Films


Screaming Men
Mika Ronkainen

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…

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SDF: In-the-Works
Rebecca Cerese, Kit Gruelle, Cynthia Hill

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…

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SDF: In-the-Works
Danielle Beverly, Dawn Porter

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.

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SDF: In-the-Works
Judy Van Wyk, Rex Miller

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…

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SDF: In-the-Works
Michael Frierson

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…

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SDF: In-the-Works

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…

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SDF: In-the-Works
Rex Miller

The Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) is proud to present In-the-Works at Full Frame this year. Yo Tek: A Uganda Tennis Story, directed by Rex Miller,…

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SDF: In-the-Works
Rodrigo Dorfman, Ashley York

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.

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The Sea Horse
Jean Painlevé

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…

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Sea of Shadows
Richard Ladkani

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.

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Sea Urchins
Jean Painlevé

Set to a musical collage of noises organized in homage to Varese, this film details both the biology and behavior of the sea urchin.

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Seabiscuit
Stephen Ives

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…

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The Seahorse
Jean Painlevé

Taking inspiration from a Surrealist poem written by Robert Desnos, Jean Painlevé weaves together a series of visual puns into a floating, dreamlike narrative.

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Searching
Vivian Bowman Edwards

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.…

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Secret Lives: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers During WWII
Aviva Slesin

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…

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Secret People: The Naked Face of Leprosy in America
John Anderson

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,…

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Secret Tapes
Piotr Morawski

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…

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Seeds
Brittany Shyne

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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