JustFilms Collection
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Call Her Ganda
Grassroots activists in the Philippines are spurred into action following the brutal murder of a local transgender woman, Jennifer Laude, at the hands of a U.S. marine on “liberty leave.” As they demand answers and a just trial, hidden histories of U.S. colonization and abuse come bubbling to the surface.
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Akicita
In the shadow of the largest Native American political occupation since Wounded Knee thousands of water protectors from around the world have descended on Standing Rock, North Dakota to resist the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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People’s Republic of Desire
In China’s popular virtual showrooms, three youths seek fame, fortune and human connection, but find the same promises and perils online as in their real lives.
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House Two
A look at the investigation of two U.S. Marines who killed 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children in 2005– some of them at close range inside a small back bedroom in what investigators would later dub “House Two“.
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Mr. SOUL!
A documentary about television pioneer Ellis Haizlip and his 1960-early 70’s program SOUL! which brought black artists, activists, performers, poets and leading black cultural figures to the national prime time broadcast schedule.
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The Unafraid
The Unafraid follows the personal lives of three DACA students in Georgia, a state that has banned them from attending their top state universities and disqualifies them from receiving in-state tuition at any other public college.
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Dark Money
Dark Money follows an intrepid local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
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Blowin’ Up
Working within a broken criminal justice system, a team of rebel heroines work to change the way women who are arrested for prostitution are prosecuted.
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Grit
Grit is the story of ordinary citizens in East Java, Indonesia who have spent the past seven years living with the results of fracking gone terribly wrong and their fight to seek justice from the corporate powers accused of this disaster.
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The Pushouts
The Pushouts tells the story of Victor Rios – once a gang-involved teen and now a celebrated University of California professor – examining the role positive mentorship can play in disrupting the school to prison pipeline.
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The Foreigner’s Home
The Foreigner’s Home explores the vision and work of Toni Morrison through The Foreigner’s Home the 2006 exhibition she guest-curated at the Louvre. Through exclusive footage of Morrison in dialogue with artists, the film presents a series of candid and incisive exchanges about race, identity, “foreignness,” and art’s redemptive power.
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King in the Wilderness
King in the Wilderness chronicles the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.