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American INSIGHT is hosting the Meet-the-Directors Series for our 2020 Free Speech Film Festival. Our first Director will be Wanjiru Njendu, Director of Boxed Sept. 20th, 2020. ...
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American INSIGHT is hosting the Meet-the-Directors Series for our 2020 Free Speech Film Festival. Our first Director will be Wanjiru Njendu, Director of Boxed Sept. 20th, 2020. ...
Award winning films films just been chosen by over 60 Judges from 12 US states and 14 countries, after three month online judging process of over 100 films submitted by filmmakers from around the world....
In a conversation with Boxed Director, Wanjiru Njendu, we discussed what led to the creation of her film and more....
In The Middle, directed by Mariam Al-Dhubhani, highlights how documentary film can allow civilian communities to reclaim the narrative....
In the documentary feature, The Donbass Children (2020), director Lubomir Dankov uses the power of the visual to bring awareness to the tragedy of war. ...
Aghelizadeh's creation reads as a slow descent into madness and captures the mind of the obsessed artist. Throughout the film's duration, the man becomes more and more obsessed with making this woman real, so much so that he gets stuck in his imagination. ...
Forgive Us Our Debts demonstrates the opportunity for film to address social unrest in society today, through the story of Trayvon....
The Gift of Freedom, directed and scored by Carolyn Downie and animated by Neels Britz is a short, but powerful film that draws upon past historical events to help better illustrate the political climate today....
Sweet Poison highlights the push for safer working conditions and environmental justice in a Brazilian farmworker community....
During the past, the man relives his childhood and begins to understand where he came from. As he relives his childhood, he begins to understand that lies he was fed about his own life....