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, […]
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 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, […]
Coach Morgan Wootten and the DeMatha Legacy
Is Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Morgan Wootten the greatest high school basketball coach ever and possibly one of the best coaches in any sport at any level? As the […]
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 […]
27 Months
Three Americans join the Peace Corps and set off to change the world. For 27 months Andy, Marcy and Kate try to help remote communities of Azerbaijan, Liberia and the […]
The Last Barn Dance
Randy Lewis knows that losing his dairy business would mean losing his livelihood – his farm is limping along through an economy that has decimated most other family farms in […]
BENDING SPACE: GEORGES ROUSSE AND THE DURHAM PROJECT
What happens when a visionary French artist meets the creative spirit of a former Tobacco Road town in the midst of downtown revitalization? A singular grassroots arts project emerges that […]
WHILE I BREATHE, I HOPE
