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Filmed over several years, the film chronicles a bond of friendship between Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham as they unite to tell the story of Musafer Yatta’s residents. Their relationship stands as an inspiration for forging alliances under extreme duress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/4be0263c-69b1-46b9-ad35-ca80d59f2516/MV5BYTRmN2NmZTctMTgwNS00YzlmLTgyMTYtZmUyYjM5NWM4NWUyXkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_.jpg Documentaries Julia Loktev documents independent journalists in Moscow facing government crackdown as Russia invades Ukraine, capturing their fight for speech amid risks of being branded "foreign agents" and the country's drift towards authoritarianism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/5dee296c-b014-4d3a-a7d9-ce48fa3fcd8c/MV5BNDk0MzM0MmQtM2U2Mi00MmY0LWIxM2EtZDJjZWZiZDA1YTk2XkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_.jpg Documentaries A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/1b76bc87-78c1-41cb-9941-64cca9e19776/MV5BN2UyZjlmMWYtNDdiMy00NmRkLTg0ZTUtOGJmMTE0YTVhZTliXkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg Documentaries Disabled filmmaker Reid Davenport investigates assisted dying and uncovers how ableism, policy, and systemic failures can make death seem like the only option. With gripping stories and a personal mission, Life After explores who gets real choice, and who doesn’t, in life and death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/0945949c-0375-4308-8826-52424e6e57ce/Queendom_2024.jpg Documentaries Gena (she/her, non-binary), a queer artist from a small town in Russia, stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism - and put her life in danger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/908ca06e-ab7e-48ae-8dd1-e27c6e28eeae/Union_2024.jpg Documentaries The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island — takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/9156c867-ee20-4f0e-906b-a1b0ad9a3792/TheTubaThieves_2023.jpg Documentaries What is the role of sound and what does it mean to listen? Hard of hearing filmmaker Alison O’Daniel uses a series of tuba thefts in Los Angeles high schools as a jumping-off point to explore these questions. Through several d/Deaf people telling stories in a unique game of telephone, the central mystery of The Tuba Thieves isn’t about theft of instruments; it’s about the nature of sound itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/7bc99839-5eef-4dee-afba-198619989448/StandingAboveTheClouds_2022.png Documentaries When the massive Thirty Meter Telescope is proposed to be built on Mauna Kea, an uprising of kiaʻi (protectors) in Hawaiʻi and around the world dedicate their lives to protecting the sacred mountain from destruction. Through the lens of mothers and daughters in three Native Hawaiian families, Standing Above the Clouds explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of safeguarding cultural traditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/bc8a6872-b45d-41f7-bdd8-9e3c1017680e/GoingToMars_2023.jpg Documentaries Through intimate vérité, archival footage, and visually innovative treatments of her poetry, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project pushes the boundaries of biographical documentary film by traveling through time and space to reveal the enduring influence of one of America’s greatest living artists and social commentators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/8df58152-f003-42b1-9e7d-d6e1be2f114d/writing+with+fire+%281%29.jpeg Documentaries In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, be it on the frontlines of India's biggest issues or within the confines of their homes, redefining what it means to be powerful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/1690247362766-9BT3YI1NQ3MMFGKE3W76/unseen-poster-v6.jpg Documentaries description: a bald young man appears in-focus, amidst hazy figures surrounding him. he wears glasses while looking up to the endless bright sky above him, his expression pensive. the film’s billing block, logos, and festival laurel adorn the sky. as the sky meets the young man’s head in the middle of the poster, the film’s title appears: unseen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/41f0d886-f6c0-49ef-b82a-8a1bacc96be9/Time_2022_.jpg Documentaries In this intimate yet epic love story filmed over two decades, indomitable matriarch Fox Rich strives to raise her six sons and keep her family together as she fights for her husband’s release from the Louisiana State Penitentiary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/6c16708c-9cc8-44f2-b95a-0bcd81cdd71c/Crip_Camp_Vertical_Main_RGB_POST20200227-6356-r9ngs5+%283%29.jpg Documentaries Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/76bad40d-346f-4ae7-a312-480f443c60e6/the+neutral+ground+%282%29.jpg Documentaries The Neutral Ground documents New Orleans' fight over monuments and America's troubled romance with the Lost Cause. In 2015, director CJ Hunt was filming the New Orleans City Council's vote to remove four confederate monuments. But when that removal is halted by death threats, CJ sets out to