Troy Burton’s vision for telling the story of Black men in Baltimore was many years in the making and has only been made possible through conversation and collaboration.

"The older I got, the more I realized that people’s perceptions of me had nothing to do with me."

What happens to a city that can’t even imagine itself differently in the medium of film?

“Outside” opens with a slow-moving shot of a black couple holding each other attentively. The anxious voice of a woman unseen is heard asking, “What’s happening right now?” Police sirens ...