Contessa Gayles

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Contessa is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist, and an Emmy-nominated producer. She tells stories about identity, socio-political movement, healing, liberation, and radical imagination, with a focus on race and gender.

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The Debutantes

Focusing on the first group of Black debutantes in Canton, Ohio in a decade, this documentary follows the young women as they unpack the ball’s legacy and chart their path forward, both for tradition and themselves.

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2024

Songs from the Hole

An incarcerated musician struggles for healing and peace as he comes of age in this documentary-musical odyssey composed behind bars.

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2024

Founder Girls

In this kaleidoscopic ode to girlhood, young campers find freedom, sisterhood, and themselves at a historically Black summer camp.

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2023