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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the North Carolina Fund
Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the NC Fund is a documentary film about a ground-breaking anti-poverty movement started in the 1960s by Terry Sanford’s effort to look realistically at […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Joseph Mitchell Project
Between 1938 and 1965, Joseph Mitchell became arguably the most influential writer in The New Yorker magazine’s history. Using fabled, lean prose, he wrote about the city’s slums, fish markets, […]
The REAL Mayberry
The REAL Mayberry is a portrait of the past, present, and future of Andy Griffith’s hometown of Mt. Airy, NC. In some ways, Mt. Airy is still the quaint, beautiful […]
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, […]
