“CORONA DISSENT is part of a special report initiative by We Are Moving Stories, the world’s largest online platform for new voices in film with over 2,500 contributors and more than 50% women’s participation - an industry record.

We will work with photographers and filmmakers in both the US and internationally to license images and footage of the Covid-19 Crisis to media outlets.

We are also seeking emergency funding from organizations and philanthropies which share our aims.

Please contact Executive Producer Carmela Baranowska direct for more info: cabaranowska@protonmail.com Thank you and hope to hear from you soon!”

In downtown San Francisco on 31 March 2020, protesters in cars surrounded the ICE headquarters and Nancy Pelosi's office to demand the release of people in detention centers, citing concerns about Covid-19s potentially deadly impact on inmates. Photos by filmmaker Molly Stuart.

A chain of about 30 cars circled the blocks honking their car horns. Using megaphones out car windows, they demanded that CA politicians use their emergency powers to close down the detention centers before they become death camps.

COVID-19 CRISIS: What’s happening inside America’s detention facilities? Demonstrators Protest at the Never Again Action in Sacramento, 3/22/20. Photo by filmmaker Molly Stuart.

‘There are 52,000 undocumented immigrants in detention right now across the country,’ according to Never Again Action. ’52,000 people trapped in deadly close quarters without access to medical care. 52,000 people in the exact conditions that allow COVID-19 to spread.’