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Social Work
Social Work
17 AND LIFE DOESN'T WAIT
a candid view of life through the eyes of three teen girls
A PLACE TO BREATHE
explores the universality of trauma, resilience, and healing in immigrant communities
A TALE OF THREE CHINATOWNS
The history, evolution and challenges faced by Chinatowns in three American cities
ABORTION: ADD TO CART
With increasing burdens on clinics, activists are combining the power of abortion pills and the internet to provide self-managed abortions in a revolutionary way
ALL THAT I AM
The story of an extraordinarily courageous young woman on a path to recovery
ALWAYS IN SEASON
After 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging in North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins - centuries of trauma and lynching bleed into the present
AND SO I STAYED
The stories of incarcerated abuse survivors fighting for their lives shows how the legal system gets domestic violence wrong
ANOTHER WORD FOR LEARNING
WHEN AISHA DECIDES TO QUIT SCHOOL, HER MOTHER, TROUBLED BY HER OWN COLONIAL EDUCATION, SEES THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM BOTH TO RECONNECT WITH THEIR KWAKWAKA'WAKW CULTURE.
AUTISM IN LOVE
Autistic adults navigate the challenges of dating and romantic relationships
BEING MICHELLE
a deaf woman with autism who survived incarceration and abuse uses her artwork to depict the trauma and heal from her past
CAREGIVER: A Love Story
A woman’s heroic decision to take control of the end of her life creates complex, unexpected challenges for her caregiver husband
CHINATOWN
Three senior activists fight for housing rights in DC’s historic Chinatown
CLARISSA'S BATTLE
A single mother’s fight for child care for all
CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIAL BULLY
Twenty-year-old Natasha bravely reflects on her past as a middle school bully
CROW COUNTRY: OUR RIGHT TO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Tribal members on the Crow Reservation fight for better food and a better future for their community
CURTAIN UP!
While preparing to stage the musical Frozen, Chinatown kids discover their own cultural identities
DALYA'S OTHER COUNTRY
A Syrian teen attempts to balance her new life in L.A. while maintaining her Islamic traditions
DEATH IS BUT A DREAM
While studying the dreams of the dying, a research team uncovers a genuinely uplifting look at death
DECADE OF FIRE
The South Bronx is burning. Stay, fight, build.
EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL
One Black man's journey from straight-A student to bank robber — and back
EXILED
Two military veterans, both green card immigrants willing to die for America, get deported
FOR A BETTER LIFE - BITCHITRA COLLECTIVE
Sold for $100 at the age of five, a young man seeks to forgive the birth family he believed abandoned him
GIVE AND TAKE
An inside look at the community fridge movement in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic
GUEST HOUSE
the story of three women in a re-entry house as they battle addiction & recidivism
HUNGRY TO LEARN
THE HIGHEST COST OF COLLEGE MIGHT BE YOUR HEALTH
IF YOU CAN EVER GET BACK
US army combat medics who served in Iraq’s “triangle of death" struggle to find their place in the civilian world and to lay to rest their wartime ghosts
INNER WOUND REAL
The stories of three BIPOC folks who self-injure, then find new ways to cope
JULIA SCOTTI: FUNNY THAT WAY
The moving, funny, and triumphant comeback story of trans comedian, Julia Scotti, “the crazy old lady of comedy”
LIQUOR STORE DREAMS
A portrait of two second generation Korean Americans trying to create their own future by honoring their parent’s past through understanding and healing
LOVE & STUFF
Grieving her beloved mother and living amidst 63 boxes of dead parents’ stuff, one transformative “YES” turns filmmaker Judith Helfand into a 50-year-old new mother
MEDICATING NORMAL
the untold story of what can happen when profit-driven medicine intersects with human beings in distress
MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART
25 years after Miguel died of AIDS, his niece tracks down his estranged lover and cracks open a Pandora’s box of unresolved family drama
MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY
AN INTIMATE LOOK AT THE MIGRANT DEATH CRISIS IN A SMALL TEXAS TOWN
NO MÁS BEBÉS
Mexican-American women fighting for justice after being sterilized against their will
OF TWO MINDS
Take your best day and your darkest moment and multiply it by a million
ON THE DIVIDE
The story of three Latinx people in McAllen, Texas connected by the last abortion clinic on the U.S./Mexico border
OUR AMERICAN FAMILY
Five family members fight to find hope, heal resentments, and pull each other out of the depths of addiction
OUT OF STATE
Native men return to Hawaii after their cultural reawakening at a private prison in the Arizona desert
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Three seniors at Brooklyn high schools are determined to get their entire class to college
PLAN C
A grassroots network fights to expand access to abortion pills across the United States keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v. Wade
PLEASE REMEMBER ME
Octogenarians Feng and Lou have been inseparable for over 40 years, but aging and illness threaten their deep bond
POSSIBLE SELVES
Two teens pursue college dreams while growing up in the unstable world of foster care
PURPLE DREAMS
FOLLOW AT-RISK THEATRE STUDENTS WHO TURN STEREOTYPES ABOUT YOUTH UPSIDE DOWN IN THIS EMOTIONAL AND ENTERTAINING JOURNEY
REBOUND
Carrying the weight of motherhood, trauma, and incarceration, two women find healing and hope through sisterhood, service, and education
RECOVERING RUFFIN
PHD STUDENT RUFFIN WHITE OVERCOMES THE GRIM PREDICTIONS FOR HIS FUTURE AFTER A SEVERE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER DIAGNOSIS
SAM NOW
Sam Harkness and his half brother Reed go on a road trip to find their missing mom, but solving the mystery of her disappearance is only the beginning of their 25-year quest for answers.
SEPA, NUESTRO SEÑOR DE LOS MILAGROS
The story of a prison without bars forgotten in the Peruvian Amazon
SILENT BEAUTY
A lyrical and sensitive autobiographical exploration of the filmmaker’s family history with child sexual abuse and a culture of silence
SOLITARY
A daring exploration of one of America's most notorious supermax prisons
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
Chinese adoptees navigate their multicultural identities and adolescence
STUMPED
An extraordinary journey through tragedy, comedy and restoration
TEACHER OF PATIENCE
After Emily Felter is diagnosed with Down syndrome, her father, paramedic Tom Felter, develops a presentation to share her story with other first responders.
THE BAD KIDS
An extraordinary principal’s journey to help her students realize their potential
THE FIRST STEP
In a divided America, Van Jones attempts to bring people together to pass a landmark criminal justice bill — and finds himself under fire from all sides
THE ONLY DOCTOR
In one of Georgia’s poorest and unhealthiest counties, Dr. Karen Kinsell struggles to keep her rural clinic open to provide the only local healthcare available for forty miles.
THE PRICE OF FAIRNESS
A documentary questioning our understanding of fairness and what it takes to change unfair systems, from India and Costa Rica to the USA
THE PUSHOUTS
People call them "Dropouts." They tell a different story.
THE S WORD
A suicide attempt survivor is on a mission to find fellow survivors
THE THREE OF US
A young Orthodox, Jewish couple is fighting to integrate their autistic son into Israeli society. To fulfill that dream, they are willing to risk everything.
THE UNAFRAID
They are undocumented. They are unapologetic. They are THE UNAFRAID.
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