Uganda Rising
Jesse James Miller, Pete McCormack
In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s notorious demagoguery, Uganda remains torn by official neglect and a radical resistance, inspired in part, by western Pentecostalism where…
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War/Dance
Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine
For the children of the Patongo refugee camp in the most perilous region of Northern Uganda, dancing is a kind of salvation and music soothes…
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Welcome to Nollywood
Jamie Meltzer
Nigeria is the third largest producer of feature films, after the US and India. Movies are made on the cheap—first quickly shot on tape, then,…
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Lumo
Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III
Lumo is a young woman in the Masisi District of Democratic Republic of Congo. Like many women in the area, she suffers from fistula, a…
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Moving Midway
Godfrey Cheshire
Film critic and North Carolina native Godfrey Cheshire’s cousin Charlie (aka Pooh) decides to transport the family’s historic Midway Plantation. The monumental decision sparks an…
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The Devil Came on Horseback
Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Former Marine captain Brian Steidle takes us face to face with the genocide of Darfur. Signed on with the African Union to observe the 2004…
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Angels in the Dust
Louise Hogarth
In the dusty outskirts of a deeply divided nation, the Bothshabelo orphanage offers sanctuary to hundreds of South Africans in need. Con and Marion Cloete…
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A group of people are forcibly removed from their homeland. This isn’t the Middle East or ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe, but good old racism…
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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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After Katrina: Rebuilding St. Bernard Parish
Adam Finberg
A sensitive elegy to a working-class community’s destroyed neighborhood and its passionate commitment to rebuild. Rather than sweeping statements of catastrophe, we are offered intimate…
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