Descendant

CEH 2023 Nominee: Descendant

Documentary filmmaker Margaret Brown returns to her hometown of Mobile, Alabama to document the search for and historic discovery of The Clotilda, the last known ship to arrive in the United States, illegally carrying enslaved Africans. After a century of secrecy and speculation, the 2019 discovery of the ship turns attention toward the descendant community […]

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

CEH 2023 Nominee: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her ground-breaking photography and slideshows, intimate dialogue and rare footage of her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.