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ON THESE GROUNDS Documentary Feature | USA | 1h42m

A video goes viral, showing a white police officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her school desk and throw her across the floor. Healer-activist Vivian Anderson uproots her life in New York to move to South Carolina to support the girl and dismantle the system behind the assault at Spring Valley, including facing the police officer. Adding context, geographer Janae Davis treks the surrounding swamps and encounters the homes of formerly enslaved people of African descent connecting the past to the present.

CAMP SUNSHINE Narrative Short | USA | 12m

A recovering heroin addict is sent to a rehabilitation camp. There, he discovers that the people who run the camp are not who they seem.