Pinball

Pinball paints a portrait of contemporary immigrant suburbia in Louisville through Yosef, a 19-year old Iraqi-American boy. He is at a crossroads in his adolescence where he and his friends […]

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 […]

SALTWATA VIBES

SALTWATA VIBES is an Afrofuturist journey of a brother and sister exploring how their Gullah Geechee contemporaries are crafting a generationally relevant cultural identity and creating a modern contemporary music […]

The Lost Cause: A New Southern History

The Lost Cause: A New Southern History is a feature documentary about the unexpected removal of Confederate monuments in Raleigh, North Carolina from the capitol grounds. The film will be told from […]

THIS BELONGS TO US

If you walk into the average American brewery, pub, or bottle shop you might pass a few cornhole boards on your way in, hear 90s rock or alternative music piped […]

The Black Future Initiative

The Black Future Manifest[o] is a living, breathing audio archive that will attempt to answer the questions, what needs to be done and what is currently being done to ensure […]

SANTUARIO

Juana Luz Tobar Ortega came to the United States 24 years ago as an asylum seeker from Guatemala. For the last 6 years living in North Carolina, Juana has checked […]

FIRST VOTE

As the filmmaker contemplates becoming a first-time voter, she takes a deeply personal journey to battleground states and explores the themes of identity, race, and immigration through a series of […]

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