understand why a losing army from 1865 still holds so much power in America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/01ee4ced-2c3b-46af-b52a-034bc4aa9e01/a+decent+home+%282%29.jpg Documentaries When housing that's on the lowest run of the American Dream is being devoured by the wealthiest of the wealthy, whose dream are we serving? A Decent Home addresses urgent issues of class and economic (im)mobility through the lives of mobile home park residents who can't afford housing anywhere else. They are fighting for their dreams -- and their lives -- as private equity firms and wealthy investors buy up parks, making sky-high returns on their investments while squeezing every last penny out of the mobile home owners who must pay rent for the land they live on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/ecabd56f-9fa4-4b5f-b638-d21a38b646ba/IAmGreta_1sheet_Int_WEB.jpg Documentaries The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from Swedish director Nathan Grossman. Starting with her one-person school strike for climate action outside the Swedish Parliament, Grossman follows Greta—a shy student with Asperger’s—in her rise to prominence and her galvanizing global impact as she sparks school strikes around the world. The film culminates with her extraordinary wind-powered voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/753e443b-6134-4387-a313-5ae03c7d75dc/ASCBN-Poster-Vertical.jpg Documentaries In a polarized America, where the dual forces of white supremacy and patriarchy threaten to further erode our democracy, a game-changing transformation is happening at the grassroots. As demographics shift toward a non-white majority, elections will be decided by Americans inspired to vote for the first time. Many of these voters, who are often poor, and largely immigrant, are ignored by politicians and journalists alike. But a defiant group of women of color- as candidates and organizers- are harnessing the political power of this New American Majority. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/d8f4c0c2-ed5c-43af-8a11-e4c72759f189/UNA_Poster_Final+%282%29.jpg Documentaries After two police killings, Black millennial organizers challenge a Chicago administration complicit in state violence against its Black residents. Told through the lens of Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionist leaders, Unapologetic is a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives, from the police murder of Rekia Boyd to the election of mayor Lori Lightfoot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/a0e12f14-363d-474a-8b08-df2225bacbfe/BOTB_Poster_27x40_v5.jpg Documentaries When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women’s prisons, they wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. Filmed over seven years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, BELLY OF THE BEAST exposes modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/1690247431782-EI13JBSQL6UAI2CZL3W8/and%2Bso%2Bi%2Bstayed%2B%25282%2529.jpg Documentaries And So I Stayed is an award-winning documentary about survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and spending years behind bars. This is the story of how the legal system gets domestic violence wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/73b0b1c4-7087-43e3-a132-0240bef188d2/Through+the+Night.jpg Documentaries In New Rochelle, New York, a 24-hour daycare is a lifesaver for parents who work multiple jobs and odd hours to make ends meet. Through the Night follows a mother who works the overnight shift at a hospital; another holding down three jobs to support her family; and a woman who for two decades has cared for the children of parents with nowhere else to turn. Over the span of two years, across working holidays, seven day work weeks, and around-the-clock shifts, the film reveals the personal cost of rising wealth inequality in America and the close bonds forged between parents, children, and caregivers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/b2ed9e70-3412-4e7b-82b9-bee8ecfb5081/The+Return+Movie+Poster.jpg Documentaries In 2012, California amended its “Three Strikes” law—one of the harshest criminal sentencing policies in the country. The passage of Prop. 36 marked the first time in U.S. history that citizens voted to shorten sentences of those currently incarcerated. Within days, the reintegration of thousands of “lifers” was underway. 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As she struggles to find work, he documents a journey that uncovers the economic insecurity shaping not only her future, but that of an entire generation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/92bd98df-363e-469f-a8a1-58a2138603a6/Disclosure.jpg Documentaries An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/a8262a48-7452-4c05-ac37-b748d25b53ea/Coded_Bias_Poster_2434px+X+3600px%28O%29.jpg Documentaries Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/2a59ae7a-dd6c-4723-8312-37d640a9ed84/bordersouth.jpg Documentaries The “North-American Migrant Trail” extends for over 2300 miles, from Southern Mexico to the U.S.-Mexico Border. 