Filmmaker Shukree Tilghman challenges the establishment by campaigning to end Black History Month! This often comedic cross-country documentary offers a candid look at race and power in “post-racial” America.

Presented in partnership with Black Documentary Collective and Media That Matters/Arts Engine, Inc.

In Weightless, filmmaker Faith Pennick shows us the work of Liz Nickels who created the scuba camp, Big Adventures, after her own experience being ostracized by other divers because of her size. Weightless depicts larger women as they are rarely shown, as physically active and not consumed with the expectation to be thin. 

Presented in partnership with Black Documentary Collective and Media That Matters/Arts Engine, Inc.

Featured Film: Soul Food Junkies by Byron Hurt Everyone loves soul food, but not everyone loves to discuss its health consequences. In Soul Food Junkies, Byron Hurt delves into the social significance of cuisine and its role in black cultural identity.

Presented in partnership with Black Documentary Collective and Media That Matters/Arts Engine, Inc.

Legendary artist Franco the Great, who started painting murals on storefront gates in 1968, has his street art threatened by a new city law that will remove the famous painter’s 40 year old security gate canvas.

For five years filmmaker Naimah Fuller examined the staggering number of blacks leaving major cities and relocating to the south. In his film Home: The Great Migration of the 21st Century, Naimah studied the “push-pull” factors of this new phenomenon by exploring historical and current conditions facing blacks in the north and the south.