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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

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

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

Diana


Official selection of the Eighth Annual Festival

Exiled in America


Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

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

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

Lean on Me


Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

Locusts


Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

Night Visions


Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

No Child


Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

Novela, Novela


Official selection of the Fourth Annual Festival

Permission


Official selection of the Sixth Annual Festival

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

Silence Speaks


Official selection of the Third 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

Vision Test


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

We Were Humans


Official selection of the Third Annual Festival

Will I Be Next?


Official selection of the Ninth Annual Festival

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