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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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