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The film goes beyond the traditional immigration narrative to a nuanced, intimate story which implicates us all in how we care for the most vulnerable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/82fc19a4-9329-40b9-b6b7-c48e3d7167f9/Boycott-poster.jpeg Documentaries Boycott is a documentary film about three Americans' lawsuits against their state governments in response to anti-BDS laws which caused said governments to cancel their business contracts after they refused to pledge that they would not engage in a boycott of Israel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/11c2b0f5-bc76-48e2-a5ba-c822372a550e/victimsuspect+film+poster.jpeg Documentaries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/8ed18ed5-019a-4cff-a43e-c7db3f1536f9/RLS_FinalPoster_Digital_Billing+med.jpg.jpg Documentaries As rising seas threaten Miami’s luxurious beachfront, wealthy property owners are pushing inland to higher ground. The historically black neighborhood of Liberty City has been ignored by developers and policy-makers alike, for generations. Located 12 feet above sea level, Liberty City now becomes more attractive with each rising tide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/e52e0389-696c-4491-9067-45b792027c38/AnActofWorship_2022.jpg Documentaries An Act of Worship is Pakistani-American filmmaker Nausheen Dadabhoy’s exploration of the last 20 years of Muslim life in America. The feature-length documentary weaves together present-day vérité material of three women activists who came of age after 9/11 with archival footage, home videos and oral histories sourced from Muslim communities across the country. Guided by their personal experiences as Muslim Americans, the filmmaking team takes charge of the narrative of their community, which has thus far been defined by outsiders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/da1e21b5-69be-4668-b4a1-64e35e320292/AnonymousSister_2023.jpg Documentaries When a young woman turns to the camera for refuge, she ends up with a firsthand account of what will become the deadliest man-made epidemic in United States history. Filmed over thirty years, ANONYMOUS SISTER is director, Jamie Boyle's chronicle of her family's collision with the opioid epidemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/60c467ab-9091-45d0-b595-48ba10ae4851/Array_ForOurChildren_OS_WEB_1500px.jpg Documentaries Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, mothers of young Black men victimized by police brutality, come together and build a network of community-led support, mutual aid, and healing in this feature-length documentary spanning Oakland’s Fruitvale to the American South. Long before George Floyd’s murder, Oscar Grant’s 2009 fateful encounter with police at BART platform seeded public awareness and cultural consciousness of systemic racism. Paying forward lessons learned and advocating against anti-Black violence in memory of her son, Oscar, Wanda holds space for Angela, whose teen son, Ulysses, survives a police encounter in Troy, Alabama, living to tell his story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/e3c5d095-0f42-4bca-8c6c-3a514b6e8c79/ARunForMore_2022.jpg Documentaries As a transgender woman in Texas, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe expected to encounter resistance to her campaign for city council. She did not anticipate questioning her relationship to identity, activism and civic engagement. On the campaign trail, she finds herself on an unexpected journey of self-discovery and healing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/e751f764-3374-4735-a0cc-c31b0401c02b/BreakingTheNews_2023.jpg Documentaries A group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists challenge the white male status quo of U.S. newsrooms by launching The 19th* in the early days of a global pandemic. Breaking the News follows the first few years of this digital news startup as it struggles both internally and externally to live by its ideals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/2b08c0d4-78ee-4146-8927-27f24f768107/ErnieJoeCrisisCops_POSTER-13x20_NO-TuneIn-scaled.jpg Documentaries A look at Texas police officers who take an innovative approach to diffusing dangerous situations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/3debc890-0040-4426-911e-39aad2471213/FireThroughDryGrass_2023.jpg Documentaries On a tiny island in NYC, a group of Black and brown disabled artists fight Covid and the city to protect the lives of 500 vulnerable nursing home residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/9aa99376-1bc7-45ff-96d3-a34c5159b81b/ForTheRecord_2024.jpeg Documentaries In a small Texas Panhandle town, a few things have remained constant– cowboys, high school football, conservative voters, and the family-owned weekly newspaper, The Canadian Record. Publisher and editor Laurie Ezzell Brown strives to keep the town’s paper of record and her family’s legacy alive despite an oil bust, a global pandemic, and a growing mistrust for all media and her own liberal column. