JustFilms Collection
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The Unafraid
The Unafraid follows the personal lives of three DACA students in Georgia, a state that has banned them from attending their top state universities and disqualifies them from receiving in-state tuition at any other public college.
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Dark Money
Dark Money follows an intrepid local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
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Blowin’ Up
Working within a broken criminal justice system, a team of rebel heroines work to change the way women who are arrested for prostitution are prosecuted.
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Grit
Grit is the story of ordinary citizens in East Java, Indonesia who have spent the past seven years living with the results of fracking gone terribly wrong and their fight to seek justice from the corporate powers accused of this disaster.
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The Pushouts
The Pushouts tells the story of Victor Rios – once a gang-involved teen and now a celebrated University of California professor – examining the role positive mentorship can play in disrupting the school to prison pipeline.
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The Foreigner’s Home
The Foreigner’s Home explores the vision and work of Toni Morrison through The Foreigner’s Home the 2006 exhibition she guest-curated at the Louvre. Through exclusive footage of Morrison in dialogue with artists, the film presents a series of candid and incisive exchanges about race, identity, “foreignness,” and art’s redemptive power.
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King in the Wilderness
King in the Wilderness chronicles the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.
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Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Hale County This Morning, This Evening boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks that have historically constricted the expression of African American men on film. In the lives of protagonists Daniel and Quincy, poetic comparisons are drawn between historical symbols and the African American banal.
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The Awavena Effect
Awavena is a collaboration between a community and an artist, melding technology and transcendent experience so that a vision can be shared, and a story told of a people ascending from the edge of extinction.
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Cooked: Survival By Zip Code
A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of disaster, and survival by zip code. Peabody Award winning filmmaker Judith Helfand sets out on a quest to see if America’s disaster preparedness industry could be used to tackle what might be the deadliest man-made disaster of all: extreme poverty.
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Bei Bei
Bei Bei Shuai, a Chinese immigrant living in Indianapolis, and her lawyer Linda Pence battle charges of murder and attempted feticide. Bei Bei’s crime? Attempting suicide while pregnant.
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During Revolution (Fi Al-Thawra)
A woman wants to see the transformative Syrian revolution, beyond the media images. She follows a group of young revolutionaries who work for democracy with the help of language, cameras and weapons.