Features & Longform Documentary
Work published and distributed by Focus Features, NBC News, MSNBC, Independent Lens, New York Magazine, the Associated Press, Semafor and the Dallas Morning News
01 / DEAR NOAH
Amid a rise of legislation across the U.S. aimed at the transgender community, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in February 2022 ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate parents for child abuse if their children are suspected of receiving gender-transition care. “Dear Noah” peers into the life of a Houston family as they grapple with making life-altering decisions to protect their child.
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*2023 Edward R. Murrow Award Winner
*2023 Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Soft Feature Story: Long Form
*Distributed with Focus Features. World Premiere at DOC NYC. Streaming on Peacock. Press in TIME, USA Today, MSNBC, People, Slate, NBC News THINK
02 / SOUTHLAKE
Southlake, Texas, seemed to have it all: beautiful homes, intense civic pride and terrific schools. But in 2018, a video of Southlake high school students chanting the N-word went viral, and the unveiling of a Cultural Competence Action Plan in response set off a backlash that consumed the town, fueled by a growing national crusade against critical race theory. “Southlake” tells the story of how this idyllic city, and its local school board election, became the poster child for a new political strategy with national repercussions.
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*2022 Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Long Form
*Webby Honoree in Video Documentary: Longform
03 / THE LAST RESPONDERS OF THE SANTA FE SCHOOL SHOOTING
For three women at the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office, keeping professional and personal lives separate is essential. But in May of 2018, just 13 miles away, a gunman killed eight students and two teachers at Santa Fe High School. This time, leaving their work at the office would prove impossible.
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*2019 National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism Award
*Sigma Delta Chi Award for Digital Documentary
*Front Page Award for Digital Documentary,
*EPPY Award Finalist
04 / THE GUN EXCHANGE
He auctioned off the pistol that killed Trayvon Martin. She watched her child die in a mass shooting. Can they change each other’s minds about guns? New York Magazine partnered with nonprofit Narrative 4 for an radical experiment in shared empathy. The idea was simple: Pair up people on opposite sides of the gun debate to share their stories and see whether they can come to common ground. But there was nothing simple about the emotional exchanges that ensued.
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*Winner of the 2017 National Magazine Award for Video
05 / A SEGREGATION WALL STILL STANDING
In 1941, a developer in Detroit built the Birwood Wall, a barrier meant to separate Black residents from white residents. Eighty years later, it stands as one of the last physical reminders of segregation in the North, and its shadow still looms over the neighborhood it once divided.
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*2022 National Headliner Award
*Deadline Award Finalist in Digital Video Reporting and Digital Feature Reporting
*2x Webby Award Winner in Video: Public Service & Activism and Individual Editorial Feature
06 / POSTSECRET
When Frank Warren launched PostSecret in 2004, the project took off. It went viral, Frank published six books and PostSecret went on tour. That was the 2000s, and more than 15 years later, the blog is still up and running. It's a tiny corner of the internet, a relic of the golden age of the web and a reminder of where it all went wrong.
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07 / SAVING ALLENSWORTH
In the early 1900s, Allensworth, California was a shining example of Black prosperity — before a series of policies led to its decline. Now, believers and advocates are taking on the task of restoring it to its original vision.
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08 / AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE
DEC. 1, 2020: Rising Covid-19 cases and a second wave of lockdown measures have reignited the debate over school re-openings. Stuck in the middle of it all are teachers, forced to choose between their lives and their livelihoods.
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09 / THE NEW BATTLE FOR THE ALAMO
A multi-year, $250 million undertaking to renovate the “shrine of Texas liberty” has devolved into a bitter dispute over how to remember the state’s complex history.
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10 / KIDS IN CONFINEMENT
Kids in Confinement is a multi-part vertical documentary series produced in partnership with PBS Independent Lens and The Dallas Morning News. The series examines the juvenile justice system in Dallas County through the perspectives of those interrogating it, those who seek reform, and those within the system. Kids in Confinement is produced for social distribution, told in five episodes running 90 seconds each.
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