Film Category: NEW DOCS
Filmed in and around director Reid Davenport’s apartment in Oakland, California, this documentary is part essay, part travelogue, and part formal observational inquiry, all linked…
MORE ›National Teachers Academy is a high-performing public elementary school in a predominately Black neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. As gentrification creeps further into…
MORE ›Doris Muñoz is the only daughter of Mexican immigrant parents and the only one of their children born in the United States. For most of…
MORE ›“Once you know how important fighting for your kid is, you can’t do anything else but fight for them,” is the statement that begins Daresha…
MORE ›At the intersection of self-expression and communal reflection sits BABYBANGZ, a Black hair salon in Mid–City, New Orleans. Proprietor Anastasia Ebel fills a void through…
MORE ›In 2008, William D. Caballero began making an autobiographical film, traveling to the trailer in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he grew up and interviewing his…
MORE ›Steeve Day has been suffering from ALS for the past eight years. He is confined to a wheelchair and is no longer able to speak,…
MORE ›After the Civil War, freed African Americans settled in the floodplains along North Carolina’s Tar River. This land becomes Princeville, the first town chartered by…
MORE ›Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s artistic practice plays with the English language, exploring that space between what is immediately intelligible and what is deliberately opaque. Displayed on…
MORE ›The journey depicted in this film begins with a drive at night, headlights glowing down a darkened road. When filmmaker Michael Workman’s father, Tim, suffers…
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