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SPEAK EZ Interviews
Speak EZ Interview with Raheel Raza
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
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Speak EZ Interview with Coralie Van Rietschoten
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
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Speak EZ Interview with Raheel Raza
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
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Speak EZ Interview with Coralie Van Rietschoten
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
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Speak EZ Interview with Raheel Raza
American INSIGHT's online SPEAK EZ interviews that showcase Free Speech Film TM award-winning directors and globally-known artists, authors and scholars.
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2023 Free Speech Film Festival
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2022 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
Jazz in China | USA
2022 Free Speech Film Festival Sizzle Reel
2022 Free Speech Film Festival Sizzle Reel
2022 Free Speech Film Festival Official Selections
In China like everywhere, a woman's place in society is linked to politics and tradition. But China's politics and tradition make a unique setting on earth. It's within this context that Lulu emerges.
50 min | 2021 | France
Chinese Cancan - Lulu, a Chinese Woman | France
“Jazz in China: The Documentary” chronicles the 100-year story of how jazz—a democratic form of music through improvisation—exists and thrives in China—a country with a long tradition of adherence to central authority.
61 min | China
Jazz in China | USA
Using a variety of animation techniques, including egg yolk as paint, filmmaker Wu-Ching Chang creates a stirring tribute to her grandmother who, as a T'ung-yang-hsi, was sold as a young girl to another family and raised as their future daughter-in-law. Forced to perform the household chores and denied an education, this hardworking woman found freedom through financial independence.
9 min | 2021
My Grandmother Is an Egg | Taiwan
In an age of hyperpolarization, the UVA Center for Politics documentary "Common Grounds?" examines the political climate on a college campus, at the Grounds of the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson. Through interviews with students from across the political spectrum, and a group dialogue between some of these students, the film asks a simple question: "Can tomorrow's generation find common ground?"
29 min | United States
Common Grounds? | USA
After witnessing human rights abuses at a detention center for undocumented immigrant children, an idealistic young reporter — already traumatized by what she has seen — is subjected to an onslaught of death threats. Pushed to the brink of a breakdown and petrified to the point where she can no longer do her job, she turns to an old friend for help.
22 min | 2021
Urania Leilus | USA
The story of four refugee women who stand on their own feet despite their families' pain and difficulty.
23 min | 2020
Strength Among Us | Turkey
2021 Free Speech Film Festival Award Winner
Footsteps on the Wind | United Kingdom
2021 Free Speech Film Festival Official Selections
Days Before the Dawn is a documentary about the history of dissent in Hong Kong. Britain handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997 without ever consulting the people of Hong Kong.
34 min | 2020 | United States
Days Before the Dawn | USA
The film follows the less-known aspects of the lives of four “web stars” – Israeli YouTubers: Moti Taka, one of the busiest singers in Israel today, who visits Ethiopia for the first time with his mother Dalia.
57 min | 2019 | Israel
In Your Eyes | Israel
Deep Breath is an Anti-racist, Art-as-Activism Film Project centered around an epic, 8-minute poem by Dr. Nia Nunn. Deep Breath brought diverse dancers together to feel her words, and dance to custom-composed music.
9 min | 2021 | United States
Deep Breath | USA
Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia of all time – by looking at the inner life of Wikipedia, the documentary deals with issues of perspective, representation and Western-centrism.
52 min | 2021 | Germany
The Wikipedia Promise | Germany
“Footsteps in the Wind” is an animated short film to Sting’s song “Inshallah". Based on the harsh and intense reality of refugees around the world, this film broaches a narrative told through the eyes of children that never give up on their dreams.
8 min | 2020 | United Kingdom
Footsteps on the Wind | United Kingdom
The brothers Jano and Shiro are inseparable. When war breaks out in Syria, they flee together in search of a better life for themselves and their family.
35 min | 2020 | Netherlands
Jano & Shiro, a Brothers' Journey | Netherlands
Documentary
Jano & Shiro, a Brothers' Journey | Netherlands
Chinese Cancan - Lulu, a Chinese Woman | France
Jazz in China | USA
Common Grounds? | USA
Strength Among Us | Turkey
Days Before the Dawn | USA
In Your Eyes | Israel
The Wikipedia Promise | Germany
Jano & Shiro, a Brothers' Journey | Netherlands
Chinese Cancan - Lulu, a Chinese Woman | France
Jazz in China | USA
Common Grounds? | USA
Strength Among Us | Turkey
Days Before the Dawn | USA
In Your Eyes | Israel
The Wikipedia Promise | Germany
Jano & Shiro, a Brothers' Journey | Netherlands
Short
Using a variety of animation techniques, including egg yolk as paint, filmmaker Wu-Ching Chang creates a stirring tribute to her grandmother who, as a T'ung-yang-hsi, was sold as a young girl to another family and raised as their future daughter-in-law. Forced to perform the household chores and denied an education, this hardworking woman found freedom through financial independence.
9 min | 2021
My Grandmother Is an Egg | Taiwan
In an age of hyperpolarization, the UVA Center for Politics documentary "Common Grounds?" examines the political climate on a college campus, at the Grounds of the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson. Through interviews with students from across the political spectrum, and a group dialogue between some of these students, the film asks a simple question: "Can tomorrow's generation find common ground?"
29 min | United States
Common Grounds? | USA
After witnessing human rights abuses at a detention center for undocumented immigrant children, an idealistic young reporter — already traumatized by what she has seen — is subjected to an onslaught of death threats. Pushed to the brink of a breakdown and petrified to the point where she can no longer do her job, she turns to an old friend for help.
22 min | 2021
Urania Leilus | USA
The story of four refugee women who stand on their own feet despite their families' pain and difficulty.
23 min | 2020
Strength Among Us | Turkey
Deep Breath is an Anti-racist, Art-as-Activism Film Project centered around an epic, 8-minute poem by Dr. Nia Nunn. Deep Breath brought diverse dancers together to feel her words, and dance to custom-composed music.
9 min | 2021 | United States
Deep Breath | USA
“Footsteps in the Wind” is an animated short film to Sting’s song “Inshallah". Based on the harsh and intense reality of refugees around the world, this film broaches a narrative told through the eyes of children that never give up on their dreams.
8 min | 2020 | United Kingdom
Footsteps on the Wind | United Kingdom
Animation
Footsteps on the Wind | United Kingdom
My Grandmother Is an Egg | Taiwan
Footsteps on the Wind | United Kingdom
My Grandmother Is an Egg | Taiwan
Footsteps on the Wind | United Kingdom
Student
Using a variety of animation techniques, including egg yolk as paint, filmmaker Wu-Ching Chang creates a stirring tribute to her grandmother who, as a T'ung-yang-hsi, was sold as a young girl to another family and raised as their future daughter-in-law. Forced to perform the household chores and denied an education, this hardworking woman found freedom through financial independence.
9 min | 2021
My Grandmother Is an Egg | Taiwan
In an age of hyperpolarization, the UVA Center for Politics documentary "Common Grounds?" examines the political climate on a college campus, at the Grounds of the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson. Through interviews with students from across the political spectrum, and a group dialogue between some of these students, the film asks a simple question: "Can tomorrow's generation find common ground?"
29 min | United States
Common Grounds? | USA
Days Before the Dawn is a documentary about the history of dissent in Hong Kong. Britain handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997 without ever consulting the people of Hong Kong.
34 min | 2020 | United States
Days Before the Dawn | USA
Experimental
Deep Breath | USA