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- DirectorQasim BasirStarsEvan RossNia LongRoger Guenveur SmithAmid a strict Muslim rearing and a social life he's never had, Tariq enters college confused. New peers, family and mentors help him find his place, but the 9-11 attacks force him to face his past and make the biggest decisions of his life.
- CreatorChristopher PoindexterKeith MillerStarsTarik DavisFelecia HarrelsonJaiden KaineWritten by Christopher Poindexter (72 Hours: A Brooklyn Love Story?) and directed by Keith Miller (Five Star, Welcome to Pine Hill), who also serve as co-creators, Brooklynification is both a wildly funny and eye-opening take on rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in the county of Kings.
- DirectorKeith McQuirterStarsBeverly WalkerDennis WaltonChad WilsonAn intimate documentary that chronicles the lives of those affected by incarceration in America's most incarcerated ZIP code.
- DirectorReuben AtlasSam PollardStarsJohn AtlasGlenn BeckBon BonA hidden-camera video involving a fake prostitute threatens to destroy ACORN, America's largest grassroots anti-poverty organization. World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival.
- DirectorRita CoburnBob HerculesStarsCicely TysonGuy JohnsonDiahann CarrollThe first feature documentary about the remarkable writer, poet, actress, activist Maya Angelou.
- DirectorSam PollardStarsTaylor BranchGary Clark Jr.CommonTwo Trains Runnin' is about the search for two forgotten blues singers, carried out in Mississippi during the height of the American civil rights movement.
- DirectorDax BrooksStarsJessica WilliamsMichael McCuskerShannon KaneWhen two unlucky in love 20 somethings meet at a coffee shop and neither ask for the others number, they return home realizing that they met someone special and set out to find each other once again.
- DirectorSterling MilanStarsSheria IrvingAkintola JiboyewaWhen deciding to celebrate a night of black cinema instead of the Oscars, two actors find themselves caught between their right to protest the lack of diversity, and their own ambitions.
- DirectorRaafi RiveroStarsMelvin MogoliAndrea-Rachel ParkerErinn WestbrookAbout to attend a prestigious college, an ambitious 18-year-old from Brooklyn is torn by his desire to experience a new life and his fear of leaving the only world he's ever known.
- DirectorDamon RussellStarsShawn ChristensenPhoebe TonkinAvery FinnIn the latest stunner by the team behind the Academy Award-winning short Curfew, a married couple's bubble of suburban normality is punctured when they find a surprise inside their toddler's teddy bear.
- DirectorE.G. BaileyStarsShá CageNamir FearceLaShon HamptonWith all the killings and assaults on black lives, a mother is determined to keep her two sons safe.
- DirectorShola AmooStarsAshley ThomasPhoebe BoswellElisa LasowskiAn evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.
- DirectorAlrick BrownStarsWendell PierceOlivia WashingtonNatalie CarterIn 1920, a young African-American woman sets off to Africa to find a tree that promises eternal life.
- DirectorAngela McCraeStarsHerve AmbwaGoapeleKatrina NelsonA visual artist overcomes the pressures of social media through self-discovery and decides to capture everyday life to determine where beauty truly lies.
- DirectorJohn RidleyStarsDaryl GatesTom BradleyDamian 'Football' WilliamsAn in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.
- DirectorLeila DjansiStarsIrene AdoteyAdjetey AnangBrian AngelsAn American volunteer teaching in a school in Africa must save one of his students, a 14 year old girl from religious slavery.
- DirectorJennifer BreaStarsJennifer BreaOmar WasowJessica l e TaylorWhen Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.