Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds, and Sovereignty Natasha Florentino Producer: Armen Zohrabian 2017, 60 min., Color, US Abundant Land is a one-hour documentary about a Hawaiian community on Moloka’i opposing the biotech industry’s use of the island to test genetically engineered seeds. Agrochemical biotech corporations...
Big Willow Jared Katsiane 2013, 11 min., Color, US Can a young artist's creativity save his favorite willow tree from bulldozers?...
Break and Enter a.k.a. Squatters (Newsreel #62) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1971, 42 min., BW, US This film captures the militant antecedents to today's housing reclamation movement in New York City. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the ...
Drills of Liberation Juan C Dávila Santiago Producer: Juan C. Dávila Santiago 2021, 121 min., Color, Puerto Rico "Liberation Drills" is the untold story of the Puerto Rican protest wave of 2016-2019, which culminated with the resignation of governor Ricardo Rosselló. In 2016, the US Congress appointed a seven-me...
The Earth Belongs to the People (Newsreel #57) Newsreel Producer: Boston Newsreel 1971, 17 min., BW, US An analysis of the ecological crisis, this film dispells the myths that big business and big government had been telling the people about the global ecological crisis. Is there really over-population ...
Environmental Racism Ada Gay Griffin & Kenyatta Fuderburk Producer: Third World Newsreel 1990, 60 min., Color, US In two 30 minute programs that combine footage from over 20 sources, this tape focuses on educating and organizing disadvantaged communities to act on environmental issues and conditions affecting the...
Finding Common Ground in New Orleans Walidah Imarisha Producer: Phil Fivel Rothberg 2006, 23 min., Color, US In this short documentary, activist and poet Walidah Imarisha travels to New Orleans and other neighboring towns shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. In her path she encounter grassroo...
A Letter from Yene Manthia Diawara 2022, 50 min., Color A LETTER FROM YENE emerges from conversations with the community in the seaside town of Yene, Senegal, where Diawara lives for part of the year. The area was traditionally and primarily occupied by f...
The River Where We Live Sylvain L'Espérance 2006, 92 min., Canada/Mali The Niger River in Mali crosses a vast plain in the heart of the Sahel. It is a vivid patchwork of canals, rivers, lakes, islands, seas, prairies and flood zones. Throughout this territory, human soci...
Sipakapa Is Not for Sale Alvaro Revenga 2005, 55 min., Guatemala Montana Exploradora, subsidiary of the Canadian/US transnational company Glamis Gold, received 45 million US dollars in financing from the World Bank to exploit an open-pit gold mine in Sipakapa, Guat...
Stubborn City Pooja Rangan 2006, 9 min., Color, India/US In 2005, 8 feet of rain fell in Bombay, India in one day. This poetic piece highlights the resilience of the impoverished neighborhoods of this ancient city that were most affected, and how people su...
Vieques: An Endless Battle Juan C Dávila 2016, 68 min., Color, Puerto Rico For more than sixty years the United States Navy used the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, to test military weaponry and to train soldiers. Decades of opposition from the local community and internatio...
War for Guam Frances Negrón-Muntaner Producer: Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Baltazar B. Aguon, Michael Lujan Bevacqua, Cristine Borja Sumbi, Beni Matías 2015, 57 min., Color, US WAR FOR GUAM is a 57-minute film about World War II and its enduring legacy in Guam, a U.S. territory since 1898. The film tells the extraordinary story of how the Native people of Guam, the Chamorros...
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