Reel South

Growing up, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe learned to be a fighter but never imagined having a chance to make history as the first openly elected transgender official in Texas.

Growing up, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe learned to be a fighter but never imagined having a chance to make history as the first openly elected transgender official in Texas.

Growing up, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe learned to be a fighter but never imagined having a chance to make history as the first openly elected transgender official in Texas.

The only thing mightier than Lena Mae Perry's electrifying voice is her faith.

A Tennessee folklorist, a fifth-generation Carolina farmer, a Mississippi river guide, and a former professional football player journey through loss and healing in this poetic ode to the power of landscape.

Two stories from the South's penitentiary systems: In Louisiana, a devastating investigation into youth suicide and systemic neglect (8 Days at Ware), and in Alabama, a man's rehabilitation is holistic and starts with his marriage (Love Without Parole).

Growing up, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe learned to be a fighter but never imagined having a chance to make history as the first openly elected transgender official in Texas.

Growing up, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe learned to be a fighter but never imagined having a chance to make history as the first openly elected transgender official in Texas.

Two films bridge the American South and the Korean Peninsula, showcasing the historical and contemporary currents connecting these regions.

Four short films follow a diverse swath of the South's artists and activists chefs, a quilter, a performer, and an environmentalist who seek to rectify and reclaim the region's culture and history left askew from the families and values they hold to be true.

In two films, two soldiers search for answers and each other decades after the Vietnam War, and a latent segregated community in Georgia is brought together when a manufacturing plant explodes in 1971.

63 years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the surviving Cuban-American dissidents tell the fuller story.

At home and abroad, the collective action to archive and preserve our physical and spiritual selves is explored.

There is only one doctor in rural Clay County, Georgia, one of the state's poorest and unhealthiest counties.

As local newspapers wane, a trove of archives remains.

From Arkansas' Delta, Virginia's tobacco belt, North Carolina's mountains, to Texas' Rio Grande, and gulf coast, five films offer new spiritual and historical viewpoints to challenge and honor the American South's relationship to its diverse landscapes.