Social Justice

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

By Lorry Kikta | November 2018

Documentarian Judith Helfand has long been known to either produce or direct films that address the human side of environmental decline and…

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Documentarian Judith Helfand has long been known to either produce or direct films that address the human side of environmental decline and collapse, which...

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Decade of Fire is a harrowing, heart-wrenching documentary, but before narrowing its focus to the devastation that plagued New York's South Bronx...

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The current crime epidemic in Baltimore is so multifaceted that it’s hard to have a productive conversation about it. So when viewers, particularly from...

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Intelligent Lives follows three young people: Naieer Shaheed is a high school kid with a panache for art, with hopes to attend college. Micah Feldman is...

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Children play with a battery light. A plane falls from the sky behind a toddler’s blurry eyes. A group of grown men make shadows with a Chick-fil-A...

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Running for your life, while escaping bombs from a warring government and militant fighters, caught in a battle of total annihilation. Romanticized, this...

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Amidst the pointless sequels and deafening blockbusters, this summer at the movies has brought with it a surprisingly astute dissection of race in America,...

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I remember when I first saw She's Gotta Have It in 1986. It was like a smack in the face, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed. At the time, portrayals of...

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Early on in writer/director Tyler Pina's short film 88 Cents, protagonist Thomas (Matthew Weitz) encounters a homeless man begging for change on a San...

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I really hate that phrase “In this current climate.” An almost certain indicator, I’m going to use it immediately. So, here we go. In this current...

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