Paula Palacios is a Spanish documentary filmmaker primarily interested in producing films about women and refugees.
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Radical civil rights attorney, Larry Krasner, leads a band of activists who set out to end mass incarceration by taking over the agency at its center: the district attorney’s office. Embedded behind closed doors, the film watches an unprecedented criminal justice experiment unfold to ask: can outsiders reform a system from within?
Since 1948, when the State of Israel was established and its legislature — the Knesset — first convened, Palestinian lawmakers have served alongside Jewish ones. Were we to listen to a curated collection of 3-minute speeches delivered by these indigenous parliamentarians in the congress of their colonizers — like a relay race across the generations and against the political odds — what would we hear?
As cowboys meet at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, they confront myths, old and new, to try and save the land they love.
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The new leader of the opposition party, MDC, Nelson Chamisa, is challenging the old guard, ZANU-PF, represented by the acting president Emmerson Mnangagwa.
A group of survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests battle for justice and collaborate to create fictional scenes depicting rituals of power in the church.
Through a generational lens, Q explores the filmmaker, her mother, and her grandmother's relationship to God, trauma and womanhood.
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Q: Into The Storm, a six-part documentary series from director Cullen Hoback (Terms and Conditions May Apply) and executive producer Adam Mc
QUEST is an intimate documentary film that captures ten years in the life of an African-American family living in North Philadelphia.
The Radicals tells the harrowing story of ISIS from the perspective of the mothers of “foreign fighters”, as they attempt to grapple with the sudden and disruptive transformation of the world around them.
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Miami is ground zero for sea level rise. So the rich must move inland from the low-lying beaches, but where will they go?
A debate over healthcare has been raging nationwide, but what's been lost in the discussion are the American citizens who live day after day, year after year without solutions for their most basic
RICH HILL chronicles the tormented lives of impoverished kids in a dying Midwestern town, who struggle to discover self-worth and to imagine a brighter future.
Exploring the unsolved murder of celebrated Indigenous activist Annie Mae Aquash, we uncover a mysterious and complicated web of deception spun over the course of several decades. Annie Mae is one of thousands who make up the staggering number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. By reframing her story, the film hopes to shed light on this current epidemic.
Ringside, previously The Punch, tells the story of a fateful relationship of a father and his son and their shared fragile dream. It is a tale of failure and hope – and what it means to live with dignity.
Rintu Thomas is the director and producer of Writing With Fire & Untitled Rintu Thomas Project.
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1968: Massive civil unrest, followed by a rare chance for justice. Riotsville, USA is the untold story of what we did instead.
A story about giant swamp rats invading coastal Louisiana and the defiant people on the edge of the world, who are defending their communities, culture, and livelihoods from the onslaught of this curious and unexpected invasive species.
The story of a football town divided, ROLL RED ROLL is an true crime thriller examining sexual assault in small town America.
An animated documentary exploring the crisis in the criminal justice system and US racial divide through the eyes of one family.
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Seeds is a portrait of a 138 year-old African-American centennial farm in Thomasville, Georgia.
College is supposed to be the best years of a young adult’s life, filled with personal exploration, sex, parties and intellectual growth.
A poetic and personal cinematic meditation on displacement and loss, 'Skin of Glass' follows filmmaker Denise Zmekhol’s journey after discovering that her late father's most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil, has become occupied by hundreds of homeless families.
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An incarcerated musician struggles for healing and peace as he comes of age in this documentary-musical odyssey composed behind bars.
an abolitionist science fiction hybrid documentary. The film is set in a future where there are no prisons or police, looking back at how today's movements built that future.
Three Native Hawaiian families dedicate their lives to defending their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope.
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Art Cullen and his family fight to be the journalistic voice of their rural Iowan farming community through their biweekly newspaper, The Storm Lake Times.
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A gripping investigation of unmarked graves at an Indian residential school unearths secrets below and above ground, igniting a reckoning in the lives of surv
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Swinging Fields follows an eleven-year-old boy who was born as a result of a mass wedding in the internationally unrecognized region of Nagorno-Karab
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A Kenyan woman's search for her father's remains becomes an investigation into British colonial atrocities including concentration camps and land theft.
At a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at-risk students command of their own futures. This coming-of-age story watches education combat the crippling effects of poverty in the lives of these so-called "bad kids."
A former Marine and a public school teacher in two different states find themselves broke and unable to sustain their livelihoods through their jobs.
A Navajo coal miner raising his secretive daughter on his own, struggles with his part in the irreversible destruction of their sacred mountain.
Pulls back the curtain on local American politics during an unprecedented moment when the City of Baltimore and the United States is in the midst of a fight over justice and equity.