American Trial:​
The Eric Garner Story

AMERICAN TRIAL employs actual prosecutors, defense attorneys and experts, presenting the real-life evidence and witnesses to Garner’s death. 

Out of Omaha

Executive produced by multi-platinum hip-hop artist J. Cole, OUT OF OMAHA is an intimate portrait of twin brothers Darcell and Darrell Trotter, two young black men coming of age in the racially and economically-divided Midwestern city of Omaha, Nebraska.​

Forced Change

An in-depth look at 4 stories of people who left New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and never returned. This 14-year epic investigates why they left, why they didn’t return and how they are still deeply affected close to 15 years after the greatest natural disaster in American history changed their lives forever.

The Long Shadow

An astonishingly candid look at the history of anti-black racism in the United States, “The Long Shadow” traces the blunt imposition of white privilege and its ultimate manifestation-slavery.

Blueprint

A young black man searches for his identity in the aftermath of a fatal shooting in South Side, Chicago.

Based on a true story, this timely and important film tackles the issue of racial injustice and what it takes to overcome grief under difficult circumstances.

Life After Life

Life After Life follows the stories of Harrison, Noel, and Chris as they return home from San Quentin State Prison. After spending most of their lives incarcerated, they are forced to reconcile their perception of themselves with a reality they are unprepared for.

Lady Be Good: Instrumental Women
In Jazz

This documentary film concentrates on the contributions of American female instrumentalists in jazz from the early 1920s to the 1970s and the development and extent of the all-women jazz groups

Difret

Based on the inspirational true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyer embroiled in a life-or-death clash between cultural traditions and their country's advancement of equal rights.

The Rape of
Recy Taylor

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang rapped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama.

She spoke up and bravely identified her rapists, despite being in Jim Crow South.

Beyond The Wall

Beyond the Wall follows five formerly incarcerated men who are attempting to rebuild their lives on the outside with little support from our criminal justice system.

Raising Renee

Emmy nominated Raising Renee is about artist Beverly McIver and the promise she made to her mother that she would take care of her older sister Renee, who is mentally disabled. The promise comes due just as Beverly's career is blasting off.

To Be Heard

To Be Heard is the story of three teens from the South Bronx whose struggle to change their lives begins when they start to write poetry.

As writing and reciting become vehicles for their expressions of love, friendship, frustration and hope, we watch these three youngsters emerge as accomplished, self-aware artists who use their creativity to alter their circumstances.

Inside Buffalo

The remarkable story of the 92nd Buffalo Division, the all African American segregated combat unit that fought with outstanding heroism in Italy during the Second World War.

For Ahkeem

One year before the fatal police shooting of a black teenager in nearby Ferguson, 17-year-old Daje is sentenced to a court-supervised high school in St. Louis.

In this intimate coming of age story, Daje fights to secure a better future.

Brothers Of
The Blacklist

In the fall of 1992, an elderly woman reports an attempted rape by a young black man. As a result, the local college, SUNY Oneonta releases a list of 125 black male students to the police. One by one they are interrogated.

In Brothers of the Blacklist, director Sean Gallagher tracks this act of injustice that would become the longest litigated case in US history.

T-Rex

Claressa Shields, a 17-year-old boxer from Michigan, dreams of being the first woman in history to win a gold medal in Olympic boxing.

Brownstones
To Red Dirt

Kids from Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy projects and orphans from Sierra Leone's brutal civil war have one thing in common: no one gives them a chance.

Brownstones to Red Dirt tells the story of how these “lost” groups find one another through a pen pal program that not only shapes their lives, but also shows them that even if they can't count on the world, they can count on each other.

After The Storm

A feature-length documentary film that follows a group of New York Broadway actors who were inspired to help the youth of New Orleans. They stage a musical theater production of the Broadway play "Once on this Island" with local teenagers at the St. Marks Community Center located at the edge of the French Quarter.