Brother Joseph and the Grotto

Brother Joseph and the Grotto tells the “true fairy tale” of Brother Joseph, the tiny Bavarian hunchback monk who built Ave Maria Grotto, a miniature city of recycled materials in […]

Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos

Brother Towns is a story of two towns linked by immigration, family, and work: Jacaltenango, a highland Maya town in Guatemala; and Jupiter, a coastal resort town where many Jacaltecos […]

Bull City Summer

On the 25th anniversary of iconic baseball film Bull Durham, Bull City Summer aims to put together a team of writers and photographers to document the 2013 season at Durham […]

BULL DOGGIN’ – THE BILL PICKETT STORY

It’s 1921 in the tiny rural town of Boley, Oklahoma, founded just two decades before by Creek Freedmen whose ancestors had been held as slaves during the Indian Removal of […]

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 […]

Concerto

Concerto is a documentary that tells the story of two gifted classical instrumentalists who endured a difficult childhood to become the accomplished symphony musicians they are today. Christopher Rex is the […]

Doubletime

Doubletime follows two disparate teams –one suburban white and one inner-city black– as they train to compete against each other for the very first time. The Bouncing Bulldogs of Chapel […]

Down In the Hollow

Nathan Roark uses hand-cut firewood in his wood stove for warmth and cooking in his hand-built house which he shares with his wife and two kids in the Blue Ridge […]

Durham Civil Rights History Mural Project

Beginning in 2013, 30 diverse community members, ages 15-65, came together during a 16-week period to engage in Durham’s Civil Rights History through a series of lectures, music performances, research […]

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