FILMS FOR JUSTICE
Films
Current Films: Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power, which won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary, is in distribution and can be streamed on Amazon Prime. It tells the story of Congresswoman Barbara Lee's decades-long career of fighting for social and economic justice in Congress and across the globe. Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter,(co-directed with Christy Carpenter) premiered in 2024 at SXSW, has been screened at 9 film festivals, including DOC NYC, DC/DOX and Virginia Film Festival, and won several awards, including Best Documentary from the Hill Country Film Festival and Best Biographical Film from the Toronto Women Film Festival. Judging Juries, a short film about the lack of representation of African Americans and Latinos on juries due in part to the abysmal rates of juror pay across the country, has won several awards and was featured at the Pan African, Martha's Vineyard African American, Reel Sisters and DC Black Film Festivals. Abby Ginzberg produced A Double Life (directed by Catherine Masud) which premiered at the Mill lValley Film Festival, reveals the gripping true story of Stephen Bingham, a lawyer accused of passing a gun to prisoners’ rights leader George Jackson in 1971. Forced into a life on the run, Bingham spends 13 years underground, eluding capture while fiercely determined to clear his name. Waging Change, a documentary about the challenges faced by restaurant servers surviving on a sub-minimum wage of $2.13 an hour and their fight for One Fair Wage, featuring Saru Jayaraman, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin, is available on Apple TV. And Then They Came for Us, documents the unconstitutional incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII and challenges its use as precedent for a Muslim ban or registry, such as that engineered by the Trump administration in 2016. Agents of Change (co-directed by Frank Dawson) is a compelling documentary about the black-led student protest movement of the late 1960s and its impact on creating Black and Ethnic Studies programs nationwide. Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa, which won a Peabody award in 2015, has screened at festivals worldwide and won four audience awards for Best Documentary.
We are currently in post production on Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold and on two segments of a docu-series entitled, She Dared to Dream, featuring Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Senator-Elect, Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
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Feel free to explore each film's website to learn more about their stories and production details.