The Black Lives Matter movement has sparked a national reckoning over institutional and police violence, and while some things have changed, too much has remained the same. These films explore art as catalyst and fuel for change.
Sign up here to join the closing discussion, Black Lives Matter and Art as Activism, which will further explore the role of art and film in sustaining movements and change. (SAT Oct. 16, 6 PM PT)
*** As of September 16, 2021, the Social Justice Film Festival has made the difficult decision to be online-only this year. ***
This program is available to view VIRTUALLY from OCT. 7–17.
Festival passes grant the most streamlined, flexible viewing experience possible and are an excellent way to support social justice film.
Please see our festival page for information about panel discussions and other opportunities to connect with filmmakers and festivalgoers.
Many Fires This Time: We the 100 Million is a poetic docudrama about the 1 in 3 Americans and counting, living in economic insecurity. It follows the journey of poet and activist A Scribe Called Quess? as he connects with fellow activist poets and the communities they represent from Oakland to Chicago to Kentucky to his hometown of New Orleans.
Along the way, we glimpse into the worlds of everyday people fighting for equity and justice in issues ranging from housing and gentrification to police violence, to environmental crises and job security, to education, to LGBTQIA equality. In the spirit of the impending fire that James Baldwin prophetically spoke of in this country’s last season of a major uprising, Many Fires employs spoken word poetry, choreography, and community interviews, to form a poetic love letter to the many revolutionary struggles aflame in today’s America.
- Year2021
- Runtime70 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States, Mexico
- PremiereWest Coast
- Notewith English and Spanish subtitles and closed captioning
- DirectorJason R.A. Foster
- ProducerJeremy Liu, Michael McAfee, Michael "Quess?" Moore, Jason R.A. Foster, Guadalupe Garcia, Lorrie Chang
The Black Lives Matter movement has sparked a national reckoning over institutional and police violence, and while some things have changed, too much has remained the same. These films explore art as catalyst and fuel for change.
Sign up here to join the closing discussion, Black Lives Matter and Art as Activism, which will further explore the role of art and film in sustaining movements and change. (SAT Oct. 16, 6 PM PT)
*** As of September 16, 2021, the Social Justice Film Festival has made the difficult decision to be online-only this year. ***
This program is available to view VIRTUALLY from OCT. 7–17.
Festival passes grant the most streamlined, flexible viewing experience possible and are an excellent way to support social justice film.
Please see our festival page for information about panel discussions and other opportunities to connect with filmmakers and festivalgoers.
Many Fires This Time: We the 100 Million is a poetic docudrama about the 1 in 3 Americans and counting, living in economic insecurity. It follows the journey of poet and activist A Scribe Called Quess? as he connects with fellow activist poets and the communities they represent from Oakland to Chicago to Kentucky to his hometown of New Orleans.
Along the way, we glimpse into the worlds of everyday people fighting for equity and justice in issues ranging from housing and gentrification to police violence, to environmental crises and job security, to education, to LGBTQIA equality. In the spirit of the impending fire that James Baldwin prophetically spoke of in this country’s last season of a major uprising, Many Fires employs spoken word poetry, choreography, and community interviews, to form a poetic love letter to the many revolutionary struggles aflame in today’s America.
- Year2021
- Runtime70 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States, Mexico
- PremiereWest Coast
- Notewith English and Spanish subtitles and closed captioning
- DirectorJason R.A. Foster
- ProducerJeremy Liu, Michael McAfee, Michael "Quess?" Moore, Jason R.A. Foster, Guadalupe Garcia, Lorrie Chang
