Sally Jo Fifer

A group of women and non-binary journalists, bucking the white male status quo, launch The 19th*—a digital news startup that asks who has been omitted from mainstream coverage and how they can be included.

An intimate portrait of a community fighting to save lives and keep hope alive in a neighborhood ravaged by the overdose crisis.

From his Memphis studio, Ernest Withers’ nearly 2 million images were a treasured record of Black history but his legacy was complicated by decades of secret FBI service revealed only after his death. Was he a friend of the civil rights community, or enemy—or both?

탕! 탕! 탕! 1973년 6월 3일, 미국 샌프란시스코 차이나타운 거리 한복판에서 중국인 갱단이 총격을 받고 사망한다. 5일 후, 한 동양인 청년이 살인 용의자로 긴급 체포된다. 이름 ‘철수 리’, 21살의 한인 이민자였다. 동양인 외모를 구별 못하는 백인 목격자들의 증언으로 종신형을 선고받은 이철수는 곧장 캘리포니아에서 가장 폭력적인 교도소에 수감된다. 그대로 묻힐 뻔했던 사건은 한 기자의 심층 보도로 다시 수면 위로 떠오른다. 한인 최초의 미국 주류 신문사 기자였던 이경원은 차이나타운 취재 중 우연히 이철수 사건을 접하고, 엉터리 재판 과정을 폭로한다. 이철수의 억울한 사연이 알려지며 한인 이민 사회와 종교계가 들끓고, 재심을 요구하는 구명 운동이 시작된다. ‘프리 철수 리’ 운동이 아시안아메리칸 사회를 뒤흔들며 빠르게 번져가던 중, 교도소 안 이철수는 갱의 공격으로부터 자신을 지키려다 진짜 살인을 저지르게 되는데…. 반전에 반전을 거듭한 10년의 재판, 그리고 아무도 예상하지 못했던 이철수의 나머지 삶의 반전! 2023년, 모두의 기대를 배반하고 충격적인 감동을 선사할, 당신의 인생 영화가 될 최고의 다큐멘터리!

위기에 처한 세 아이는 붕괴 직전의 나라에서 전문 오케스트라 연주자가 되기 위해 고군분투한다. 9년에 걸쳐 촬영한 영화는 베네수엘라 바리오 출신 아이들의 음악과 얽힌 따라가는 다큐멘터리이다. 영화는 역경에 맞서 꿈을 지키기 위해 무엇이 필요한지에 대한 통찰을 제공하고 모든 것이 실패하는 와중에 예술이 할 수 있는 역할에 대해 질문한다.

Explores a variety of underground hazing rituals that are abusive and sometimes deadly. The journey to understand hazing culture reveals a world of toxic masculinity, violence, humiliation, binge drinking, denial, and institutional coverups.

Sam Now is a gripping family story consisting of home videos, Super 8 films and modern-day HD videos told over a lifetime. Director Reed Harkness captures the story of his half-brother, Sam, who grappled with the disappearance of his mother during the most formative years of his life. After setting out to find her as a teenager, Sam works through the subconscious trauma caused by her absence, his family members' denial and his feelings toward his mother, whose new life proves better than raising kids. Sam's journey is an emotional roller coaster with loops of mental health, commitment issues and familial relationships.

In the majestic tropical island of Palawan, three environmental crusaders confront murder, betrayal and political corruption in this thrilling documentary about land defenders battling to save and preserve paradise in the Philippines.

When a thriving, top-ranked African American elementary school is threatened to be replaced by a new high school favoring the community’s wealthier residents, parents, students and educators fight for the elementary school’s survival.

Mama Bears is an intimate exploration of two “mama bears”—conservative, Christian mothers who have become fierce advocates for LGBTQ+ people—and a young lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance exemplifies why the mama bears are so important.

Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, especially Black history. The filmmaker follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.

Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. We take a journey back home, with filmmaker Ira McKinley, to the land of sugarcane, as he reconnects with his niece Bridget and nephew Alvin and explores their shared family history that spans seven generations. Told through stories that transcend space and time, Outta The Muck presents a community, and a family, that resists despair with love, remaining fiercely self-determined, while forging its own unique narrative of Black achievement.

