JustFilms Collection
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Coded Bias
Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces and women accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
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Building the American Dream
In the shadow of Texas’s lucrative building boom, immigrant workers are on a downward spiral to poverty, illness, and death. Building the American Dream explores intimate stories from the frontlines of the construction industry, as undocumented immigrants fight for their basic rights.
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America
In America (2019), artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley imagines Black figures from the early decades of the 20th century whose lives have been lost to history. A multichannel video installation, it is organized around 12 short black-and-white films shot by Bradley and set to a score by artist Trevor Mathison and composer Udit Duseja.
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Fandango at the Wall
FANDANGO AT THE WALL follows Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra founder Maestro Arturo O’Farrill, and Grammy Award Winning music producer Kabir Sehgal, to Veracruz, Mexico. Together they recruit son jarocho (“Veracruz Sound”) masters Wendy Cao, Fernando Guadarrama, Ramón Gutiérrez, Patricio Hidalgo, and Tacho Utrera for a live album recording at Fandango Fronterizo, a festival founded by Jorge Francisco Castillo taking place at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. Sacks, known for his literary works Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, was a fearless explorer of unknown cognitive worlds who helped redefine our understanding of the brain and mind, the diversity of human experience, and our shared humanity. The film features exclusive interviews with Sacks conducted just weeks after he received a terminal diagnosis, and months prior to his death in August 2015, and nearly two dozen deeply revealing and personal interviews with family members, colleagues, patients and close friends, including Jonathan Miller, Robert Silvers, Temple Grandin, Christof Koch, Robert Krulwich, Lawrence Weschler, Roberto Calasso, Paul Theroux, Bill Hayes, Kate Edgar, and Atul Gawande, among others. The film also draws on unique access to the extensive archives of the Oliver Sacks Foundation.
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel prize-winner. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to ‘70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature. Inspired to write because no one took a “little black girl” seriously, Morrison reflects on her lifelong deconstruction of the master narrative. Woven together with a rich collection of art, history, literature and personality, the film includes discussions about her many critically acclaimed works, including novels “The Bluest Eye,” “Sula” and “Song of Solomon,” her role as an editor of iconic African-American literature and her time teaching at Princeton University.
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Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a love story that puts a human face on America’s immigration debate. Marine veteran Elizabeth Perez and her undocumented husband, Marcos, live parallel lives across the border in the years after Marcos’s deportation. As Elizabeth fights for Marcos to return to the US to be with their children, Marcos struggles alone in Mexico City. After hitting a legal brick wall, the family ultimately reunites in the Yucatan. But will they remember how to live together?
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Crime + Punishment
Over four years of unprecedented access, the story of a brave group of black and Latino whistle blower cops and one unrelenting private investigator who, amidst a landmark lawsuit, risk everything to expose illegal quota practices and their impact on young minorities.
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The Feeling of Being Watched
When journalist Assia Boundaoui investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community.
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Roll Red Roll
The story of a football town divided, Roll Red Roll examines the aftermath of a sexual assault in small town America. With unprecedented access to police documents, exhibits and evidence, the film unflinchingly asks: “why didn’t anyone stop it?”
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The Fourth Estate
This documentary series about The New York Times in the Trump era illuminates critical issues facing journalism today. In this first episode, the first three months of Trump’s presidency tests the stamina of the political reporters at The New York Times as they adapt to a nonstop news cycle, an unpredictable White House, and the President calling them “the enemy of the people.”
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Angels Are Made of Light
Angels are Made of Light reveals the daily struggles and inner lives of students and teachers at a school in Kabul, Afghanistan during the closing years of America’s longest war.