2023 Micheaux Awardees

A short Narrative centered around PTSD and depression in the black home. Veteran Michael Johnson and his sister Aubree are trying to cope with their current situations as it begins to take its toll on them.

Young man victim of rape and sexual assault finds a healing space through his estranged father.

The project is a dramatic short film about a woman, who recently moved to a new city to supposedly start a new life, but holds on so tightly to her past, that she doesn’t have a grip to capture her future. She has to learn to forgive and let go, in order to heal and move on.

Late Bloomers is a feature film centering mental health in black women, artistic ambition and substance abuse disorder.

A mini-docuseries film highlighting Fayetteville High School's 2022 Football Season Leading up to the Arkansas 7A State Championship.

The story Blackstone is a BIPOC lead episodic film set in a world where the colonization of Africa never took place. The story follows a naturally talented artist named Emelia the daughter of wealthy coal tycoons the Blackstones, and her best friend Xander a savy Inventor.

Begin Again is a film about a woman starting over in the dating world in a romantic comedy. After a breakup, Taylor is back at home with her older sister and brother-in-law. They have one suggestion, get back on the dating scene because well, she doesn't have much time before there aren't a lot of options. She quickly realizes that when she is re-immersing into a dating world has been less than ideal.

The adventurous lifestyle of Piph is enviable to many, but his past choices and failures have left him feeling trapped. Uncool with that, he decides to ambitiously revamp his career to chase “the dream”...again.

In the 1970s, during his third year of law school, my uncle Gene Pitts, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for murder. Over the years I’ve not learned much about his life, but after his untimely death while incarcerated, I learned he was more than a convict. He helped black men get out of prison and home to their families. Though he was never able to appeal, there is inconclusive, missing evidence as well as corruption within the prosecution.