Kid Candidate
A viral joke video catapults Hayden Pedigo – a 24-year-old artist and musician in Amarillo, TX – into the spotlight and prompts him to make a surprise bid for city council. With his goal of upending the status quo and ousting corrupt incumbent politicians, KID CANDIDATE follows Pedigo’s unorthodox campaign while unpacking issues of race, income inequality and gentrification in small-town America.
Episodes
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Kid Candidate
S10 E9 - 1h 8m
A viral joke video catapults Hayden Pedigo – a 24-year-old artist and musician in Amarillo, TX – into the spotlight and prompts him to make a surprise bid for city council. With his goal of upending the status quo and ousting corrupt incumbent politicians, KID CANDIDATE follows Pedigo’s unorthodox campaign while unpacking issues of race, income inequality and gentrification in small-town America.
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La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered
S10 E8 - 52m 16s
On May 5th, 1991, people took to the streets of Washington D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood to protest the police shooting of a young Salvadoran man, Daniel Gomez. Through testimony, song, poetry, and street theater, LA MANPLESA: An Uprising Remembered weaves together the collective memory of one of D.C.’s first barrios and dives into the roots of the '91 rebellion.
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Any Given Day
S10 E7 - 1h 24m
Filmmaker Margaret Byrne follows three formerly incarcerated Chicagoans as they manage their respective mental illnesses while searching for stability in their families, friendships, jobs and housing. While documenting the challenges that are faced at the intersections of a punitive carceral system, poverty and substance use, Byrne reckons with her own history of mental illness.
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Geographies of Kinship
S10 E5 - 1h 19m
GEOGRAPHIES OF KINSHIP weaves together the complex personal histories of four adult adoptees born in South Korea with the rise of the country’s global adoption program. Raised in foreign families, each adoptee sets out on a journey to reconnect with their roots, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew.
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Daughter of a Lost Bird
S10 E4 - 1h 6m
Kendra, a Native adoptee, grew up assimilated in a loving, white family with little connection to her heritage. Now, as an adult with a family of her own, Kendra embarks on a seven year journey to find her biological mother, April, and return to her Lummi homeland. Together, Kendra and April, also a Native adoptee, navigate what it means to be Native and to belong to a tribe from the outside.
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Sapelo
S10 E3 - 1h 31m
On Sapelo island, two young brothers, JerMarkest and Jonathan, are coming of age in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee. As Sapelo’s storyteller and elder matriarch, their adoptive mother, Cornelia Walker Bailey, works to preserve what remains of her African-American community in the face of encroachment by property developers.
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For the Love of Rutland
S10 E2 - 1h 24m
An attempt to bring Syrian refugees to invigorate the economically struggling and predominantly white town of Rutland, VT unleashes deep partisan rancor. Despite a lifetime of feeling invalidated and shamed for her poverty and addiction, long-time Rutland resident, Stacie, emerges as an unexpected and resilient leader in a town divided by class, cultural values and political leanings.
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Fannie Lou Hamer's America
S10 E1 - 58m 41s
Fannie Lou Hamer's America is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential. Through public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist, Fannie Lou Hamer's America explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders.
Extras + Features
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The Death of My Two Fathers | Trailer
S11 E2 - 2m 30s
After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches his late father’s tapes and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. At once a conversation between past and present and a letter to Sol’s children, THE DEATH OF MY TWO FATHERS reveals the complexities of identity, the persistence of racial trauma, the challenges of fatherhood -- and the liberation that exists in facing our own mortality.
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Big Chief, Black Hawk | Trailer
S11 E1 - 2m 19s
Big Chief Tee is a high school senior and the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans. During COVID-19, he and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition. Through haute couture, movement, and words, BIG CHIEF, BLACK HAWK celebrates the beauty and resilience of “the culture” even in the face of crisis and change.
Schedule
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America ReFramed
Vision Portraits
Thursday
Feb 9
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Director Rodney Evans interviews blind and low-vision artists who continue to create art, as he explores how the deterioration of his own vision will impact his life and work. -
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America ReFramed
Vision Portraits
Friday
Feb 10
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Director Rodney Evans interviews blind and low-vision artists who continue to create art, as he explores how the deterioration of his own vision will impact his life and work. -
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America ReFramed
Vision Portraits
Friday
Feb 10
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Director Rodney Evans interviews blind and low-vision artists who continue to create art, as he explores how the deterioration of his own vision will impact his life and work. -
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America ReFramed
Vision Portraits
Friday
Feb 10
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Director Rodney Evans interviews blind and low-vision artists who continue to create art, as he explores how the deterioration of his own vision will impact his life and work. -
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America ReFramed
Vision Portraits
Saturday
Feb 11
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Director Rodney Evans interviews blind and low-vision artists who continue to create art, as he explores how the deterioration of his own vision will impact his life and work. -
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America ReFramed
Vision Portraits
Sunday
Feb 12
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Director Rodney Evans interviews blind and low-vision artists who continue to create art, as he explores how the deterioration of his own vision will impact his life and work. -
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America ReFramed
Vision Portraits
Sunday
Feb 12
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Director Rodney Evans interviews blind and low-vision artists who continue to create art, as he explores how the deterioration of his own vision will impact his life and work. -
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America ReFramed
Vision Portraits
Sunday
Feb 12
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Director Rodney Evans interviews blind and low-vision artists who continue to create art, as he explores how the deterioration of his own vision will impact his life and work. -
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America ReFramed
Big Chief, Black Hawk
Thursday
Feb 16
1 Hour
Big Chief Tee, the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans, and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition. -
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America ReFramed
Big Chief, Black Hawk
Friday
Feb 17
1 Hour
Big Chief Tee, the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans, and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition. -
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America ReFramed
Big Chief, Black Hawk
Friday
Feb 17
1 Hour
Big Chief Tee, the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans, and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition. -
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America ReFramed
Big Chief, Black Hawk
Friday
Feb 17
1 Hour
Big Chief Tee, the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans, and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition. -
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America ReFramed
Big Chief, Black Hawk
Saturday
Feb 18
1 Hour
Big Chief Tee, the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans, and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition. -
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America ReFramed
Big Chief, Black Hawk
Sunday
Feb 19
1 Hour
Big Chief Tee, the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans, and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition. -
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America ReFramed
Big Chief, Black Hawk
Sunday
Feb 19
1 Hour
Big Chief Tee, the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans, and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition. -
Image
America ReFramed
Big Chief, Black Hawk
Sunday
Feb 19
1 Hour
Big Chief Tee, the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans, and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition.
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