A Life After Death
After spending 30 years on Alabama’s death row, an innocent man navigates his newfound freedom while his renowned civil rights attorney fights to hold the state accountable. Framed by a […]
True Conviction
There’s a new detective agency in Dallas, Texas, started by three exonerated men, with decades in prison served between them. They call themselves the Freedom Fighters, and they are looking […]
The Imaginary Village of Allan Gurganus
Allan Gurganus is a product of small towns of the North Carolina Piedmont, which have been increasingly reflected in his fiction. Having returned from New York City to his home […]
The Case Against 8
This documentary is a behind-the-scenes look at the key players and events involved in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the case that became the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to be decided […]
SOMAY KU: A Uganda Tennis Story
Patrick Olobo, Uganda’s top-ranked tennis player, struggles to leave behind a devastating civil war, finding a new set of obstacles after emigrating to the US. Uganda is in the midst […]
Something You Can Call Home
In September 2012, filmmaker Rebecca Kenyon vacated her London apartment to fund a yearlong journey spending time with homeless people in North Carolina. She was drawn to the coastal city […]
Spies of Mississippi
Spring of 1964 and the civil rights community is gearing up for a major operation nicknamed Mississippi Freedom Summer. Hundreds, if not thousands, of mostly-white student activists from the North […]
Still Standing: The Real Story of the NC Textile Industry
On July 30, 2003 the Pillowtex Corporation announced it would close its doors, sending nearly 5,000 textile workers home for good. The transformation of the textile industry is a story […]
Pass It On
Pass It On reflects on Reynolds Price’s 50 years of teaching English literature and writing at Duke University. Through the eyes of colleagues, former students, his peers, and with Price’s own […]
A Puppet Intervention
Forget anything that comes to mind when you think of a puppet show. The documentary film A Puppet Intervention brings to the screen radical puppetry as alternative community theater – […]
