Film

Local filmmaker Tom Hayes will be present to discuss the issues covered in his brilliant new documentary that explores the passionate debate among Israeli citizens about their government’s Occupation of Palestine. The film deftly splices together dueling creeds, and the result is electrifying, because it’s a split so rarely displayed on U.S. screens. The movie shows competing views of Judaism: a religious entitlement to land versus a spiritual commitment to freeing the oppressed, asking whether Jews are safer segregated or connected to other humanity.

Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, governance, and on. The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience. For those familiar, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what’s possible — what kind of projects and solutions are already underway.

Shadows of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control.

Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes a journey through the darker corridors of the U.S. media where global conglomerates call the shots. For decades, their overwhelming influence has distorted news journalism and compromised its values.

Inhabit is a feature length documentary introducing permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, governance, and on. The film presents a vast array of projects, concepts, and people, and it translates the diversity of permaculture into something that can be understood by an equally diverse audience. For those familiar, it will be a call to action and a glimpse into what’s possible — what kind of projects and solutions are already underway.

Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, and is a primary driver of rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, topsoil erosion, ocean “dead zones,” and virtually every other environmental ill.

This documentary investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality, but also a growing problem placing us on the brink of disaster. The film details the people and organizations casting doubt on climate science and claims that greenhouse gases are not affected by human behavior.

The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar — the black church and reveals the Christian right wing’s strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda.

Police shootings of citizens in Columbus are almost always ruled as justified, the Columbus Dispatch reported. “Of seven cities surveyed by The Dispatch — all similar in size to Columbus — Columbus had the second-highest rate of police shootings, both fatal and nonfatal, in 2013. Last year, the city ranked fourth, at 1.1 shootings per 100,000.”

To highlight the need for a civilian review board to investigate officer-involved shootings, videographer Will Delphia has compiled a newsreel of footage from the local and regional #BlackLivesMatter movement.

I’m Not Racist . . . Am I? is a feature documentary about how this next generation is going to confront racism. We asked twelve teenagers from New York City to come together for one school year to talk about race and privilege in a series of workshops and in conversations with friends and family members. None of these teens think that the racial rules of their parents’ generation apply to them today. Through some tense and painful moments, we see how these difficult conversations begin to affect their relationships and ultimately challenge them to look deep within themselves.

This feature-length documentary is an intimate portrait of an artist that illuminates one of gender theory’s most influential minds. Cited by IndieWire as one of the must-see films of the 2014 festival circuit, director Sam Feder’s film captures the many facets of this queer hero and pioneering gender outlaw.