American Jihadist

American Jihadist is the story of one man's violent path from the ghettos of America's capitol to the battlefields of the Islamic world. It's a look at militant Islam through the eyes of an African American who fought and nearly died for it and probes the questions "Who are they?" and "What do they want?" by looking in the mirror to see the human face of those we believe to be our enemies.

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Triangle Brazil Choral Exchange

The Triangle Brazil Choral Exchange (TBCX) traveled to Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Brazil from July 24-August 3, 2007. Forty-six singers and non-singers participated in a very significant project, visiting Salvador, Rio, Cidade de Deus (City of God), and Petropolis.

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February One

A broadcast documentary and companion educational video and teaching guide that looks at the important story of the 1960 sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The film revisits this momentous event in civil rights history and reflects on how an act of youthful courage and non-violent protest forty years ago has played out in the lives of the Greensboro Four, Frank McCain, Joe McNeill, David Richmond and Jibreel Khazan (nee Ezell Blair, Jr.)

February One premiered on February 1, 2003 at the North Carolina A&T Univerity in Greensboro, NC, the black college where the principal protesters were students at the time. The documentary also aired at the 2003 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina, and has been accepted into competition at numerous festivals throughout the United States.

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Tobacco Money Feeds My Family

A feature-length independent documentary film about tobacco growers, farm workers and tobacco-dependent communities struggling with the decline of domestic tobacco production. The film looks at an unexpected casualty in the war against smoking-the demise of the small tobacco farmer. Focusing on a racially and socio-economically diverse trio of life-long North Carolina farmers and their farm workers, the film examines the cultural, economic and emotional impacts flowing from decreased tobacco production.

Tobacco Money Feeds My Family premiered at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies Documentary Film and Video Happening on November 9, 2002.

"...We Need Help."

This series of short, documentary-style programs focuses on Amerindian villages in Guyana--a Third World region consistently overlooked by private philanthropy, public agencies, and NGOs. The programs will highlight the region's critical need for medical, educational, and social welfare assistance.

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Stewards of the Land

Stewards of the Land is a celebration of the ecological farmers of North Carolina's Piedmont and the service they provide. It is an honest look at the Challenges they face in a sometimes thankless, always labor-intensive, and often rapidly-changing business. It is a personal glimpse into their lives and also an explanation of the context - social, political, economic, and environmental - in which they work. It is a chance to bring these individual, yet connected, stories to the public in a unique and accessible way.

The Guestworker

A broadcast television documentary and a school-based video and teaching guide that brings to life the story of Mexican guestworkers in North Carolina who, under the new H-2A temporary foreign agriculture worker program, leave their homes each year to work crops in this country, then return after the harvest.

For more information, visit Markay Media.

The Helms Documentary Project

The Educational Media Foundation, Inc. is proud to have been one of the fiscal sponsors on the Helms Documentary Project.

A television biography of one of the most celebrated, controversial and enduring figures in modern American politics: Senator Jesse Helms. The project is an independent film being made with the Senator's cooperation. It will present the man, his convictions, his actions and his times, ultimately examining his central role in transforming American politics over the past quarter century.