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/7d56a3ec-2d72-4856-8a2c-938e7f4bf690/FromHereFromThere_2022.jpg Documentaries Luis Cortes Romero, the first undocumented attorney to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, journeyed from a difficult youth to the highest court in the land as part of a powerful legal team fighting the Administration’s attempt to rescind DACA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/5eb5e364-807b-4eb8-8933-453ee064d16c/FruitsofLabor_2022.jpg Documentaries Ashley, a Mexican-American teenager living in California, dreams of graduating high school and going to college. 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The result is a chilling portrait of a growing movement pushing American democracy to the brink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/2889fd95-9d3d-4758-bce8-3d057c101e01/Igualada_2024.jpg Documentaries In the 2022 Colombian presidential campaign, Francia Márquez, a Black woman from a rural background, challenges the status quo by declaring her candidacy. Reappropriating the derogatory term “igualada,” Márquez disrupts more than Colombia’s conservative echelons of power – she interrogates the dynamics of governmental power itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/3e63b5d4-3b7b-46f4-a44b-742cd927579f/LaLucha_2023.jpg Documentaries When a group of people with disabilities in Bolivia unite in protest for a pension, they never imagined what was to come. Trekking the Andes in their wheelchairs, they’re forced to confront a government that tries to silence them and a society indifferent to their struggle. La Lucha is a tribute to all those who fight for change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/1d7d1abd-1e80-4f5d-9c0e-a5410ead9dd9/Landfall-Poster-2022.jpg Documentaries Through shard-like glimpses of everyday life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, Landfall is a cautionary tale for our times. Set against the backdrop of protests that toppled the governor in 2019, the film offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma and resistance as Puerto Ricans navigate dismantled social services and newcomers eager to profit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/54de4a5e-e01f-40d2-aedb-bc9f07a14f6d/LoQueQuedaenelCamino_2023.jpg Documentaries Lo que queda en el camino is the story of Lilian and her four kids in search for a better life. She dares to leave her violent husband in Guatemala and joins the migrant caravan in order to make it to the Mexican-US border. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/02c3574b-b429-4ef4-a34d-74f1bde3ece2/NoTimeToFail_2022.jpg Documentaries Rhode Island's local election administrators and poll workers work around the clock to secure the vote for their community during the 2020 election -- midst an onslaught of attacks from a sitting President and the deadly threat of a global pandemic. Once invisible to the general public, NO TIME TO FAIL spotlights election administrators as the ground zero of American democracy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/f87f2c0a-b400-48dc-bd2a-b39fa3df6984/Powerlands_2022.jpg Documentaries A young Navajo filmmaker investigates displacement of Indigenous people and devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. On this personal and political journey she learns from Indigenous activists across three continents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/a40aa32f-50ac-435c-8ab1-95b805e93ed9/QueerFutures_2022.jpg Documentaries The QUEER FUTURES series centers joy and connection to radically imagine future visions of queer life. Four short films explore gender affirming healthcare, fat beauty and liberation, nonbinary ballroom culture, and the anonymous connections of a decades-old LGBTQ hotline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/c6d30af5-2a50-49c1-83a1-d2db16885c87/RurualRunners_2022.jpg Documentaries Rural Runners is a short film about finding purpose and common ground in rural America as Chloe Maxmin makes a bid to be the youngest woman in the Maine house of representatives and Canyon Woodward balances his lifestyle with running rural trails and political campaigns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/caf370a9-2343-48eb-be43-ce4b2f9a0437/SansonAndMe_2023.jpg Documentaries During his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California, filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes met a young man named Sansón, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who was sentenced to life in prison without parole. With no permission to interview him, Sansón and Reyes worked together over a decade, using hundreds of letters as inspiration for recreations of Sansón’s childhood—featuring members of Sansón’s own family. The result is a vibrant portrait of a friendship navigating immigration and the depths of the criminal justice system, and pushing the boundaries of cinematic imagination to rescue a young migrant’s story from oblivion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/a413c17a-41f6-400c-965a-28bdadf3c137/StormLake_2022.jpg Documentaries Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Art Cullen and his family fight to unite and inform their Iowan farming community through their biweekly newspaper, The Storm Lake Times—come hell or pandemic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/ee9a3728-7a0e-4633-8ef7-f0847b733ffa/TheStrike_2023.png