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Sarah H. Nixon is a documentary filmmaker, visual artist, and social justice advocate based in Raleigh, North Carolina. With a Master of Arts in Documentary Film from Wake Forest University, she explores Black narratives and small-town stories, focusing on themes of racial justice and cultural resilience.
Her work includes Lifeline, a short film about artist Rosetta Nesbitt that explores the intersection of art and activism within the Black community, and A Choice to Play, a sports documentary about athlete activism, featuring figures like Billie Jean King, Muhammad Ali, and Colin Kaepernick.
Nixon received the Reel Digital Artist Award, was selected for the 2021 PBS NC Producers Lab, and served as the 2022-2023 Southern Studies Fellow with the Watson-Brown Foundation. She is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Southern Documentary Fund (SDF). Currently, she is workshopping The Benson Five as part of Filmshop’s DocShop South program for spring 2025.
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Sarah H.
Nixon
Producer / Director
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Dakota
Stokes
Producer / Director
Dakota Stokes is a filmmaker and journalist in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her work is greatly informed by the fact that she's spent much of her life abroad, having lived in the Balkans and the Middle East.
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She's an editor and co-director for Alala Productions, which she co-founded with Todd McPhail in 2021 (https://www.alala-productions.com/). She co-directed and edited Quiet Professional: Clem Lemke, a biographical documentary feature about a CIA agent, released in 2024. In 2023 she co-directed and edited The Kraken Documentary, a feature-length documentary about a notorious roadside bar in Chapel Hill.
Dakota is currently workshopping The Benson Five in Filmshop’s DocShop South program for the spring of 2025. She's also a member of D-Word, the Alliance of Documentary Editors, the Documentary Producers Alliance, and the Archival Producers Alliance.