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CHITLINGS - FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD - Production Stilll

CHITLINGS – FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD

The Case Against 8

PEACE IN OUR POCKETS

By Sidney Lumet

HILLBILLY

Soul City

Inner Revolutions: Muslim Americans and the Legacy of Imam Khomeini

Lost Bomber

A NEW KIND OF LISTENING

Day Job

SALTWATA VIBES

HOLLOW TREE

Prodigal Mary

Subjects cooking together

COOKING INSIDE: FROM PRISON TO HOME

BASKETBALL HEAVEN

Black Mountain Spaces

GULLAH GONE: PRESERVING THE LAND, WATER AND CULTURE OF THE SEA ISLANDS

Truth Underground: 3 NC Spoken Word Poets

The REAL Mayberry

JIG SHOW | Leon Claxton’s Harlem in Havana

Washerwoman – DO NOT PUBLISH

Hannah Myers' father walking down the South Carolina beach.

DADDY

Moving Midway

Mountain Top Removal

SDF Welcome Mixer at The Fruit

HOMELAND/WETLAND

MOMMA

FARMSTEADERS

IN MEMORY OF HER

LA ORQUESTA

The Keepers

Doubletime

Althea

Dan Krebill in his garden with videographer Simone Keith

THE UNCOMMON GARDEN

MIRAGE: THE COST OF FANTASY

TAKE ANOTHER LOOK

Civil War

THE CIVIL WAR AND THE FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA

Romare Bearden's groundbreaking mural-sized collage 'The Block' (1971) shows a slice of African-American life in Harlem.

Romare Bearden: A Life In Collage

Landscapes of the Heart: The Elizabeth Spencer Story

I ❤️ Bob Denver

Can't Stop Change Banner

CAN’T STOP CHANGE

Birthday cake with white frosting and purple piping. Birthday message reads "They're a Hermaphrodite". The candles are in the shape of 21.

THE INTERSEX GAMBIT

a set of train tracks with a rustic, rural setting featuring old buildings and a tree-lined path. The sunlight is shining directly on the tracks, creating a reflective glow.

PLAINSPOKEN

The Imaginary Village of Allan Gurganus

Robert Ruark

SANTUARIO

Down In the Hollow

Border Crossing 101

Love Lived on Death Row

Alice Gerrard sings while holding and playing guitar.

YOU GAVE ME A SONG

REFUGE

MIAMI 1980

IRANIAN HILLBILLY

Satana Deberry

THE DAY THAT SHOOK GEORGIA

The Waiting List

I, Destini

BULLS AND SAINTS

Aerial image showing a bridge running across the frame. The bridge is above a wide river and soft blue mountains are in the distance. On the bridge is a peloton of cyclists riding from left to right across the bridge.

CHASING CAMBODIA

THE HOLLOW

SISTER SENATORS

Queen of Everything You See

Coach Morgan Wootten and the DeMatha Legacy

Team embracing on the court moments after winning state championship

LOVE WEST

The Blue Ridge Documentary Series

Swine Country: A Community Polluted Fighting For Change

A landscape image shows a gravel road between two cow fields receding into a fog tinted gold by the sunset.

Come Here To Go Yonder

TEACH

YOU GAVE ME A SONG: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF ALICE GERRARD

I LOVE YOU, ALLWAYS

BLAKTASTIK: SOUTH CAROLINA BLACK CREATIVE CULTURE

Sacred Sound

The Searchers

After Coal

UNITED SKATES

Gone to the Poorhouse

Pinball

Bull City Summer

Durham Civil Rights History Mural Project

A LOVE SUPREME: BLACK, QUEER, AND CHRISTIAN IN THE SOUTH

Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader

UNLEARN: THE CONSEQUENCES OF RACISM

The Passing On

A younger adult black woman smiles on a stage. She is wearing a 1950s-style shirt and skirt and cat-eye glasses. The set on stage is sparse, with just a porch, and is dimly lit, as though for evening.

SEPTIMA: FROM A TO Z

This photograph depicts Atlantic Ocean overwash, flooding and destruction of Highway 12 on Ocracoke Island following Hurricane Dorian in 2019 ― a storm that devastated portions of Ocracoke, Hatteras and Portsmouth islands in less than an hour.

Living on the Edge: The Outer Banks Odyssey

There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down

A shadowy figure walks through a door into a church

OUT OF DARKNESS

The Floyd Radio Show

THE NEUTRAL GROUND

FIRST VOTE

One Kind Favor

Alabamaland

ONE RIVER, ONE BOAT

Monsoon Modern

MONSOON MODERN

JUVENILE

They Tried to Bury Us

YOU’RE MUSLIM?

SLICE

Two men stand behind a sign that reads "Local 1054 TWUA on strike. Don't cross our picket line."

