The atrocities of the American Slave Trade and the Second World War reveal stark comparisons to the looming fascism on display in the days before the 2020 election.

An escaped slave masquerading as a free man in pre-Civil War Massachusetts experiences nightmares of a future America that resembles the struggles of his own time.

Augustus

An escaped slave masquerading as a free man in pre-Civil War Massachusetts experiences nightmares of a future America that resembles the struggles of his own time.

Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote is a short, powerful documentary about the growing threat of voter suppression to our 2020 election. Deeply personal accounts from voters of color across the state of Georgia reveal deliberate, widespread voter suppression in the 2018 midterm election where Stacey Abrams fought to become the first Black female governor in the U.S. Polling place closures, voter purges, missing absentee ballots, extreme wait times and voter ID issues were in full effect again during the 2020 primaries and are on-going across the country right now, all disproportionately affecting Black Americans and minorities from casting their ballots. Now, amidst a global health crisis, the cruel weaponization of vote-by-mail restrictions has turned the constitutional right to vote into a choice between life and death. Suppressed 2020 is a call to action against the calculated, unconstitutional and racist attacks intended to suppress the right to vote in America.

Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote

A short, powerful documentary about the growing threat of voter suppression to our 2020 election.

Supressed Filmmaker Comment

Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses explores what can happen when insidious hatred remains unchecked. Through firsthand testimony of WWII liberators and liberation witnesses, from Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, stark parallels between the past and present are revealed. As Nazis march again in broad daylight and xenophobic, racist and antisemitic attitudes reemerge, the film serves as a cautionary tale from the greatest generation to heed their warning and take a stand against hate.

Liberation Heroes

Through the firsthand testimony of WWII liberators and liberation witnesses parallels between the past and present are revealed. The film demands we heed the warnings to take a stand against hate.

United States of America

BLOCK 2: Be Seen, Stand Up

Sliding Scale

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