Joe Brewster Movies
- 2023
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project6.9172023HD
Intimate vérité, archival footage, and visually innovative treatments of poetry take us on a journey through the dreamscape of...
- 1995
The Keeper
The Keeper51995HD
Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already...
- 2023
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games02023HD
An illuminating look at the influence that hand games played by Black girls has had on the American creative landscape.
- 2023
Subject
Subject6.52023HD
In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having...
- 2020
Stateless
Stateless52020HD
Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from...
- 2021
The Changing Same - Episode 1: The Dilemma
The Changing Same - Episode 1: The Dilemma02021HD
The Changing Same is a magical realist, immersive, episodic virtual reality experience where the participant travels through time and space to...
- 2013
American Promise
American Promise6.72013HD
In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and...
- 2003
The Killing Zone
The Killing Zone32003HD
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...
- 2024
The Age of Water
The Age of Water02024HD
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...
- 2021
Learning to Breathe
Learning to Breathe02021HD
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...
- 2019
Drawn to the Mat
Drawn to the Mat02019HD
After learning yoga changes one woman's life, she brings its transformative power to her community of working-class African Americans. Together, they...
- 2015
A Conversation with White People on Race
A Conversation with White People on Race02015HD
This short documentary features interviews with white people on the challenges of talking about race.
- 2015
A Conversation with Black Women on Race
A Conversation with Black Women on Race02015HD
In this short documentary, black women talk about the challenges they face in society.
- 2021
Elena
Elena02021HD
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....
- 2018
The Changing Same
The Changing Same02018HD
Eighty years after the lynching of Claude Neal, Florida's last spectacle killing, his ghost arises from the grave and we are all better off for it. ...
- 2008
Slaying Goliath
Slaying Goliath02008HD
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...
- 2021
Decolonizing Mental Health
Decolonizing Mental Health02021HD
Like other healthcare industrial complexes, the mental health field operates around a centre defined by a whiteness of theory and practice....
- 2016
A Mother's Dream
A Mother's Dream02016HD
- 2006
Faces of Change
Faces of Change02006HD
Five people from five continents tell how they face racism and discrimination in their respective communities.
- 2015
A Conversation About Growing Up Black
A Conversation About Growing Up Black02015HD
In this short documentary, young black men explain the particular challenges they face growing up in America.