Found 71 resources on family & society
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
More About A Girl Named Kai from Director Kai Ling Xue Three years in the making, shot…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
A Loud Color
More About A Loud Color from Producer & Director Brent Joseph I was asked by Tim Ryan…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
A Nomad’s Life
More About A Nomad’s Life from Director Lynn True A Nomad’s Life was conceived as part of…
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
More About America for Dummies from Director Niaz Mosharraf Witnessing and experiencing the apathy and ignorance of…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Argentina Turning Around
More About Argentina Turning Around from Director Melissa Young In the 1990s, Argentina embraced globalization. Instead of…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
As We Sleep
More About As We Sleep In the summer of 2002, Marcie Lotzgeselles’ parents welcomed documentary filmmaker Elizabeth…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Ashray
More About Ashray from Director Ambika Samartha Ashray, one of the project organizations that makes up the…
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
More About Bad Choices from Producer Curt McPhail This film was done in partnership with the Strengthening…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Bits and Pieces - a short from Jordan
More about Bits and Pieces from filmmakers Jackie Sawiris and Ben Mandell Bits and Pieces is a…
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
More About Bread from Director Marcelo Bukin The idea forBread was born in Guatemala while shooting a…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
By-Standing: The Beginning of an American Lifetime
More About By-Standing: The Beginning of an American Lifetime from Director Karen Lin By-Standing is the collision…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Day of Remembrance
More About Day of Remembrance from Director Cynthia Fujikawa Day of Remembrance is a short documentary that…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Dedicated to My Family
More About Dedicated to My Family from youth Director Nicole Sobottke Hello, I’m the filmmaker of Dedicated…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Diana
More About Diana from Director Brynmore Williams We were approached by MTV to help create a documentary…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Don’t Worry
More About Don’t Worry from Director Emily James Don’t Worry was a TV series for Channel 4.…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Exiled in America
More about Exiled in America from Director Angela Torres Camarena Exiled in America explores immigration United States,…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy
Face to Face, produced by Rob Mikuriya, connects the experiences of Japanese-Americans in the early 1940s with…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Food for Thought
More About Food for Thought from Producer Kids on the Hill The Food for Thought animation was…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Food Justice: A Growing Movement
More About Food Justice: A Growing Movement from Directors and Producers Martina Brimmer and Zora Tucker Food…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Hammoudi
More About Hammoudi from Producer Tima Khalil I first read an article on Mohammad’s story in a…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Happy Ending
More About Happy Ending from Director Chris Irrizarry Happy Ending was produced at the HBO Young Filmmakers…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Holla Back Dubai!
Founded in 1991, Global Action Project empowers youth to become agents of change by making powerful, thought-provoking…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Homecoming
More About Homecoming from the Perpich Center for Arts Education Homecoming evolved over four months beginning with…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
How To Make a Bird
Director Juan Carlos Zaldivar comes from a long line of bird breeders. When going to summer camp…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
How Wal-Mart Came to Haslett
More About How Wal-Mart Came To Haslett from Director and Producer Meerkat Media Collective In the fall…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
I Promise Africa
More About I Promise Africa from Director Jerry Henry I went to Kenya in late August of…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
I’m Not a Boy
More About I’m Not a Boy from Producer Listen Up! Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Immersion
More about Immersion from Director Richard Levien Casting was probably the most important part of making Immersion.…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
In Transit
More About In Transit from Directors and Producers Bent Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III and Louis Abelman…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
iThemba
More About iThemba from the Producers, Keefe Murren and Nelson Walker III The iThemba Film Project was…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Knock Knock, Who’s There?
