Activized Filmmaker Comment

A handful of ordinary Americans — for the first time in their lives — have left their comfort zones and thrown themselves into a political cause. We follow their motivations, their goals, successes and failures, and how and why such activists are the embodiment of positive citizen participation in the best American tradition.

ACTIVIZED

ACTIVIZED follows the stories of a group of ordinary Americans who, for the first time in their lives, have left their comfort zones and become activists.

Unsaid Filmmaker Comment

A woman grapples with the sudden loss of her daughter and husband, who were killed in a mass shooting earlier that day. Ultimately, Unsaid is about the things we don’t tell one another to protect ourselves; the things we don’t say to protect each other; and the things we never get the chance to share, in this case due to tragic loss from sudden and terrible violence.

Unsaid

A woman grapples with the sudden loss of her daughter and husband, who were killed in a mass shooting earlier that day.

Growing for Good Filmmaker Comment

Growing for Good spotlights the efforts of urban farmers Arthur and Nancy Culbert, who planted the initial seed that became the Central West End Farm in St. Louis. Their mission is to eliminate hunger within their own community by growing organic vegetables and fruit for members of local food pantries. They also partner with a neighborhood elementary school giving students the opportunity to plant and harvest fresh produce for people in need.

Growing for Good

A look at urban farmers Arthur and Nancy Culbert, who planted the initial seed that became the Central West End Farm in St. Louis.

On a day in the life behind your television, five personified movie cop costumes attempt to guard the line of justice under rising pressures.

Thin Blue Variety Show

On a day in the life behind your television, five personified movie cop costumes attempt to guard the line of justice under rising pressures.

Power Out Filmmaker Comment

A night of fun and games among friends is interrupted when the power goes out…but who has their hand on the switch?

POWER OUT

A night of fun and games among friends is interrupted when the power goes out…but who has their hand on the switch?

Supressed Filmmaker Comment

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.

United States of America

BLOCK 12: Be Seen, Stand Up

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