Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader
Chairman Jones tells the story of director Anna Jones’s father, James Henry Jones, who was born on a former slave plantation in 1916. A self-educated farmer, he emerged as a […]
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 […]
Private Violence
This feature-length documentary film and audience engagement campaign explores a simple but deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous place for a woman in America is her own […]
WHILE I BREATHE, I HOPE
HILLBILLY
Appalachia is as old as it is complex. Comprising Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Virginia, as well as parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, the region and its […]
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, […]
