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Mama Gloria

This is a featured presentation of our Come As You Are program area. Meet Mama Gloria. Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen, now in her 70s, blazed a trail for trans people like few others...

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La Madrina: The [Savage] Life of Lorine Padilla

This is a featured presentation of our Nothing About Us Without Us program area. La Madrina: The [Savage] Life of Lorine Padilla is a feature length documentary about a beloved South Bronx matriarch...

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Julia Scotti: Funny That Way

This is a featured presentation of our Resilience through Uncertainty program area. In the comedy boom of the late 1980’s Rick Scotti was a busy guy—appearing in clubs across the country, on bills with...

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Jacinta

This is a featured presentation of our Discovery program area. Filmed for over three years, Jacinta begins at the Maine Correctional Center where Jacinta, 26, and her mother Rosemary, 46, are...

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How It Feels To Be Free

This is a featured presentation of our Tear it Down: Dismantling White Supremacy program area. How It Feels to Be Free takes an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists,...

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End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock

This is a featured presentation of our Tear it Down: Dismantling White Supremacy program area. End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock is the incredible story of a small group of indigenous women...

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Denise Ho – Becoming the Song

This is a featured presentation of our Imagining a New Future program area. Denise Ho – Becoming the Song profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on...

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Coded Bias

This is a featured presentation of our Making it Happen: Women in STEM program area. When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that most facial-recognition software misidentifies women and...

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Belly of the Beast

This is a featured presentation of our A Look at Health program area. The pastoral farmlands surrounding the Central California Women’s Facility, the world’s largest women’s prison, help conceal the...

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Ahead of the Curve

This is a featured presentation of our Imagining a New Future program area. Ahead of the Curve is the story of one of the most influential women in lesbian history you’ve never heard of and the impact...

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