Documentaries A group of men look to build new lives after surviving decades of solitary confinement in California prisons. But as time passes, the memories of their past still grip them. This film tells how these men and 30,000 others overcame impossible odds and orchestrated a hunger strike to abolish indefinite solitary confinement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/49418133-f77d-43cd-9df6-262bf9fb5f8c/TikTikBoom_2023.jpg Documentaries What does it mean to be a digital native? TikTok, Boom. dissects the platform along myriad cross-sections—algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural—to explore the impact of the history-making app. Balancing a genuine interest in the community and its innovative mechanics with a healthy skepticism, delve into the security issues, global political challenges, and racial biases behind the platform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/075e98a5-473c-4084-951a-977a7d2fb44e/ToTheEnd_2023.jpg Documentaries Filmed over four years of hope and crisis, To the End captures the emergence of a new generation of leaders and the movement behind the most sweeping climate change legislation in U.S. history. The award-winning team behind Knock Down the House follows four exceptional young women— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, activist Varshini Prakash, climate policy writer Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and political strategist Alexandra Rojas— as they grapple with new challenges of leadership and power and work together to defend their generation’s right to a future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/6db28e53-ee83-4f23-8d7c-932252875ef3/We+Still+Here_2022.jpg Documentaries Determination triumphs over devastation and government disregard as a courageous group of young Puerto Ricans take control of their future and fight for a just recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/f4642d60-3f33-43ba-bfe8-59755ea3869b/Winn_2022_.jpg Documentaries After experiencing neglect and traumatic loss while pregnant in prison, Pamela Winn becomes an activist, leading hundreds of thousands to support the Dignity Bill to end the shackling of pregnant people in prison. "WINN" exposes the horrifying experience that incarcerated pregnant people endure and documents Pamela’s mission to end shackling and ultimately prison birth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/53e47463-478e-4b1f-ae6c-a6e10d625f4a/PaperChildren.jpg Documentaries Far from the horrors at the US border, one family seeks safety and heals from the past, while bearing the weight of an uncertain future. PAPER CHILDREN goes beyond the headlines to the subtle, intimate reality of four siblings who fled gang violence in Honduras to face the terrifying, labyrinth-like US asylum process. The film begins where most immigrant stories hope to end-with a family who has been reunited-but for how long remains to be seen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/1738177257718-0B1JUQDLLZDNJU9AB6JP/Copy%2Bof%2BAFTERSHOCK_DigiVertical_8100x12000_PremJuly19_FIN01.jpg.jpg Documentaries Following the preventable deaths of their loved ones due to childbirth complications, two families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises of our time – the US maternal health crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/96f759b6-981f-4152-9a41-6f96b891afda/BadPRESS_MagdalenaWosik_CMYK.jpg Documentaries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/44875521-0938-4783-ab25-738c2bc4337e/arrestthemidwife-poster-2025.jpg Documentaries Set against the backdrop of the US’ severe maternal mortality crisis and the erosion of women's reproductive rights, this David and Goliath story follows a group of renegade Amish and Mennonite women as they break with tradition, and become unlikely activists fighting for change. ARREST THE MIDWIFE is ultimately a story of courage, defiance and the power of collective action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/363a5334-47e9-4432-8f73-1a120942612b/MV5BMGU4OGFkYTktNjg3MC00OTExLWEwODktZWRmZTM1ODgwMmQ2XkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_.jpg Documentaries COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! follows Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she struggles to create a one-woman comedy show called “Coexistence, My Ass!” about racism, sexism, war, peace and… her ass. With hatred and violence in Israel/Palestine turbo-charged like never before, “co-existence” already a problematic term now sounds like a bad joke — so where does she go from here? