JustFilms Collection
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Maya Angelou’s frank narratives of abuse and racism have opened the eyes of many. From a childhood of neglect she traveled a path that culminated in her career as a celebrated author and her renown as an influential civil rights activist.
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Raising Bertie
Three boys come of age in a rural African American-led community in North Carolina, their stories weaving together as they navigate unemployment, institutional racism, violence, first love, fatherhood, and estrangement from family members and mentors.
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The Pearl
Being a middle-aged-to-senior transgender woman in the postindustrial logging towns of the Pacific Northwest can be a raw emotional and physical experience. With this as backdrop, four women grapple with varying stages of transition.
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The Return
In 2012, Californians amended the state’s Three Strikes law, the first time US citizens voted to shorten sentences of incarcerated people. Within days, prisoners were suddenly freed, families were turned upside down, and attorneys, judges, and reentry providers embarked on an unfolding reform.
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When Two Worlds Collide
When Peruvian president Alan Garcia begins aggressively extracting resources from indigenous Amazonian land, indigenous leader Alberto Pizango’s speeches against Garcia’s destructive actions prove a powerful rallying cry to Pizango’s supporters. Soon a tense war of words erupts into deadly violence.
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Black Women in Medicine
Black Women in Medicine honors Black women doctors around the country who work diligently in all facets of medicine. By telling the stories of women who have persevered in medical fields, in part by overcoming barriers linked to race and gender, the film provides audiences with visions of success and fuel for self-actualization.
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Care
Told through stories of caretakers and their clients, Care illuminates the many challenges and deep attachments that can be formed between the elderly and the home care workers they depend on – and exposes the cracks in a system that is poorly serving both.
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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
A documentary feature on Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses and their epic battles for the right to the city in the 20th century; as well as how those struggles inform, define and frame the current era of mass urbanization and the global megacity.
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Climbing the Ladder
Women selected by the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program (TUP) in a Ghanaian village are changing their lives and those of their children as they participate in the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction program (CFPR).
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ForEveryone.Net
This film connects the future of the web with the little-known story of its birth. In 1989, 33-year-old computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and his visionary decision to make it a free and accessible resource sparked a global revolution in communication.
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Free CeCe
CeCe McDonald, a trans African American woman, survived a violent, racist and transphobic attack and served time in a men’s prison in Minnesota. Through powerful voices, and investigative filmmaking, the feature length documentary film FREE CeCe confronts the issue of trans-misogyny and the epidemic of violence surrounding trans women of color.
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Jim: The James Foley Story
Director Brian Oakes explores the life and death of his childhood friend, Frontline journalist James Foley.