Documentaries and Drinks

Sidelots

Sidelots is a love story of Black land reclamation told in ritual between Detroit, Alabama and Kenya. It follows one family on Detroit’s East Side as their story of urban farming unfolds into a spiritual journey of discovery, loss and re-indigenization. By digging up familial and land roots across the diaspora, Sidelots illuminates all that is sacred in the land and encourages a radical reconsideration of how we view the earth immediately below our feet.

Instagram: @sidelotsfilm

Instagram: @detroitnarrative

Detroit 48202:Conversations Along A Postal Route

DETROIT 48202: CONVERSATIONS ALONG A POSTAL ROUTE examines the rise, demise, and contested resurgence of the City of Detroit through the lens of African-American mail carrier, Wendell Watkins, and the committed community he faithfully served for thirty years.

Please Note: 

1) Every branch of the Detroit Public Library has a DVD of this film that can be checked out.

social media links: FB: @Detroit48202, TW: @detroit_48202, IG: @detroit48202

A CALL TO ACTION: HOLOCAUST

Holocaust survivor, Irene Butter and University Michigan Professor, Dr. Annemarie Toebosch give a compelling voice to a dance documentary addressing the past, present and future of genocide. A choreographer and videographer's call to action.

Instagram: @life.with.tony

Instagram: @tonythelightworker

We Are Nomads

Set in the steppes of Western Mongolia and the vast lands of Altai mountains, a group of Kazakh women go on an adventure that takes them back to their true identity as nomads. A Filipina who is a modern day nomad and an explorer from the U.S. joins the women to understand her own journey towards nomadism and her place as a woman in a male-dominated adventure travel industry. Along the way, she meets Huanar and Aimoldir whose stories reflect those of her own as a woman and a nomad. Were women leaders of nomadic migrations then and now? This is a true story of the first ever all women migration in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia that has been captured on film.

FB: @bgtrekker@peakexplorations 

IG: @browngaltrekker

Twitter: bgtexplorations

Babas Next Chapter

As her father's retirement approaches, a student filmmaker living abroad attempts to bring a story the father wrote to life, to prevent him from abandoning his one last creative passion that's fading away.

website: http://rabbitunchained.com/babasnextchapter/

Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/babasnextchapter/

With Love From Idlewild

A chance encounter with local hunter gatherer Charles Paige during a glamping visit to Idlewild MI, turns into a love affair that makes one group of Detroit creatives determined to get back to this small town to become part of the growing movement to rebuild this African American Mecca. Follow this journey as filmmaker Tinisha Brugnone shows you the raw beauty of Idlewild.