Untitled Housing Documentary
Facing a housing crisis made more acute by the Covid-19 pandemic, esteemed culture bearer and SNCC activist Curtis Mohammad builds a powerful coalition in New Orleans to reclaim blighted, vacant...
View Article¿Que Pasa, USA?
¿Qué pasa, U.S.A.? was a groundbreaking show – the first sitcom to be bilingual, without subtitles, and focused on the experiences of three generations of a Cuban American immigrant family in 1970’s...
View ArticleEve’s Garden
A love story to the people of New Orleans and the Saint Roch neighborhood. While unique to St Roch, many of the stories of this area echo common histories of other neighborhoods in New Orleans and...
View ArticleNone Of Us Are Free
On May 3, 2020, Dameon Shepard was playing video games and lamenting his cancelled high-school graduation ceremony when an armed group of people knocked on his door and tried to force their way into...
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 ArticleFamily Tides
DONATE FAMILY TIDES charts the ways people are responding to climate change-related sea level rise in two of the most vulnerable locations in the US: Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and South Florida....
View ArticleWe’re Hiring! Full-time Communications Manager
The Southern Documentary Fund seeks a full-time Communications Manager currently residing in the South. Position Description & Responsibilities: The Communications Manager reports to the Executive...
View ArticleKiller Miller
DONATE 23 years ago while riding the school bus, Chris Knittel at the age of 14, witnessed one boy kill another with a single punch. This fateful moment ignited trauma, anger, a media firestorm,...
View ArticleMeet Dana Collins, Southern Documentary Fund’s New Communications Manager
Durham, N.C., May 18, 2021—The Southern Documentary Fund is proud to announce the appointment of Dana Collins in the role of Communications Manager. Dana will oversee the organization’s correspondence,...
View ArticleTracing the Hairstons
DONATE Interweaving her search for her African ancestors, director Princess A. Hairston unravels the history of the largest slave-holding family in the U.S. through the personal stories of Black and...
View ArticleThe Uncommon Garden
DONATE After a freak accident left him a quadriplegic, retired Army Colonel Dan Krebill decided to build a garden thinking it would be a space to get exercise in his wheelchair. Over the years,...
View ArticleBackslide
DONATE Beginning in cramped trailers rattling along the highway from Northern Florida to Louisville, Kentucky, Luisa, Emiliano, and Beto watch over the wind that blows across the manes of the horses...
View ArticleSonic Trip Thru the Slip
DONATE Sonic Trip Thru the Slip is an artistic distillation and critical social analysis using elements of experimental sound, visuals, and narrative art to demonstrate a year long struggle of mental...
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