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HILLBILLY

7 ACRES AND A CHURCH

Brother Joseph and the Grotto

Concerto

Commuted documentary Screening and Late Night Mixer

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

A HELLO STORY

Camp Spokes

CAMP SPOKES: SHRED INTO TOMORROW

Saint Cloud Hill

Natour’s Grocery

Anonymous (Working Title)

SALTWATA VIBES

DEVIL TOWN (Working Title)

Lost Bomber

(DEY/DEM): A CHOREO-DOC

Blacksmith Elizabeth Brim working in her iron studio near Penland School

IRON PEARLS

Durham: A Self-Portrait

Musings of an Iraqi Patriot

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

SANTUARIO

A shadowy figure walks through a door into a church

OUT OF DARKNESS

ONCE UPON A WETLAND

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

Check In/ Pass pickup at The Fruit

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

120 Days

27 Months

CHITLINGS - FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD - Production Stilll

CHITLINGS – FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD

A NEW KIND OF LISTENING

Tobacco Money Feeds My Family

PLEASE ASK FOR IT

Border Crossing 101

ONE RIVER, ONE BOAT

MIAMI 1980

EVE’S GARDEN

Can’t Stop the Water

BLAKTASTIK: SOUTH CAROLINA BLACK CREATIVE CULTURE

1511

Always in Season

THE MAKING OF THE NUEVO SOUTH

BLACK VOTERS MATTER - Still

BLACK VOTERS MATTER

Made in Durham

Frying Fish in Florida

FRYING FISH IN FLORIDA

Mary’s Gone Wild

SISTER SENATORS

HOW TO SUE THE KLAN

Summer Headstones

I LOVE YOU, ALLWAYS

Sacred Sound

JIG SHOW | Leon Claxton’s Harlem in Havana

MEANT TO BE MADDIE

Love Lived on Death Row

HOLLOW TREE

The X-Factor: A Post-Katrina Narrative

The Passing On

Bringing It Home

TEACH

Philadelphia Alley in Charleston

THE LOWCOUNTRY

Rock Castle Home

NUEVO SOUTH MAGAZINE

NASHVILLE’S SOUL

Bull City Summer

IRANIAN HILLBILLY

Hannah Myers' father walking down the South Carolina beach.

DADDY

FIRST VOTE

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

The Rise and Fall of Liberty

SLICE

The Final Bow

THE BODY IS NOT A THING

The Waiting List

1898 Memorial Park

WILMINGTON ON FIRE: CHAPTER II

Production still - The director walking past a large image of a Black woman.

MOMMA & ME

THE FIRST PLANTATION

EJ LEE: ALL-AMERICAN

Untitled Craft Brewing Documentary

Y’ALL COME SEE

Sister Gertrude Morgan is seated against a white wall within her mission located in New Orleans, LA.

THANK YOU, SISTER

JUMPING JACK FLASH

Vittles

MIRAGE: THE COST OF FANTASY

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

Pelada

TRAVEL NOTES OF A GEECHEE GIRL

Moving Midway

UNLEARN: THE CONSEQUENCES OF RACISM

Rocaterrania

Down In the Hollow

Elizabeth King/ Body of Work

STATE OF RODEO

Farmer/Veteran

Not Your Model Minority! Asian Activists in the South

Gone to the Poorhouse

This Taco Truck Kills Fascists

Remarkable Journey: Founding the Asian Indian Community in North Carolina

Thumbs Up for Mother Universe

American Diamond Miners

NATIONAL TREASURE: AMERICA’S DIAMOND MINE

LITTLE SATCHMO

Black and white image of older African American woman, arms folded in front of her, looking directly at camera from wooden gatehouse window

MINNIE EVANS: DRAW OR DIE

The Guestworker – Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte

Silent Beauty

HEADWATERS DOWN: THE LOWER JAMES

Raising Bertie

MAKING BANK

A WEAVERLY PATH: THE TAPESTRY LIFE OF SILVIA HEYDEN

I ❤️ Bob Denver

BETWEEN THE RAINS

TAKE ANOTHER LOOK

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

Overburden

One Kind Favor

DOC SAVANNAH PRESENTS POV: OUR AMERICA DOCUMENTARIES IN DIALOGUE

Earthcaster

In So Many Words

GENX: THE SAGA OF FOREVER CHEMICALS

UTICA

An older shrimper with grey hair stands on the bow of his boat in the Mississippi River. Behind him is a big, stormy sky.

THE RIVER

Image 01: a woman in a pink polka-dot shirt looks over recently clear-cut timberland.

Wayne’s Logging Supply

SENIOR NIGHT

BULLS AND SAINTS

Can't Stop Change Banner

CAN’T STOP CHANGE

Childless by Choice

MOMMA

MOONCHILD: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF YUSUF SALIM

The Case Against 8

Civil War

THE CIVIL WAR AND THE FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA

Mountain Top Removal

BULL CITY TURNAROUND

Coal Ash Chronicles

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

Coastal Healing Project

COMMUTED

Women in Focus Summit

UNITED SKATES

Doubletime

Big Charity

Change Journey: Facing Terminal Illness

The Ties That Bind

Subjects cooking together

COOKING INSIDE: FROM PRISON TO HOME

The Keepers

A Sense of the Fitness of Things

THE LAND OF FISH & GRITS

Black and white image of Vic Moore and Chuck Norris

GRANDMASTER: THE VIC MOORE STORY

Althea

Make Use of Suffering

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

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 IN BETWEEN

Yehimi paints a portrait of her mother in her studio.

We Give Each Other the World

AMERICAN THEATER

Cedar fronds on edge of a white bowl containting Indigenous NC stew with orange-colored butternut squash, red beans, green beans, smoked chilies, white corn, and corn bread.

ORIGINS — THE CULINARY HERITAGE OF SOUTHEAST WOODLANDS

THE GREAT COVER UP

The Loving Story

Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck

We All Die (working title)

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

The Joseph Mitchell Project

BOONIES

Sunday Convening

Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the North Carolina Fund

Occupy the Imagination: Tales of Seduction and Resistance

Soul singer John Gary Williams.

A WORLD GONE CRAZY: THE TRIALS OF JOHN GARY WILLIAMS

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

Truth Underground: 3 NC Spoken Word Poets

Spies of Mississippi

Bronco Roads - Life in the South with Stacy Dean Campbell

BRONCO ROADS – LIFE IN THE SOUTH WITH STACY DEAN CAMPBELL

Durham Civil Rights History Mural Project

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

On Coal River

Mine Enemy: The story of German POWs in America

ALWAYS LOOKING: TITUS BROOKS HEAGINS

Swine Country: A Community Polluted Fighting For Change

The Last Barn Dance

THE DAY THAT SHOOK GEORGIA

Monsoon Modern

MONSOON MODERN

Granny’s Got Game

Something You Can Call Home

Robert E Lee statue in Richmond, VA, with protestors surrounding the statue

INHERITANCE: THE ROOTS OF OUR 40 ACRES

THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM R. TOLBERT

One Band Indivisible

True Conviction

Bloodthicker

maryandhalbackyard2

FAMILY TIDES

Socks on Fire

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

THE PASSING GAME

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

The Blue Ridge Documentary Series

The Floyd Radio Show

A Puppet Intervention

THE NEUTRAL GROUND

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

Inner Revolutions: Muslim Americans and the Legacy of Imam Khomeini

GENE THERAPY: EVOLUTION OF A REVOLUTION

Miss Nancy Minds Their Manners

Looking at Appalachia

LA ORQUESTA

These Kids This City

BASKETBALL HEAVEN

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