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For the Record | Official Trailer

In a small Texas Panhandle town, a few things have remained constant– cowboys, high school football, conservative voters, and the family-owned weekly newspaper, The Canadian Record. Publisher and editor Laurie Ezzell Brown strives to keep the town’s paper of record and her family’s legacy alive despite an oil bust, a global pandemic, and a growing mistrust for all media and her own liberal column.

For the Record | Official Trailer

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  • Over the Wall: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Over the Wall

    17m 42s

    Nine seconds, it’s about all you have. Welcome to the fast-paced world of a NASCAR pit crew. OVER THE WALL is an immersive film following Brehanna Daniels, the first Black woman pit crew member and tire changer in NASCAR, as she works her way back from injury to participate in the Daytona 500, the sports biggest race. A testament to the power of perseverance and what it takes to be a trailblazer.

  • Echoes of the Rio: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Echoes of the Rio

    S9 E906 - 8m 6s

    One El Paso filmmaker calls on her Indigenous and Mexican ancestors to explore the cyclical starvation of the Rio Grande river and the human and inhumane factors contributing to the disappearance of its culture and bounty.

  • Cash Crop: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Cash Crop

    S9 E906 - 10m 43s

    In Southern Virginia, Black farmers like Cecil Shell balance their interests in honoring their tradition of tobacco farming against the onset of solar energy farms exploding across the region. Through Cecil, the film explores one rural county’s shifting economic interests and his own efforts to steward the community, including Black landowners, through changing times.

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