Story Leads To Action.
Working Films uses documentaries to advance social justice and environmental protection.
FEATURED PROJECTS
The 2022 Rural Cinema Cohort
Rural Cinema is a program that trains environmental justice organizers to use film screenings to bring people together and solve challenges facing their communities. The program provides grassroots groups and organizations with film screening equipment by EPIC Outdoor Cinema (projectors, screens, speakers), solar batteries to run the equipment, and funding…
READ MORE »2021 Cucalorus Works-in-Progress Lab
The Works-in-Progress Lab (WiP) is a partnership between Cucalorus and Working Films that supports the audience engagement and impact strategies of social issue documentaries being made by Black filmmakers. The week-long residency is a key program of the annual Cucalorus. Five filmmakers receive extensive community feedback during a series of…
READ MORE »We’re Hiring A Communications Lead!
WORKING FILMS is seeking a Communications Lead with a passion for social justice, documentary film, and the power of storytelling to join our team! This position will participate in strategic communications planning and implementation, lead press and media relations, manage Working Films’ website and social media posting, produce our monthly…
READ MORE »The 2021 Rural Cinema Cohort
Rural Cinema is a training institute and community engagement program resourcing leaders from rural areas and small towns across the United States to use films in their work for environmental justice and protection. The program supports participants in holding screening events that engage their communities and advance their goals over…
READ MORE »ANNOUNCING THE 2021 DOCS IN ACTION FILM FUND RECIPIENTS
The history of the prison industrial complex is rooted in slavery and colonization, with an inherent purpose of reinforcing oppressive social and economic injustices. It’s driven by market forces that use surveillance, policing, violence and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social, and political problems. It is exacted by police officers,…
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