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 […]
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 […]
Childless by Choice
Childless by Choice: Love, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness explores the motivations and decision-making processes of couples who have chosen or are considering a “child-free life.” Filmmaker Laura Scott, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Los Jets
In a small southern city, a group of “outsiders” will show the world what it means to be a champion. This is the real story of Los Jets–a North Carolina […]
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, […]
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 […]
