How to Fight Back!
For the elections, we did DEMOCRACY AND ITS DISCONTENTS, for the inauguration we did EAT THE RICH. And now, in this era of the lawless Trump-Musk power grab and their brazenly cruel and incompetent actions, we ask: how far can civilian resistance and revolt go? These films look at the long game fight against oligarchy and increasingly autocratic governments, and for the protection (or restoration) of democracy across the globe.
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Groundswell Rising
Directed by Renard Cohen • Documentary • 2014 • 70 minutes
GROUNDSWELL RISING gives voice to ordinary folks engaged in a David and Goliath struggle against Big Oil and Gas. We meet parents, scientists, doctors, farmers and individuals across the political spectrum decrying the energy extraction ...
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Another World is Possible
Directed by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young • Documentary • 2002 • 24 minutes
What if 51,000 people from 131 countries put their heads together to discuss what is wrong with the world and how to work together to change it? In early 2002, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, public officials, representatives ...