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In the Making Season 1

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An artist celebrating Black womanhood. A Hawiian poet fighting for Indigenous rights. A jazz musician who’s redefining his craft. Meet eight emerging artists from underrepresented communities who are shaking up their respective fields.

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In the Making

Documentary•TV-PG•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 filmm

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8 Episodes

Damon Davis: Apologue for the Darkest Gods

S1 | E1

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12 Mins

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.

Bunky Echo-Hawk: The Resistance

S1 | E2

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8 Mins

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.

Anik Khan: Street Level

S1 | E3

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13 Mins

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.

Amyra León: Strange Grace

S1 | E4

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15 Mins

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.

Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio: This is the Way We Rise

S1 | E5

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12 Mins

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.

Maia Cruz Palileo: Becoming the Moon

S1 | E6

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12 Mins

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.

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: The New Chief

S1 | E7

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11 Mins

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.

Vincent Valdez: The Beginning is Near

S1 | E8

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11 Mins

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.

Credits

Cast

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Damon Davis, Anik Khan, Amyra León, Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Maia Cruz Palileo, Bunky Echo-Hawk, Vincent Valdez

Executive Producers

Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith, Loira Limbal, Michael Kantor