The Moving Picture Boys is the filmmaking team of Jace Freeman and Sean Clark, whose work centers on the kind of everyday moments that often pass unnoticed, yet carry something deeply human. Their work resists narration, exposition, and spectacle, favoring instead a patient, intuitive form of cinema where meaning emerges in the margins.
They began their collaboration with Nashville Docujournal, a street-level portrait of a city in flux that was featured in The Smithsonian’s “The Way We Worked” exhibit. Since then, they’ve made films including The Ballad of Shovels and Rope (Tennessee Spirit Award Winner NaFF, 2014), Saint Cloud Hill (PBS, 2019), and co-directed Baracoa (Berlinale, 2019), a hybrid coming-of-age story set in rural Cuba that was nominated for the Glashütte Original Documentary Award.
Most recently, they were invited to lend their distinct visual language and human-centered approach to Justice, USA, a six-part series for MAX, produced by the Oprah Winfrey Network and Common.
Working out of Nashville, TN, Freeman and Clark continue to explore nonfiction not as a genre, but as a mode of attention — an act of seeing shaped by craft, curiosity, and the belief that the quietest stories often carry the deepest truths.