샌프란시스코의 가장 학구열이 높은 공립학교 Lowell 고등학교의 고학년생들은 어마어마한 스트레스를 받는 중이다. 이들은 스탠포드 대학교나 하버드 대학교 같은 최고상류 학교로 진학하기 위해 공부에만 매진하고 있다. 멋진 아이들과 특출난 학생들 사이에서 같이 공부해 좋은 성적을 얻기란 쉽지가 않다. 감독 Debbie Lum은 재치넘치는 유머와 따뜻한 시선으로 미국 대학입시계의 현실을 들여다본 이후 미국 교육현 내에서의 인종 문제, 계급 문제까지 고찰하게 한다. 이 영화는 현 미국 10대 세대의 가장 보편적이면서도 다채로운 청소년들의 초상화와도 같은 다큐멘터리다.

Follows the mental health crisis in Chicago and three participants of the Mental Health Court in Cook County who are working to rebuild their lives after being incarcerated for crimes related to their mental illnesses.

The life and legacy of Helen Keller, including how she used her celebrity to advocate for human rights and social justice for women, the poor and people with disabilities.

미국 현대무용의 선구자 중 한 명인 흑인 안무가 앨빈 에일리. 영화는 힙합 안무가 레니 해리스가 앨빈 에일리에 대한 새로운 무용극을 준비하는 과정과 알빈 에일리의 작품세계를 촘촘히 엮으며 그가 오늘날 미국 무용계와 사회 전반에 남긴 유산을 기록한다. 1931년 짐크로우법 시대에 텍사스 시골에서 태어난 앨빈 에일리는 아프리카계 미국인들의 정체성과 역사에서 영감을 받은 새로운 움직임을 미국 현대 무용에 도입하고, 58년 앨빈 에일리 어메리칸 댄스 시어터를 창립한다. 개척자였던 그는 늘 외로웠지만, 그가 뿌린 씨앗은 오늘날 미국 현대무용의 풍요로운 기반이 되었다. (2021년 제17회 제천국제음악영화제 / 김소혜)

When one’s sole focus is to provide for their children, the stakes are extremely high. The need for multiple jobs to make ends meet has become a common reality for many families in this country, which leads to a very important question: who looks after the children while their parents work? Through the Night examines the economic and emotional toll affecting some American families, told through the lens of a 24-hour daycare center in Westchester, New York. At the center of it all is Nunu, the primary caregiver and a hero to many families in need of a safe space to bring their children.

With sharp humor and a critical sense of curiosity, comedian CJ Hunt documents the fraught removal of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans. As the scope of his film expands, Hunt investigates the origins of a romanticized Confederacy and confronts hard truths much of America has yet to face.

A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence.

One man dance party Howard Mordoh, a longtime fixture of the L.A. concert scene, copes with the canceled concerts and isolation of life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the US Midwest, plagued with opioid abuse and rising incarceration rates for women, three unforgettable mothers return home from prison to rebuild their lives after years of separation from their children.

Michael was a ballet prodigy with a stellar career ahead of him. He transformed into a Russian ballet instructor named Madame Olga as a way to both embrace himself as an artist and reconcile with the trauma from his past.

In Milwaukee, a 15-year-old attempted to carjack law student Claude Motley and shot him in the face. Through multiple surgeries and catastrophic health care bills, the effects of gun violence upends Claude’s life. Yet he still finds himself torn between punishment for the young man and the injustice of mass incarceration for Black men and boys. Can he find mercy in his heart for his attacker?

83살의 할아버지 세르지오는 어떤 여인이 요청한 특별한 비밀 임무를 맡는다. 한 노인 요양원에 잠입해 자신의 어머니가 잘 지내고 있는지, 혹시 직원들에게 학대를 받는 건 아닌지 감시해달라는 것이다. 세르지오는 낯선 분위기 때문에 처음에는 요양원에 잘 적응하지 못하지만, 시간이 흐를수록 사람들과 예상외의 즐거운 시간을 보내며 복잡한 감정에 빠진다. 임무만 간단히 수행할 계획이었지만 이곳의 노인들과 어느새 정이 들고 만 것이다. 유머러스한 화법으로 나이듦과 외로움의 문제, 그리고 노인들이 나누는 우정의 순간을 따뜻하게 그린 논픽션 기반의 극영화.

Virtuoso Afro-Cuban-born brothers—violinist Ilmar and pianist Aldo—live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half-century wide. Tracking their parallel lives in New York and Havana, their poignant reunion, and their momentous first performances together, Los Hermanos/The Brothers suggests what is possible when walls come down, and borders are crossed. A nuanced, intensely moving view of nations long estranged, through the lens of music and family. Featuring an electrifying, genre-bending score composed by Cuban Aldo López-Gavilán, performed with his American brother, Ilmar, with a guest appearance by violin maestro Joshua Bell and the Harlem Quartet.

