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Hip Hop Hope

Directed by Bobby Trey Herring and Ronnie Lillard

Docuseries · In production · Miami · Chicago · Houston

Hip hop is the language this generation speaks. This docuseries asks what the culture could sound like if it pointed young people toward hope.

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Films made with the people living them.

A docuseries and documentaries from Miami, Chicago and Houston, made with our production partners and alongside the people they are about. Every one ends with a way to act.

Hip Hop Hope

Directed by Bobby Trey Herring and Ronnie Lillard

Docuseries · Miami · Chicago · Houston

Hip hop is the language this generation speaks. This docuseries asks what the culture could sound like if it pointed young people toward hope.

Artists, pastors, producers and young people inside the system sit with one question: what has hip hop been teaching us, and what could it teach instead? A docuseries about the culture that raised a generation, and the people trying to turn it toward hope.

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Normalized

Directed by Sherwin Patton and Kim Patton

Feature documentary

When gunfire becomes background noise, the most dangerous thing in a neighborhood is how normal it feels.

Normalized follows the families, young people and violence interrupters living inside the numbers, and asks how a city learned to accept what should be unthinkable. A film about gun violence, and about refusing to let it be ordinary.

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The Ritual of Manhood

Directed by Sylvia Jones

Feature documentary · Chicago

Black men and boys reflect on the images society projects on them, and embrace the ones it says do not exist.

Filmmaker Sylvia Jones documents a rite of passage for Black men and boys in Chicago as they talk through the opportunities and responsibilities of manhood. The Ritual of Manhood gives them room to reflect on the images society projects on them, and to embrace the images society tells them do not exist.

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