In 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act to dismantle discriminatory housing practices. Over 50 years later the housing gap has only widened between white homeowners and homeowners of color creating increasingly segregated neighborhoods across the national landscape. Focusing on the ever-gentrifying area of West Dallas we evaluate the meaning of the American Dream and the communities left with promises unfulfilled.

Join us on Saturday, January 30th for a Live Stream conversation at 3:45pm. We invite you to watch the films when they become available at 3:00pm (CST) prior to the Live conversation, but you also have the option to tune into the Live Stream first then watch the films at your leisure until the festival ends on February 2nd at 12:00am. The conversation will focus on housing and other social justice issues in the country — especially as it concerns communities of color and other disenfranchised groups. This important subject, not only historically — but given our present circumstances with the pandemic and its affect on an already challenging area, it is fitting that attention be brought to this matter during the festival.