Social Justice Film Festival 2020

HOW TO WATCH

All 25 film blocks are listed here, and will be available to view on-demand at any time during the festival (Oct. 1–11). Each block is priced on a sliding scale, $5–$25. Pay what you can!

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PURCHASE A FESTIVAL PASS

Want to watch more than one screening block? Pass sales are an excellent way to support SJFF and NWFF's work. Plus, they grant the most streamlined, flexible viewing experience possible!

SLIDING-SCALE PASS:

$75, $100, or $125

NWFF MEMBER PASS: $50

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Through dozens of strategic partnerships with Pacific Northwest organizations working on issues of social justice, the Social Justice Film Festival exhibits a series of short and feature-length documentaries and narrative films broadly related to social justice, with a special focus on prisoner justice in the US. As a movement, social justice promotes a global culture where equality is achieved on all levels. This includes issues pertaining to incarceration, the environment and sustainability, oppression, race and racism, the arts, animal rights, alternative currency and lifestyles, corruption within the system, and so much more. The festival will showcase works that challenge society structures all over the globe on a macro and micro level, as well as works that challenge the medium.

The festival’s mission is to forge creative alliances with diverse communities, bring inspiring filmmaking to new audiences, and make the art of filmmaking an integral part of social change.

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LIVE PANELS + Q&AS

ARE ALL FREE!

Four live Q&A/panel events will stream on SJFF's Facebook Live page during the 2020 festival. If you miss them while they're live, it's okay; they'll be archived on that page for future viewing, even after the festival concludes.

No purchase or password is required to view panels and Q&As – just drop in! – but donations to Social Justice Film Festival and Northwest Film Forum are always welcome.

Bookmark SJFF's Facebook Live page and tune in for the following dates:

• Personhood Discussion (Oct. 2 at 7pm PDT)
• Indigenous Futures Panel (Oct. 8 at 7pm PDT)
• Prisoner Justice Q&A (Oct. 10 at 7pm PDT)
• Voting Matters Discussion (Oct. 11 at 7pm PDT)

BROWSE BY PROGRAM

BLOCK 1: Health Issues Now

• Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution (56 min.)
• From Durban to Tomorrow (40 min.)
• How Speaking About Suicide Can Change Lives (4 min.)

BLOCK 2: Environmental Call to Action I

• The Last Ice (83 min.)
• Seed (16 min.)

Suggested streaming: Check out the Indigenous Futures Panel, live on SJFF FB on Oct. 8 at 7pm PDT

BLOCK 3: Together Against Hate

• Liberation Heroes (40 min.)
• Bayt Jadeed: Seeking Home (29 min.)
• Seva (16 min.)
• Stronger than Steel (7 min.)

BLOCK 4: Our Bodies I

• Ask for Jane (108 min.)
• In Conversation (11 min.)

BLOCK 5: The Artist as Activist

• Can Art Stop a Bullet (90 min.)
• Inner Self (15 min.)
• 407 Days (7 min.)

BLOCK 6: Black Lives Matter I

• TO BE US: To Work (96 min.)
• Augustus (15 min.)
• Target Practice (7 min.)

BLOCK 7: Queer Strength and Community I

• Your Mother’s Comfort (79 min.)
• Healthy Mind (17 min.)
• Gay as in Happy: A Queer Anti-Tragedy (4 min.)

BLOCK 8: Learning from the Past and the Present

• The Prison Within (86 min.)
• POETRYofPAYNE 2020 (17 min.)
• Of Concrete and Skin: The Story of the Elaine Massacre Memorial (12 min.)

BLOCK 9: Systemic Inequality

• Flint: The Poisoning of an American City (85 min.)
• La Vida de Un Latero (10 min.)
• January 14th (15 min.)

BLOCK 10: Stronger than Trauma

• Unlearning Sex (38 min.)
• Mother, Daughter, Sister (28 min.)
• Dani Burt (11 min.)

BLOCK 11: Women's Work

• Women of Earth (71 min.)
• Pushing Forward – Skateboard Like a Girl (10 min.)

BLOCK 12: Be Seen, Stand Up

• Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote (40 min.)
• POWER OUT (6 min.)
• Thin Blue Variety Show (3 min.)
• Growing for Good (15 min.)
• Unsaid (19 min.)
• ACTIVIZED (36 min.)

Suggested streaming: Check out the Voting Matters Discussion, live on SJFF FB on Oct. 11 at 7pm PDT

BLOCK 13: Immigrant Stories I

• The Song of the Valley (50 min.)
• Teranga – Life in the Waiting Room (34 min.)
• Wednesday at Elizabeth (15 min.)
• Cleats (11 min.)

BLOCK 14: Immigrant Stories II

• SAMOS – The Faces of our Border (88 min.)
• Rebel (15 min.)
• Showan (13 min.)
• We walk (3 min.)

BLOCK 15: Building Our Place Together

• Yoghurt Utopia (71 min.)
• Urban Seeds (17 min.)
• Wilderness (7 min.)

BLOCK 16: Tradition Turned Tragic

• The Ones Who Search (75 min.)
• MÉBÉT (34 min.)

BLOCK 17: Environmental Call to Action II

• Spears From All Sides (90 min.)
• Fighting for Environmental Justice: The Health Crisis at the US-Mexico Border (3 min.)

BLOCK 18: Technology, Economy, Possibility

• Hello World (78 min.)
• The Neighborhood (20 min.)
• Origin of a Hero (9 min.)

BLOCK 19: Black Lives Matter II

• Shaw Rising (57 min.)
• HBCU Storytellers: Confederate Monuments – Heritage or Hatred? (22 min.)
• Outrage in Rockland: The Lynching of Howard Cooper (15 min.)
• AN UNINVITED GUEST (4 min.)

BLOCK 20: Environmental Call to Action III

• Our Gorongosa (60 min.)
• Voices on the Road (24 min.)

BLOCK 21: Queer Strength and Community II

• The Unlikely Story of the Lesbians of First Friday (62 min.)
• Parental Guidance Suggested (17 min.)

BLOCK 22: Black Lives Matter III

• Since I Been Down (105 min.)
• Canary in a Mine (16 min.)

Suggested streaming: Check out the Prisoner Justice Q&A with the creators of Since I Been Down, live on SJFF FB on Oct. 10 at 7pm PDT

BLOCK 23: Poverty in America

• The #1 Bus Chronicles (58 min)
• Welcome to River View (18 min)
• Major Nobody (15 min)
• Some Million Miles (13 min.)

BLOCK 24: Just Good Vibes

• Plants, Pollinators & Prayers (40 min.)
• Little Nations (14 min.)
• Nurturing Roots (11 min.)
• Butterflies (8 min.)

BLOCK 25: Our Bodies II

• Personhood (80 min.)

Suggested streaming: On Oct. 2 at 7pm PDT, the filmmakers of Personhood will give a live Q&A on SJFF FB

Presented by the

Social Justice Film Institute, Meaningful Movies Project,

and Northwest Film Forum