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Full Frame Road Show

    Throughout the year, Full Frame brings free documentary films to partnering venues around the North Carolina, making transformative film experiences available to communities around the region. The Road Show frequently features films that have screened at the annual film festival. Past Road Show partners have included the Durham County Public Library, The Cary Theater, The Carolina Theatre of Durham, and Durham Central Park.

    Road Show at Durham Central Park

     

    RECENT ROAD SHOW SCREENINGS

     

    A children's picture book artist bends over a desk with a paintbrush in hand.

    STORY & PICTURES BY
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
    Durham County Public Library

    STORY & PICTURES BY (Directed by Joanna Rudnick; Full Frame 2024) focuses on three children’s picture book authors: Christian Robinson, Yuyi Morales, and Mac Barnett. The film demonstrates how childhood stories mold our imaginations and how much magic they still hold for us, even as adults.

     

    soldier in front of a stenciled metal door reading "hollywoodgate"

    HOLLYWOODGATE
    Thursday, February 06, 2025 | 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
    The Cary Theater

    HOLLYWOODGATE (Directed by Ibrahim Nash’at, Full Frame 2025) spends a year inside Afghanistan, following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache of weaponry America left behind and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.

     

    A worker stands shielding their face with a sheaf of papers in front of an Amazon sign

    UNION
    Thursday, January 30, 2025 | 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
    The Cary Theater

    UNION (Directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing, Full Frame 2024) tells the story of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU)—a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island—as it takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.

     

    DAUGHTERS
    Thursday, January 23, 2025 | 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
    The Cary Theater

    In DAUGHTERS/ U.S. (Directors: Angela Patton, Natalie Rae), four young girls prepare for a special Daddy-Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.