NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE A documentary that tells the story of the Flint Water Crisis from the perspectives of those who have experienced this tragedy first hand and from activists on the ground working through grass-root organizations to make a difference. While the national news media has been covering this event through the governmental point of […]
NYC PREMIERE Walk Good is an unflinching short documentary about a grieving mother who lost all three of her children to gun violence in three separate and unrelated incidents.
Seeking justice. Grassroots organizations and activists ignored by national news take center stage in From Flint: Voices of a Poisoned City (USA, 23 min., Elise Conklin). Andy Goes In (USA, 16 min., Josh Polon) to uncover animal abuse at America’s top farms. Mass Swell (USA, 12 min., Patricia Silva) lends a powerful counterpoint to media […]
US PREMIERE He’s a $10/hr farmhand with Tyson and McDonald’s in his crosshairs. And his name isn’t Andy.
WORLD PREMIERE A historical marker with moments of poetic domesticity, Mass Swell counteracts dominant media narratives surrounding Ferguson protestors. Mass Swell shows the centrality of black women in organizing Ferguson direct actions, the role that local clergy and ministry played in supporting the Ferguson movement, and the on-going political and social power of eyewitness media. […]
WORLD PREMIERE The US is one of the only non-authoritarian governments to still carry out the death penalty, sentences that disproportionately target the poor and disenfranchised. Civil Rights advocate and lawyer Bryan Stevenson is working to combat this reality one wrongful conviction at a time by giving inmates the quality defense they never had. Murder […]
Soul City tells the story of a group of civil rights activists and city slickers who attempt to build a multiracial utopia in the heart of Klan Country, North Carolina in the 1970s. Their pioneering efforts to jumpstart this black-owned, black-built town run up against tenacious enemies that still face idealists and dreamers today–ingrained racism, […]
NYC PREMIERE A theme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden becomes a welcoming home for refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. This film screens before the film SERENADE FOR HAITI
NYC PREMIERE Taking an eye-opening approach to climate change, The Age of Consequences reframes concern for the environment into a question of international security. Viewed by the U.S. military and security experts as a “threat multiplier” for instability, climate change is repositioned at the heart of current global unrest. Droughts and floods lead to food […]
2016 AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER NYC PREMIERE While the Dominican Republic has protected much of its woodlands, its border neighbor Haiti has seen mass deforestation in the past few decades. As a result, a black market in charcoal production has developed via illegal logging on the Dominican side. When the body of a patrolling Dominican park […]