Youth on Film
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Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Exposes the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, NJ.More Information -
In a Perfect World…
A documentary film about men raised by single mothers.More Information -
Childcare: People's Liberation (Newsreel #56)
The film shows how community-run childcare centers are a step toward liberation, by giving parents and children a chance to develop relationships with their peers and new relationships with each other.More Information -
Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides
Three journalists trace their mothers’ tumultuous journey in new film about WWII Japanese war brides.More Information -
Army a.k.a. Army Film (Newsreel #36)
Shot in 1969, this film documents the building anger of draftees in the U.S. military and the growth of the anti-war movement within the military.More Information -
Yippie (Newsreel #)
Filmed as the official statement of the Youth International Party, this film is as freewheeling and irreverent as the Yippies themselves.More Information -
Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans in Southern California
INVISIBLE ROOTS is an intimate look at Afro-Mexicans living in Southern California as they discuss complex issues of racial, national and cultural identities.More Information -
High School Rising (Newsreel #38)
An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to organize.More Information -
Gideon's Army
Everyone deserves the best defense. They fight for it. GIDEON’S ARMY takes an inside look at the criminal justice system from the perspective of three young public defenders in the South.More Information -
Foster Care Film Series: Volume 1
In this award-winning collection, Charell, Ashley, and Camilla share their deeply personal stories about their experiences in foster care and how it impacted their lives.More Information -
Chircales
This film portrays the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, documenting the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Chircales offers the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.More Information -
Before David
A short film about pre-partum depression, its symptoms, and the difficulties it poses when a woman is going through extreme physical and emotional changes.More Information -
Body and Soul (De Corpo e Alma)
Victoria, Mariana and Vasco are three young Mozambicans with physical disabilities living in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital city.More Information -
Imelda Is Not Alone
Salvadorian teenager Imelda Cortez's only hope at freedom is a local citizen’s movement that dares to defend women who are persecuted under El Salvador's total ban on abortion. The result is a shocking account of an ongoing human rights crisis and a moving portrait of those who fight for a better society.More Information -
The Keepsake
After living with relatives in fast-paced Lagos City, Nigeria, 14-year-old Amarachi returns to her home village to live with her mother Ikechi for the first time in eight years. When Ikechi learns Amarachi is pregnant due to rape, the pair begins an emotional journey to heal from their individual and collective traumas, save what is left of their estranged relationship, and learn to live as a family.More Information -
The Friends
A coming-of-age story about the friendship between two young Black girls growing up in 1957 Harlem, Phyllisia Cathy from a newly arrived, upwardly mobile Caribbean family, and Edith Jackson, Harlem-born and raised.More Information -
The Survivor’s Project: Voices from the Inside-Out!
The implications of youth, poverty, gangs and gun violence.More Information -
Trans Lives Matter! Justice for Islan Nettles
A powerful document of a community vigil for Islan Nettles, a Transgender Womyn of Color who was beaten to death in 2013.More Information -
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Student Movement in Indonesia: 15 Years Later
To mark the 15th anniversary of the 1998 student movement in Indonesia, filmmaker Tino Saroengallo interviews former leaders of the student movement.More Information -
Three Queer Mice
This short youth-produced animation exposes homophobia to the tune of "Three Blind Mice".More Information -
Favela Rising
Through Hip-Hop music and Afro-Brazilian dance, musician Anderson Sá rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.More Information -
Tijuana, Nada Mas
Jonathan (“Pollo”) and Enrique (“Gordo”) are 14-year old orphans making their own living on the streets of Tijuana, the busiest frontier city in the world.More Information -
Of Kites and Borders
OF KITES OF BORDERS tells the story of the daily struggle to be a child living on the US-Mexico border through the eyes of four working children in the city of Tijuana.More Information -
Little Immigrants
LITTLE IMMIGRANTS is an insider's look into child smuggling captured from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.More Information -
Little Brother: Things Fall Apart (Chapter 1)
