Contessa Gayles

Contessa Gayles Trailers

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Contessa is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist, and an Emmy-nominated producer. She tells stories about identity, socio-political movement, healing, liberation, and radical imagination, with a focus on race and gender.

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Total trailers found: 6

Songs from the Hole Trailer (2024)

09 March 2024

Sentenced to life in prison at 15, musician JJ'88 finds hope by writing songs during solitary confinement in this award-winning documentary visual album.

The Debutantes Trailer (2024)

07 June 2024

Focusing on the first group of Black debutantes in Canton, Ohio in a decade, this documentary follows the young women as they unpack the ball’s legacy and chart their path forward, both for tradition and themselves.

Surge Trailer (2020)

08 September 2020

A look at the record number of first-time female candidates who ran, won and upended politics in the historic 2018 midterm elections; featuring three candidates in Texas, Indiana and Illinois who each were looking to flip their red district to blue.

For Our Children Trailer (2022)

29 April 2022

FOR OUR CHILDREN unites maternal voices of resilience and solidarity in a poignant cinematic journey.

Founder Girls Trailer (2023)

17 June 2023

In this kaleidoscopic ode to girlhood, young campers find freedom, sisterhood, and themselves at a historically Black summer camp.

The Feminist on Cellblock Y Trailer (2018)

18 April 2018

A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California.