Missing in Brooks County follows the journey of two families who have come to Brooks County to look for their loved ones who went missing. As they search for answers, they encounter a haunted land where death is a part of everyday life. A gripping documentary mystery, it is also a deeply humane portrait of the law enforcement agents, human rights workers, and activists who come face to face with the life and death consequences of a broken system.

The story of a Muslim casket maker and ritual body washer in Newark, NJ who takes two young men under his wing to teach them how to live better lives.

Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry -- the doughnut.

Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. And as long as they were “sick”, progress toward equality was impossible. This documentary chronicles the battle waged by a small group of activists who declared war against a formidable institution – and won a crucial victory in the modern movement for LGBTQIA+ equality.

미국 중서부 지역 공직에 출마한는 세 여성의 이야기. 미시간주 디트로이트 민주당 시장 후보 흑인 마이야 존스. 일리노이주 에번스턴 공화당 하원의원 후보 한국계 미국인 줄리 조. 오하이오주 그랑빌 민주당 타운십의원 후보 브린 버드. 그들은 각자 방식대로 긍정적인 변화를 추구하기 위해 출마했고, 영화는 그들의 선거 운동을 고스란히 담았다.

Set in motion by a tragic police-involved shooting, two communities of color navigate fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and discrimination in the eyes of the law.

When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, they take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes - from dangerously inadequate health care to sexual assault to coercive sterilizations - primarily targeting women of color. But no one believes them. This shocking legal drama captured over seven years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated women, demanding our attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States.

Following three female police officers in Minneapolis, Women in Blue charts their progress and efforts to remake the department to become more inclusive. When the killing of Justine Damond results in the resignation of Chief Harteau, it threatens the gains women have made in the department.

Sixteen-year-old Jewel Wilson is the next generation in a long line of prolific Inupiat subsistence hunters in Unalakleet, Alaska. Her ability to hunt moose is hindered by two pressing issues – scarce wildlife and the pressures of high school life. Finding sufficient food competes with track practice and homework in Jewel’s multilayered world. Along with her father, Jewel turns to the land to feed their family and finds that their village’s way of life is endangered by the same environmental shifts that could affect us all. In hunting moose, we see that Jewel is also hunting for answers. How will her village survive if subsistence hunting is threatened? Can she honor the traditions of her Elders while navigating the pressures and anxieties of a modern, connected teenager? "Jewel’s Hunt" proves to be both physical and philosophical in this insightful exploration of what it means to come of age in complicated times in Unalakleet, Alaska.

Brett Story's visionary look at New York City as it braces for an uncertain future.

Chicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Americans, Latinos, and poor whites to confront police brutality and unfair housing practices in one of America’s most segregated cities. A timely story of collective action, The First Rainbow Coalition tells this little-known chronicle of political struggle with insight and urgency using archival footage and interviews with those who lived it.

Exposing a painful, quintessentially American geography, CONSCIENCE POINT unearths a deep clash of values between the Native American Shinnecock and their elite Hamptons neighbors, who have made sacred land their playground.

Spanning his fifty-year dogsled racing career, ATTLA explores the life and persona of George Attla, from his childhood as a TB survivor in the Alaskan interior, to his rise as ten-time world champion and mythical state hero, to a village elder resolutely training his grandnephew to race his team one last time.

Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to the creative hotbed of 1960s New York City, to prominence on Broadway and in Hollywood. Filled with passion, determination and joy, Juliá’s brilliant and daring career was tragically cut short by his untimely death at age 54.

Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).

Four women find purpose carrying babies for strangers in Boise, Idaho -- the unofficial surrogacy capital of the United States -- and encounter complexities along the way.

Accept the Call charts a Muslim American family’s struggle against Islamic radicalisation. Through a series of calls from federal prison, Yusuf and his son examine and rebuild their understanding of their faith.

Three brave cheerleaders take on the NFL, battling the massive, male-dominated sports league for recognition — and a raise.

When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.

The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.

Harvest Season delves into the lives of people who work behind the scenes of the premium California wine industry, during one of the most dramatic grape harvests in recent memory. The film follows the stories of Mexican-American winemakers and migrant workers who are essential to the wine business, yet are rarely recognized for their contributions. Their stories unfold as wildfires ignite in Napa and Sonoma counties, threatening the livelihoods of small farmers and winemakers who are already grappling with a growing labor shortage, shifting immigration policies, and the impacts of a rapidly changing climate.