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/f5ffa156-22b7-43fb-8eb5-56ea65417eaa/MV5BOGIyZDBmZWMtNTU5ZC00MWEzLTkzZmEtYTNmNWZkZmExMjEwXkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_.jpg Documentaries In the magical town of Tepoztlán, Mexico, fifteen-year-old Karla intimately, and unabashedly, guides audiences in her journey for self-discovery, as she navigates the joys and uncertainties of adolescence, alongside society's gender prejudices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/fa5108d6-e6ee-4466-8c9d-e1fac6945a41/MV5BMTYwZjM3OWQtYWJkYi00MjdkLWI3NDYtNjEyZThiMmMwZTRhXkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg Documentaries A portrait of Sarah McBride’s historic run to become the first trans Member of Congress, the backlash that ensues, and her fight for change amidst intensifying political extremism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/9a47ff20-aac9-4f0f-be94-23ff4b6f7593/MV5BNTQ0MzBhMDYtMDEwOS00MDM1LTkzZTEtYzZkNjY1MGViZjFiXkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_.jpg Documentaries Uvalde Mom is a feature length documentary that tells the story of Angeli Rose Gomez, a farm worker and single mom who in May 2022 ran into Robb Elementary in Uvalde, TX to save her two sons during a mass shooting, while nearly 400 armed officers waited 77 minutes to intervene. When a video of her running out with her sons goes viral, Angeli highlights the inaction of law enforcement that day. However, she soon faces harassment from authorities, making her vulnerable due to her tumultuous past. As Angeli's narrative unfolds, the Uvalde community demands accountability and change. Conflicting narratives emerge from authorities, and the U.S. Department of Justice launches an investigation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/4016fc61-96fc-41a0-999b-9508cfd312e3/MV5BM2I5OTAxOTgtY2E2Zi00YTJmLWFlMDMtMzcxNWIzY2I3YmQxXkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg Documentaries SABBATH QUEEN, a feature documentary filmed over 21 years, follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/4803420c-1176-47e3-81fa-81a55e7b988e/1112878-roleplay-0-230-0-345-crop.jpg Documentaries ROLEPLAY is a feature documentary that follows a group of college students as they confront sexual violence on their campus through a transformative theater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/3df093f8-9ce5-4c16-aa1d-dd163459de7b/MV5BNGI2Y2IwNDQtNjUzNC00YzdhLWI2YzUtY2QxZjcyN2EzZTQ0XkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg Documentaries What begins as activism quickly escalates as three conservatives join a widening conflict over identity, power, and the future of American democracy. With a patient and unflinching approach, Homegrown follows a father-to-be in New Jersey, an Air Force veteran in New York City, and a charismatic activist from Texas crisscrossing the country during a period of profound national fracture from the summer of 2020 through the spring of 2025. As the country accelerates toward political crisis, we witness democratic norms crumbling not through a single event, but from hundreds of personal choices made by ordinary people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/93fa1731-af4a-4959-ae52-3edb40aaabed/MV5BOTRkMTczZmEtNDhiYy00Yjg4LWFiOGYtMWUyYmQ4YjI2MzdiXkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg Documentaries Patrice: The Movie' is a documentary romantic comedy about the next frontier of marriage equality - disability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/8284c275-390e-4287-997c-626341337223/MV5BMzI0MGZlMjUtMjJiMi00MzFhLWI2NDUtMmE3MzYzZTMwZmMwXkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg Documentaries A time-traveling guide channeled by the land recounts the Everglades’ violent past and warns of Florida's precarious future. Told through Miami journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas's The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), the film explores how Florida’s vulnerability to climate change is historically rooted in the Everglades’ ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/e3ef65ad-09f3-4f9b-9749-4264047aa7c9/MV5BMmFiNzE1ZDgtZTM1NS00NGUyLWFlYmEtZTdhMDg5NWY1MjM5XkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_.jpg Documentaries Fearless civil rights lawyer Chase Strangio battles at the Supreme Court for transgender adolescents’ access to gender-affirming healthcare, confronting not only the legal system but also a media landscape that distorts public perception and threatens the struggle for trans rights. 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Firelight produces documentary films, supports emerging filmmakers of color, and cultivates audiences for their work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/5984d944-48f5-4112-bf0d-5ddac3ca8492/Screen+Shot+2022-05-04+at+1.38.28+PM.png Organizations The Color Congress is a national collective of majority people of color (POC) and POC-led organizations aimed at centering and strengthening nonfiction storytelling by, for and about people of color across the United States and territories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/748dd710-4a8f-4c48-8400-89caabb0bba7/Screen+Shot+2022-05-04+at+1.39.36+PM.png Organizations Detroit Narrative Agency supports and develops media-based storytelling centering Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to foster collective healing, power, and liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/74572824-60b2-4835-8465-b4f7b7698666/Zv2b4ww__400x400.jpg Organizations Established in 2016, the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA) is a diverse coalition of more than 300 international members, ranging from emerging to Academy Award-winning documentary producers. The DPA sets standards for inclusive, sustainable and equitable business