3500+ Films - 2.5 million words – 1 million viewers! Founder and Curator Carmela selects some of our most entertaining, powerful and inspiring Democracy films at We Are Moving Stories. These include shorts and feature length documentaries - about democratic rights, voting rights, water rights, housing rights: the films of Tyler Chase, a divided America, Donald Trump - in both the US and internationally.
Total length of this section: 21 films.
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What Is Democracy? Featuring a diverse cast – including celebrated philosophers, trauma surgeons, factory workers, refugees, and politicians – What Is Democracy? connects past and present, emotion and the intellect, the personal and the political, to provoke and inspire. If we want to live in democracy, we must first ask what the word even means. Length: 107 minutes. Producer Lea Marin:
Baghdad on Fire - With intimate access to Tiba and her friends we join young Iraqi women and men who side by side are fighting for democracy in Iraq. Tiba’s life is changing dramatically while she is taking part in the biggest youth movement in Iraq's history. Length: 31 minutes. Writer/Director Karrar Al-Azzawi:
Freedom for the Wolf -This film is about the world's most radical idea - freedom - and how it is transforming the world. It is about how people all over the globe - from Tunisian rappers to Indian comedians, from America's #BlackLivesMatter activists to Hong Kong's students - are joining the struggle for freedom. Length: 90 minutes. Writer/Director Rupert Russell:
The Day I Had To Grow Up You're never too young to start making a change. Length: 17 minutes. Stefano Da Frè and Laura Pellegrini:
Arrested (Again) - A San Francisco activist puts her body on the line for what she believes in. Length: 5 minutes. Director/Producer Dan Goldes:
Listen - Exiled from her homeland of Myanmar, revolutionary artist Chaw Ei Thein uses performance art and artwork to raise awareness about political repression, manifest her dissent, and express her fears and inner struggles. Length: 13 minutes. Writer/Director/Producer Min Min Hein:
The Last Doll Lady - In the 1950s a program called Dolls for Democracy was started. Women known as "doll ladies" would travel to local schools and teach children, through the use of hand carved wooden character dolls, about why racism and intolerance are wrong. Selma Bukstein was one of the original doll ladies. 60 years later and at the age of 91, she is the last doll lady. The Last Doll Lady follows Selma's efforts to revitalize the program and pass on its legacy to a new generation. Length: 22 minutes. Writer/Director/Producer Taryn Hough:
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Capturing The Flag - A tight-knit group of friends travel to the North Carolina county named 2016 “posterchild” for voter suppression, intent on proving that the big idea of American democracy can be defended by small acts of individual citizens. Length: 75 minutes. Director Anne de Mare:
One Voice: A Voting Conversation - A conversation about the American vote. Length: 24 minutes. Writer/Director Talora Michal:
Third Candidates A political documentary that asks: Why is it rare, not normal, to see more than two major candidates? Length: 21-24 minute 4 episodes. Co-writer/director/producer Jake Simms:
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From Flint - tells the story of the Flint water crisis from the perspective of the citizens who experience this crisis first hand. Length: 24 minutes. Producer Liv Larsen:
Thirst For Justice - In the face of official denial and repression, extraordinary citizens fight for clean water. Can they succeed? Writer/Director/Producer Leana Hosea:
<HOUSING RIGHTS: THE FILMS OF TYLER CHASE>
Sweet Soul in Exile is an odic encapsulation of the eviction of prominent sculptor, Deborah Masters from her loft of twenty years at 475 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn NY. Length: 8 minutes. Director Tyler A. Chase and Producer Lisette Cevallos:
A Castle in Brooklyn, King Arthur - Filmed over a period of seven years, A Castle in Brooklyn, King Arthur, narrated by Golden Globe Award winner, Brian Cox, brings us through the doors of the Broken Angel building and to its creator, the visionary, Arthur Wood as he clings to his life’s work, the Broken Angel building an icon of the bohemian artist culture that once permeated Brooklyn. The Fairy Tale is over… Length: 101 minutes. Writer/Director/Producer Tyler A. Chase:
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American Psychosis - Pulitzer-prize winning Journalist, Author and Activist Chris Hedges, discusses modern day consumerism, totalitarian corporate power and living in a culture dominated by pervasive illusion. Length: 15 minutes. Director/Producer Amanda Zackem:
My America - An Uber-perspective on today's divided America. One episode for each of the six days leading up to the election. 38 mins total (each episode 5-8 mins). Filmmakers Anna Jones and Jamel Davall:
“We made our web series last year – writing it in the summer and fall of 2016, and shooting & editing it in late October/early November in order to release the series across the five days leading up to November 8th and on the election day. We wrote it as a response to the chaotic politics of that time in order to find a catharsis and make sense of the complicated political system from an everyday standpoint.”
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You Can't Hear Me - A socio-political outcry about the state of America in the wake of the Trump administration; told entirely in spoken word poetry. Length: 6 minutes. Writer/Producer David Bianchi:
La Oposición - Nick Morano has a comfortable desk job at the Department of Homeland Security monitoring immigration targets. When the Trump administration suddenly changes the game by declaring a war on immigration, Nick now must choose to work for this new system or against it. Length: 20 minutes. Writer/Director Zoey Martinson:
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The Candidate - An up close and personal story of electoral politics…where truth is stranger than fiction...Length: 75 minutes. Writer/Director/Producer Helen Gaynor:
I Had a Dream - Manuela and Daniela dream to change their country, Italy, and make of it a non-corrupt and women-friendly country, but meet the harsh reality. From the feminist fights against Berlusconi to the last elections of 2018, the film explores the last ten years of Italy through the political action and the everyday life of two compelling protagonists, witnessing the weakness of democracy and rise of populism. Writer/Director/Producer Claudia Tosi.
Factory of Lies - Russia has launched an information war - introducing a new weapon. Hundreds of young Russians are producing fake news from fake profiles. And the fake stories are spread in the US and Europe with the purpose of sowing distrust and discord. But some brave Russian journalists are fighting back. Meet them in the documentary: Factory of Lies. Length: 59 minutes. Director/Producer Jakob Gottschau: