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Indigo De Souza has been making music since they were a child, and busked on the streets of downtown Asheville, North Carolina as a preteen. Born in 1997 to a white American artist mother and a black-Brazilian musician father, De Souza moved to a rural Appalachian mountain community after their parents’ divorce. Raised by their single mother who glued naked Barbie dolls to her flaming red pickup truck and protested various government actions in a conservative town of 2,000 people, Indigo felt like an outsider during their childhood. As they entered their teens and early 20s, they pursued music and navigated abandonment that triggered intense sadness and anxiety.
In 2018, their first studio album, I Love My Mom, was reissued by Saddle Creek, building their grassroots fanbase. Their second album, Any Shape You Take (2021) marked a turning point in De Souza’s career, earning Best New Music from Pitchfork. Following its release, they toured nationally and globally. All of This Will End (2023), their third album, also received strong critical praise with Atwood Magazine calling it “nothing short of brilliance.” De Souza regularly fills beloved venues and is known for their emotional and vulnerable live performances.
Indigo&#8217;s latest single &#8220;Come To God&#8221; is out now.

Indigo De Souza

Music

Open The Floodgates

Lovell Holder has produced the critically acclaimed feature films The Surrender, Peak Season, Midday Black Midnight Blue, The End of Us, Working Man, Some Freaks, and Loserville (which he also directed). He recently celebrated the theatrical release of his feature film adaptation of the play Lavender Men, which he directed, co-wrote, and produced. Collectively his films have screened at over 100 film festivals worldwide, including SXSW, Fantasia, Santa Barbara, Outfest and BFI Flare. His debut novel, The Book of Luke, will be published by Grand Central Publishing (an imprint of Hachette) in hardcover and audiobook in December 2025. Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, he is a graduate of Princeton University and Brown University, where he received his MFA in acting. (Photo by Luke Fontana.)

Lovell Holder

Film

Heads Carolina, Tails California

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Cynthia Hill lives and works in North Carolina. Hill’s company, Markay Media, which has produced award-winning documentary films and television work, is based in Durham. Hill and chef Vivian Howard recently took home an Emmy for outstanding culinary program for A Chef’s Life, the docu-series they co-created which airs on PBS to an audience of 4 million viewers per episode. Hill previously won an Emmy for directing the show, which has recently concluded its fifth season. She also directed the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Private Violence, and an eight-part series on NASCAR called Road to Race Day for Complex Networks. (Picture by Jeremy Lange.)

Cynthia Hill

How to Make It as a Filmmaker Outside New York and Los Angeles

North Carolina