Feature Films

For years on Saturday night, white authorities in Enfield, N.C. blew a siren, warning Blacks to clear the downtown streets. This curfew was one of many demeaning practices used to keep the Black population separate and unequal. One fateful night, three days after the March on Washington, hundreds of Blacks on the streets of downtown Enfield refused to heed the blowing of the nine o’clock whistle.

The Nine O’clock Whistle tells the story of a dramatic cultural shift that rocked the segregated town of Enfield from 1963 to 1965 through the narratives of Willa Cofield, her former students, and current residents of the town. The video documents the racial indignities, segregation practices, and labor exploitation of the time.

The story offers a supreme example of how the civil rights grapevine grew from one small act of resistance in Enfield to envelope an entire region. The documentary brings hope, spirit and encouragement to those struggling to overcome entrenched, powerful, and oppressive forces.

A classic sci-fi story of a mute alien with the appearance of a black human who is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.

Artist Hamilton Glass challenges 30 artists from different cultural backgrounds to collaborate on 16 murals in Richmond, VA about race, status and experiences. In real-time footage and testimonial, the film shows how the artists got to know each other through difficult conversations, how working together ultimately opened their eyes and their hearts to the differences between all of us, and how these murals became a symbol of hope for the future for a community in pain.

A bigoted insurance agent wakes up one morning to find himself with darker skin. He now finds himself victim to the racial abuse he once perpetrated while his friends and family shun him, and must learn to accept his new pigmentation. TRIBUTE TO LATE MELVIN VAN PEEBLES

Craft beer generates tens of billions of dollars annually for the US economy. Despite beer’s Egyptian and African heritage, these traditions have been mostly forgotten and are rarely found in American brewing culture. Today, Black-owned breweries make up less than 1% of the nearly 9,000 breweries in operation. Eager to shift the historical perception of who makes and drinks beer, Black brewers, brand owners and influencers across the country are reshaping the craft beer industry and the future of America’s favorite adult beverage.

Crime thriller, directed by local filmmaker Will Mauricette.

Fed up with tirelessly working day in and day out just to provide for their families and have nothing to show for it, two friends, CJ and Speedy, begin to explore different ways to bring in more money and bring it in quickly. After a failed attempt, a desperate CJ becomes increasingly more motivated to switch their strategy up, even if it becomes unlawful and may put one of their lives in jeopardy. With CJ and Speedy now rolling in cash flow, a well-known affiliated gang member Brickz starts to become envious seeing one’s success that isn’t his own. In this fast-paced, drama-filled thriller, gang member Brickz will try to stop them by any means necessary. In a series of tragic events, CJ and Speedy realize that escaping this life they are now invested in won’t be that easy.

WARNING: MATURE SUBJECT MATTER

100 Years From Mississippi is a 60 minute documentary on the life of Mamie Lang Kirkland, a 111-year old African American woman who experienced and survived racial terrorism, segregation, bigotry and bias and yet continued to have hope, joy and love of life, full of the certainty that we can do better.