Category Archives: Films

When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swingset in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.

A rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.

When the last bastions of one of America’s greatest underground subcultures face closure, two unassuming leaders battle in a racially charged environment to save a community and culture from disappearance.

With unprecedented access, The Feeling of Being Watched weaves the personal and the political as it follows the filmmaker’s examination of why her community fell under blanket government surveillance.

When a Filipina transwoman is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case—an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer’s mother from the country— galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

Four Latina lesbians fight against mythology, homophobia, and prosecutorial fervor in their struggle for exoneration, after they are wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls during the ’Satanic panic’ witchhunt era of the 80’s and 90’s.

Deep in the Oregon woods, the heat of a reenacted Vietnam battle sheds light on America’s complicated relationship with war and its veterans.