Joe Brewster Movies

Killing Zone is the story of an affluent Harlem psychiatrist living an unexamined life until his adoptive father- a doctor who plucked him from a...

Jeremy Xido revisits Detroit to reconnect with a "cousin" from his past, examining themes of race and chosen family bonds.

Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already...

Intimate vérité, archival footage, and visually innovative treatments of poetry take us on a journey through the dreamscape of...

Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from...

In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having...

In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and...

A story to honor actor-singer-activist Paul Robeson and his contributions to today's social climate and inspire new generations to engage in the...

An illuminating look at the influence that hand games played by Black girls has had on the American creative landscape.

The Changing Same is a magical realist, immersive, episodic virtual reality experience where the participant travels through time and space to...

In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, on the basis of anti-black racism....

When the water in her small Mexican town proves to be radioactive, a young mom suddenly finds herself leading a local resistance movement. Her life...

In this short documentary, black women talk about the challenges they face in society.

This short documentary features interviews with white people on the challenges of talking about race.

In this short documentary, young black men explain the particular challenges they face growing up in America.

SLAYING GOLIATH takes an unprecedented intimate look at the world of amateur youth basketball through the eyes of the New York Select Huskies team as...

Like other healthcare industrial complexes, the mental health field operates around a centre defined by a whiteness of theory and practice....

In this short documentary, Latinos grapple with defining their ethnic and racial identities.

The lives of these young men are compared and contrasted with who they were five years ago, about who they are now, and how their perspectives on...