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Locked Out (2023)
Official movie poster featuring a chalk drawn house on pavement. A small Black child sleeps on the concrete without shoes and holds a teddy bear.
Logline: Owning a home, the cornerstone of generational wealth, is increasingly out of reach for people of color, impacting women the most. In Detroit, Black women face scammers and evictions, as they fight modern-day redlining to help make The American Dream a reality for all.
77 minutes
Directors: KATE DAVIS, LUCHINA FISHER
Producer: RUPERT MACONICK
Executive Producers: CHRIS BUZZINI, SLAVA BASOVICH, PETER HOOTMAN, STEVE COOK, MICHELLE TRAVINSKI
Cinematographers: CAI THOMAS, JESSE BARRON
Editors: CAROLINE BERLER, CHELSI BULLARD
Composer: GARY GUNN
www.lockedoutfilm.com
The Right to Read (2023)
A young Black boy wearing a black long-sleeved shirt reads a piece of paper that he holds with both hands. Crinkled paper and floating books are in the background. Note: Not to scale.
Logline: The Right to Read shares the stories of an NAACP activist, a teacher, and two American families who fight to provide our youngest generation with the most foundational indicator of life-long success: the ability to read.
71 minutes
Director: JENNY MACKENZIE
Producers: SABI HABIB-LOWDER, JENNY MACKENZIE, KAREEM WEAVER
Executive Producers: LEVAR BURTON, GERALYN DREYFOUS, REGINA K. SCULLY, KATE DRAKE BETTNER, AMY REDFORD, ALLISON MOLKENTHIN, SCOTT & JESSELIE ANDERSON, JUSTIN OLSEN & CHI KIM
Cinematographer: DANNY SCHMIDT
Editor: CHELSI BULLARD
Composer: JONATHAN KIRKSCEY
www.therighttoreadfilm.org
I Identify As Me (2021)
A Black woman wraps her arms around her wife from behind and kisses the side of her face. Her wife smiles revealing dimples in both cheeks.
Logline: A chorus of queer and trans BIPOC reflects on how the intersectionalities of gender and people are infinite.
10 minutes
Directors: TINA COLLEEN, MONICK MONELL
Producers: TINA COLLEEN, MONICK MONELL
Cinematographer: SAFIYAH SMITH
Editor: CHELSI BULLARD
Music: RUPERT UZZELL, AMANDA JONES, CHAD CROUCH, R.T.
www.pocproductions.com
Not Going Quietly (2021)
Official movie poster featuring Ady Barkan who wears a shirt that reads “#Listen To Our Stories” while holding his walking stick in this right hand and a sign that reads “Don’t Take Our Healthcare” in his left hand. He’s being escorted by a police officer. The Washington Monument is in the background.
Logline: Ady Barkan's life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement.
96 minutes
Director: NICHOLAS BRUCKMAN
Producer: AMANDA RODDY
Writers: NICHOLAS BRUCKMAN, AMANDA RODDY, KENT BASSETT, MARTHA SHANE
Cinematographers: NICHOLAS BRUCKMAN, ERIN COLLETT, MICHAEL DWYER, RYDER HASKE, ALEX POLLINI, AMANDA RODDY
Editor: KENT BASSETT
Additional Editor: CHELSI BULLARD
Composer: GIOSUÉ GRECO
www.notgoingquietlyfilm.com
I Was Here First (2015)
Two white young adults smile and enjoy themselves on the dance floor of a dimly lit and green-tinted party venue.
Logline: I Was Here First follows 3 prominent ex-Williamsburg venues, taking a critical look at the future of experimental art in a city whose soaring rental market is driving some of its best artists out in search of more welcoming places.
19 minutes
Directors: ADAM GOLUB, KATHERIN MACHALEK
Producers: CHRISTOPHER ALLEN, LUCILA MOCTEZUMA, ADAM GOLUB, KATHERIN MACHALEK
Cinematographers: ADAM GOLUB, KATHERIN MACHALEK
Editor: CHELSI BULLARD
UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Director: LUCILA MOCTEZUMA
UnionDocs Artistic Director: CHRISTOPHER ALLEN