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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History

American Diamond Miners

NATIONAL TREASURE: AMERICA’S DIAMOND MINE

27 Months

Always in Season

Pass It On

CHITLINGS - FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD - Production Stilll

CHITLINGS – FROM SLAVE FOOD TO SOUL FOOD

BLACK BEACH / WHITE BEACH

UTICA

BlerdNation

BLERDNATION

ADVENTURES OF T-MAN

Swine Country: A Community Polluted Fighting For Change

The Last Barn Dance

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

SALTWATA VIBES

Benevolence

JUMPING JACK FLASH

REFUGE

MOMMA

Queen of Everything You See

Althea

EJ LEE: ALL-AMERICAN

The Case Against 8

Shrink It & Pink It

SHRINK IT & PINK IT

Silent Beauty

Socks on Fire

THE MIND’S EYE

Old South

Black Mountain Spaces

LITTLE SATCHMO

I, Destini

A Fine Girl

YOU’RE MUSLIM?

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

WORKING SEASON

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

Coastal Healing Project

Inner Revolutions: Muslim Americans and the Legacy of Imam Khomeini

Dependent (Working Title)

Saint Cloud Hill

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

FEMME FATAL

Childless by Choice

Made in Durham

WHILE I BREATHE, I HOPE

DOC SAVANNAH PRESENTS POV: OUR AMERICA DOCUMENTARIES IN DIALOGUE

Seminar

BULL DOGGIN’ – THE BILL PICKETT STORY

Brenda Hampton crying at a grave site.

ANGEL OF ALABAMA

FARMSTEADERS

Elizabeth King/ Body of Work

THE IN BETWEEN

They Tried to Bury Us

MAKING BANK

AMERICAN THEATER

In So Many Words

GROWING OLDER IN A RURAL WISCONSIN

Tommy! The Dreams I Keep Inside Me

Flaming house in background of firefighter

BURNED

HOMELAND/WETLAND

Recovery Boys

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 SOLILOQUIES OF TREES

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

Within, Within

FIRST VOTE

Alabamaland

Occupy the Imagination: Tales of Seduction and Resistance

MEANT TO BE MADDIE

Good Ol’ Freda

Hannah Myers' father walking down the South Carolina beach.

DADDY

Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn?

Blacksmith Elizabeth Brim working in her iron studio near Penland School

IRON PEARLS

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

Moving Midway

Yehimi paints a portrait of her mother in her studio.

We Give Each Other the World

The Guestworker – Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte

Bringing It Home

Satana Deberry

Alice Gerrard sings while holding and playing guitar.

YOU GAVE ME A SONG

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

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

Greensboro: Closer to the Truth

Rocaterrania

Truth Underground: 3 NC Spoken Word Poets

Commuted documentary Screening and Late Night Mixer

Terence Blanchard: See Me As I Am

TERENCE BLANCHARD: SEE ME AS I AM

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

SADDEST BOY EVER

OUTTA THE MUCK

Can't Stop Change Banner

CAN’T STOP CHANGE

Black and white image of Vic Moore and Chuck Norris

GRANDMASTER: THE VIC MOORE STORY

Prodigal Mary

One Kind Favor

SANTUARIO

THE LAND OF FISH & GRITS

GENE THERAPY: EVOLUTION OF A REVOLUTION

Urban Bowhunters

Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck

Civil War

THE CIVIL WAR AND THE FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF AMERICA

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

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

Looking at Appalachia

120 Days

A shadowy figure walks through a door into a church

OUT OF DARKNESS

The Waiting List

I LOVE YOU, ALLWAYS

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

THE BENSON FIVE

Change Journey: Facing Terminal Illness

HOW TO SUE THE KLAN

THE FIRST PLANTATION

Overburden

THE MOVEMENT

The Big Ears Project

Roleplay

Mary’s Gone Wild

Pinball

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

THANK YOU, SISTER

THE DAY THAT SHOOK GEORGIA

SOMAY KU: A Uganda Tennis Story

ONE RIVER, ONE BOAT

BENDING SPACE: GEORGES ROUSSE AND THE DURHAM PROJECT

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

Soul singer John Gary Williams.

A WORLD GONE CRAZY: THE TRIALS OF JOHN GARY WILLIAMS

The Searchers

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

INHERITANCE: THE ROOTS OF OUR 40 ACRES

Thumbs Up for Mother Universe

BLOOM

Bridging Rails to Trails: Stories of the American Tobacco Trail

The Floyd Radio Show

THE CONTENDERS

The Black Future Initiative

Frying Fish in Florida

FRYING FISH IN FLORIDA

Soul City

SLICE

1511

Tig

LILLIAN SMITH: BREAKING THE SILENCE

HOTEL CLERMONT

Wrap up

Raising Bertie

BENDING STICKS: THE SCULPTURE OF PATRICK DOUGHERTY

LA ORQUESTA

32 BLOCKS

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

Three images overlaid on a black background featuring a wall of fans, a fire, and rows of housing roofs. The words "Adaptation" are in all capital letters overlaid.

Adaptation

Landscapes of the Heart: The Elizabeth Spencer Story

American Reckoning

The Joseph Mitchell Project

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

Bronco Roads - Life in the South with Stacy Dean Campbell

BRONCO ROADS – LIFE IN THE SOUTH WITH STACY DEAN CAMPBELL

TRAVEL NOTES OF A GEECHEE GIRL

Miss Nancy Minds Their Manners

Durham: A Self-Portrait

TAKE ANOTHER LOOK

I ❤️ Bob Denver

Spies of Mississippi

Sacred Sound

Doubletime

UNITED SKATES

A WEAVERLY PATH: THE TAPESTRY LIFE OF SILVIA HEYDEN

The Passing On

Mama Bears

Gone to the Poorhouse

Day Job

THE HOLLOW

THE GREAT COVER UP

Stitched

Granny’s Got Game

Check In/ Pass pickup at The Fruit

Big Charity

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

MOONCHILD: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF YUSUF SALIM

SOUTHMONT DRIVE

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

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

7 ACRES AND A CHURCH

One Band Indivisible

Monsoon Modern

MONSOON MODERN

Pelada

Anonymous (Working Title)

Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos

Robert Ruark

The Blue Ridge Documentary Series

Not Your Model Minority! Asian Activists in the South

Remarkable Journey: Founding the Asian Indian Community in North Carolina

The Imaginary Village of Allan Gurganus

Durham Civil Rights History Mural Project

PHOTO FARM

JIG SHOW | Leon Claxton’s Harlem in Havana

HILLBILLY

THE MAKING OF THE NUEVO SOUTH

RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE

Can’t Stop the Water

BRUNSWICK 15

Philadelphia Alley in Charleston

THE LOWCOUNTRY

Polite South

POLITE SOUTH

Lost Bomber

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