CRIMINAL JUSTICE


The following films from the multiple Media That Matters Film Festival collections explore the issue of criminal justice. For even more films on this issue, visit MediaRights.org.

Bad Choices

Without a support system, it’s hard for a teenager to stay out of trouble. Aderian reflects on the lessons he has learned from his bad choices.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival

Book 'Em: Undereducated, Overincarcerated

In New Haven, Connecticut the pipeline from school to prison is shorter than you might think.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival

Books Not Bars

The teens of the Books Not Bars movement demand that education be the government’s priority, now and in the future.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival

CopWatch

Fed up with police brutality, the organization “Copwatch” decided to keep an eye on big brother. This short film shows how peaceful observation of police behavior can change the way a neighborhood and a police force deal with one another.
Official selection of the third annual festival

Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy

Sixty years have passed between Pearl Harbor and September 11th, but have things really changed? An interactive online documentary explores what it means to be an American with the face of the enemy.
Official selection of the third annual festival

Grace

Three women’s lives share an unwanted and violent thread.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival

In the Morning

When a young Turkish woman is raped, there is nothing honorable about revenge.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival

No Escape, Prison Rape

When Rodney Hulin set fire to a trashcan, he never imagined he would end up in adult prison, serially raped and brutally beaten.
Official selection of the third annual festival

Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border

What happens when people cross the line? Vigilantes take the law into their own hands on the U.S.-Mexican border.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival

System Failure

Physical abuse, sexual harassment, inadequate education for incarcerated youth – if a society can be graded by how it treats its prisoners, then the state of California gets an “F.”
Official selection of the fifth annual festival

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