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

A HELLO STORY

Shrink It & Pink It

SHRINK IT & PINK IT

Natour’s Grocery

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

Team embracing on the court moments after winning state championship

LOVE WEST

120 Days

Can't Stop Change Banner

CAN’T STOP CHANGE

TRAVEL NOTES OF A GEECHEE GIRL

MOONCHILD: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF YUSUF SALIM

The Weight of Armor (formerly Femme Fatal)

Socks on Fire

Saint Cloud Hill

Robert Ruark

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

BOONIES

Inner Revolutions: Muslim Americans and the Legacy of Imam Khomeini

Ground Truth

Vittles

THE NEUTRAL GROUND

BASKETBALL HEAVEN

American Reckoning

Farmer/Veteran

PEACE IN OUR POCKETS

(DEY/DEM): A CHOREO-DOC

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

Wayne’s Logging Supply

Urban Bowhunters

MOMMA

Prodigal Mary

We All Die (working title)

The Imaginary Village of Allan Gurganus

The Black Future Initiative

HUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE - Production Still

HUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE

BULL CITY TURNAROUND

TAKE ANOTHER LOOK

Earthcaster

In So Many Words

Roleplay

Swine Country: A Community Polluted Fighting For Change

THE BODY IS NOT A THING

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

FARMSTEADERS

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

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

7 ACRES AND A CHURCH

HOTEL CLERMONT

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

MIAMI 1980

YOU’RE MUSLIM?

SDF Welcome Mixer at The Fruit

UNLEARN: THE CONSEQUENCES OF RACISM

HEADWATERS DOWN: THE LOWER JAMES

The X-Factor: A Post-Katrina Narrative

SLICE

PHOTO FARM

HOLLOW TREE

LILLIAN SMITH: BREAKING THE SILENCE

Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn?

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 Case Against 8

DEVIL TOWN (Working Title)

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

The Searchers

Down In the Hollow

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

Always in Season

Polite South

POLITE SOUTH

These Kids This City

LITTLE SATCHMO

Seminar

Hannah Myers' father walking down the South Carolina beach.

DADDY

SENIOR NIGHT

1511

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

UNITED SKATES

Moving Midway

The Waiting List

SOUTHMONT DRIVE

Miss Nancy Minds Their Manners

Beyond Tolerance: Istanbul, Jerusalem, and Durham, NC

Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck

Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader

THE MIND’S EYE

Change Journey: Facing Terminal Illness

HILLBILLY

Anonymous (Working Title)

NASHVILLE’S SOUL

The Rise and Fall of Liberty

True Conviction

ONE RIVER, ONE BOAT

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

EVE’S GARDEN

They Tried to Bury Us

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

MOMMA & ME

BULL DOGGIN’ – THE BILL PICKETT STORY

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

Pass It On

Remarkable Journey: Founding the Asian Indian Community in North Carolina

BlerdNation

BLERDNATION

Greensboro: Closer to the Truth

On Coal River

STATE OF RODEO

Mountain Top Removal

THE SOLILOQUIES OF TREES

BLACK BEACH / WHITE BEACH

JUVENILE

MADIE SUE

THE CONTENDERS

Tig

Living Off the Line: Stories from The Clothesline Muse

DOC SAVANNAH PRESENTS POV: OUR AMERICA DOCUMENTARIES IN DIALOGUE

Pelada

The Loving Story

The Big Ears Project

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

A WEAVERLY PATH: THE TAPESTRY LIFE OF SILVIA HEYDEN

Flaming house in background of firefighter

BURNED

A Puppet Intervention

A Chef’s Life

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

The Ties That Bind

ADVENTURES OF T-MAN

BULLS AND SAINTS

Commuted documentary Screening and Late Night Mixer

Tobacco Money Feeds My Family

Los Jets

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

WOMEN OF THE WATERSHED

Rocaterrania

Granny’s Got Game

Benevolence

I, Destini

The Lost Cause: A New Southern History

SWINE HEART

Philadelphia Alley in Charleston

THE LOWCOUNTRY

A Fine Girl

Women in Focus Summit

SALTWATA VIBES

Day Job

Civil War

THE CIVIL WAR AND THE FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA

IRANIAN HILLBILLY

Durham: A Self-Portrait

THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM R. TOLBERT

A Life After Death

Dependent (Working Title)

Summer Headstones

The Keepers

BLAKTASTIK: SOUTH CAROLINA BLACK CREATIVE CULTURE

Mossville

Musings of an Iraqi Patriot

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

Coal Ash Chronicles

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

THANK YOU, SISTER

Elizabeth King/ Body of Work

Still Standing: The Real Story of the NC Textile Industry

Washerwoman – DO NOT PUBLISH

The New New South

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

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 MOVEMENT

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

Coastal Healing Project

IN MEMORY OF HER

The Floyd Radio Show

BRUNSWICK 15

Sunday Convening

SANTUARIO

CHITLINGS - FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD - Production Stilll

CHITLINGS – FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD

SISTER SENATORS

Bringing It Home

Y’ALL COME SEE

Queen of Everything You See

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

Mary’s Gone Wild

HOW TO SUE THE KLAN

maryandhalbackyard2

FAMILY TIDES

AMERICAN THEATER

COMMUTED

The Final Bow

THE DAY THAT SHOOK GEORGIA

UTICA

ONCE UPON A WETLAND

Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos

Soul City

MIRAGE: THE COST OF FANTASY

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

INHERITANCE: THE ROOTS OF OUR 40 ACRES

Looking at Appalachia

The REAL Mayberry

DEAR APPALACHIA - Film Still

DEAR APPALACHIA

THE IN BETWEEN

Love Lived on Death Row

Rock Castle Home

THE HOLLOW

American Diamond Miners

NATIONAL TREASURE: AMERICA’S DIAMOND MINE

Brother Joseph and the Grotto

The Guestworker – Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte

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