ROXFILM | Shorts: Family Truths and History (FREE)

KINDAH: A HISTORY IN THE SHADOWS
Directed by Tibria J. Brown (USA 2025, 10:00min)
Kindah: A History in the Shadows spotlights the under-documented history of the Maroon community in Jamaica. The Maroons are descendants of self-emancipated Africans who did not just escape slavery but outwitted and fought the British Empire to secure their freedom.

SAME WATER
Directed by Martine Granby (USA 2025, 21:30min).
Drawing from institutional and personal archives, this film revisits a colored-only riverside recreation space that existed alongside a celebrated white-only water park, exposing the layered histories of segregation and unequal access to nature and leisure in Jim Crow America.

THE SIGHT UNSEEN
Directed by Shawn Antoine II (USA 2026, 39:00min).
In 1971, a six-year-old girl in the Bronx discovers a glowing cross in her bathroom window, igniting awe and doubt across her community. Fifty years later, she returns to confront the mystery that shaped her faith—and her understanding of miracles.

THE FINAL LETTER: REED PEGGRAM'S HARROWING QUEST TO BELONG
Directed by Teja Arboleda (USA 2026, 24:00min).
"The Final Letter" is based on the letters Reed Peggram wrote to his grandmother while he was a Harvard doctoral student and Julius Rosenwald Fellow studying at the Sorbonne, arriving the year before World War II erupted

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