Southern Documentary Fund Appoints New Executive Director
Durham, N.C. – June 15, 2021 – Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Kristy Garcia Breneman in the role of Executive Director. She will be responsible for all...
View ArticleStay Prayed Up
Donate A revered “Mother” to many in her community, Lena Mae Perry, 82, has lifted countless spirits with her booming voice as part of The Branchettes, a renowned North Carolina gospel trio. The...
View ArticleThe Experiment at V.E.S.
Donate The year is 1967. The Summer of Love. The Vietnam War. Riots across American inner cities. In the American South, the hard-fought battles for school integration finally reach the last bastion...
View ArticleFilmmaker Christopher Everett Joins Southern Documentary Fund Team
Durham, N.C. – August 3, 2021 – Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Everett as Program Manager. He will oversee the organization’s many programs serving...
View ArticleTRACING THE HAIRSTONS
Donate Towards the end of the American Civil War, the Hairstons, a unique family from Scotland, owned over 42 plantations and over 10,000 slaves in Virginia, North Carolina, and Mississippi. Through...
View ArticleSTATE OF RODEO
Donate Follows a diverse group of characters who participate in rodeo and ranching in the state that started it all. In 1521 Ponce de Leon brought the first herds of cattle and horses to the...
View ArticleJUMPING JACK FLASH
Donate Brooke Sonenreich returns to Miami on August 24, 2021, 29 years after Hurricane Andrew destroyed South Miami, to focus on how the natural disaster had an effect on her family’s psyche. The...
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 ArticleELECT JOYCE
Donate ELECT JOYCE tells the story of Joyce Elliott’s race for the 2nd Congressional District seat in Arkansas. Elliott is one of the most well-known and respected Democrats in the state, but she’s...
View ArticleSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND ANNOUNCES CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR $10,000 PRODUCTION...
Durham, N.C. – August 17, 2021 – Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) announces call for entries for the 2021 SDF Production Grant for Southern filmmakers living and working in the American South. The call...
View ArticleCOVID CAMPAIGN – THE JAMIE HARRISON DOCUMENTARY
Donate In South Carolina, African American Jaime Harrison takes on Republican incumbent Lindsay Graham to run for U.S. Senate. But what happens when the COVID-19 epidemic sets in? In a state with one...
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5 DOCUMENTARIES TO STREAM FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND
Need some ideas for films to watch over Labor Day weekend? Southern Documentary Fund has selected 5 extraordinary documentaries about workers and their fight to change things for the better. ROGER...
View ArticleDOC SAVANNAH
Donate DOC Savannah presents film screenings, community engagement and educational programming for POV: Our America with partner organizations in Savannah, Georgia. DOC Savannah plans to develop a...
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FILMMAKER RODRIGO DORFMAN SHARES 5 DOCUMENTARIES TO WATCH WITH A FOCUS ON THE...
In the last 30 years, the Southeast, and North Carolina in particular, has seen the largest influx of immigrants from Latin America to the United States. For this first wave of immigrants – mostly from...
View ArticleI SET MY HEART ON FIRE ‘CAUSE I LOVE A BURNING THING
Donate A young poet struggles to keep his family’s legacy of glass making alive deep in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Living in solitude with the forest and the infernal fires of the glass...
View ArticleBACKSIDE
Donate BACKSIDE exalts the expertise of the under recognized migrant workers behind the Kentucky Derby, the most famous horse race in the world. Following a racing season from beginning to end, this...
View ArticleDOUBLE SHIFT PODCAST
Donate The Double Shift uses compelling narratives of working mothers to explore big topics like how to change workplaces that ignore mothers’ needs or create whole new models for work. We’ll look at...
View ArticleTHE ELEPHANT 6 RECORDING CO.
Donate THE ELEPHANT 6 RECORDING CO shares the unique inside story of the collective creative evolution behind the sounds of 1990s psychedelic rock revival bands Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk...
View ArticleSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND AWARDS TEN PRODUCTION GRANTEES
Durham, N.C. – Dec 7, 2021 – Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) has selected ten projects to receive Production Grants in the amount of $10,000 each. Recipients include a diverse group of filmmakers...
View ArticleINHERITANCE
Donate As the nation looks to Richmond, VA, to reckon with its Confederate legacy, this filmmaker sets out to uncover the housing system’s revisionist history: which has left her hometown divided and...
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