In recent years, the craft beer industry has exploded. Today, craft beer accounts for roughly 25% of the total U.S. beer market and generates $29.3 billion dollars every year. At the epicenter of the industry in the American South is the State of North Carolina, whose breweries contribute over $9 billion annually to North Carolina's economy. And while the State boasts over 300 breweries -- the most of any state in the American South -- only two are owned by Black brewers.

Following the journey of Black, women beer brewers in the US South, THIS BELONGS TO US is a feature-length documentary film that explores how a craft that began in Africa in the East became synonymous with White, male, blue-collar identity in the United States.

Atinuke Diver - Director/Producer

Grounded in the spirit of Charles Hamilton Houston’s adage that a lawyer is either a social engineer or a social parasite, Atinuke “Tinu” Akintola Diver grounds her creative, legal, and community practices in ways that seek to build and regenerate, rather than to purely extract and exploit. A first-generation American and the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Tinu was born in Boston, Massachusetts, raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland and currently resides with her family in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina School of Law, and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Tinu is Co-Director of the short documentary film QUILT JOURNEYS (2019 ALICE FEST, 2019 BlackStar Film Festival, 2019 Carrboro Film Festival, 2020 Hayti Heritage Film Festival, 2020 River Run Film Festival, 2020 Longleaf Film Festival, 2020 BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival), Co-Producer of the short audio documentary, MASTERPIECE, and Director/Producer of the documentary short 98 (2020 Carrboro Film Festival).