Slamdance: Sixteen Thousand Dollars
A short comedic film that imagines an America in which black people have been paid reparations for slavery.
Wheels
Wheels tells the story of a Brooklyn DJ who struggles to make it big despite his circumstances.
Sundance: Passing
In her directorial debut, Rebecca Hall adapts Nella Larsen’s novel about race relations and queer identity in 1920s New York with her film Passing.
Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival: MLK/FBI
Directed by Sam Pollard, MLK/FBI explores J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI’s harassment of Martin Luther King Jr. in an attempt to strip the charismatic Civil Rights leader of his power to mobilize the black community.
AFI Fest: The Lost Astronaut
A 14 minute short documentary that profiles Captain Edward Dwight Jr. an African-American pilot who would have become an astronaut under different circumstances.