Kinfolk
directed by Nicole Craine
Fifteen years in the making, Kinfolk pulls back the curtain on Southern White femininity, revealing its beauty, contradictions and despair. In an attempt to break the cycles of violence, addiction and racism, photojournalist Nicole Craine documents her family’s dark past and challenging present.
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Meet the Team
Nicole Craine
Director
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Nicole Craine is a documentarian and photojournalist with a focus on politics in the Southeastern United States and the ongoing impact of climate change in rural, coastal communities. Recognizing the growth of news deserts and lack of media representation in rural communities, Nicole launched Everyday Rural America in 2017, a social media project and database dedicated to featuring stories from communities and storytellers working outside of cities and urban areas. Nicole now serves on the Advisory Board of Everyday Projects. She is a regular contributor to New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Washington Post and Associated Press. Her work has been featured in New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Marie Claire Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, ESPN, and the Intercept.
Kirsten Dunst
Producer
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Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an award-winning actress who has starred in many films including Marie Antoinette, Bring It On and Power of the Dog. She received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and has also received nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Golden Globe Awards.
Darcy McKinnon
Producer
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Darcy McKinnon is a documentary filmmaker based in New Orleans whose work focuses on the American South and the Caribbean. Recently released projects include A KING LIKE ME and ROLEPLAY (SXSW, 2024), COMMUTED (PBS, 2024), ALGIERS, AMERICA (Hulu, 2023), UNDER G-D (Sundance 2023), LOOK AT ME! XXXTENTACION (SXSW, Hulu, 2022) and THE NEUTRAL GROUND (Tribeca, POV, 2021). Current projects in production include Jason Fitzroy Jeffers’s THE FIRST PLANTATION, Abe Felix’s TURNAROUND, CJ Hunt’s UNLEARNED, Nicole Craine’s KINFOLK and Zac Manuel’s THE INSTRUMENT. McKinnon’s work has been seen on World Channel, AfroPop, POV, Reel South, LPB and Hulu and has screened at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, CPH:DOX and more. She is an alum of the Impact Partners Producing Fellowship and the Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellowship and is a recipient of American Documentary’s Creative Visionary Award.
Troy Lewis
Editor
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Troy Lewis moved from Texas to Zambia at the age of 7, where he grew up in its capital, Lusaka. He is now an award-winning editor based in Chicago and received the 2024 Sally Menke Editing Fellowship through the Sundance Institute. He was editor and co-writer of the Netflix documentary feature film DAUGHTERS (2024), which premiered at Sundance Film Festival, winning both the Audience Documentary Award and Festival Favorite Award, and was later shortlisted for Best Documentary Film at the 2025 Academy Awards. He served as editor on the ITVS documentaries SOMEBODY'S GONE and THIS IS ME LOVING YOU, both of which are currently in post-production.
In the narrative world, he has edited grindhouse horror feature films ANYTHING THAT MOVES (2026) and ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS (2023), both of which premiered at Fantasia Film Festival, as well as the coming-of-age film TAHARA (2021), which premiered at Slamdance Film Festival. With a dual-degree background in Creative Writing: Fiction and Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University, his editorial work focuses on depicting unique perspectives through the textures and rhythms of daily life, evoking emotion and insight through sensory experiences.
Jesse Plemons
Producer
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Jesse Plemons is an accomplished actor known for his roles in Breaking Bad, The Irishman, Fargo, Judas and the Black Messiah and Game Night. For his performance in The Power of the Dog, he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.