Borned and raised in the melting pot of all melting pots, New York City. An African American filmmaker tries to understand exactly why a black person, nearly a thousands miles south would raise the Confederate Flag instead of tearing it down.

Chasing Echoes

Streetside Flower is a film about a ‘not so young anymore’ aspiring artist who realizes he is becoming his worst fear - an unsuccessful, unknown painter. Living in a city he can no longer afford, working a dead-end restaurant job, and in debt up to his neck due to college loans and a master’s degree in studio arts – Luke Best just turned 30. A dream opportunity arises that can solve all Luke’s problems. When what seems like this last hope falls short, he’s inspired to drop everything and bet on himself.

Streetside Flower

A short documentary about unlikely allies who partner to transform the juvenile justice system and stop mass incarceration.

Virtually Free

Therapy is about a therapist using an unorthodox style of therapy to his clients that go to him from dealing with situations happening in their lives.

Therapy

Javion is a dutiful and loving black father. He is the protector and provider of the family, including his wife, daughter, and grandmother. However, he is haunted by a secret that he continues to bury in silence. Not knowing how to deal with the trauma, he attempts to hide the behemoth inside him that is trying to break out. But not until tonight when he is finally overwhelmed, and he attacks his family while he ultimately comes face-to-face with his painful past. Only the prayerful hands of his grandmother can help channel his buried emotion from taking control.

Black Boys Can't Cry

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