<h5><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/f0ababa0be91ddf9f7546acb48cecd5c.jpg" width="328"></h5><h5>Congratulations to 2026 DBFF Best Short Documentary Winner: "We Make" Directed by Brian Foster and Ethan Payne</h5><p><em>Award Sponsors Dallas International Film Festival and Eleven Labs</em></p>

<p>Belonging Beyond Brown explores the emotional stories of displacement, resilience, and the enduring quest for justice experienced by Black educators and students before and after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling.</p>

Belonging Beyond Brown

Belonging Beyond Brown explores the emotional stories of displacement, resilience, and the enduring quest for justice experienced by Black educators and students before and after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

<p>A captivating film staring eight iconic citizens of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, each with remarkable stories that have shaped our future in profound ways. This American story of endurance, strength, and pride, told in their own words... in their own voices.</p>

Unlocked Voices, Bridging The Future

A captivating film staring eight iconic citizens of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, each with remarkable stories that have shaped our future in profound ways. This American story of endurance, strength, and pride, told in their own words... in their own voices.

<p>We Make is a short documentary about Siggers High School, an all-black secondary school - partly built by local community members - in Shannon, Mississippi that operated from the early 1940's until 1970.</p>

We Make

We Make is a short documentary about Siggers High School, an all-black secondary school - partly built by local community members - in Shannon, Mississippi that operated from the early 1940's until 1970.

Claiming Our Narrative: Belonging Beyond Brown, Unlocked Voices, Bridging The Future, and We Make

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