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Mama Bears

DOC SAVANNAH PRESENTS POV: OUR AMERICA DOCUMENTARIES IN DIALOGUE

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)

A Fine Girl

The Last Barn Dance

REFUGE

WOMEN OF THE WATERSHED

MEANT TO BE MADDIE

HOMELAND/WETLAND

Mossville

The Lost Cause: A New Southern History

Beyond Tolerance: Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Durham, NC

KILLER MILLER

SANTUARIO

Los Jets

QUIET PROFESSIONAL: CLEM LEMKE

Camp Spokes

CAMP SPOKES: SHRED INTO TOMORROW

DEVIL TOWN (Working Title)

NASHVILLE’S SOUL

TRAVEL NOTES OF A GEECHEE GIRL

BLACK VOTERS MATTER - Still

BLACK VOTERS MATTER

The Case Against 8

Mine Enemy: The story of German POWs in America

AMERICAN THEATER

MADIE SUE

LITTLE SATCHMO

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

Recovery Boys

BLAKTASTIK: SOUTH CAROLINA BLACK CREATIVE CULTURE

UNLEARN: THE CONSEQUENCES OF RACISM

True Conviction

One Kind Favor

THE BODY IS NOT A THING

JIG SHOW | Leon Claxton’s Harlem in Havana

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

Change Comes Knocking: The Story of the North Carolina Fund

The Black Future Initiative

Lost Bomber

Bronco Roads - Life in the South with Stacy Dean Campbell

BRONCO ROADS – LIFE IN THE SOUTH WITH STACY DEAN CAMPBELL

MAY THE LORD WATCH: THE LITTLE BROTHER STORY

1511

EVE’S GARDEN

Not Your Model Minority! Asian Activists in the South

This Taco Truck Kills Fascists

Always in Season

Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader

Overburden

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

Staring Down Fate

THE IN BETWEEN

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

Untitled Craft Brewing Documentary

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

maryandhalbackyard2

FAMILY TIDES

One Band Indivisible

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

Soul City

Tommy! The Dreams I Keep Inside Me

Frying Fish in Florida

FRYING FISH IN FLORIDA

Urban Bowhunters

Old South

Althea

IN MEMORY OF HER

32 BLOCKS

EJ LEE: ALL-AMERICAN

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

Black Mountain Spaces

Prodigal Mary

The Searchers

YOU’RE MUSLIM?

THE CONTENDERS

HUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE - Production Still

HUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE

Thumbs Up for Mother Universe

The Blue Ridge Documentary Series

Occupy the Imagination: Tales of Seduction and Resistance

Ground Truth

I, Destini

Inner Revolutions: Muslim Americans and the Legacy of Imam Khomeini

THE MIND’S EYE

Queen of Everything You See

BRUNSWICK 15

Civil War

THE CIVIL WAR AND THE FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA

WORKING SEASON

Durham: A Self-Portrait

TEACH

Living Off the Line: Stories from The Clothesline Muse

American Reckoning

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

American Diamond Miners

NATIONAL TREASURE: AMERICA’S DIAMOND MINE

Pelada

The Passing On

On Coal River

BENDING STICKS: THE SCULPTURE OF PATRICK DOUGHERTY

Brenda Hampton crying at a grave site.

ANGEL OF ALABAMA

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

Spies of Mississippi

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

Hannah Myers' father walking down the South Carolina beach.

DADDY

Robert Ruark

Gee's Bend: Welcome to the Hole

GEE’S BEND: WELCOME TO THE HOLE

DEAR APPALACHIA - Film Still

DEAR APPALACHIA

Elizabeth King/ Body of Work

BULLS AND SAINTS

PHOTO FARM

STATE OF RODEO

HOTEL CLERMONT

THE SOLILOQUIES OF TREES

THE PASSING GAME

Shrink It & Pink It

SHRINK IT & PINK IT

Flaming house in background of firefighter

BURNED

GENX: THE SAGA OF FOREVER CHEMICALS

Red Wolf Revival

PEACE IN OUR POCKETS

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

Wayne’s Logging Supply

Rocaterrania

HEADWATERS DOWN: THE LOWER JAMES

Still Standing: The Real Story of the NC Textile Industry

BLOOM

BENDING SPACE: GEORGES ROUSSE AND THE DURHAM PROJECT

The Joseph Mitchell Project

FEMME FATAL

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

JUVENILE

Tig

Big Charity

Something You Can Call Home

Moving Midway

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

SADDEST BOY EVER

After Coal

Bull City Summer

Blacksmith Elizabeth Brim working in her iron studio near Penland School

IRON PEARLS

Can’t Stop the Water

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

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

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

Benevolence

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

INHERITANCE: THE ROOTS OF OUR 40 ACRES

Mountain Top Removal

Miss Nancy Minds Their Manners

Check In/ Pass pickup at The Fruit

Can't Stop Change Banner

CAN’T STOP CHANGE

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

A HELLO STORY

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

Anonymous (Working Title)

Commuted documentary Screening and Late Night Mixer

Childless by Choice

Made in Durham

By Sidney Lumet

Pass It On

A Sense of the Fitness of Things

Doubletime

Good Ol’ Freda

Natour’s Grocery

Rock Castle Home

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

BLACK AT: A BLACK STUDENTS MATTER MOVEMENT

SISTER SENATORS

Gone to the Poorhouse

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

Within, Within

Subjects cooking together

COOKING INSIDE: FROM PRISON TO HOME

BlerdNation

BLERDNATION

Saint Cloud Hill

The Waiting List

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

The Loving Story

A WEAVERLY PATH: THE TAPESTRY LIFE OF SILVIA HEYDEN

MIAMI 1980

BASKETBALL HEAVEN

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

SALTWATA VIBES

OUTTA THE MUCK

Yehimi paints a portrait of her mother in her studio.

We Give Each Other the World

Dependent (Working Title)

SLICE

BLACK BEACH / WHITE BEACH

Digging Them Up

Mary’s Gone Wild

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

BULL CITY TURNAROUND

Border Crossing 101

GENE THERAPY: EVOLUTION OF A REVOLUTION

THE LAND OF FISH & GRITS

THE MAKING OF THE NUEVO SOUTH

The X-Factor: A Post-Katrina Narrative

SOMAY KU: A Uganda Tennis Story

RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE

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

Roleplay

Bloodthicker

UNITED SKATES

120 Days

Looking at Appalachia

A CITY IN THE FOREST

Terence Blanchard: See Me As I Am

TERENCE BLANCHARD: SEE ME AS I AM

Mississippi

THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA: DREAMS AND REALITY

THE DAY THAT SHOOK GEORGIA

The Keepers

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