Film Festival

Breakwater Studios will feature 4 short films: The Lost Astronaut; Kim I Am; The Beauty President; A Concerto is a Conversation/ Kris's film - that explore African Americans' lives in concert with their familial relationships.

SHOT: Caught a Soul One shot is heard in the night. A Black teen is down. A White officer stands over him. There are no witnesses. A family is changed forever. But, this time, the victim will be heard. Kareem haunts Officer O'Donald - demanding answers. Why did you do it?

Racially Charged exposes how our country’s history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of criminal justice power. Through first-person accounts of those charged under the Black Codes of the Reconstruction era paralleled with the outrageous stories of people trapped in the system today, the film brings to light the unfolding of a powerful engine of profits and racial inequality.

Geographies of Kinship is a powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program. four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and recover the personal histories that were lost when they were adopted. Raised in foreign families, each sets out on a journey to reconnect with their roots, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew.

In Dreams of Emmett Till, a now elderly Carolyn Bryant must face the accusation that led to the brutal killing of 14-year old Emmett Till, back in segregated Mississippi, in 1955.

Invisible History sheds light on the little-known history of plantations and the enslaved in Florida through a visually compelling story that explores the history of a people who contributed so much to what Leon county is today.