FILMS

Directors & Producers: Jacoba Atlas, Denise Pines, Tamsen Fadal, and Joanne LaMarca Mathisen
The M Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause” is the first US documentary exploring the hidden impact of menopause on women's lives. With 55 million women in the United States currently experiencing menopause, this life stage is often surrounded by silence and misinformation, exacerbating the broader crisis in women’s health. Menopause symptoms can derail careers, disrupt relationships, and cause unnecessary suffering. This film presents evidence-based solutions to challenge the negativity associated with menopause and empowers women to take control of their health. Women of all walks of life open up about the physical and mental anguish they live with every day. Doctors and policymakers speak out on the changes that need to be made, especially in the workplace where roughly 44% of women are over the age of 45. While some women experience mild symptoms, many face issues

Director & Producer: Dara Kell
An Unsettling Force is a stirring portrait of ordinary people rising to meet extraordinary times. At the heart of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival are pastors, veterans, mothers, and community leaders who believe America can be better — and who are willing to put their bodies on the line to make it so. This documentary reveals the quiet courage and the radical hope that animate today’s most visionary social justice movement. Echoing the unfinished work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 campaign, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis have reignited a moral movement for our times — one that unites people across race, geography, and political affiliation to demand living wages, voting rights, healthcare, and dignity for all. Filmed over three years of marches, sit-ins, and strategy sessions, An Unsettling Force captures both the fire

Directors & Producers: Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht
Down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement. CRIP CAMP is an untold story co-directed by Emmy® Award winner Nicole Newnham and film mixer and former camper Jim LeBrecht.

Directors: Charles Burnett & Daniel Loewenthal
Producers: Dr. Barbara Berney, Roberta Friedman and Daniel Loewenthal
Narrated by Danny Glover, POWER TO HEAL tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country practically overnight.
Before Medicare, disparities in access to hospital care were dramatic. Less than half the nation's hospitals served black and white patients equally, and in the South, 1/3 of hospitals would not admit African-Americans even for emergencies.
Using the carrot of Medicare dollars, the federal government virtually ended the practice of racially segregating patients, doctors, medical staffs, blood supplies and linens. Co-directed by renowned filmmaker Charles Burnett and co-produced by distinguished public health scholar Dr. Barbara Berney, POWER TO HEAL illustrates how

Directors & Producers: Lisa Arrindell & Terri Montrel
Alonzo and Adrienne have breakfast and receive some wonderful news... or is it? Morning turns to night as the couple struggles to find language amidst a storm of emotions. When family is the highest value, dreams fight to stay alive.

Directors & Producers: Danica Cullinan, Neal Hutcheson, Walt Wolfram
Signing Black in America is the first documentary about Black ASL: the unique dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) that developed within historically segregated African American Deaf communities.Black ASL today conveys an identity and sense of belonging that mirrors spoken language varieties of the African American hearing community. Different uses of space, hand use, directional movement, and facial expressions are ways that Black ASL distinguishes itself as a vibrant dialect of American Sign Language. The African American Deaf community is now embracing their unique variety as a symbol of solidarity and a vital part of their identity.

Directors & Producers: Lisa Cunningham
Through the eyes of everyday families and celebrity mothers like Sheryl Lee Ralph and Tabitha Brown, Me Period explores the beauty and complexity of how we navigate sensitive conversations about our bodies and our periods.

Directors & Producers: Stanley Nelson and Nicole London
WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness. Featuring James Brown's dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, the story also traces funk's influences on both new wave and hip-hop.

Directors & Producers: Reid Davenport
As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport sets out to make a film about how he sees the world, from either his wheelchair or his two feet, without having to be seen himself. The unexpected arrival of a circus tent outside his apartment in Oakland, CA leads him to consider the history and legacy of P.T. Barnum’s Freak Show and its lingering presence in his daily life in the form of gawking, lack of access, and other forms of ableism. Informed by his position in space, lower to the ground, Davenport captures indelible images, often abstracted into shapes and patterns separate from their meaning. But the circus tent looms in the background, and is reverberated by tangible on-screen interruptions, from unsolicited offers of help to careless blocking of ramps. Personal and unflinching, I Didn’t See You There forces the viewer to confront the spectacle and

Directors & Producers: Osato Dixon
Filmed over two years and across eight cities—including Atlanta, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Houston, and Detroit—Wait Until Tomorrow intimately captures what it means to strive for economic mobility as a Black American today.

Directors & Producers: Mike Davis & Debbie Davis
A New Voice is a firsthand look into the upward journey of citizens returning to communities after incarceration. The film sheds some light on the rarely seen success stories of people who have transitioned home from prison and their impact on their communities.

Director: Leslie Askew
In the United States, 53.6 million Americans lack access to food, with African American households being disproportionately affected, as 1 out of 5 households is impacted. Each episode delves into the stories of BIPOC individuals from around the country who are applying their unique plant-based approach to feeding their communities. "Harvesting Justice" showcases how they are truly making a difference by highlighting their methods and remarkable successes. The first episode takes us to Baltimore, Maryland, where food justice activist Brenda Sanders works tirelessly to educate and bring healthy, affordable food choices to low-income communities. She focuses on areas experiencing food apartheid, where the nearest supermarket can be up to ten miles away. Throughout the episode, we learn about how her upbringing inspired her to serve her community by promoting a plant-based diet.