DON’T CROSS OUR PICKET LINE: OPERATION DIXIE AND THE TWUA-CIO LOCAL 1054 STRIKE OF AMERICAN ENKA (Working Title)

Shrink It & Pink It

SHRINK IT & PINK IT

A Puppet Intervention

Bronco Roads - Life in the South with Stacy Dean Campbell

BRONCO ROADS – LIFE IN THE SOUTH WITH STACY DEAN CAMPBELL

JUMPING JACK FLASH

FEMME FATAL

GENX: THE SAGA OF FOREVER CHEMICALS

LILLIAN SMITH: BREAKING THE SILENCE

Borders and Belonging: A portfolio of photographs from the U.S.–Mexico Border Project (2007-2016)

Benevolence

Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck

27 Months

LITTLE SATCHMO

BLACK VOTERS MATTER - Still

BLACK VOTERS MATTER

Not Your Model Minority! Asian Activists in the South

Mississippi

THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA: DREAMS AND REALITY

Farmer/Veteran

1511

A TASTE OF HEAVEN: THE ECSTATIC SONG & GOSPEL OF MAESTRO RAYMOND ANTHONY MYLES

Rocaterrania

32 BLOCKS

BETWEEN THE RAINS

Rock Castle Home

The Ties That Bind

WHILE I BREATHE, I HOPE

Don’t Get Trouble in Your Mind: the Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Story

L-R: Claude Pinson (Sportin' Life), Dr. Annette McKenzie Anderson (Bess) and Reuben Wright (Porgy) wave at the Customs House in Charleston, SC. Promotional photo from 1970.

WHEN PORGY CAME HOME

A Chef’s Life

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

Can’t Stop Change Screening + Co-Directors Q&A

Raising Bertie

Terence Blanchard: See Me As I Am

TERENCE BLANCHARD: SEE ME AS I AM

PHOTO FARM

Greensboro: Closer to the Truth

Vittles

A man in his 70's, Cristóbal, wearing a white cowboy hat and black mustache, holds on to a chestnut racehorse as they are transported by trailer to a racetrack in Lexington, Kentucky.

BACKSIDE

The Loving Story

These Kids This City

Still Standing: The Real Story of the NC Textile Industry

Tobacco Money Feeds My Family

American Reckoning

Stills from Coastal Healing Project documentary videos. Photos from Coastal Healing Project documentary video production workshops.

Coastal Healing Project

OUTTA THE MUCK

A film stock replication with still photos of the competitors and their environments. Text reads West of Greatness: a Film about Dreams, Desperation, and Bodybuilding.

WEST OF GREATNESS

A CITY IN THE FOREST

Y’ALL COME SEE

EVE’S GARDEN

An elderly man stares out the window of his home near Tokyo, Japan.

A HELLO STORY

Brenda Hampton crying at a grave site.

ANGEL OF ALABAMA

Musings of an Iraqi Patriot

The Rise and Fall of Liberty

Brother Joseph and the Grotto

Overhead shot of inside of brewery. Black woman stands to side with hands on hips looking deep in thought. Metal sign "BEER" on wooden table in middle of the room to her left.

THIS BELONGS TO US

SOMAY KU: A Uganda Tennis Story

Camp Spokes

CAMP SPOKES: SHRED INTO TOMORROW

The Joseph Mitchell Project

Check In/ Pass pickup at The Fruit

ONCE UPON A WETLAND

BOONIES

Change Journey: Facing Terminal Illness

UTICA

Living Off the Line: Stories from The Clothesline Muse

The Lost Cause: A New Southern History

TRAVEL NOTES OF A GEECHEE GIRL

In So Many Words

STATE OF RODEO

Tanya Smith-Johnson smiles as she stands over the shoulder of her client during a postpartum visit in a mobile midwifery van in Hawaii. Her client, a Black mother with tatoos, sits on an exam table and smiles at her baby, a newborn with curly tufts of black hair. Tanya has a stethoscope around her neck and wears a black T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan "THE FUTURE IS ACCESSIBLE MIDWIFERY CARE."

DELIVERING JUSTICE

THE MAKING OF THE NUEVO SOUTH

PLEASE ASK FOR IT

Occupy the Imagination: Tales of Seduction and Resistance

Recovery Boys

QUEEN OF THE NIGGERATI: ZORA NEALE HURSTON’S CONJURING IN DURHAM, NC

DEVIL TOWN (Working Title)

DOC SAVANNAH PRESENTS POV: OUR AMERICA DOCUMENTARIES IN DIALOGUE

A Sense of the Fitness of Things

THE MIND’S EYE

CONJURE

Miss Nancy Minds Their Manners

The Final Gift

Underfunded, the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area struggles to fulfill its original use.

BETWEEN THE RIVERS: THE HISTORY OF THE LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES

A rectangle divided into four quadrants, with a white woman, with a short brown haircut, in her mid-forties, looks over her shoulder from the bottom left quadrant at three cartoon drawings in the other quadrants(clockwise): a blob brushing its teeth; a a young woman with a locked chain circling her chest; and a superhero with braids and boots flying with a super-mutt

BIPOLAR GIRL RULES THE WORLD

MAKING BANK

THE BENSON FIVE

BENDING STICKS: THE SCULPTURE OF PATRICK DOUGHERTY

A worker trims the top of a Fraser fir on a Christmas tree farm in Ashe County, North Carolina.

The Heart of the Christmas Tree

Can’t Stop the Water

HOW TO SUE THE KLAN

MAY THE LORD WATCH: THE LITTLE BROTHER STORY

BENDING SPACE: GEORGES ROUSSE AND THE DURHAM PROJECT

Silent Beauty

Untitled Craft Brewing Documentary

True Conviction

A Life After Death

Mossville

Blacksmith Elizabeth Brim working in her iron studio near Penland School

IRON PEARLS

Scott Dawson and Mark Horton search for artifacts from The Lost Colony of Roanoke to finally discover the conclusion to their story.

FINDING CROATOAN: THE UNTOLD TRUTH OF AMERICA’S OLDEST MYSTERY

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