JustFilms Collection
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Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Hale County This Morning, This Evening boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks that have historically constricted the expression of African American men on film. In the lives of protagonists Daniel and Quincy, poetic comparisons are drawn between historical symbols and the African American banal.
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The Awavena Effect
Awavena is a collaboration between a community and an artist, melding technology and transcendent experience so that a vision can be shared, and a story told of a people ascending from the edge of extinction.
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Cooked: Survival By Zip Code
A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of disaster, and survival by zip code. Peabody Award winning filmmaker Judith Helfand sets out on a quest to see if America’s disaster preparedness industry could be used to tackle what might be the deadliest man-made disaster of all: extreme poverty.
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Bei Bei
Bei Bei Shuai, a Chinese immigrant living in Indianapolis, and her lawyer Linda Pence battle charges of murder and attempted feticide. Bei Bei’s crime? Attempting suicide while pregnant.
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During Revolution (Fi Al-Thawra)
A woman wants to see the transformative Syrian revolution, beyond the media images. She follows a group of young revolutionaries who work for democracy with the help of language, cameras and weapons.
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500 Years
From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a president, 500 Years tells a sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala’s recent history, through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population who now stand poised to reimagine their society.
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12th and Clairmount
12th and Clairmount explores the life in the city of Detroit during the summer of 1967, when riots against police brutality and racial inequality erupted.
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Bending the Arc
Bending the Arc follows the extraordinary doctors and activists, including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl, whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all.
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Birth of a Movement
When D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation opened in 1915, the unrepentantly racist film was met with widespread protests by African Americans, led by William M. Trotter. Birth of a Movement, based on Dick Lehr’s book The Birth of a Movement: How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights, captures the backdrop to the prescient clash between human rights, freedom of speech, and a changing media landscape.
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For Ahkeem
For Ahkeem is the story of Daje Shelton, a Black 17-year-old girl in North St. Louis who fights for her future as she is placed in an alternative high school and navigates the marginalized neighborhoods, biased criminal justice policies and economic devastation that have set up many Black youth like her to fail.
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I Am Not Your Negro
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.
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K-TOWN ’92
An interactive documentary that explores the impact and legacy of the Los Angeles riots/rebellion/civil unrest 25 years later through a diverse range of stories from Koreatown and beyond.