practices based on research, collective experience and input from strategic partners, amplifying the voice of documentary producers worldwide, while educating the industry about producers’ essential role from development through financing, production and distribution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/d0121057-be98-41ad-b77a-fa602b145107/af_logo.png Organizations AFLAMUNA is a cultural nonprofit based in Beirut working to harness the power of independent Arab cinema to elevate the most pressing social, political, and cultural movements of our time. Established as a cooperative under the name of Beirut DC in 1999 by a group of Lebanese filmmakers and cultural organizers, it became a nonprofit organization in 2006 under the same name, launching multiple programs and initiatives that helped independent cinema flourish in the Arab region. Today, after over two decades, AFLAMUNA upholds this legacy while keeping an eye to the future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/1705431421287-7SHK5WUP7ZGWT2DFKJLB/Screen%2BShot%2B2024-01-16%2Bat%2B1.54.52%2BPM.jpg Organizations DocA is a unique Pan-African initiative that aims to cultivate and nourish a self-sustaining documentary film ecosystem in Africa. We aim at supporting the African documentary film industry through interconnected initiatives in storytelling development and content creation, knowledge-building and sharing, distribution, and audience building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/f9f8172c-d78f-48bd-9261-23440c183489/Screen+Shot+2022-05-04+at+1.42.23+PM.png Organizations New Orleans Film Society cultivates the voices of Southern filmmakers through Emerging Voices, a nationally recognized mentorship program for filmmakers of color, and other initiatives such as Southern Producers Lab, and the annual South Pitch competition during the New Orleans Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/125b0f4d-5c09-46c4-8971-8ec2131739a0/Screen+Shot+2022-05-04+at+1.43.37+PM.png Organizations A-Doc is a national network that works to increase the visibility and support of Asian Americans in the documentary field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/3a49cb96-46dc-46b8-bbf0-de68d13f20ee/Screen+Shot+2022-05-04+at+1.45.16+PM.png Organizations Brown Girls Doc Mafia is an initiative advocating for over 4,500 women and non-binary people of color working in the documentary film industry around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/3af11efd-27b5-4fa0-a81f-8d27c1f99e87/Screen+Shot+2022-05-04+at+1.46.18+PM.png Organizations Distribution Advocates works to collectively reclaim power for independent storytellers in the current systems of distribution and exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/5b68a99c-c719-433e-86cf-3b5bf4647fa8/justiceformysister.jpg Organizations Justice for My Sister Collective (JFMS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2011 with the mission to train women of color, nonbinary artists, and foster youth to make films with a gender equity and racial justice lens, as a means to heal from trauma and overcome financial barriers to entering the TV & film industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/1734019977147-G4VWY638JYVEQW0VYWPD/Screen%252BShot%252B2022-05-13%252Bat%252B1.17.51%252BPM.jpg Organizations Peace is Loud believes that stories have the power to change hearts, minds, and structures when strategically integrated within social justice movements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/42baa977-54d9-400b-afe1-6a121ad94427/da.jpg Organizations Recognizing the power of film to inspire, Working Films uses documentaries to increase civic engagement and shift culture at the local, state, and national level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/6be2eb4f-5886-4472-a058-467136a990fd/sic.jpg Organizations Sisters in Cinema was founded in 1997 as an online resource for and about African American women media makers. Today they are a Chicago-based 501(c)3 non-profit with an inclusive mission to center and celebrate Black girls, women, and gender-nonconforming media makers, providing programs designed to educate, raise visibility, and support and serve our communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/39fa704b-a9ee-4ecd-a225-41f014d7e31e/DAWG.jpg Organizations The Documentary Accountability Working Group considers guiding values that can inform the practices of nonfiction filmmakers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/74c2a9df-166f-48c8-b215-2c7c03b83d12/4thworld.jpg Organizations The 4th World Indigenous Media Lab is a year-long fellowship for emerging and mid-career Indigenous filmmakers, providing opportunities to develop filmmaking skills and networks through festival participation, hands-on training, masterclasses, workshopping projects in development, pitch activities, and meetings with funders and other industry decision-makers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/6c47d7fd-321e-425b-9ce7-1a4e3480163d/amdocpng.png Organizations A national nonprofit media arts organization, American Documentary (AmDoc) strives to make essential documentaries accessible as a catalyst for public discourse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/5c305e39-f329-4c76-a585-28d9d7e0117c/CMSI.jpg Organizations The Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI) at American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C., is an innovation lab and research center that creates, studies and showcases media for social impact. