II documents a community’s fight for justice and equality in a city that is still affected by an insurrection that

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Tig

“Good evening, I have cancer,” comedian Tig Notaro famously announced in front of a stunned audience back in 2012, “Everyone having a good time? I have cancer.” In just 30

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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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Always in Season

ALWAYS IN SEASON explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this form of historic racial terrorism to racial violence today. The film

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DEVIL TOWN (Working Title)

Donate DEVIL TOWN examines the sordid history of a now sleepy small town in the American South, Phenix City, Alabama. It was here that local officials once allowed violent murders

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Pass It On

Pass It On reflects on Reynolds Price’s 50 years of teaching English literature and writing at Duke University. Through the eyes of colleagues, former students, his peers, and with Price’s own

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The Passing On

Three professions ushered Black former slaves from poverty to the American dream: preacher, teacher, and undertaker. Now, renowned embalmer James Bryant puts his faith in a new generation to continue

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