At Southern Documentary Project, we have many ongoing projects that our students, faculty, staff, and friends contribute to. Check what we’re up to as well our past works.
ONGOING PROJECTS
THE PLAYBACKS
STUDENT
ANNEMARIE ANDERSON
Annemarie Anderson is a documentarian specializing in oral history methodology. Her documentary and academic work focuses on foodways and the intersection of southern environment, identity, and culture. She grew up in the Wiregrass region of the Florida Panhandle.
SCOTT BARRETTA + JOE YORK
Scott Barretta is an Instructor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. He has hosted Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s “Highway 61” hourlong blues radio show for many years.
Joe York is a documentary filmmaker and independent producer/director/editor with a passion for helping people tell their own stories in their own words. From 2005 to 2015, He worked as a documentary filmmaker with the Southern Documentary Project and the Southern Foodways Alliance. His work has been featured on PBS, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Southern Living, Garden & Gun Magazine, The Oxford American, The Bitter Southerner, and more.
MATTHEW GRAVES
Currently based in Charleston, South Carolina, Matthew Graves‘ work spans from documentary and narrative films to commercial and promotional web videos.
GARY HAWKINS
Gary Hawkins is an independent filmmaker born and raised in Thomasville, North Carolina. Gary has written and directed six films.
REX JONES
Rex Jones is a documentary filmmaker. Rex has done work for the Mississippi State University Extension, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, and Natural Resource Enterprises.
ANDREA MORALES
Andrea Morales is a documentary photographer, journalist and educator born in Peru, raised in Miami, now living and working in Memphis, Tennessee. Her personal work attempts to lens the issues of displacement, disruption and magic. Adding glimpses of daily life, meaningful or mundane, to the record through photography is central to her practice.
JOHN RASH
John Rash is a filmmaker, photographer, and video artist who has worked as visual storyteller and educator in the U.S. and China. Founder / curator of the Southern Punk Archive, Rash works to preserve the music, stories, and ephemera from vibrant D.I.Y. punk and hardcore communities throughout the American South. His creative work explores cultural outsiders and environmental topics through lens-based media as informed by documentary traditions.
