The Territory, (2022) documentary, 1 hr 25 min
Friday, May 19
6:00 P.M. Screening | 7:30 P.M. Impact Event
Konover Auditorium, The Dodd Center for Human Rights

Screening followed by an impact panel with the filmmakers and protagonists to learn more about their experience making the film and their continued engaged activism. Read more…

Workshop – “Innovating Impact: Films for Social Change”
Saturday, May 20
10:00  – 11:30 A.M.
Dodd Center Lounge, The Dodd Center for Human Rights

Thinking beyond the box office and film festival circuit, how do we achieve meaningful, transformative impact through filmmaking? In this workshop, several filmmakers and producers will share their insight and strategies around impact campaigns that aim to reach communities and change policy through dissemination of – and engagement in –  films in new and novel ways.  Read more…

Clarissa’s Battle, (2022) documentary, 1 hr 30 min
Saturday, May 20
2:00 P.M. Screening | 3:30 P.M. Impact Event
Konover Auditorium, The Dodd Center for Human Rights

Screening followed by an impact panel. Clarissa Doutherd and filmmaker Tamara Perkins will join a panel of local policy-makers and Connecticut-based community organizers to examine the challenges related to accessible childcare and funding for early childhood education and opportunities for advocacy and policy change. Read more…

A Reckoning in Boston, (2021) documentary, 1 hr 23
Saturday, May 20
5:00 P.M. Screening | 6:45 P.M. Encounters Dialogue & Dinner
Konover Auditorium, The Dodd Center for Human Rights

Screening followed by an Encounters Dialogue immediately following the film. Encounters is a style of community dialogue that fosters facilitated, small-group discussion followed by a question-and-answer style conversation. The dialogue will explore the film’s key themes of access to affordable housing and the long legacy of racism in Boston and will engage the filmmaker, James Rutenbeck, production teams and protagonists, Kafi Dixon and Carl Chandler. Read more…

Midnight Traveler, (2019) documentary, 1 hr 28 min
Sunday, May 21
1:00 P.M. Screening | 2:30 P.M. Impact Event
Konover Auditorium, The Dodd Center for Human Rights

Screening followed by a post-show impact event with filmmaker and protagonist Hassan Fazili and Connecticut-based advocates to discuss how films such as Midnight Traveler may be used to foster community engagement and awareness of the challenges asylum seekers and refugees face. Read more…

Azad, multimedia puppetry performance, 1 hr 30 min (work-in-progress)
Sunday, May 21
4:00 PM 
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry

Azad (“Free” in Armenian) is a kaleidoscopic story within a story within a story, centered on a storyteller’s discovery of her great-great grandfather’s handmade Karagöz shadow puppets in Aleppo during the Syrian war, a century after he salvaged his family and his art from the Armenian Genocide. Read more…