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

HOTEL CLERMONT

Bull City Summer

Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck

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

QUIET PROFESSIONAL: CLEM LEMKE

Truth Underground: 3 NC Spoken Word Poets

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

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

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

SALTWATA VIBES

Love Lived on Death Row

MIAMI 1980

The Waiting List

American Reckoning

BULL DOGGIN’ – THE BILL PICKETT STORY

Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn?

Bringing It Home

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

The Floyd Radio Show

Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos

BENDING SPACE: GEORGES ROUSSE AND THE DURHAM PROJECT

ADVENTURES OF T-MAN

Ground Truth

Alabamaland

LILLIAN SMITH: BREAKING THE SILENCE

Red Wolf Revival

IN MEMORY OF HER

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

Earthcaster

CONJURE

FIRST VOTE

Robert Ruark

Mossville

One Band Indivisible

MADIE SUE

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

Coal Ash Chronicles

DEAR APPALACHIA - Film Still

DEAR APPALACHIA

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

Old South

Still Standing: The Real Story of the NC Textile Industry

THE MAKING OF THE NUEVO SOUTH

Terence Blanchard: See Me As I Am

TERENCE BLANCHARD: SEE ME AS I AM

Always in Season

Greensboro: Closer to the Truth

Pinball

Polite South

POLITE SOUTH

SISTER SENATORS

A Fine Girl

THE IN BETWEEN

Dan Krebill in his garden with videographer Simone Keith

THE UNCOMMON GARDEN

The REAL Mayberry

MOONCHILD: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF YUSUF SALIM

Shrink It & Pink It

SHRINK IT & PINK IT

Philadelphia Alley in Charleston

THE LOWCOUNTRY

NUEVO SOUTH MAGAZINE

Childless by Choice

Thumbs Up for Mother Universe

Mama Bears

Check In/ Pass pickup at The Fruit

One Kind Favor

The Ties That Bind

THE MOVEMENT

Black Mountain Spaces

I ❤️ Bob Denver

Black and white image of Vic Moore and Chuck Norris

GRANDMASTER: THE VIC MOORE STORY

EVE’S GARDEN

HOW TO SUE THE KLAN

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

On Coal River

32 BLOCKS

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

Elizabeth King/ Body of Work

MEANT TO BE MADDIE

Pass It On

Mary’s Gone Wild

Untitled Craft Brewing Documentary

Pit Crew

MAKING BANK

Concerto

UNITED SKATES

BOONIES

Landscapes of the Heart: The Elizabeth Spencer Story

REFUGE

Tig

Blacksmith Elizabeth Brim working in her iron studio near Penland School

IRON PEARLS

The Searchers

BLOOM

CHITLINGS - FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD - Production Stilll

CHITLINGS – FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD

Prodigal Mary

COMMUTED

HUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE - Production Still

HUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE

OUTTA THE MUCK

THE DAY THAT SHOOK GEORGIA

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

Gone to the Poorhouse

LA ORQUESTA

HILLBILLY

Inner Revolutions: Muslim Americans and the Legacy of Imam Khomeini

THE BODY IS NOT A THING

YOU’RE MUSLIM?

The New New South

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)

BLACK AT: A BLACK STUDENTS MATTER MOVEMENT

Team embracing on the court moments after winning state championship

LOVE WEST

SDF Welcome Mixer at The Fruit

UTICA

UNLEARN: THE CONSEQUENCES OF RACISM

Stitched

Something You Can Call Home

Dependent (Working Title)

Mississippi

THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA: DREAMS AND REALITY

The Loving Story

Sacred Sound

In So Many Words

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

Wayne’s Logging Supply

A Puppet Intervention

SENIOR NIGHT

WHILE I BREATHE, I HOPE

BLAKTASTIK: SOUTH CAROLINA BLACK CREATIVE CULTURE

Socks on Fire

DOC SAVANNAH PRESENTS POV: OUR AMERICA DOCUMENTARIES IN DIALOGUE

GENE THERAPY: EVOLUTION OF A REVOLUTION

Flaming house in background of firefighter

BURNED

27 Months

Tommy! The Dreams I Keep Inside Me

Remarkable Journey: Founding the Asian Indian Community in North Carolina

Vittles

PEACE IN OUR POCKETS

The Blue Ridge Documentary Series

SLICE

The Passing On

BlerdNation

BLERDNATION

Silent Beauty

Young boy and man in military costume on clear tv against blank wall

SADDEST BOY EVER

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

Bronco Roads - Life in the South with Stacy Dean Campbell

BRONCO ROADS – LIFE IN THE SOUTH WITH STACY DEAN CAMPBELL

Bloodthicker

Beyond Tolerance: Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Durham, NC

THE FIRST PLANTATION

Farmer/Veteran

GENX: THE SAGA OF FOREVER CHEMICALS

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

Mine Enemy: The story of German POWs in America

SOMAY KU: A Uganda Tennis Story

Tobacco Money Feeds My Family

1511

Urban Bowhunters

Roleplay

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

FEMME FATAL

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

Durham Civil Rights History Mural Project

A NEW KIND OF LISTENING

Granny’s Got Game

THE BENSON FIVE

Yehimi paints a portrait of her mother in her studio.

We Give Each Other the World

The Case Against 8

The Big Ears Project

THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM R. TOLBERT

THE CONTENDERS

Living Off the Line: Stories from The Clothesline Muse

Gee's Bend: Welcome to the Hole

GEE’S BEND: WELCOME TO THE HOLE

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 HOLLOW

I LOVE YOU, ALLWAYS

BETWEEN THE RAINS

The Guestworker – Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte

Wrap up

ONE RIVER, ONE BOAT

WOMEN OF THE WATERSHED

Raising Bertie

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

ONCE UPON A WETLAND

Down In the Hollow

Brother Joseph and the Grotto

A Life After Death

Camp Spokes

CAMP SPOKES: SHRED INTO TOMORROW

Rock Castle Home

ALWAYS LOOKING: TITUS BROOKS HEAGINS

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

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

A HELLO STORY

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

FARMSTEADERS

Overburden

Looking at Appalachia

Rocaterrania

THE NEUTRAL GROUND

PLEASE ASK FOR IT

I, Destini

maryandhalbackyard2

FAMILY TIDES

Hannah Myers' father walking down the South Carolina beach.

DADDY

GROWING OLDER IN A RURAL WISCONSIN

Digging Them Up

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