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Hear My Voice: Born Black in America
HEAR MY VOICE: Born Black In America is a documentary and book series. This series give voices to the American enslaved Africans, as spoken through their descendants. This introductory episode is a broad scope that gives a foundation for understanding systemic racism and its correlation from sla...
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The Spiral
A short film shows the decisions that face ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) families every day and asks, "what would you do?"
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Food Apartheid
About 23.5 million people live in food deserts in the U.S., areas where affordable, healthy food options are greatly limited if non-existent. There is so much that can be done.
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Justice for Ahmaud
A mother fights for the truth behind her son’s killing – captured on video. Ahmaud Arbery was jogging when he was chased and shot. CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca reports.
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Restoration A Concert Film
In Spring 2020, the Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund collaborated with the South Carolina Lowcountry hip hop group, Native Son, to create the anthem for our campaign, “The Land.” “The Land” is our generation’s love offering to the beautiful struggle to protect 1.5 million acres of...
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Dreaming of Words
Njattyela Sreedharan, a fourth standard drop-out, compiles a dictionary connecting four Indian languages. Travelling across four states and doing extensive research, he spent twenty five years making the multilingual dictionary. This unique dictionary offers a comparative study of Malayalam, Kann...
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No Lye: An American Beauty Story
No Lye: An American Beauty Story chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America.
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Thoughts Create Form
A humorous view of the epidemic of "Homelessness of Art" fought out in the streets of NYC with a performance piece of, Do Thoughts Create your Life? The film looks at the locations where consistent thoughts have created Physicality. It is a documentary about an experiment that you are now a part ...
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The Cost of Denial
From 1981 to 2021, the world has confronted a terrible scourge that has impacted countless individuals with fear, pain and death. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on our war against AIDS. The medical industry has focused on antiretroviral drugs to combat the HIV virus. All efforts ...
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2020AD
How does one survive as a "non" human?
How does the Black psyche experience life in the face of looming death?I dread telling my Black child about police...
2020AD visualizes the labor of engaging "the talk" while imagining an alternative, more generative confrontation drawing from the archive...
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Death To The N-Word
Death to The N-Word highlights the desensitizing of the taboo term through music, history, and multiple cultures.
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BOJ - The Movie
BOJ (The Book of Job) -The journey of a man named after the prominent biblical figure and the parallels he discovered through surviving a stroke.
What originated as a one-man play meant to premiere last summer (2020) in the NY Theatre Festival evolved into this short film due to the pandemic and...
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BIRTHRIGHT: Finding the Missing Piece of Me
Britney Giaccone always felt something was missing.
As a young girl, she never identified with her “biological” dad. Fortunately, her stepfather filled a void in her life, but it was never enough to settle the feeling that something was off. A random decision to take a popular over-the-counter D...
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Ourselves in Stories
In the last 25 years, the independent comics community made deliberate efforts to be inclusive and elevate under-represented voices. This is the story of how the community has changed over those years and evidence that if you want to change a culture, you need to change its stories, starting with...
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Journey of Gogos
Three South African gogos (grandmothers) take on a journey to Europe. As they travel, they tell the true story of gogos, who often replace parents in raising and educating children in South Africa.
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Becoming Black Lawyers
When these five Black lawyers set out on their journeys to receive a professional legal education, they did not realize that they would have to struggle against additional battles even more challenging than the rigors of learning the law in a hypercompetitive environment. They discover the contra...
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Bartholomew's Gold
Host Moe the Mos gives an in depth look into the life of up and coming NYC fashion designer Winston B Holder III.
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Delayed But Never Denied: Juneteenth 2021
In the town of Cleveland, north of Houston, a local organization holds a Juneteenth celebration that unites the community.
This documentary shares the sights and sounds of the festivities, participants share the meaning of the day, and the importance of Juneteenth being recognized as a national ...
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Bo Legs: Marvin Arrington, Sr., An Atlanta Story
Marvin Arrington, Sr. is one of Atlanta's most significant political leaders yet one of its least recognized. Born in Atlanta, then a segregated, provincial town of the Deep South Arrington grew up to help galvanize the city of his birth into the international, cosmopolitan metropolis that it is ...
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In the Sun
From Executive Producer Kerry Washington, “In the Sun” is a poignant and inspiring documentary that lets viewers in on the personal skin health journeys of seven families facing extraordinary circumstances as they uncover the long-term effects of living in the sun. The film introduces us to Dr. S...
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One Pint at a Time
Craft beer generates tens of billions of dollars annually for the US economy. Despite beer’s Egyptian and African heritage, these traditions have been mostly forgotten and are rarely found in American brewing culture. Today, Black-owned breweries make up less than 1% of the nearly 9,000 brewerie...
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TAPIZ (Tapestry)
A documentary that focuses on the asylum process and how Covid-19 impacted the LatinX community.