Kathryn Carlson

Creative Director at SideXSide Studios

Georgetown University sold hundreds of enslaved people to stave off bankruptcy, scattering families across the South, never to see each other again. With the help of DNA databases, their descendants are reconnecting six generations later. "Finding Us" is a portrait of four descendants who are using their unique talents to regrow the family trees felled nearly two centuries ago.

Finding Us

Ailisec and Divine both fled their home countries — Venezuela and Uganda — to escape oppression and direct threats to their lives. HIAS, the world’s first Jewish refugee resettlement agency, welcomed them with open arms and helped them rebuild their lives safely in a new country.



Open Hearts

SideXSide Studios was honored to produce nine films and two audio exhibits in collaboration with RAA Media for the newly expanded Holocaust Museum Houston. In keeping with its mission to educate the public about the dangers of prejudice and hatred in society, the museum refreshed its Holocaust Gallery and opened its new Human Rights Gallery in June 2019. These exhibits are intended to ground visitors in the history of the Holocaust and engage people in difficult questions around how we think of and protect human rights.

Holocaust Museum Houston | Installation Films

This is the story of Betty Nanozi, who was widowed just three weeks after her son, John Paul, was born. Over the 11 years of her widowhood, she describes how her husband’s children from a previous marriage (all adults) robbed her of everything twice, even threatening the life of her son. Now, with the help of attorneys, social workers, and criminal investigators from the International Justice Mission, Nanozi is fighting back.

Kathryn Carlson

Creative Director at SideXSide Studios

Finding Us

Open Hearts

Holocaust Museum Houston | Installa...

Widow’s Torment