Film Category: NEW DOCS

I Didn’t See You There
Reid Davenport

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…

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Let the Little Light Shine
Kevin Shaw

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…

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Mija
Isabel Castro

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…

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Mama Bears
Daresha Kyi

“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…

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BABYBANGZ
Juliana Kasumu

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…

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Chilly & Milly
William D. Caballero

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…

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Expiration
Joris Cottin

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,…

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Freedom Hill
Resita Cox

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…

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Kameelah Janan Rasheed: The Edge of Legibility
Carrie Hawks

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…

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Meantime
Michael T Workman

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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