Social Impact Film Festival: Live Screening Series

Social Impact Film Festival: Live Screening Series

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Social Impact Film Festival: Live Screening Series
  • Us
    Movie + 1 extra

    Us

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Us" offers a glimpse into the life of a father teaching his son with Down syndrome the fundamentals of baseball. The film delves into the intimate dynamics of a father-son relationship, shedding light on underrepresented experiences of individuals with disabilities. Through their journey, we exp...

  • La Capa Azul (The Blue Cape)

    Two months after Hurricane Maria makes landfall, Puerto Rico's shores are left without power and infrastructure continues to collapse. A mother calls her 10-year-old son, Junior, to fetch the medicine his grandfather desperately needs. Junior dons a blue cape, made from the tarp that covers the r...

  • Grief Camp
    Movie + 3 extras

    Grief Camp

    Movie + 3 extras

    For Brut, filmmaker Léo Hamelin takes us to Experience Camps, where children who have lost a significant family member learn to grieve and heal.

  • Wind Phone

    “When you hear the sound of the wind or birds’ singing, convey your feelings to your lost loved ones through the phone.”
    - Itaru Sasaki

    Featuring anonymous conversations with peoples' loved ones, this documentary hopes to educate our audience about a unique way of navigating grief and loss.

  • Untreated & Unheard: The Addiction Crisis in America

    Movie + 4 extras

    Substance use disorder kills more people every year than any other disease and yet only 1 in 10 people who need treatment get access to it. These are unheard stories of the addiction crisis from families whose lives have been forever changed by addiction and the experts dedicated to changing the ...

  • Temple Grandin: An Open Door

    An Open Door is the forthcoming documentary that reflects on the influential life and work of Dr. Temple Grandin as a champion of the humane treatment of livestock, autism rights, and inclusive neurodiversity by employing her gifted insights from her personal experience with autism and visual thi...

  • Black Women and WWII: The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion

    In the midst of World War II, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-female African-American unit, undertook the monumental task of sorting and delivering a massive backlog of mail for the U.S. military. Despite facing deplorable working conditions and the pervasive dual discrimina...

  • Color

    In an upside down world, Diana finds herself facing a difficult conversation with her family. Her revelation provokes unexpected reactions. Will love, understanding, acceptance win? Will we, once and for all, speak the same color?

  • The Wild Path Home

    A grassroots movement to embrace mother nature and forge a new way of learning for the prosperity of future generations
    In 2016, the Peterborough-Kawartha-Haliburton region in Ontario, Canada was recognized by the United Nations as a “Regional Centre of Expertise in Sustainability Education”, one...

  • The Wild Path Home - Director's Statement

  • Running to Stand Still [Trailer]

    From Worldwide Documentaries. Running To Stand Still comes at a time when concerns about immigration are front and center. Millions of people around the world are on the move, forcibly displaced from their homes by powerful forces including gang violence, climate change, and war. At the U.S.-Mexi...

  • Deliver Us [Trailer]

    Black mothers are dying in childbirth at staggering rates, and in the midst of a global pandemic and a national race reckoning, black midwives around the country are opening birth centers and demanding justice for Black mothers. From filmmakers Jenny Callaghan & Randi Matthews