North Carolina Shorts 2025: Program 1: Documentaries
DIRECTOR(S):
André Robert Lee, Tim Kirkman, Lucas Lin, Cedric Ingram, Diana Greene, Mingyuan (David) Zheng, Kate Nartker LANGUAGE:
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Celebrating stories from our own backyard, this program showcases compelling documentary films made by North Carolina filmmakers or focused on subjects that make North Carolina unique.
Screenings will be followed by a Q&A with attending filmmakers.
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Freeman Vines
Eighty-two-year-old Freeman Vines built his first guitar when he was 16 and since then has been trying to repr...
13 min | André Robert Lee, Tim Kirkman | English
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In Loving Memory
IN LOVING MEMORY follows the life of Chapel Hill-based Japanese artist Chieko Murasugi and explores how her ar...
7 min | Lucas Lin | English
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Jazz Photographer, The
This documentary short delves into the world of Bobby Roebuck, exploring how he captures the essence of jazz t...
9 min | Cedric Ingram | English
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Making Sense Backwards: The Nick Bragg Story
After 25 commissioned murals, 87-year-old North Carolina artist Nick Bragg paints his own story for the first ...
27 min | Diana Greene | English
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Voice of Bamboo, The
After escaping Japan in his youth, a now elderly Japanese man found refuge on a farm in the mountains of North...
15 min | Mingyuan (David) Zheng | English
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Whose Woods Are These
Created frame by frame from over 500 feet of woven fabric, this animated short reimagines the mysterious disap...
6 min | Kate Nartker | N/A
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