A Reckoning in Boston

Kafi Dixon dreams of starting a land cooperative for women of color who have experienced trauma and disenfranchisement in the city of Boston. By day she drives a city bus; at night she studies the humanities in a tuition-free course. Her classmate Carl Chandler, a community elder, is the class’s intellectual leader. White suburban filmmaker James Rutenbeck documents the students’ engagement with the humanities. He looks for transformations but is awakened to the violence, racism and gentrification that threaten Kafi and Carl's very place in...

Pain in the Hole

Filmmaker Rab McPhee investigates the world of hot sauce with the help of spice alchemist Tim McCarthy as he contemplates whether or not he must suffer to make great art in this surreal documentary/comedy.