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Lumbeeland

dramatic short i malinda maynor lowery

LUMBEELAND is about Dollar, a quick-tempered Lumbee single father and dealer raised to fear his grandfather. When his grandfather yanks the family business out from under him, Dollar must prove his worth and restore his family.

TRT: 30 minutes

Release: February 25, 2024

Malinda Maynor Lowery

Producer

Malinda Maynor Lowery is a historian and film producer who belongs to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. In July 2021 she joined Emory University's history department as a tenured professor, after spending 12 years at UNC-Chapel Hill and 4 years at Harvard University. She is an award-winning author who has written two books and over fifty essays and articles, both for general and academic audiences, in non-fiction and creative non-fiction. Lowery's documentary film work dates back to the premiere of her first short documentary, "Real Indian," at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival's Native Program. She followed that with "Sounds of Faith" (1998, Sundance Premiere) and "In the Light of Reverence" (2001, PBS broadcast). In 2022 she completed a media experience for the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History that focuses on race and comedy. Her first narrative short film, “Lumbeeland,” won a Creative Shorts Fellowship from Vision Maker Media and is in pre-production.

cynthia hill

Mentor

Cynthia Hill (director/producer) is a Durham, NC-based filmmaker known for crafting story-driven and visually-rich documentaries. Hailing from Pink Hill, a rural crossroad in eastern North Carolina, Cynthia is co-creator and director of PBS’ Peabody and Emmy Award winning documentary series A Chef's Life which won the inaugural Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program in 2018. In addition, Cynthia received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Lifestyle/Culinary/Travel program. The series received the 2016 James Beard Award for Outstanding Personality/Host. Cynthia's previous documentary work includes Road to Race Day, a NASCAR documentary series executive produced by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) which premiered on go90, and Private Violence, which debuted at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, premiered on HBO, and garnered Cynthia an Emmy nomination. Cynthia’s most recent project is a documentary hybrid called BURDEN OF PROOF. With development support from the Sundance Institute, the 4-part series is headed to HBO in June 2023.