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Disrupted Borders
This is a coming-of-age story about two best friends living on the US-Mexico border in a scarred landscape of racial tensions, family wounds, and lack of opportunities as they embark on their extraordinary journeys in 3D innovation and artistic creativity to heal themselves, their families, and their community.
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A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
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In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.
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Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.
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Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.
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An Alabama inmate fights to keep a jailhouse romance alive while advocating for parole.
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An ode to the poetry and power of the American South’s diverse landscape and its stewards.