Films

Actually, Iconic: Richard Estes

Admired by artists ranging from Salvador Dali to Chuck Close, Richard Estes avoided media attention throughout his career but has been called the “king of…
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Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

Following Ai Weiwei’s detention at the hands of the Chinese authorities, the outspoken artist and activist transformed the former island penitentiary of Alcatraz into an…
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All the Possibilities...

All the Possibilities… is a documentary meditation on artist Vernon Pratt’s 1,450 square foot systematic abstraction painting, All The Possibilities of Filling in Sixteenths (65,536),…
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American Trial: The Eric Garner Story

American Trial: The Eric Garner Story is an unprecedented film event, an unscripted courtroom drama that presents the trial that never happened against the NYPD Officer who…
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April Eighty-Nine

A woman recalls a fateful road trip taken thirty years earlier with her first love. This short screens as part of the NC Shorts 1…
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Ashes to Ashes

Winfred Rembert, the only living survivor of a lynching, a Star Wars fanatic and leather artist, develops a friendship with Dr. Shirley Jackson Whitaker, who…
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Bastards' Road

An Audience Award winner at the 2020 Slamdance Film Festival, this documentary follows Marine Veteran Jonathan Hancock as he walks over 6,000 miles around the…
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Blue & Gold Marching Machine

Follow along as 200 musicians and dancers celebrate the 100th year of the North Carolina A&T marching band, from band camp to the “Greatest Homecoming…
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The Booksellers

The Booksellers is a behind-the-scenes look at the rare book world and the fascinating people who inhabit it, brought about by executive producer Parker Posey…
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Bulls and Saints

Bulls and Saints is a lyrical documentary short based on a love letter written by an immigrant bull rider to his wife back home in…
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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

Offering an unflinching look at the infamous attorney who prosecuted director Ivy Meeropol’s grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the film examines Cohn’s life as chief…
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The Butterfly

Kota Ishijima spent most of her life hiding from who she is. Finding the strength to live that truth drove a wedge between her and…
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Call Center Blues

Call Center Blues is a lyrical portrait of an unlikely community of U.S. deportees and their loved ones struggling to rebuild their lives in Tijuana,…
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The Capote Tapes

Using newly discovered tapes of interviews that George Plimpton conducted with Capote’s friends after his death, the film explores the impact of Capote’s explosive unfinished…
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Chèche Lavi (Looking for Life)

Two Haitian migrants find themselves stranded at the US-Mexico border, strangers in a strange land. With no way forward and no one to depend on…
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Coup 53

While making a documentary about the 1953 coup in Iran, director Taghi Amirani and editor Walter Murch uncover archival material hidden for decades. The discovery…
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Dafa Metti (Difficult)

Under Paris’ glittering Eiffel Tower, illegal Senegalese migrants sell miniature souvenirs of the monument to support their families back home. Far from their families and…
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Dead in the Water

Dead in the Water exposes the stories, science, and solutions behind the over 2,000 industrial hog and poultry CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) throughout southeastern…
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Dead in the Water / Original Body of Pain (short film block)

Dead in the Water exposes the stories, science, and solutions behind the over 2,000 industrial hog and poultry CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) throughout southeastern…
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Digging for Weldon Irvine

Weldon Irvine’s socio-culturally evocative work in music and theater drew appreciation from the likes of Freddie Hubbard and Nina Simone to Mos Def and Q-Tip.…
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Disclosure

Disclosure is an eye-opening look at transgender depictions in motion pictures, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans…
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Documentary Shorts 1

Films in this program of short documentary works include: Call Center Blues Dafa Metti (Difficult) Follow the Sun Greykey Mr. Somebody Filmmaker in attendance for…
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Documentary Shorts 2

Films in this program of short documentary works include: Ashes to Ashes Elvers Exit 12 Flower Punk Still Plays With Trains Filmmaker in attendance for…
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Elvers

In late winter along the coast of Maine, millions of baby freshwater eels called “elvers” float up tidal rivers and propel a highly lucrative international…
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Exit 12

After two tours in Fallujah during the Iraq War, US Marine and Combat Veteran Roman Baca came home ravaged with depression, anxiety, and anger. With…
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Finster

Finster illustrates the life of legendary folk artist Howard Finster, who demonstrated that art can thrive outside of museums and galleries, in ordinary places and…
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Flower Punk

Japanese artist Azuma Makoto has sent his floral sculptures into space and sunk them to the bottom of the ocean, but most of the time,…
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Follow the Sun

Follow The Sun captures the liminal moments of Central American men who find themselves in between grave danger and the hopes of a better life…
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From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey

A rookie NPR reporter, covering the armed 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, is arrested by the FBI for defying a government news blackout. Years later,…
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The Great Green Wall

We are thrilled to be able to screen this new film from Jared Scott, who brought our audiences The Age of Consequences in 2017, just…
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The Great Toilet Paper Scare

