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
The People of The River Wachirpas (2023)
Director, Producer, Videographer, Editor
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 Haverstraw African American Connection (2022)
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.
Ending Culture of Racism in Rockland County Law Enforcement (2020)
Director, Co-Writer, Producer, 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.
A Time of Two Joys (2019)
Writer, Director, Producer, Editor
Type: Original Fiction
Runtime: 9 Min.
Location: Rockland County, NY
Description:
Whether internal or inter-subjective, joy is meant to be experienced.
Akuy Eend Mahwehlaang: The Place Where the People Gather (2019)
Writer, Director, Producer,
Videographer, 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.
“Solidarity” by Meeko Israel (2013)
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 of Oberlin’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.