A True American Story: Tabby: For Life (r)

TABBY: FOR LIFE® follows four interconnected Black families — the Burtons, the Braswells, the Williams, and the Rogers — across six generations and two centuries in Manatee County, Florida. It […]

The Hitmaker: Bernard Purdie

Inventor of the famous “Purdie Shuffle”, the most recorded drummer of all time, Bernard Purdie’s life and legacy is explored in this feature documentary as he continues to tour internationally […]

Post In Black

Post in Black is a podcast and community platform that amplifies the voices of Black post-production professionals through interviews, live events, and educational programming, addressing the lack of visibility and […]

Seabreeze: A Legacy

The story of Seabreeze, NC. A black owned and operated beach community that thrived during the early 1900s, on the coast of North Carolina. An encapsulation of Seabreeze’s foundation, people, […]

The Radical Experiment of Haiti

A Haitian-American filmmaker retraces her ancestral link to a 19th-century abolitionist who led free African Americans to Haiti in a radical pursuit of liberty, only to confront what the nation’s […]

A Southern Town At The Crossroads

It was a politically hot summer in 1986 in Durham, North Carolina, long a textile and tobacco town. Recently elected Mayor Wib Gulley faced a fierce campaign by Christian fundamentalists […]

Signs & Wonders

Valerie McMillan, one of only four Black certified ASL interpreters in North Carolina, has been voicing for others since she first learned to speak. Now at midlife, she must decide […]

Building Habitat

“Building Habitat” is a biopic chronicling the tumultuous life of Millard Fuller, the visionary yet controversial founder of Habitat for Humanity, whose relentless drive to provide housing for those in […]

Alamance County, 2020

Set in a small North Carolina community, Alamance County, 2020 captures a single year when the ground shifted beneath everyone’s feet. As the pandemic shutters schools and storefronts, the rhythms […]

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