THE NEUTRAL GROUND

THE NEUTRAL GROUND is a feature length documentary about New Orleans’ fight over monuments and America’s centuries-long relationship with the Lost Cause. THE NEUTRAL GROUND follows writer and comedian CJ […]

Socks on Fire

When the matriarch of a large Southern family passed without a written will, Bo McGuire returns home to Hokes Bluff, Alabama, to document the mounting standoff. A poet composes a […]

ADVENTURES OF T-MAN

ADVENTURES OF T-MAN is a coming of age story about Terrence, a 26-year-old African American man with high-functioning autism living in Charlotte, North Carolina. Curious, earnest, but naïve, he yearns […]

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 […]

LILLIAN SMITH: BREAKING THE SILENCE

Not enough people remember Lillian Smith. She was one of the first white southern authors to crusade against the evils of segregation. Her novel “Strange Fruit” (1944) explored an interracial […]

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 […]

TEACH

TEACH explores the historic role of grassroots education and community schools in the Deep South of the 1950s and 60s, that were an integral part of the Southern Freedom Struggle. […]

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