The 22nd annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival will take place April 4 – 7, 2019 in Durham, NC.  Full Frame: four days of standout storytelling, conversation, and Southern hospitality in progressive downtown Durham, North Carolina. Each spring, Full Frame aims to foster an inclusive environment, bringing together filmmakers and film lovers from near and far to celebrate the power and artistry of documentary film. Amidst a vibrant arts scene, Full Frame is intimate, easy,…

Please join us as the 2019 School of Doc participants present their final project: Riot Not Quiet: Girls Rock NC.

The life and art of photographer Jay Maisel radiates from this intimate character piece that follows Maisel as he moves out of his longtime Manhattan studio and home, the graffitied Germania Bank building on the Bowery.

Midnight Family follows one family’s high-speed nights as they earn a living driving their privately owned ambulance in Mexico City, combating rival for-profit EMTs in a city where the government provides 45 public ambulances for a population of 9 million.

An infamous 1973 social experiment exploring violence and sex put 11 volunteers to sea on a small boat—for three months. The Raft incorporates pristine archival footage and new footage of the surviving participants, who reunite to analyze how the voyage changed their lives.

In 2014, teenager Lennon Lacy was found hanging from a swing set in Bladenboro, N.C. The circumstances of his death echo the long horror of lynching in the American South and intersect with the stories of two other communities seeking justice and reconciliation.

In an attempt to resurrect the life and art of celebrated architect Luis Barragán, boundary redefining artist Jill Magid creates a daring proposition that becomes a fascinating artwork in itself—a high-wire act of negotiation that explores how far an artist will go to democratize access to art.

In Kenya, a dedicated team of rangers watches over Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino. Rampant poaching has decimated his subspecies, yet hope remains thanks to his incredible caregivers who are set on both preventing and recovering loss.

Our Time Machine (80 minutes) Directed by Yang Sun, S. Leo Chiang December 17, 2019 21c Museum Hotel Durham, Main Gallery (Durham, NC) Film Website Cocktail Reception at 6:00 pm. Opening Remarks at 6:30 pm.   21c Museum Hotel Durham is pleased to present a screening of Our Time Machine, directed by Yang Sun and S. Leo Chiang. Enjoy a cocktail reception at 6pm, followed by opening remarks from Filmmaker S. Leo Chiang and 21c Chief Curator…

Amidst air strikes and bombings, a group of female doctors in Ghouta, Syria struggle with systemic sexism while trying to care for the injured using limited resources.