Found 55 resources on politics / government
politics / government
The following films from the multiple Media That Matters Film Festival collections explore the issue of politics / government. For even more films on this issue, visit MediaRights.org.
(Hate) Machine
More About (Hate) Machine from Director Phil Caron The concept for (Hate) Machine came out of the…
Official selection of the
Sixth Annual Festival
African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal
More About African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal from Director Ben Herson I was inspired to make…
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
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
Battleground Minnesota
More About Battleground Minnesota from Director Gabriel Cheifetz Chris, Glenn, and I had worked together before on…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Bush for Peace
More About Bush for Peace One night when co-directors Sarah Christman and Jen Simmons were sitting around…
Official selection of the
Fourth 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
Esmeraldas: Petroleum and Poverty
Esmeraldas: Petroleum and Poverty was directed by Joshua Holst, a life-long student of the environment and human…
Official selection of the
Third Annual Festival
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
Eyes on the Fair Use of the Prize
More About Eyes On The Fair Use Of The Prize from Director/Producer Jacob Caggiano Eyes On The…
Official selection of the
Sixth 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
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
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
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
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
La Hoja
More about La Hoja from Director Gabrielle Weiss I was approached by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Laptop
More About Laptop from Producer Public Interest In Spring 2000, President Clinton announced a new televised campaign…
Official selection of the
Fifth 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
Lone Wolf
More about Lone Wolf from Jason Sussberg On July 8, 2005, blogger and activist Josh Wolf filmed…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
Looking Back
More about Looking Back from Director Emile Bokaer I learned about Albert Lewis while reading a newspaper…
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
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
Pizza Surveillance Feature
More About Pizza Surveillance Feature from the American Civil Liberties Union Based loosely on an Internet joke,…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
Power Up
More About Power Up from Director & Producer Sverre Fredriksen Power Up is an animated short film…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
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
Recycle
More About Recycle from Directors and Producers Vasco Lucas Nunes and Ondi Timoner Recycle is a portrait…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
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
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
Spring in Awe
More About Spring in Awe from Director Martina Radwan My story behind the film is very simple…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
Still Standing
More About Still Standing from Producer EVC Youth Organizers Television (YO-TV) In December 2005, the EVC Youth…
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
The Apollos
More About The Apollos from Director Nick Parker My role in the making of The Apollos was…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
The Children of Birmingham
More About The Children of Birmingham from Kids on the Hill The Children of Birmingham is an…
Official selection of the
Fourth Annual Festival
The Countdown
More About The Countdown from Director Rene Dongo The Countdown is a collaboration that had been in…
Official selection of the
Eighth Annual Festival
The Farm Sanctuary
More About The Farm Sanctuary from Producer Fly Up Media The Farm Sanctuary is the nation’s leading…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
The Final Frontier: Explorers or Warriors?
More About The Final Frontier: Explorers or Warriors? from Filmmakers Stephen Sotor & Trace Gaynor On January…
Official selection of the
Seventh Annual Festival
The Luckiest Nut In The World
More About The Luckiest Nut in the World from Director Emily James I had been reading a…
Official selection of the
Media That Matters: Good Food
The News Is What We Make It
More About The News Is What We Make It from Director Nickey Robare As a second-year student…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
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 Secret Life of Paper
More about The Secret Life of Paper from Inform Inc. Americans consume more paper than anyone else…
Official selection of the
Ninth 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
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
Why Do White People Have Black Spots?
More about More about Why Do White People Have Black Spots? from Anya Kandel This film is…
Official selection of the
Ninth Annual Festival
World On Fire
A Message from Sarah McLachlan Sarah McLachlan wrote us this message about her music video and participation…
Official selection of the
Fifth Annual Festival
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