Social Impact Film Festival: Virtual Screening Series

Social Impact Film Festival: Virtual Screening Series

Selected from hundreds of submissions from filmmakers all over the world, these films embody the marriage of moving content with social impact.

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Social Impact Film Festival: Virtual Screening Series
  • Feeling the Apocalypse

    Feeling The Apocalypse is a short animated documentary about how psychotherapist Anderson Todd struggles with climate anxiety and stays grounded in an increasingly fragmenting world.

  • The Miami Kids and the Maya

    We follow the incredible journey of Victoria, a Venezuelan migrant directing, while still in high school, a powerful story of resilience, hope, and cultural revival amidst the backdrop of the Guatemalan-Mayan genocide. Victoria's path leads her to the heart of the Guatemalan Mayan Center and SALT...

  • '¡Sí Se Puede! - Trade Union Action in Colombia'

    The film highlights the numerous political assassinations of activists and the glaring inequality in Colombia, contrasting with the rise of the new progressive government led by Gustavo Petro. While the union leaders continue their fight for social justice, they constantly experience the looming ...

  • Climate Blueprint

    After experiencing the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria in 2017, Dominica chose to to become the most climate resilience nation in the world. Five years later, they have the plan to make this vision a reality.

  • Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times

    Migrant Lives in Pandemic Times is a digital storytelling project produced by CERC Migration and Migration Matters. Recorded during the summer of 2021, the project presents both personal testimony and expert analysis to explore how the everyday realities of 12 migrants from across the globe have ...

  • La Colectiva: Immigrant Diaries

    La Colectiva: Immigrant Diaries was a dream I had to share the stories of the unaccompanied Latinx immigrant children that I was writing about in Fall 2020. I interviewed immigrant children and first generation children migrants and asked them to move through their experiences with their bodies....

  • Amuka

    Amuka is journey into the present day of Congo, a challenge for the future. In a country that could feed up to 3 billions people, in which about 13 millions people are starving. Amuka depicts the resistance, the courage, the hope and the struggle of five congolese farmers to keep their families...

  • A System on Life Support: Owensboro's Efforts to Save Childcare

    Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, about 50 percent of Kentucky was already considered a “childcare desert,” meaning there is more demand for the service than there are available spots, and many childcare teachers and providers were already earning poverty wages, even as strapped parents struggle...

  • Monarcas

    Following the migration journey and metamorphosis of the monarch butterflies, the short documentary “Monarcas” tells the story of two Guatemalan undocumented day laborers, Pedro and Alejandro, who migrated from Central America in search of a better future for their families, only to have their wa...

  • Beyond the Soil

    “Beyond the Soil” shares an untold story surrounding the emotional impact of climate change on farmers and ranchers who are on the frontlines of the megadrought in Colorado, and their innovation and resilience in the face of ecological crisis. Told via deeply emotional testimony from three agricu...

  • Resurrection under the Ocean

    Resurrection Under the Ocean plasma the resurrection of humanity in the darkest place of the ocean symbolically through a defenseless character. Deep in the ocean, they try to portray death in the dark. Then, the pain of resurrection, which begins with the sound of a whale symbolizing vitality an...

  • She Is Your Neighbour

    A short documentary about the marketing team at a women's shelter who decided to take a bold and entirely different approach to talking about domestic violence.

  • Double Bounce

    Mario Roque Garcia's current reality is markedly different from his past experiences. Overcoming his darkest moments, he now faces the daunting task of relearning the world around him. Despite these challenges, he remains unwavering in his determination to succeed. Though he has never held a racq...

  • Who We Are

    "Who We Are" is a powerful short documentary that intimately portrays the lives of young women who've confronted daunting challenges such as homelessness, addiction, human trafficking, and domestic violence. This poignant film delves into their experiences and highlights the power of resilience a...