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The documentary film "Ferguson Rises" focuses on Michael Brown Sr. in the five years after the death of his son. Filmmaker Mobolaji Olambiwonnu joined “St. Louis on the Air” to discuss. -
"America's Last Little Italy: The Hill" tells the story of a historic St. Louis neighborhood. The coronavirus pandemic changed the film's rollout last year, but director Joseph Puleo said that online streaming has attracted viewers from around the world. -
Beau Willimon joins "St. Louis on the Air" to talk about how his documentary "Lights of Baltimore" sheds lights on the development of policing in Baltimore, early redlining practices and the disinvestment in Black communities around the U.S. He also talks about the free screenwriting class he's offering as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival. -
St. Louis filmmaker Matthew Rice's "The Ballad of John Henry" is streaming as part of this year's extended St. Louis International Film Festival. The documentary delves into the folk hero John Henry's hardships of living under Virginia’s “Black codes” and the convict-lease program, an unjust legal system developed after the Civil War as a replacement for slavery. -
Among the offerings of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival is “Test Pattern.” It is the first feature film by St. Louis native Shatara Michelle Ford and follows a young Black woman as she navigates the medical and justice system after an assault. -
A documentary film chronicles the short but influential history of Black Artists Group, an interdisciplinary creative collective that emphasized Black empowerment in St. Louis. -
In 2012, Rita Csapo-Sweet and her husband, the late Frederick Sweet, jointly published a paper on the ghastly but little-known legacy of Carl Clauberg, a… -
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Incarcerated people can often feel forgotten by the world outside. A documentary film that screens at the St. Louis International Film Festival on… -
The 28th St. Louis International Film Festival returned this week to offer local moviegoers the chance to view international films, documentaries,… -
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 13, 2009 - Branson!, Directed by Brent Meeske. Documentary filmmakers shoot a ton of footage,…
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