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/ab9c76be-aefd-4eec-a182-7dafaa87f416/repjustice.jpg Organizations Represent Justice turns stories into action to change the justice system, while building the capacity of system-impacted communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/a992c46c-f79d-4c02-8759-fb375c2dae84/Youth+FX.png Organizations Youth FX is designed to empower young people ages 10-24 by teaching them the technical and creative aspects of digital film making and media production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/3c558ee0-a6ed-42f6-921f-645811c23b08/smi.jpg Organizations Story Money Impact is a registered Canadian Charity creating positive change at a time where the world seeks more clarity, purpose and good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/14fce5d4-f664-402e-be39-570d67bc5f6e/Screen+Shot+2022-05-13+at+1.35.12+PM.png Organizations Multitude Films is a Peabody-nominated independent production company dedicated to nonfiction storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/cc2b82da-7608-47ae-9a80-542768a5b9b8/Screen+Shot+2022-05-13+at+1.36.28+PM.png Organizations The Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) is a nonprofit arts organization that cultivates documentary projects made in or about the American South. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/b08c5476-e865-47f9-9475-da18d1b38ca5/exposure+labs.jpg Organizations Exposure Labs believes that stories are the most powerful catalyst to build empathy, shape culture, foster social justice movements, and shift systems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/306e1fe0-2896-4d03-94d2-e72788d4c54b/Screen+Shot+2022-05-13+at+1.44.26+PM.png Organizations Doc Society (formerly known as BritDoc) is a non-profit founded in 2005 committed to enabling great documentary films and connecting them to audiences globally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/0e14e7a7-fe4d-4fc9-bd64-d3127e504193/inutw.jpg Organizations If Not Us Then Who is a US registered charity, 501(c)(3) that supports a global awareness campaign highlighting the role indigenous and local peoples play in protecting our planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/1f54cda3-196b-47e0-b2ea-e6e1c30dc8d6/bigsky.jpg Organizations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/1690573965990-SG00VC5YQY6LYCVAG5AT/bavc.jpg Organizations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/a2045d94-5e27-4bf9-9843-e37ee77487c8/fwddoc.jpg Organizations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/a8cac422-366f-44e2-a348-0e264d285588/sunshine.jpg Organizations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/95ba5f1e-486c-4ddb-ba60-61c4cf57bd14/bipoc.jpg Organizations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/c122fad4-1c83-45a2-a252-f0bb00098e33/ambulante.jpg Organizations email icon Ambulante is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and disseminating documentary film as a means of cultural and social transformation in Mexico and Central America. Founded in 2005 by Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Elena Fortes, and currently directed by Itzel Martínez del Cañizo, Ambulante seeks to create collective spaces for encounter and action to build alternative worlds through documentary film. Among its diverse tasks, Ambulante identifies and travels to locations with limited documentary film exhibition and training offerings, where it fosters cultural exchange, promotes participation and an informed critical attitude, and opens new avenues for reflection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/7d40e969-b310-44a4-a55a-fe21f82d4063/axslab.jpg Organizations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/867a2a1f-ab2d-40b4-9a45-6579cf9173fb/reimagine.jpg Organizations REIMAGINE was originally a project of the Detroit Narrative Agency (DNA). DNA supports and develops media-based storytelling centering Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to foster collective healing, power, and liberation. DNA was founded in 2015 with a primary focus on disrupting harmful narratives about Detroit by putting the power of story back in the hands of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color living in Detroit. In January 2023, REIMAGINE became a separate entity, hosted by Emergence Media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/1699549876057-7KINULRKTTB8GXDCRDTN/gipa.jpg Organizations The Global Impact Producer Assembly (GIPA) is an online space for Film Impact Professionals to collaborate, debate and share resources. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62447977c2482a15ceb3445a/1a11fa70-bd2f-44cf-876d-74809affd1ff/download+%283%29.png Organizations The Points North Institute is a launching pad for the next generation of nonfiction storytellers. 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