Joe Brewster Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After learning yoga changes one woman's life, she brings its transformative power to her community of working-class African Americans. Together, they...

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

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....

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...

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...

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. ...

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina the New Orleans City Council decides to demolish public housing leaving thousands of people without homes. Staging a...