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In the Making

TV-PG | Documentary | 1 season | 8 episodes

An illuminating showcase of emerging artists from underrepresented communities. Each one shatters norms, breaks borders, and pushes boundaries in their respective fields, much like the filmmakers who capture them.

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Season 1

Episode 1

Damon Davis: Apologue for the Darkest Gods

Filmmaker Elissa Blount Moorhead presents award-winning artist Damon Davis, a St. Louis native whose work spans illustration, painting, printmaking, music, film, and public art and explores the African-American experience.

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Episode 2

Bunky Echo-Hawk: The Resistance

Filmmaker Ben-Alex Dupris explores how the reality and resistance of Native Americans inspires the work of Pawnee artist Bunky Echo-Hawk, igniting discussions about environmentalism, representation, and Indigenous rights.

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Episode 3

Anik Khan: Street Level

Filmmakers Sofian Khan and Joseph Patel showcase the music of Anik Khan, the Bangladeshi-born, Queens, NY-raised hip-hop artist whose music sketches the immigrant experience with rare poetic flair, incisive depth, and a whole masala of influences.

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Episode 4

Amyra León: Strange Grace

Filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall introduces musician, poet, author, and activist Amyra León, who channels deeply personal experiences of pain and healing into raw, majestic performances that celebrate love, Blackness, and womanhood.

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Episode 5

Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio: This is the Way We Rise

Filmmaker Ciara Lacy documents Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, a Kanaka Maoli wahine poet, activist, and academic, and her continued work towards justice for Hawaii’s Indigenous population.

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Episode 6

Maia Cruz Palileo: Becoming the Moon

Filmmaker Ligaiya Romero explores the life and work of multidisciplinary, Brooklyn-based artist Maia Cruz Palileo, who examines themes of migration and home, inspired by her family’s immigration to the US from the Philippines.

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Episode 7

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: The New Chief

Filmmakers Amitabh Joshi and Erik Spink spotlight Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, a Grammy-nominated musician from New Orleans who defies the rules of jazz while challenging how music is taught in universities nationwide.

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Episode 8

Vincent Valdez: The Beginning is Near

Filmmaker Ray Santisteban examines the work of San Antonio, Texas-born artist Vincent Valdez, who emphasizes themes of social justice, memory, and history that has been ignored.

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Cast
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Damon Davis, Anik Khan, Amyra León, Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Maia Cruz Palileo, Bunky Echo-Hawk, Vincent Valdez
Executive Producer
Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith, Loira Limbal, Michael Kantor