수십 년에 걸친 불황에 심한 타격을 받아 사양화된 공업지대에서 태어나 자란 세 친구의 이야기를 담고 있다. 리우빙은 자신의 이야기와 함께 스케이트 보드를 즐겨 탔던 친구들이 고향으로부터 도망쳐야만 했던 이유를 영상으로 기록한다. 스물세 살 아빠가 되어 양육 문제를 놓고 항상 여자 친구와 티격태격하는 잭. 그리고 어렵게 첫 직장을 얻으면서 인종적인 갈등 그리고 고인이 된 아버지에 대한 원망과 그리움을 표출하는 키이라. 그리고 어렸을 적부터 어머니와 갈등을 겪었던 리우빙 자신의 이야기가 진솔하게 펼쳐진다.

The Interpreters follows the lives of Iraqi and Afghan interpreters, and the American veterans they worked with. In many cases, interpreters face danger in their countries because of their affiliation with the US war effort. This is the story of how they are rebuilding their lives.

¡Las Sandinistas! uncovers the disappearing stories of women who shattered barriers to lead combat and social reform during Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista Revolution, and who continue to lead Nicaragua’s current struggle for democracy and equality.

93퀸은 브루클린의 버로우 파크 인근 하시딕(유대교의 한 분파) 거주지를 배경으로, 뉴욕시 최초의 여성만으로 구성된 구급대 자원 봉사단을 만들어 지역 사회의 가부장제를 무너뜨리고 있는 끈질긴 하시딕 여성 집단을 따라간다. 93퀸은 자신의 커뮤니티를 내부로부터 변화시키기 위해 스스로 문제를 해결하는 능력 있는 여성 집단에 대한 독특한 묘사를 제공한다.

On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters and unprecedented subject matter. The play attracted record crowds and earned the coveted top prize from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. While the play is seen as a groundbreaking work of art, the timely story of Hansberry’s life is far less known.

An intimate character study of the complex figure Ittetsu Nemoto, an aimless and rebellious former punk rocker-turned-Buddhist priest. He is renowned in Japan for saving the lives of countless suicidal men and women through his wise and compassionate counsel. But Nemoto is now approaching middle-age with a wife and young boy of his own, when he learns his life is at risk from heart disease, compounded by the heavy emotional workload of supporting those who no longer want to live. When saving others takes such a toll, can he find the resiliency to save himself?

Iranian musician Shahin Najafi flees his homeland and heads to Cologne, Germany after harsh criticism by several clerics over the release of his song speaking out against human rights abuses resulted in a fatwa being issued.

드론은 이제 여러 방송과 얼리어답터들을 통해 어 느새 익숙해 진 기술의 첨병이다.하지만 기술의 발 전은 양면의 얼굴을 가지고있다. 드론은 군사기술의 한 축으로 이미 자리 잡았고, 현대전에서 빈번히 쓰이고있다. 기존의 전쟁 방식과 완전히 달라진 현대전에서 드론이란 테크놀로지의 부작용은 아직 많이 알려지지 않았다. 겉으로는 민간인 살상 최소화를 위한 프로세스를 얘기하는 드론 프로그램에서 이탈한 내부고발자들의 이야기는 충격적이다. 교전 이라기 보단 학살이 될 수도 있는 모니터 속을 지켜본 그들의 증언을 다큐

영국 항공방위 산업체 BAE와 록히드 마틴사에 대한 조사를 통해 세계 최고위층 사이에 무기 거래가 어떻게 이루어지고, 이와 관련된 부정부패가 외교 정책에 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 다룬 다큐멘터리. 나아가, 영화는 무기 거래가 현재 우리가 알고 있는 국제 안보정세와 끊임없이 계속되는 전쟁의 국면을 어떻게 변화시키며, 이 같은 무기들이 우리를 어떻게 공격하고 미래 기술을 얼마나 위협하는지에 대해 경고한다. (2016년 제13회 EBS국제다큐영화제)

Mobilizing working-class transgender hairdressers and beauty queens, the dynamic leaders of the world's only LGBT political party wage a historic quest to elect a trans woman to the Philippine Congress.

Like millions of indigenous people, many Native American tribes do not control their own material history and culture. For the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes living on the isolated Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, new contact with lost artifacts risks opening old wounds but also offers the possibility for healing. What Was Ours is the story of how a young journalist and a teenage powwow princess, both of the Arapaho tribe, travelled together with a Shoshone elder in search of missing artifacts in the vast archives of Chicago’s Field Museum. There they discover a treasure trove of ancestral objects, setting them on a journey to recover what has been lost and build hope for the future.