The untold story of a notorious incident involving Johnny Carson, a lot of toilet paper, and millions of fearful Americans. This short film precedes the…
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Greykey

Fear and fascination arise in Muriel Grey when she remembers the figure of her father, who passed away when she was still very young. Thirty…
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He Dreams of Giants

Fifteen years after making their successful documentary Lost in la Mancha, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe revisit their subject, director Terry Gilliam, as he once…
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Hebo

Hebo explores the work of Sam Ezell, an outsider folk artist in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Sam has been a maintenance worker at the Daniel Boone…
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Henry Glassie: Field Work

From Brazil to Turkey to right here in the American South, the worldwide travels and unique cultural finds of renowned American folklorist Henry Glassie are…
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Hoops Africa: Ubuntu Matters

Hoops Africa: Ubuntu Matters is a collection of stories that celebrate the past, present, and future of basketball in Africa. From the dreams of a…
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House of Cardin

Millions know the iconic logo and ubiquitous signature but few know the man behind the larger-than-life fashion label. This film is a rare peek into…
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Hungry to Learn

This film by Soledad O’Brien and Geeta Gandbhir introduces the faces behind an American crisis–college students so strapped to pay tuition that they can’t afford…
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I Am Not Alone

On Easter 2018, a man puts on a backpack and begins to walk across Armenia. His mission: to inspire a velvet revolution and topple the…
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The Ice Climber

Hailing from the mountains of North Carolina, Anthony is no stranger to elevation. He lives for the winter time when he can climb the frozen…
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Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film

Making Apes takes a look back at the makeup artists, led by Tom Burman and John Chambers, who were behind one of the most groundbreaking…
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The Match

An OkCupid date leads to love, marriage, and an organ transplant. This short film precedes the feature Love Type D
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Mr. Somebody

A former Crip gang member searches for redemption after fourteen years behind bars. This short screens as part of the Documentary Shorts 1 block of…
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Mum

After 15 years of averting the source of her anxiety, Mariam at last walks the journey of voicing her avoided emotions regarding her non Emirati…
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My Darling Vivian

This film recently premiered at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival, and for the first time tells the story of Vivian Liberto–Johnny Cash’s first wife. A…
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Narrowsburg

Narrowsburg, NY was poised to become the “Sundance of the East”–or so the Castellanos would have locals believe. When a glamorous French movie producer and…
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Navigating Thru

Tuesday, July 21, 2020 7:30 pm gates open, show begins at dusk Marketplace Cinemas Drive-In 2095 Peters Creek Parkway Winston-Salem, NC 27127 Buy tickets Every…
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NC Shorts 1

Once again this year, we are proud to feature several fantastic films from talented filmmakers working right here in our own backyard. Click the links…
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On Broadway

An all-star cast tells the inside story of Broadway’s return to prominence thanks to innovative work, inclusivity, and a savvy balance between art and commerce.…
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One Wing in the Fire

Hiking the nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail is a mammoth undertaking. Those up to the task could use a little help from this benevolent, chain-smoking Trail…
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Original Body of Pain

Original Body of Pain captures the intense and often generational nature of addiction through portraits of two women trying to escape its clutches. But as these…
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Pigeon Kings

Pigeon Kings takes us through the backyards of South Central Los Angeles, where men are devoted to tumbling pigeons. We watch as enthusiasts train birds…
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Queen of Lapa

A proud transgender sex worker since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz, now fifty-nine, shapes a new reality in her “hostel” by housing a new…
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Quilt Journeys

Journeys can be transformative. And while most begin as a single step towards a known destination, for a community of African-American women anchored in the…
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Remembering Shakespeare

Remembering Shakespeare asks the simple question–what lines of Shakespeare do you remember and why? This documentary film engages participants in a dialogue about memory, memorization…
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The Seer and the Unseen

Against a spectacular Icelandic landscape, this film follows a “seer” who communicates with a parallel realm of huldufólk–invisible spirits of nature that much of Iceland…
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Slay the Dragon

It influences elections and sways outcomes–gerrymandering has become a hot-button political topic and symbol for everything broken about the American electoral process. But there are…
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Sound and Sole

Arthur Grimes was born and raised in the Appalachian mountains and is the only professionally working, African-American buck dancer in Boone, North Carolina. Here, Arthur…
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Still Plays with Trains

Still Plays with Trains captures one man’s passion to share the joy of childhood. By recreating his 10th birthday with a 3,000 square foot replica…
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This Little Land of Mines

This Little Land of Mines is about the resilience of the Lao people as they live among and work to clear yet unexploded bombs from…
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Ups & Downs

Public space and architecture surrounds us, influencing our everyday life in subtle ways. Stairs in particular tend to be primarily transitional spaces; we don’t tend…
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