Directed by Stanley Nelson • 2004 • United States
Since the late nineteenth century, affluent African Americans have built summer communities to rest, socialize, and expose their children to a positive vision of Black life. Some resorts, like Idlewild, Michigan; Cape May, New Jersey; and Fox Lake, Indiana, have fallen into decline. But other locations, including Sag Harbor, Long Island; Highland Beach, Maryland; American Beach, Florida; and, perhaps the best known, Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, continue to attract growing numbers of Black Americans of means. A PLACE OF OUR OWN examines the history, significance, and changing landscape of the African American resort community on Martha’s Vineyard and its significance in the life of filmmaker Stanley Nelson.
Directed by Ben Reed • 2021 • United Kingdom
Starring Kaye Mannion
Restricted by her agoraphobia, Kaye has spent most of her life within the four walls of her parents’ house. Finding relief from her fears in the faces and lives of old film stars, she pastes their images alongside those of her de...
Directed by D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus • 2009 • United States
For French pastry chefs, the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (Best Craftsmen in France) is nothing less than the Olympics of their trade: an intense three-day competition in which a selection of the country’s finest pâtissiers tu...
Directed by Zhao Liang • 2009 • China
Zhao Liang’s courageous and devastating work of cinematic activism takes us inside the world of “petitioners”: Chinese citizens who come to Beijing from all over the country to seek justice against corrupt government officials and courts back home, only to f...
