Homegrown: Documentary Shorts Collection

Watch as three Ojibwe residents of Minnesota work to revitalize their language. Using modern technologies like film and video games, social media, and radio, they hope to inspire a new generation to learn their native tongue.

Follow the co-founders of the Soomal House of Art in Minneapolis, who are themselves working visual artists, as they run a community-based gallery. Together, they uplift Somali art and inspire a new generation to explore their cultural heritage.

Follow a guaranteed income experiment in Gary, Indiana, designed to help create pathways to lift local residents out of poverty and to prove that poverty is a lack of cash, not a lack of character.

Follow Zee, a nonbinary aspiring nurse from rural China, as they seek to build a gender-affirming life in the Midwest. After graduating from nursing school, they work tirelessly to pass their licensure exam in hopes of remaining in the U.S.

Follow Rachel Willis, a third-generation resident of Lansing, Michigan, as she advances her family’s legacy of community activism. As she pursues political office, the practical and emotional labor of civic leadership begins to take its toll.

Watch as the members of a Nigerian social club in Detroit redefine community within their adopted homelands. As the elders age, their descendants worry that their traditions will be lost to time. Can the new generation rise to the challenge?

In Seed Warriors, filmmaker Rebekka Schlichting follows a group of seed keepers as they work to regain food sovereignty in their ancestral homelands of Nebraska. By reclaiming their sacred corn seeds, they seek to return to the healthy, traditional lifeways of the Pawnee people.

Follow The Black String Triage Ensemble, a group of Black and Latinx musicians in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as it performs at crime scenes in the immediate aftermath of tragic events. Together, the group seeks to alter the notion of first responders.