More about Knock Knock, Who’s There? from Breakthrough Part of a larger Bell Bajao or Ring the…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Laugh at the Fat Kid
More About Laugh at the Fat Kid from the Director, Kristina Schoentag Laugh at the Fat Kid…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Lean on Me
More About Lean on Me from Natasha Freidus of Creative Narrations In Lean on Me, first-time writer,…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Locusts
More about Locusts from Producer and Performer Invincible Finale and I spent several years developing the song…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Massacre at Murambi
More About Massacre at Murambi from Director & Producer Sam Kauffmann During the genocide in Rwanda in…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Night Visions
More About Night Visions from Director Kathy Huang Since September 11, 2001, over a million Americans have…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
No Child
More About No Child from Director Gabe Cheifetz No Child was a difficult piece to make. We…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
No Escape, Prison Rape
The first federal bill to stop prison rape, the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2002, was introduced…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Novela, Novela
More About Novela, Novela from Director Elizabeth Miller I first met Virginia Lacayo and Amy Bank, Executive…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
One More Dead Fish
More About One More Dead Fishfrom Directors and Producers Allan and Stefan Forbes My family spent our…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Permission
More About Permission from Producer Public Interest In 2004, MTV invited Public Interest to create 6 spots…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
Perversion of Justice
More About Perversion of Justice from Director Melissa Mummert I worked as a chaplain intern at a…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Profit Cola
More About Profit Cola and Parent’s Action for Children Profit Cola was created for Parents’ Action for…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Rapping at Fear
More About Rapping At Fear from Producer Listen Up! Beyond Borders: Personal Stories from a Small Planet…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Rebel
The Lower East Side Girls Club was founded in 1996 to address the egregious lack of services…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border
More About Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border from Producer WITNESS Rights on the Line:…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Ripe for Change
More about Ripe For Change from Producer Jed Riffe California — always a fascinating marriage of opposite…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
Seeds of Hope: South Africa
More About Seeds of Hope: South Africa from the Director Sarah Hesterman Seeds of Hope was produced…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Silence Speaks
Silence Speaks provides violence survivors, witnesses, and prevention advocates with the support, skills, and equipment they need…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Slip of the Tongue
More About Slip Of The Tongue from Director Karen Lum I shot and edited Slip of the…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
Something Other Than Other
More About Something Other Than Other from Director Jerry A. Henry Andrea and I started to film…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Something’s Moving
More About Something’s Moving from Director Randy Vasquez Imagine being taken from your family before the age…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
Sonic Memorial Project
Shortly after September 11, 2001, NPR’s Lost & Found Sound brought together radio producers, artists, historians, archivists,…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Sovereign Nation / Sovereign Neighbor
More About Sovereign Nation/Sovereign Neighbor from Director and Producer Kendall Moore Sovereign Nation/Sovereign Neighbor explores the word…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Storm
Thomas Brown, Director of Storm, is the founder of The Broken Toy Project a national anti-bullying program.…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Superstar
More About Superstar from Director Naiquan Greene I was inspired by the people around me to make…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
System Failure
More About System Failure from Producer WITNESS Juvenile justice in California is a national embarrassment, a statewide…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Terminator Tomatoes
More About Terminator Tomatoes from Director Suzanne Twining Suzanne Twining’s five minute animated short film, Terminator Tomatoes,…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
The Meatrix
More About The Meatrix from Free Range Graphics The Meatrix is a humorous 4-minute Flash animation that…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
The Rules of the Game
More About The Rules of the Game from Directors and Producers Garance Burke and Monica Lam Garance…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
The Sixth Section
More About The Sixth Section from Director Alex Rivera I grew up in a strange immigrant household.…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Tyttonen (The Young Girl)
More About Tyttonen (The Young Girl) from Director Fabian Giessler This is a short movie inspired by…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
Vision Test
Wes Kim is the writer/director of Vision Test as well as co-director of the Seattle-based AIVF Salon,…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Water Warriors
More About Water Warriors from Director and Producer Liz Miller Water is quickly becoming the liquid gold…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
We Were Humans
Allysson Lucca’s Italian production company, LuccaCo, specializes in creating Web sites/movies for humanitarian and social organizations and…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
Will I Be Next?
More about Will I Be Next? from Director Ralph Rollins Will I Be Next? explores the issue…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Young Agrarians
More About Young Agrarians from Director Johanna Divine Young Agrarians was created as a tool to introduce…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
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