RACIAL JUSTICE
The following films from the multiple Media That Matters Film Festival collections explore the issue of racial justice. 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
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
Day of Remembrance
Sixty years have passed between Pearl Harbor and September 11th, but have things really changed for Arab and Muslim Americans?
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
Eyes on the Fair Use of the Prize
Copyright abuse or Fair Use? Learn how much is at stake when vital films are pulled from public discourse.
Official selection of the sixth 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
Holla Back Dubai!
In this touching video letter exchange, kids from the United Arab Emirates “holla back” to a class of sixth-graders in Washington Heights, New York and show that a stereotype is no match for a smile.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Is My Neighbor Latino?
Irreverent and funny, this high-spirited newsbrief spoof pokes at preconceptions and shows us that there is no one type of Latino in a country with rapidly shifting demographics.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Rapping at Fear
In Andrés Tabares’ barrio in Colombia, “social cleansing” groups wage war. When this thirteen-year-old raps against violence, people listen.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
Silence Speaks
Domestic abuse, hate crimes, poverty, political persecution and war. Highly personal multimedia pieces tell the stories of survivors and witnesses of these many forms of violence.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Slip of the Tongue
“What’s your ethnic make up?” A young man makes a pass at a beautiful stranger and gets an eye-opening schooling on race and gender.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
Something Other Than Other
New parents Jerry and Andrea have endured their own share of discrimination growing up. They hope their newborn son can grow up identifying as something other than “other.”
Official selection of the fifth 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
The Apollos
Meet the trailblazing students who, over twenty years ago, fought to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
The Children of Birmingham
Baltimore youth tell the story of their 1960s counterparts who fought for civil rights.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
The Rules of the Game
A Native American tribe’s dreams of prosperity clash with small town values in Rohnert Park, California.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
We Were Humans
This multimedia animation asks what would happen if the billions of dollars of yearly military spending were directed towards education and world hunger.
Official selection of the third annual festival
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