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Prodigal Mary

This is a temporary cover image of the film's title, "Ranger of the North," on a photo of the Alaskan pipeline.

Ranger of the North

Commuted documentary Screening and Late Night Mixer

Musings of an Iraqi Patriot

The Waiting List

The Lost Cause: A New Southern History

JUMPING JACK FLASH

I, Destini

Overburden

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

Truth Underground: 3 NC Spoken Word Poets

SISTER SENATORS

KILLER MILLER

MAY THE LORD WATCH: THE LITTLE BROTHER STORY

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

SADDEST BOY EVER

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

THANK YOU, SISTER

A CITY IN THE FOREST

Made in Durham

Change Journey: Facing Terminal Illness

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

YOU’RE MUSLIM?

THE GREAT COVER UP

Rock Castle Home

Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn?

Robert Ruark

Mountain Top Removal

Althea

Civil War

THE CIVIL WAR AND THE FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA

A Life After Death

The Loving Story

GENE THERAPY: EVOLUTION OF A REVOLUTION

Black and white image of Vic Moore and Chuck Norris

GRANDMASTER: THE VIC MOORE STORY

TRAVEL NOTES OF A GEECHEE GIRL

BLOOM

The Final Bow

The Weight of Armor (formerly Femme Fatal)

Elizabeth King/ Body of Work

A Fine Girl

We All Die (working title)

WORKING SEASON

RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE

STATE OF RODEO

EJ LEE: ALL-AMERICAN

The Searchers

This Taco Truck Kills Fascists

LILLIAN SMITH: BREAKING THE SILENCE

Natour’s Grocery

BULL CITY TURNAROUND

Lost Bomber

GENX: THE SAGA OF FOREVER CHEMICALS

Raising Bertie

The Imaginary Village of Allan Gurganus

The Case Against 8

MAKING BANK

Day Job

Big Charity

The Guestworker – Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte

Tig

DEVIL TOWN (Working Title)

BLACK BEACH / WHITE BEACH

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

Alice Gerrard sings while holding and playing guitar.

YOU GAVE ME A SONG

Y’ALL COME SEE

THE HOLLOW

Benevolence

Dependent (Working Title)

HOLLOW TREE

BULL DOGGIN’ – THE BILL PICKETT STORY

HOMELAND/WETLAND

UTICA

The Big Ears Project

Untitled Craft Brewing Documentary

THE IN BETWEEN

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

UNITED SKATES

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

Wayne’s Logging Supply

GROWING OLDER IN A RURAL WISCONSIN

JUVENILE

THE BENSON FIVE

COMMUTED

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

Anonymous (Working Title)

THE MOVEMENT

Check In/ Pass pickup at The Fruit

After the Flood

Subjects cooking together

COOKING INSIDE: FROM PRISON TO HOME

BULLS AND SAINTS

Gone to the Poorhouse

Terence Blanchard: See Me As I Am

TERENCE BLANCHARD: SEE ME AS I AM

UNLEARN: THE CONSEQUENCES OF RACISM

The Floyd Radio Show

Brother Joseph and the Grotto

Rocaterrania

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

Monsoon Modern

MONSOON MODERN

The Joseph Mitchell Project

Inner Revolutions: Muslim Americans and the Legacy of Imam Khomeini

NUEVO SOUTH MAGAZINE

1511

IRANIAN HILLBILLY

Socks on Fire

HILLBILLY

The Final Gift

Flaming house in background of firefighter

BURNED

PEACE IN OUR POCKETS

HOTEL CLERMONT

Women in Focus Summit

Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos

THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM R. TOLBERT

Stitched

HOW TO SUE THE KLAN

REFUGE

Can’t Stop the Water

CHITLINGS – FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD

The Passing On

Can't Stop Change Banner

CAN’T STOP CHANGE

Not Your Model Minority! Asian Activists in the South

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

Coastal Healing Project

Something You Can Call Home

THE PASSING GAME

Border Crossing 101

BETWEEN THE RAINS

CONJURE

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

Frying Fish in Florida

FRYING FISH IN FLORIDA

Doubletime

American Reckoning

Red Wolf Revival

Make Use of Suffering

Granny’s Got Game

The Black Future Initiative

Silent Beauty

Still Standing: The Real Story of the NC Textile Industry

The New New South

Washerwoman – DO NOT PUBLISH

Mama Bears

Farmer/Veteran

Summer Headstones

Ground Truth

The REAL Mayberry

MADIE SUE

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

BLAKTASTIK: SOUTH CAROLINA BLACK CREATIVE CULTURE

Gee's Bend: Welcome to the Hole

GEE’S BEND: WELCOME TO THE HOLE

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

CHASING CAMBODIA

BRUNSWICK 15

Mine Enemy: The story of German POWs in America

Blacksmith Elizabeth Brim working in her iron studio near Penland School

IRON PEARLS

Urban Bowhunters

THE CONTENDERS

The X-Factor: A Post-Katrina Narrative

Coach Morgan Wootten and the DeMatha Legacy

Seven Acres and a Church

MEANT TO BE MADDIE

Looking at Appalachia

MIAMI 1980

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

A shadowy figure walks through a door into a church

OUT OF DARKNESS

OUTTA THE MUCK

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

The Last Barn Dance

Landscapes of the Heart: The Elizabeth Spencer Story

32 BLOCKS

JIG SHOW | Leon Claxton’s Harlem in Havana

SOUTHMONT DRIVE

BENDING STICKS: THE SCULPTURE OF PATRICK DOUGHERTY

One Band Indivisible

Pinball

Sacred Sound

NASHVILLE’S SOUL

Soul singer John Gary Williams.

A WORLD GONE CRAZY: THE TRIALS OF JOHN GARY WILLIAMS

Coal Ash Chronicles

Living Off the Line: Stories from The Clothesline Muse

TAKE ANOTHER LOOK

27 Months

Bronco Roads - Life in the South with Stacy Dean Campbell

BRONCO ROADS – LIFE IN THE SOUTH WITH STACY DEAN CAMPBELL

Concerto

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 Rise and Fall of Liberty

SLICE

SANTUARIO

I ❤️ Bob Denver

The Ties That Bind

Black and white photo of an empty playground, on a rainy day. Surrounded by trees and grass

SUNDAY BREAKFAST

After Coal

Soul City

Philadelphia Alley in Charleston

THE LOWCOUNTRY

ADVENTURES OF T-MAN

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

HEADWATERS DOWN: THE LOWER JAMES

WOMEN OF THE WATERSHED

Polite South

POLITE SOUTH

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