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Featured — Documentary Series

Movietown

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Detroit was Motor City. Detroit became Motown. Detroit is… MOVIETOWN — a four-part documentary series exploring the rise of Detroit's Black independent film industry, and the entrepreneurs, artists, and storytellers transforming one of America's most resilient cities into an unlikely filmmaking powerhouse.

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Selected work

Stories that move people.

Feature Documentary

Harlem Rising

A Community Changing the Odds

HARLEM RISING chronicles the remarkable history of Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) and the lives transformed by one of the nation’s most ambitious efforts to break the cycle of poverty.

Drawing from more than 4,000 hours of extraordinary archival footage filmed by Harlem youth from the late 1970s through the early 2000s and woven together with newly filmed interviews and contemporary footage, the film brings three generations of students, parents, educators, and community members back to the places and moments that shaped their lives.

Their stories reveal more than the history of the Harlem Children’s Zone. They reveal what happens when a community invests in its children—and what it means to grow up believing that your circumstances do not have to determine your future.

This is Harlem, told by the people who lived it.

★ Best Documentary nominee — Pan African Film Festival 2020 Watch the entire feature film →

Pan African Film Festival selection — Pan African Film Festival

RSF Martha's Vineyard AAFF selection — RSF Martha's Vineyard AAFF

DC Black Film Festival selection — DC Black Film Festival

DocuWest Film Festival selection — DocuWest Film Festival

Branded Series

Ford: From The Floor

Every factory has a story. And every story begins with the people who walk through its doors.

When Civic-US asked us to create a series around Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley’s gemba tours, we looked to an unlikely source for inspiration: Studs Terkel’s Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do—a timeless portrait of the dignity, pride, frustrations, and dreams found in everyday work.

What began as a one-off project became From the Floor—an ongoing journey inside Ford’s manufacturing plants.

To date, we’ve traveled to more than 20 Ford plants across North America, creating cinematic, intimate portraits of the people who make the vehicles we drive. Welders. Engineers. Line workers. Technicians. Generations of autoworkers whose hands, skill, and dedication keep an iconic American industry moving, revealing the human stories behind the factory floor.

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