A Southern Town At The Crossroads

It was a politically hot summer in 1986 in Durham, North Carolina, long a textile and tobacco town. Recently elected Mayor Wib Gulley faced a fierce campaign by Christian fundamentalists […]

OASIS in Atlanta

OASIS in Atlanta addresses the reasons Atlanta, GA did not experience the amount of racial unrest as in other Southern cities like Little Rock, AR; Birmingham, Al; and Augusta, GA. […]

Signs & Wonders

Valerie McMillan, one of only four Black certified ASL interpreters in North Carolina, has been voicing for others since she first learned to speak. Now at midlife, she must decide […]

The Silenced Truth Podcast

When survivors of sexual abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention and other conservative Christian groups realize their calls for reform have been buried by politics and patriarchy, they take their […]

Building Habitat

“Building Habitat” is a biopic chronicling the tumultuous life of Millard Fuller, the visionary yet controversial founder of Habitat for Humanity, whose relentless drive to provide housing for those in […]

Alamance County, 2020

Set in a small North Carolina community, Alamance County, 2020 captures a single year when the ground shifted beneath everyone’s feet. As the pandemic shutters schools and storefronts, the rhythms […]

REEF KEEPERS

REEF KEEPERS follows scientists’ journey of care, connection, and defiance as they refuse to let Florida’s Coral Reef, and the communities that depend on it, slip away. Amid record-breaking heat […]

Whoever Gets Fired The Most Times Wins

“Whoever Gets Fired The Most Times Wins,” a short documentary film project on the story of survival in the time of DOGE. Ordinary federal workers organized to save their agency, […]

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