Film Showcase Registration
Changemakers, Gamechangers Panel
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Anne Lai
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Boots Riley
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Deniese Davis
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Franklin Leonard
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Michelle Satter
A MILLION DOLLAR CAGE - Los Angeles County has the largest juvenile justice system in the country, Black and brown youth in Los Angeles have been shuttled into a system that looks to cages over care. Kent Mendoza, was one of those young people, and now works to make sure our kids won’t face a similar fate. A Million Dollar Cage follows Kent's journey as he fights to transform L.A. County’s youth justice system and create alternatives to incarceration.
BLACK GIRLS, a Never Whisper Justice story, follows the stories of Black women who transcend beyond their adversities to become advocates in their community. The film is an exploration of intergenerational healing that traces the spectrum of advocacy among Black women from a variety of angles.
CLEAR - Ember Bearheart Johnson's first day at home after a 16-year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Reuniting with her daughter, who was an infant at the time she was incarcerated, is bittersweet as she uncovers how her family's lives have gone on without her after all these years.
DOUBLE SMOOTH -A final domino game become an unlikely life lesson and life line for a shot caller and short timer in the throws of the prison system.
FLIGHT - From Jamaica, the little island of big dreams, an inner city youth Kemar has the biggest dream of all – to fly to the moon. At its core, this is a story that explores dreams bigger than us, what fuels them, what stands in the way of them, their ability to transport us and those around us, if they take FLIGHT.
THE OTHER SIDE - On a train ride to the afterlife, a man attempts to alter his fate to be with the son that he never knew.
UNSEEN - An aspiring social worker, Pedro must confront political restrictions as a blind, undocumented immigrant to get his college degree and support his family. But when attaining his dreams leads to new and unexpected challenges, what will Pedro do?
WHEN THEY COME FOR US - We follow the interconnected stories of Black people living their lives in what eventually comes to feel like the end of days. Each vignette captures some form of interruption — interruption of Black life, joy, even just being - where our characters have to question their own existence or survival.
Meet the Filmmakers
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Kent Mendoza,
Producer, A Million Dollar Cage
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Kyndra Kennedy,
Director, A Million Dollar Cage
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Maya Washington,
Writer & Director, Clear
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Andre Rodriguez,
Writer & Director, Double Smooth
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Kia Moses,
Writer & Director, Flight
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Erik Phillip,
Writer & Director, The Other Side
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Dorian Gómez Pestaña,
Co-Producer, Unseen
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Set Hernandez,
Producer & Director, Unseen
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Andre Muir,
Director, When They Come For Us
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