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 hundred million people depend on the peanut as their primary source of protein. In his efforts to fight hunger and extreme poverty, Jock Brandis introduces a simple global solution: the universal sheller.

Bunny Estelle Sanders: The Mayor Who Stood Up
Directed by Erick Yates Green
Bunny Estelle Sanders, a Washington, D.C., civil rights activist returns to her small North Carolina hometown of Roper. Following in her father’s footsteps, she gets elected to the position of Mayor, whereupon she fights political battles and the US Navy in order to preserve her unique and vulnerable corner of the world.

Passing It On
Directed by Wil Weldon
An intimate documentary chronicling the fifty-year teaching career of North Carolina author and Duke University Professor Reynolds Price. The film follows Price from the first day of class and reflects on what distinguishes him as a teacher, what he expects from students in the classroom, and what motivates his teaching.

Celebrating its seventh anniversary, The Southern Documentary Fund is a collective of North Carolina-based media artists dedicated to the production of documentary films in or about the American South. In the past six years, over sixty projects have received fiscal sponsorship through SDF.