When 24-year-old Hend Nafea is arrested and tortured for demonstrating peacefully in Cairo's Tahrir Square, her pursuit of justice reflects post-revolution Egypt at an uncertain crossroads.

The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal activity; but this is an essential story, vibrant, human; a living and breathing chronicle of a pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.

Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American lesbians are violently and sexually threatened by a man on the street. They defend themselves against him and are charged and convicted in the courts and in the media as a 'Gang of Killer Lesbians'.

캘리포니아의 재정난과 지원금 감축이 야기한 위기 상황 아래서 버클리 대학의 사람들뿐 아니라 정부 지원을 받아 운용되는 공공 교육의 시스템, 민주적인 의사참여 방식, 대학 구성원들의 헌신을 기록한다.

'또 다른 전쟁'은 미국이 가장 수치스러워하며 은폐하고자 하는 문제 중의 하나인 군대 내 성폭력 확산에 관한 획기적인 고발 다큐멘터리이다. 오늘날, 이라크와 아프가니스탄에 주둔하는 여군은 적의 총격에 의해 사망하기보다 동료 군인에 의해 강간당하기 더 쉽다. 몇몇 젊은 여성들의 강력한 실제 사례를 바탕으로 영화는 범죄의 구조적 은폐를 드러내는 한편, 삶을 회복하기 위한 그녀들의 투쟁과 정의를 향한 싸움을 추적한다. '또 다른 전쟁'은 고위 군사장교, 의원들과의 직설적인 인터뷰를 통해 군대 내 강간을 지속시키는 완벽한 조건들, 그 은폐의 역사를 폭로하면서 변화를 위해서 무엇이 선행되어야 하는지를 보여준다.

Upon returning to their countryside cabin one day, Kaya, his wife Helen, and their daughter Naomi are confronted by two suited men: representatives of the San Francisco Remigration Program. The men explain that San Francisco is now occupied entirely by the wealthy class. But stoplights still burn out and trains occasionally jump their rails. Blue-collar labor isn't obsolete, but it's scarce. The city has created a program to "remigrate" long-gone working class families from their inland homes back to the city that once pushed them out. Kaya, Helen, and Naomi return to San Francisco and join a handful of other potential remigrants for a tour of what can be expected in their new lives. But can they learn to trust their old home once again?

1980년대 뉴욕 예술계에 혜성처럼 나타나, 현재까지도 자유와 저항 정신의 대명사로 많은 사랑을 받고 있는 아티스트 장 미쉘 바스키아의 인터뷰와 아카이브 영상을 수록한 다큐멘터리. 바스키아 사후 10년이 지나서야 공개되었다. 감독 탐라 데이비스가 1985년에 직접 촬영한 바스키아의 인터뷰 영상을 중심으로 유명 아티스트, 큐레이터, 갤러리스트, 가장 친밀했던 주변 인물들의 기억 속에 살아있는 바스키아와 마치 불꽃 같았던 그의 예술혼을 생생히 묘사한다.

A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.

He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Meet Herb and Dorothy Vogel, whose shared passion and disciplines and defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector.

Marko and Atanas are two friends whose lives would be sweet as strudel but for an annoying little problem with their papers. They need a European passport and they are prepared to do almost anything to get one, including buying a wife. With nothing but their brass necks and 7,000 euros, they set out to find the woman of their dreams.

A Chilean judge uncovers long buried secrets of former dictator Augusto Pinochet and, in the process, must confront his own role in that dark past.

A born rebel and innovator, Lupe Yoli aka La Lupe or La Yiyiyi was renowned for her emotional performances. Her renditions of classics such as "My Way," "Fever" and "Going Out of My Head" were known worldwide. But beyond her musicianship, celebrity and scandal, Lupe Yoli was also a single mother of two, a survivor of domestic abuse, a Santera who later became a Christian Evangelist speaker.

Outlawed in Pakistan tells the story of Kainat Soomro as she takes her rape case to Pakistan's deeply flawed court system in hopes of getting justice. The 13-year-old Kainat accuses four men of gang rape and shortly after is ordered to be killed by her village elders. Spanning over five years, the story is told through the perspective of Kainat and the four men accused of her rape.

Jeff Chang visits East Palo Alto, a historically Black and Latino community in the heart of Silicon Valley, to hang out with rapper, dancer and performer Isaiah Phillips a.k.a. Randy McPhly, who appeared in Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” video. They talk about the domino effects of gentrification.