Selections of Documentary and Fiction
from the Filmography of Brooklyn TrueHeart Demme (2013-2025)
Type: Documentary
Runtime: 1 hr. 26 min.
Location: Monmouth County, NJ, Scheyichbi
Description: Diligence is an embodied piece which seeks to give (require
of) viewers the same thing which it celebrates in Sand Hill Band Lenape &
Cherokee Tribal Historian Carrie Jones’ victory in restoring her family’s
burial ground: Diligence. Just like swiping a credit card at the grocery
store might be easier than sourcing food from the land, hunting or
growing vegetables might be challenging for the same reason it is
ultimately more enriching. This film is meant to inspire Black and
Indigenous people who might have a legal pathway for reclaiming land
stolen from their families (particularly land presently (mis-) classified
as public cemeteries/parks). Victorious, first-time pro-se attorney Carrie
Jones shows us that with Diligence, we can overcome.
Diligence (2025)
Director/Producer/Videographer/Editor
Type: Original Fiction
Runtime: 1 hr. 25 min.
Location: Nyack, NY, Lenapehoking
Description: Mountain Lion is an intense drama about personal
relationships, mental health, and family dynamics, which uses magical
realism to express mindfulness in intimate relationships and
seriousness in prayer.
Mountain Lion (2024)
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/
Actor
Type: Documentary
Runtime: 14 min.
Location: Comunidad Wachirpas, Nacîon Achuar de Ecuador, Amazonia
Description: People of the Amazonian Achuar Nation of Ecuador exercise
a traditional, collective fishing technique, while seeking solutions to
unrelated drinking water contamination affecting their community.
The People of The River
Wachirpas (2023)
Director/Producer/Videographer/Editor
Type: Documentary
Runtime: 9 min.
Location: Haverstraw, NY
Description: The one and only Virginia Norfleet makes history by
keeping it alive and sharing it with others.
The Haverstraw African
American Connection (2022)
Director/Producer/Videographer/Editor
Type: Call to Action
Runtime: 2 min.
Location: Rockland County, NY
Description: This is our response to the public, digital race-baiting of
Rockland County (NY) Sheriff Lou Falco in 2020.
Ending Culture of Racism in Rockland
County Law Enforcement (2020)
Director/Co-Writer/Producer/Editor
Type: Original Fiction
Runtime: 9 Min.
Location: Rockland County, NY
Description: Whether internal or inter-subjective, joy is meant to be experienced.
A Time of Two Joys (2019)
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor
Type: Documentary
Runtime: 22 Min.
Location: Bergen County, NJ, Scheyichbi
Description: The Place Where the People Gather witnesses members
of the Ramapough Lenape Nation praying and working to protect
their sacred land and place of worship. Weaving together an old
Lenape Woodpecker story of life with a newer one of extinction, this is
an ode to indigenous futures and unity on earth.
Akuy Eend Mahwehlaang:
The Place Where
the People Gather (2019)
Writer/Director/Producer/Videographer/Editor
Type: Poem Video
Runtime: 5 min.
Location: Oberlin, OH
Description: This video companion for the poem Solidarity, by
the late, great Meeko Israel, is shot in front ofOberlin’s
monument to John Brown and the city residents who gave their
lives at Harpers Ferry. Shot against the backdrop of the police
station, this video honors Black abolitionists in the City of
Oberlin, then and now.
“Solidarity” by Meeko Israel (2013)
Director/Producer/Videographer/Editor