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An electrifying fusion of music, image, and dialogue, this film captures the 60-plus-year career of photojournalist Burk Uzzle, including his current portrait work with the African American community in Eastern North Carolina.
MORE ›A 60-year-old gold digger with health issues can’t afford to retire, so his son wants to build a gold harvesting machine that should bring them a better future.
MORE ›In this harrowing documentary—told mostly through video chat and news footage—reporter Seth Freed Wessler investigates conditions at the Irwin County Detention Center, a private Immigration…
MORE ›An Australian heroine is the charismatic center of this nuanced film: Anne Boyd, a professor of music and composer at the University of Sydney. Boyd’s…
MORE ›Three hardworking men recall the story of “The Three Bears” as they muse on their live sin post-Soviet Russia.
MORE ›Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple completed her portrait of one of the most controversial figures in boxing history in 1993, just after he was convicted of…
MORE ›Track-and-field gold medalist and world-record holder Butch Reynolds is one of Akron, Ohio’s finest athletes. But his reputation and career took a debilitating hit when the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) falsely accused him of using performance-enhancing drugs, costing him the 1992 Olympic Games.
MORE ›Chico David Colvard untangles a deep and disturbing family mystery in this profound, unflinching tale of sexual abuse and forgiveness.
MORE ›When filmmaker Macky Alston was a child in Durham, North Carolina, he wondered why so many African-American children in his class had the same last…
MORE ›The great documentarian Humphrey Jennings’s short, pungent history of England was commissioned for the mid-century Festival of Britain and gives a lovely overview of the…
MORE ›From 1972 to 1975, Alfred Guzzetti documented extensive interviews with generations of his extended family. Divided into three parts, Guzzetti presents these sessions, some sound…
MORE ›Black families fighting to preserve their land and legacy. Family Tree’s cinéma vérité approach reveals the vast task of maintaining the land while navigating challenging family dynamics, unscrupulous developers, and changing environmental needs. The forest itself and the beauty of its changing seasons become a primary character in this family drama.
MORE ›Becky and Donna are the nicest couple. They are engaged to be married, have a house in the suburbs, and run a family business cleaning…
MORE ›Ed Fanuzzi is a Staten Island inventor and treasure hunter. He sees gold where others see trash, combing the beach with a metal detector and…
MORE ›Expect the unexpected from this outré graphic artist, erotic illustrator, and revolutionary
children’s book author and his unconventional views.
Fueled by music and personal charisma, Charlie Nagatani embodies Japan’s obsession with American country and western music. North American Premiere
MORE ›Long retired from the local mine, Pablo Fabelo spends his days smoking cigars, playign cards, and quietly reminiscing in this languid, lushly photographed short.
MORE ›“There are three things Angola will do to a man. Number one—it will bring you to crossroads of a turning point. Number two—it will harden…
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