SDF FILMS TO WATCH FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
Celebrate Women’s History Month by exploring these nine SDF documentaries about women who made history and those continuing to do so. ANGEL OF ALABAMA (2023) Director: Elijah Yetter-Bowman Logline: A...
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Y’ALL COME SEE
Y’ALL COME SEE Arts & Culture, Education & Health, History & Biography, SDF Sponsored Donate Y’all Come See is a three season podcast exploring Black regions, cultures and imaginations....
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Date: Saturday, June 8 Time: 10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Keynote: Y’ALL MEANS ALL: COLLABORATIVE SOUTHERN FILMMAKING Keynote Speakers: Darcy McKinnon and Nailah Jefferson Filmmaking partners Darcy McKinnon...
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Date: Saturday, June 8th and Sunday, June 9th Venue: The Fruit (305 S. Dillard St, Durham, NC 27701) Time: 8:45 a.m. doors open 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. A light Breakfast will be provided by SDF...
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32 BLOCKS
32 BLOCKS Arts & Culture, Civil Rights & Social Justice, History & Biography, SDF Sponsored Donate When neighborhood friends from Church Hill in Richmond, VA launch their music careers as...
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QUEEN OF THE NIGGERATI: ZORA NEALE HURSTON’S CONJURING IN DURHAM, NC
Donate Zora Neale Hurston called herself the “Queen of the Niggerati”. Circa 1930s when having #BlackGirlMagic was clandestine folklore, Zora had documentation of zombies in Haiti and whipped up...
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QUIET PROFESSIONAL: CLEM LEMKE
Donate Quiet Professional: Clem Lemke is a biographical military history documentary about the life of Clemens E Lemke. Lemke is a highly decorated Cold War-era retired sergeant major who served...
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WORKING SEASON
Donate The photography project, “Working Season,” examines the H-2A Seasonal Farmworker Visa Program. This visa program allows foreign nationals to live and work on American farms for up to 10...
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SHOW ME THE LINE
Donate After more than five years of fertility efforts, artist and reproductive rights journalist Abbey Crain and her partner Colby Leopard confront a challenge for parents-to-be across Alabama:...
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ALWAYS LOOKING: TITUS BROOKS HEAGINS
Donate Humanizing, reverent, and confrontational, Titus Brooks Heagins’ photographs document people who, usually through some intersection of poverty, race, or gender/sexual identity, exist as...
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BASKETBALL HEAVEN
Donate A feature-length, cinema vérité documentary, Basketball Heaven provides a poetic portrait of a Southern Black community that has survived everything from catastrophic flooding to a racist...
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NUEVO SOUTH MAGAZINE
Donate “Nuevo South Magazine: Duramitas” is the first multimedia-platform project documenting the living history of the Latino community in Durham, North Carolina, since the start of the Great...
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WOMEN OF THE WATERSHED
Donate A young woman journeys to the source of the Everglades headwaters to better understand the historic challenges of water management and pollution that now threaten this fragile ecosystem....
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FEMME FATAL
Donate ‘Femme Fatal’ immerses viewers into the vibrant world of the Buhurt community, where armored combat merges with modern athleticism. Through the lens of femme fighters, the film explores...
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THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM R. TOLBERT
Donate Using the backdrop of the April 22nd memorial service in Liberia, we revisit the events that led to the 1980 coup and assassination of President William R. Tolbert. We interview several...
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LA ORQUESTA
Donate to This Project La Orquesta is a 15-minute short documentary produced by Xerophile Studios that tells the story of Juana Alzaga and the Buford Highway Orchestra Project, Georgia’s first and...
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THE MOVEMENT
Donate to This Project What if a small American town in the south tried to reinvent itself with the bicycle and it worked so well that it spread throughout the state, and The Heartland too. The...
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MIRAGE: THE COST OF FANTASY
Donate to This Project An intimate glimpse into the theater of sexual fantasy, Mirage: The Cost of Fantasy, reveals the power dynamics in adult nightclub entertainment. Illustrating the thrill and...
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THE GREAT COVER UP
Donate to This Project After over 20 years and over 500 cover bands, The Great Cover Up has grown into a community institution. The annual event is an unabashedly creative, silly, DIY cover band...
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