Out of “The Unfinished Conversations Series,” two documentaries have been created– “Uncorking the Bitter Truth: Slavery’s Legacy in Cape Wine” (2025) and “The Unfinished Conversations Series: Telling New Stories” (2025). Bringing together interviews, curator testimonies, and environmental footage collected across all eight locations, “Telling New Stories” presents a snapshot of the digital archive. A third documentary on the Charles Town Maroons in Jamaica is currently in production.

The documentary film, “The Unfinished Conversations: Telling New Stories” is a glimpse into the living repository that has been collected and is part of a broader constellation of initiatives, which includes the international exhibition “In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedo”m in the World. Together, these international collaborative efforts create new pathways for connecting the past and the present, local and global communities, and museums and cultural institutions working to remember our shared past and imagine freer futures.  Premiering in December 2024 at the Oprah Winfrey Theatre at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, the film has been shown at Brown University, in Brazil, and South Africa.

• Filmmaker, Documentary Director & Producer: Michael Anderson (1967-2025)
• Project Director, Executive Producer & Script Writer: Anthony Bogues
• Documentary Project Manager, Associate Producer & Script Writer: Yannick Etoundi
• Narrator: Africa Smith
• Project Manager & Associate Producer: Shana Weinberg