family & society
The following films from the multiple Media That Matters Film Festival collections explore the issue of family & society. For even more films on this issue, visit MediaRights.org.
A Girl Like Me
Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves.
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
A Girl Named Kai
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
A Loud Color
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
A Nomad’s Life
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
All That I Can Be
William, like many young Americans, feels that joining the military is his only way out of a dead-end job and a rough life.
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
America for Dummies
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Argentina Turning Around
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
As We Sleep
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Ashray
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Asparagus! (A Stalk-umentary)
Journey to the “Asparagus Capital of the World” to discover why one little vegetable is so important.
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Bad Choices
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Bits and Pieces - a short from Jordan
Official selection of the
Ninth 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
Bread
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
By-Standing: The Beginning of an American Lifetime
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Day of Remembrance
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Dedicated to My Family
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Diana
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Don’t Worry
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Exiled in America
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Food for Thought
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Food Justice: A Growing Movement
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Hammoudi
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Happy Ending
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Holla Back Dubai!
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Homecoming
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
How To Make a Bird
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
How Wal-Mart Came to Haslett
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
I Promise Africa
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
I’m Not a Boy
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Immersion
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
In Transit
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
iThemba
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Knock Knock, Who’s There?
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Laugh at the Fat Kid
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Lean on Me
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Locusts
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Massacre at Murambi
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Night Visions
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
No Child
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
No Escape, Prison Rape
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Novela, Novela
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
One More Dead Fish
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Permission
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
Perversion of Justice
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Profit Cola
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Rapping at Fear
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Rebel
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border
Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border exposes the ugly anti-immigrant politics that lurk behind the Minuteman Project and also illustrates the continuum between official border militarization and vigilante action. Human rights activists and residents of border communities shot this video.
Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border was produced in order to halt the growth of the vigilante movement, as well as prompt a broader discussion around the impact of current U.S. immigration policies. In the aftermath of September 11th, immigration again became a hot button issue. Concerned about inhumane treatment of U.S.-Mexico border crossers, the American Friends Service Committee worked to bring attention to the expanding powers of border law enforcement and increased activity by vigilante groups like the Minuteman Project, seeking to recast the current immigrants’ rights debate in the U.S. within a broader human rights framework. As part of this project, AFSC partnered with WITNESS and the ACLU to produce Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border in September 2005.
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Ripe for Change
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Seeds of Hope: South Africa
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Silence Speaks
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Slip of the Tongue
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
Something Other Than Other
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Something’s Moving
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Sonic Memorial Project
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Sovereign Nation / Sovereign Neighbor
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Storm
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Superstar
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
System Failure
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Terminator Tomatoes
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
The Meatrix
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
The Rules of the Game
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
The Sixth Section
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Tyttonen (The Young Girl)
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Vision Test
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Water Warriors
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
We Were Humans
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Will I Be Next?
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Young Agrarians
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food



