Burdened with choosing his legal guardians, Levi spends the summer before he starts high school with his cousins at their family’s trailer in Myrtle Beach, SC. Film Festivals Beverly Hills Film Festival (Best Picture, Win) Richmond International Film Festival (Emerging Actor, Wild Clemmons, Win) Manhattan Film Festival Omaha Film Festival Myrtle Beach Film Festival New […]
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Tenacity: The Story of Edwin and Elise Harleston
December 16, 2025
Trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1906–1912), Edwin Augustus Harleston (1882–1931) was a portrait artist and early-20th-century civil rights activist in Charleston, South Carolina. With his wife, Elise Forrest Harleston (1891–1970), a professionally-trained photographer, he established The Harleston Studio, dedicated to producing portrait photos and paintings that countered the […]
How to Sue the Klan
December 15, 2025
How to Sue the Klan is a powerful short documentary that uncovers a little-known but landmark civil rights victory—one that continues to shape how hate groups are challenged in the United States today. Through historical footage, legal insight, and survivor-centered storytelling, the film recounts the 1980 Chattanooga shooting in which five Black women were injured […]
Boomerang
December 15, 2025
Reginald Hudlin’s Boomerang is a sharp, stylish rom-com that has only grown in stature with time. Eddie Murphy stars as Marcus Graham, a slick New York ad executive whose carefree chauvinism is turned on its head when he meets his match in a powerful female boss (Robin Givens) and begins to fall for a grounded, […]
Investigating Documentary Film
December 9, 2025
Course Description Documentaries have never been more popular–in theaters, on television, and online—and they’re doing more than telling stories: they’re shifting the way we see the world. This course will sharpen your critical eye on the social function of documentary films, examining their role in shaping our collective political reality. We’ll be exploring a broad […]
63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour
December 9, 2025
The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) traveling tour provides filmmakers the unique opportunity of having their work screened in front of audiences for whom, in many places, the tour venue is their only access to this form of film art. Each filmmaker participating in the AAFF tour is also paid for each tour stop, directly […]
Celebrations and Lamentations: A New Orleans Portrait
December 8, 2025
A portrait of joy, sorrow, & sound in this exciting collaboration between ColaJazz and Varna International’s Muzika! Festival. Muzika! features over 20 exciting performances throughout the state of SC in the month of June. To see their full offering, click here: https://varnainternational.com/sc2026tickets/
Blue Moon
November 24, 2025
Blue Moon is a lyrical biographical comedy-drama from director Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott. Inspired by real correspondence between lyricist Lorenz Hart and aspiring designer Elizabeth Weiland, the film follows Hart over a single night in 1943 as he slips away from the historic opening of Oklahoma!, the […]
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
November 17, 2025
Adapted from Maria Semple’s bestselling 2012 novel—praised for its sharp wit, inventive structure, and cultural satire—Where’d You Go, Bernadette brings to life the story of Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett), a once-renowned architect whose brilliance has been buried under years of creative loss, anxiety, and domestic chaos. When Bernadette suddenly disappears before a long-promised family trip […]
Practical Magic
November 17, 2025
Adapted from Alice Hoffman’s beloved 1995 novel, Practical Magic blends romance, fantasy, and sisterhood into a story that has only grown more cherished over time. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman star as Sally and Gillian Owens—two sisters from a long line of witches living under a generations-old curse that dooms any man an Owens woman […]