A curated selection of six short documentaries at the intersection of cinematic storytelling and journalism. Films include:
- 8 DAYS AT WARE
Director: Rachel Lauren Mueller and Meg Shutzer
Two back-to-back suicides at a juvenile detention center in rural Louisiana raise troubling questions about the state’s justice system and exposes a legacy of abuse and neglect. - BLUE ROOM
Director: Merete Mueller
Incarcerated participants in a mental health experiment watch nature videos on loop, prompting them to reflect on isolation and the wilderness. - THE FAMILY STATEMENT
Director: Garce Harper-Brighthouse, Kate Stonehill
A brief poignant meditation on corporate accountability, denial, and pain in the context of the opioid crisis, told through the Sackler Family’s WhatsApp messages. - THE OTHER LITTLE BLACK BOOK
Director: Barbara Corbellini Duarte and Mark Adam Miller
In mid-December 2020, the global news publication, Insider, received an unusual tip: A man living on a farm in Vermont claimed to possess an address book belonging to Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s—one that predated his already infamous “little black book” by nearly a decade. - SEALED IN BLOOD
Director: Sofian Khan - Through the story of journalist Steven Sotloff, taken hostage by ISIS in 2013, Sealed InBlood looks at the origins of the American no negotiation policy that made his tragic murder a foregone conclusion, while many of the Europeans captives went home.
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STRANDS OF RESISTANCE
Director: Brent E. Huffman
An underground railroad into Pakistan offered Uyghur Muslims a route to safety. But the only country in the world founded as a Muslim nation is no longer a safe haven for the Uyghurs.