Clarkston
CLARKSTON aspires to discover the soul of America by examining it through the eyes of “outcasts.” Intimate character-driven stories lead us through a small Southern town known as the most diverse...
View ArticleMama Bears
Did you know there are over 4,000 conservative, Christian mothers who accept their LGBTQ children? Connected through private Facebook groups—a lifeline for those struggling to reconcile their hearts...
View ArticleSilent Beauty
Silent Beauty is an experimental autobiographical exploration of one woman’s family history with child sexual abuse and a culture of silence. Silent Beauty is a personal documentary that follows...
View ArticleBulls and Saints
Bulls and Saints is the epic story of an extended family and community divided by the border and bound together by tradition, tragedy and resistance. From Cheran, Mexico to rural North Carolina, USA,...
View ArticleHomeland/Wetland
Homeland/Wetland is a short experimental documentary that takes a hyper-local look at the nearly extinct South Louisiana lifestyle of living off of the land and in extended family compounds. Strategies...
View ArticleNot Your Model Minority! Asian Activists in the South
Queer, Rad, Asian: three southern activists organize with the intersectional resistance against white supremacy and the cis-hetero-patriarchy. Asian Pacific Americans are the fastest growing ethnic...
View ArticleSummer Headstones
Abandoned and repurposed public pools litter the Southern landscape, silent monuments to a time when white officials abruptly closed pools down, instead of allowing African Americans to swim in them....
View ArticleUnited Skates
This feature length film documents an underground subculture growing inside our country’s last standing roller rinks, from LA to North Carolina to Chicago, shedding light on the recurring pattern of...
View ArticleRaising Bertie
Bertie County, North Carolina is like many rural counties struggling economically due to the closures of manufacturing plants. Bertie’s second largest employer, Wrangler, closed in 2003. The largest...
View ArticleLiving Off the Line: Stories from The Clothesline Muse
Living Off the Line: Stories from The Clothesline Muse is a feature-length documentary about the making of a play, and the wealth of cultural experiences and wisdom generated by centuries of...
View ArticleYou’re Muslim?
YOU’RE MUSLIM? is about Najma’s upbringing, identity, and community. This story will be told from an honest, raw and reflective space. Archival footage will visualize the African American Muslim...
View ArticleDevil Town
Devil Town examines the sordid history of a now sleepy small town in the American South, Phenix City, Alabama. It was here that local officials once allowed violent murders and a criminal network of...
View ArticleThe Floyd Radio Show
While small, the community nurtures a thriving artistic and traditional mountain music scene with dozens of jam sessions that fill the street corners every Friday night. Its focal point and gathering...
View ArticleOur Strange New Land
DONATE A photographer sets out to photograph forty-one different fiction film sets across the South to discover how a new generation of southern filmmakers is imagining this region. “Our idea of the...
View ArticleThere Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
This film explores the legacy of Harry Caudill, who spent his life advocating for the people of Appalachia by illuminating the ways they became impoverished at the hands of the callousness of a...
View ArticleDay Job
Day Job follows millennials in New Orleans over a short period of time to see how they spend their days and nights, struggling to pay their bills, and thriving off of their passions to push them to the...
View ArticleThe Nine-Month Withdrawal
Caught in the policy crosshairs of the War on Drugs and the Pro-Life movement are women who become pregnant while struggling with drug addiction. This feature documentary explores what pregnancy and...
View ArticleMiami 1980, A Tale of Three Cities
In 1980, two events – the Cuban Mariel exodus and the McDuffie riots, shattered the image of Miami as a tourist paradise, revealing instead, a place torn by racial tensions and ethnic strife, where...
View ArticleA Slavery Remix – Plantation Tourism
A Slavery Remix – Plantation Tourism, is the working title. The film will examine the complicated business proposition of plantation tours. What role do these business entities play in illustrating the...
View ArticleNuestro South Travel Diaries
During the 1990s and early 2000s, US corporations recruited millions of people from Latin America to the Deep South as a means of developing a cheap labor force. Immigrants were drawn by the promise of...
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