Films
Twenty-five men, mostly blonde, form a two-row semi-circle around a pre-determined point on a large expanse of ice just inside the Arctic Circle. One anticipates…
MORE ›This year, the Southern Documentary Fund’s In-the-Works will screen excerpts from Private Violence with filmmakers Rebecca Cerese, Kit Gruelle, and Cynthia Hill. Behind the closed…
MORE ›The Southern Documentary Fund is screening in-the-works excerpts from Old South by Danielle Beverly and Trapped by Dawn Porter. The showings will be followed by moderated conversation with the filmmakers.
MORE ›The Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) is proud to present In-the-Works at Full Frame again this year. This program provides audiences with a unique opportunity to…
MORE ›The Southern Documentary Fund’s (SDF) In-the-Works will be faciliated by filmmaker Bill Siegel (The Weather Underground). FBI/KKK, directed by Michael Frierson is an intimate, 77-minute…
MORE ›This year, the Southern Documentary Fund’s (SDF) In-the-Works will screen three short pieces by North Carolina filmmakers. The Appropriate Genius Directed by Rob Hill Five…
MORE ›Occupy the Imagination (Director: Rodrigo Dorfman)
As filmmaker Rodrigo Dorfman explores his revolutionary roots in 1970s Chile, a wave of
resistance explodes during Occupy Wall Street.
So Help You God (Director: Ashley York)
Filmmaker Ashley York returns to her Kentucky hometown to unravel the story of six teenagers
imprisoned for a gruesome murder.
Jean Painlevé was a great scientific filmmaker. He would often make two versions of a film—the hardcore science versions for research and the delightful, often…
MORE ›A skilled cohort of experts embark on separate, but equally thrilling, rescue missions in the Sea of Cortez to save the vaquita porpoise from extinction.
MORE ›Set to a musical collage of noises organized in homage to Varese, this film details both the biology and behavior of the sea urchin.
MORE ›With the country facing war and a prolonged economic crisis, an unlikely hero gallops onto the American stage in the 1930s—a motely, four-legged hero named…
MORE ›Taking inspiration from a Surrealist poem written by Robert Desnos, Jean Painlevé weaves together a series of visual puns into a floating, dreamlike narrative.
MORE ›On May 3, 1968, a helicopter co-piloted by Warrant Officer Arthur F. Chaney went down in Vietnam. The body of Art Chaney was never recovered.…
MORE ›Throughout Europe during the Holocaust, families risked their lives to protect Jewish children from the atrocities of the Third Reich. While those humanitarian actions saved…
MORE ›Following the hysteria caused by a single case of leprosy in 1927, the U.S. government began the forced quarantining of anyone diagnosed with the leprosy,…
MORE ›Poland’s communist government filmed dissidents as part of an effort to intimidate and control political opposition; these efforts failed with the ascendance of the Solidarity…
MORE ›Seeds is a portrait of Centennial farmers in the geographical south. Using lyrical black-and-white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational Black farmers and the significance of owning land.
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