This first chapter of LITTLE BROTHER begins a series of films where Black boys start the conversation on a topic they rarely get to discuss: Love.More Information -
Little Brother: The Fire Next Time (Chapter 4)
Young African Cherokees present a candid discussion on love, tribe, family, and race.More Information -
Little Brother: Manchild in the Promised Land (Chapter 5)
Filmed in Tucson, Arizona, the young men discuss life in the Southwest and the current state of race relations.More Information -
Isle of Youth
The daily activities of young Cubans—their work, recreation, and education—as they participate in converting the Isle of Pines from a prison colony to an experiment to create a new society.More Information -
Is It Sweet? Tales of an African Superstar in New York
Ghana’s Hip-Hop superstar Reggie Rockstone travels to New York, where he experiences the unexpected struggles and pleasures of life as an anonymous African on the fringes of an American city.More Information -
Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano
A look at the work of Cuban Hip-Hop artists, this documentary includes footage of their daily lives, perfomances at the Cuban Hip-Hop festival, and recording sessions in New York City.More Information -
I Love Hip Hop in Morocco
This film documents the creation of Morocco’s first-ever Hip-Hop festival and the work of DJ Key, female rapper Fati, and rap group H-Kayne.More Information -
Hiphopistan: Representing Locality in a Global City
Young Turkish rappers, DJs, break-dancers, and graffiti artists creatively blend foreign cultural influences with their local cultural values and traditions.More Information -
Heart of Harlem
HEART OF HARLEM traces the life and times of Holcombe Rucker, who founded a summer basketball league while working for New York Citys Parks Department in order to give young people a positive alternative to the streets.More Information -
Whatever It Takes
WHATEVER IT TAKES follows the amazing first year of a cutting-edge public high school in NYC’s South Bronx.More Information -
Outside Lookin' In
Urban Latino youth reflect on the World Trade Center tragedy, their personal experiences that day, in addition to more pervasive questions and topics as to why it happened, patriotism and the government's response to the attack.More Information -
Haircuts Hurt
A Native American woman and her young son encounter everyday racism when they visit a local barbershop.More Information -
Frekuensia Kolombiana
Grassroots Colombian Hip-Hop is shaped by Colombian folk music as well as the suppressed voices of the Colombian masses.More Information -
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Follow Your Heart: China's New Youth Movement
Independent Hip-Hop artists from large and small cities talk about their creative work and their increasingly widening influence in Chinese society.More Information -
Family Portrait in Black and White
Olga Nenya is a foster mother to sixteen Black orphans in Ukraine - where 99.9% of the population is white and where race matters.More Information -
Extra Change
A realistic view of a 12-year-old African American girl's voyage through early adolescence, peer pressure, friendship and love.More Information -
Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life
A moving video essay about motherhood and mourning.More Information -
Diamonds in the Rough: A Ugandan Hip Hop Revolution
From the ashes of four decades of war, AIDS and corruption in Uganda, The Bataka Squad artists, Babaluku and Saba Saba, rise to forge a revolutionary path using music.More Information -
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Boys of Summer
BOYS OF SUMMER is an inspiring documentary about Curaçao's Little League Team.More Information -
Birth of a Nation: 4*29*1992
After criminal charges were dropped against four Los Angeles police officers accused in the brutal beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles erupted. This video offers a rare view of the rebellion that began within minutes of the verdict.More Information -
Beyond the Bricks: A New Era of Education
BEYOND THE BRICKS follows two African American students as they struggle to stay on track in the Newark public school system.More Information -
Arctic Hip Hop
Capitalizing on the popularity of Hip-Hop, social worker and longtime B-boy Stephen Leafloor has been bringing positive Hip-Hop workshops to Northern Canada. 5 days, 2 cultures, 1 beatMore Information -
Apollo Kids
Gio misses the #6 train which too frequently bypasses his Spanish Harlem stop. One missed train means public humiliation by his teacher, suspension from school, and harassment by a cop.More Information -
Among the First to Die
This is the story of one of the first American casualties of the War against Terror - Lance Corporal Jose Gutierrez, a 28-year-old Guatemalan, who joined the Marines because "he wanted to give back a little bit to his adopted country,"More Information -
#Bars4Justice a.k.a. Bars4Justice
Hip-Hop activists give more than their talent when they come face to face with the justice system in Ferguson, Missouri.More Information
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