2024 Free Speech Award Official Selections
American INSIGHT is honored to announce the five films that have earned Official Selection status in our global, all-virtual 2024 Free Speech Film Festival....
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Battumur Dorj, 2023 Official Selection Winner, Gives a Voice to the Rights of People with Disabilities
For Battumur Dorj, whether you live in his native Mongolia, the United States or any other country around the world, there is one universal language we all share: love. ...
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Sam French, 2023 Free Speech Film Festival Official Selection Winner, Believes in Amplifying the Voices of Others
Sam French and co-director Clementine Malpas began making the film, about the right to speak out and being able to express your thought, at the height of the international occupation of Afghanistan....
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Chrishenda Dawkins, 2023 Official Selection Winner, Shows How Human Rights Issues Can Impact Entire Families
Sometimes it's hard to find the words to convey how we feel about the tragedies that impact our lives. For Chrishenda Dawkins, making My Mother's Voice turned out to be a profound way to show what she couldn't say out loud....
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Major Gloria Downey, 2023 Official Selection Winner, Gives a Voice to Women In War
Gloria Downey's Women of War: Invisible is a feature documentary that tells the story of three female combat veterans of the post-9/11 era through interviews and dance....
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Melinda Raebyne, the 2023 Free Speech Award Winner, Helps the Cuban People Scream for Freedom
Melinda Raebyne has a passion for telling a hero's story and showcasing the resiliency of the human spirit. ...
PREVIOUS
AWARD
WINNERS
2023 |
Ellos Gritan Libertad |
2022 |
Jazz in China |
2021 |
Footsteps on the Wind |
2020 |
Boxed |
2019 |
Suppressed: The Fight to Vote |
2018 |
Team ENOUGH |
2017 |
Free Speech Fear Free |
2016 |
I Will Not Be Silenced |
2015 |
Honor Diaries |
2013 |
Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview |
2012 |
Free China: The Courage to Believe |
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