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REEL SOUTH

The people, culture, landscape and history of the South both captivate and bewilder. In the cherished tradition of Southern storytelling, Reel South reveals the South's proud yet complicated heritage, as told by a diversity of voices and perspectives.

RUBIO

7m 26s

RUBIO is a San Antonio-based Chicano artist. When he was caught in a drive-by shooting, the near-death experience inspired his ongoing use of art as a means of sharing folklore, remembering friends, and celebrating the lives of the Westside community.

Episodes

  • Wiley's Last Resort: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Wiley's Last Resort

    S8 E805 - 17m 18s

    With coal mining destroying the mountains that he loves, Jim Webb establishes Wiley’s Last Resort, a place for local activists, musicians, artists, and dreamers to celebrate Appalachian culture and help fight back against strip mining.

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    Jared Dawson is the Church of Lavonia Elberton

    S8 E805 - 14m 26s

    After Jared Dawson’s family forced him out of his childhood home because of their staunch religious convictions, he discovered his alter ego as a radical drag performer. As “Lavonia Elberton,” Jared navigates a new sense of belonging and family within the LGBTQIA+ community of Atlanta.

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    Ten by Ten

    S8 E804 - 30m 26s

    After living in Asia for over a decade and longing for a taste of home, Jessica opens a Tennessee-style diner out of her home in Jeju, South Korea. But after appearing on one of the country’s most popular television programs, she and her husband Dongseop must adjust to the shock of newfound TV fame, the crowds of curious new customers it brings, and the growing uncertainty of a global pandemic.

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    The Space Between You & Me

    S8 E804 - 24m 4s

    A Korean-American filmmaker from Alabama explores the complexities of international adoption through the stories of her birth mother and another adoptee in New York. ‘The Space Between You and Me’ is an effort to reclaim a stolen identity while searching for belonging between the worlds of the Jewish South, the Korean-American diaspora, and a fraught legacy of Korean adoption programs.

  • 8 Days at Ware: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    8 Days at Ware

    S8 E803 - 27m 32s

    Suicides at a juvenile detention center in Louisiana raise troubling questions about the facility and the agencies tasked with overseeing it. Thirteen-year-old Solan Peterson had only been at Ware Youth Center for eight days when he took his life while in isolation. ‘8 Days at Ware’ examines Solan’s last days – exposing the system that failed him and a legacy of abuse going back decades.

  • Love Without Parole: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Love Without Parole

    S8 E803 - 27m 9s

    In a notorious Alabama prison, Michael falls deeply in love and matrimony follows. But when serving a life sentence, without parole, keeping his relationship alive proves too difficult. When Michael is miraculously released after 36 years, can he find a way to rehabilitate his marriage, too?

  • Stay Here Awhile: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Stay Here Awhile

    S8 E802 - 56m 15s

    A Tennessee folklorist, a fifth-generation Carolina farmer, a Mississippi river guide, and a former professional football player journey through loss and healing in this poetic ode to the power of landscape. A film shot during the COVID-19 Pandemic, ‘Stay Here Awhile’ invites us to linger in the space we find at the end of things.

  • Quilted Education: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Quilted Education

    S8 E805 - 9m 51s

    In a time when books are banned and discussions around race are curtailed, Karen Hinton Robinson takes on the responsibility of teaching Black history beyond the institution. In this mother-daughter interview, the historian and skilled quilter explains how her craft is used to supplement education by creating quilts that document the important figures of Black history, missing in Texas schools.

  • Disrupted Borders: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Disrupted Borders

    S8 E805 - 19m 5s

    This is a coming-of-age story about two best friends living on the US-Mexico border in a scarred landscape of racial tensions, family wounds, and lack of opportunities as they embark on their extraordinary journeys in 3D innovation and artistic creativity to heal themselves, their families, and their community.

Extras + Features

  • Season 9 | Official Trailer: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Season 9 | Official Trailer

    S9 - 1m 30s

    Season 9 adds new depth to the records America keeps and who gets to define and shape our collective posterity. 10 films offer new perspectives on our shared military, health, and spiritual histories and bring forward voices and stories culled in the name of prosperity. Above all, each film showcases the power of human connection and the communities created in any aftermath.

Schedule

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    REEL SOUTH

    Madame Pipi

    Wednesday
    Mar 20

    30 Minutes

    Following the lives of Haitian bathroom attendants working in Miami nightclubs.
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    REEL SOUTH

    Stay Prayed Up

    Wednesday
    Mar 27

    1 Hour

    Lena Mae Perry, 83, leads The Branchettes, a North Carolina gospel group.

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