For 25 years, Working Films has uplifted documentaries that spark dialogue, build power, and drive change, because Story Leads to Action. Celebrate this milestone with us. Your support helps center community voices and connect films to movements for justice. 📽️ ✊ Donate: workingfilms.org/donate.

✨ 🎥 Molly and Natalie are participating in the Finding Your Compass: A Documentary Ethics and Accountability Workshop on December 6–7! 🎥 For details, including early bird and ATLFS member discounts, visit: linktr.ee/ATLFS! 💯

🌿🎬 We’re so proud to have supported Without Shade, Without Rest through our 2023 Docs in Action program. Congrats to the Six Eye Films team on this powerful and timely project! From the filmmakers: “After many months of filming, editing, and reflection, we’re proud to share the official poster…”

🎬 Catch one of our upcoming screenings and events with our partners across the country! ✨ 11/9: Movie Screening: Partners @ Evanston Public Library Room ✨ 11/15: Traces of Home & NYC POC Healing Circle ✨ 11/14 & 15: World Premiere of Traces of Home at DOCNYC

🌅 The Amanecer: Esperanza Film Series brought the Lower Valley, TX together through stories of hope and organizing. Each film reminded us that change is possible. 🎥 Check out the 2025 Rural Cinema cohort film series: workingfilms.org/get-to-know-... 💪🎬 #documentary #workingfilms

For 25 years, we’ve used documentary film to advance social justice & environmental protection, none of it possible without our amazing community. ❤️ Illuminating Change was a beautiful reminder of the power of story & connection. And a special thank you to our generous sponsors.

At its heart, Rural Cinema harnesses the power of story to drive change. 🌱 This year’s 2025 cohort is using film to spark conversation, bring communities together, & inspire action on local challenges. 🎬 Meet the 2025 cohort & explore their upcoming film series: workingfilms.org/get-to-know-...

The 2026 @haytifilmfest & @workingfilms Works-in-Progress Lab application deadline is approaching! Co-designed by Working Films, artists get feedback and explore audience engagement through workshops & screenings. 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 3, 2025 🚨 Apply: workingfilms.submittable.com/submit

🎬 Check out our upcoming events and film screenings: ✨10/29: Free screening of Calls From Home ✨10/29: Stephanie is attending Independent Sector Summit ✨11/1: Natalie, Director of DAWG, is attending @dx_fest Visit workingfilms.org/events for more details on upcoming events. #documentary #film

🥳Our hometown celebration is officially sold out! Thank you for being a supporter, & ally through these 25 years of harnessing storytelling to advance social justice & environmental protection. The evening will include performances by Carrie Assata of Speak Ya Peace NC, Fuzz Jaxx & DeeJay Suspense.

✨🎞️ Extended deadline! The Hayti Heritage Film Festival Works-in-Progress (WiP) Lab is back & ready to uplift bold social justice documentaries rooted in Black storytelling! 🗓️ Deadline: Mon, Nov 3, 2025 11:59 PM EST. ✨ Apply here: workingfilms.submittable.com/submit. #documentary #film

✨ For 25 years, Working Films has been at the forefront of using documentary film to ignite social change. We're celebrating this milestone with a hometown fundraiser! 🎉 Illuminating Change 📅 Fri, Oct 24 📍Wilmington, NC Tickets: bit.ly/WF25thAnnive.... Your support makes our work possible.

🎥🚨🎬 Did you know we now have an events calendar on our website? Explore upcoming film screenings and events with our incredible partners across the country, check it out at workingfilms.org/events. ✨🎬 Organize a film screening with Working Films. Visit workingfilms.org/host/ to learn more.

"Sara" has worked in Watsonville CAs strawberries for 16 yrs. "I earn piece rate. It's raining which makes the rows slippery and the mud sticks to our shoes. It's dangerous as we still need to work fast to make enough money to pay our bills." #WeFeedYou

3 days. Mentorship. Screenings. Community. ✨ The 2026 #HHFFLab residency mentors filmmakers making social justice documentaries with a focus on Black storytelling. Travel, housing & meals covered! Apply by Oct 19, 2025. workingfilms.submittable.com/submit#HHFFLab #DocumentaryImpact #BlackFilmmakers

Calling doc filmmakers 📣 The #HHFFLab is back! Join us in Durham, NC (Mar 4–7, 2026) for workshops, mentorship & community screenings centering Black storytelling. Apply by Oct 19, 2025! Learn more & apply: workingfilms.submittable.com/submit#HHFFLab #WorkingFilms #HaytiHeritageFilmFestival #documentary

If there’s ever been a time when unprecedented collective action was needed, it’s now. Join the call: www.May2028.org

Today! 🎥 DAWG Syllabus Office Hours, in collaboration with Multitude Films, from 12–1:15 PM ET! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DAWGSyllabus #DocumentaryEthics #NonfictionFilm

🎥 Reminder: DAWG Syllabus Office Hours, in collaboration with Multitude Films, start Wednesday, Oct 8, 12–1:15 PM ET! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DAWGSyllabus #DocumentaryEthics #NonfictionFilm

We asked Natalie Bullock Brown, Director of @docaccountability, what storytelling means to her, she shared:

Did you catch our Impact Kickstart - Webinar Q&A on September 16? If you weren’t able to tune in, you’re in luck; we’ve just posted the webinar recording on our site. Check it out at workingfilms.org, and while you’re there, apply to Impact Kickstart before the October 3, 2025, deadline!

Just practicing... for now. Starbucks workers across the country are ready to strike if necessary. Let's get those contracts finalized, Starbucks!

🎬✨ AI is transforming documentary filmmaking. The question isn’t IF you’ll use it—it’s HOW to do it responsibly. Join the Film Impact & AI Summit on Oct 9—a live virtual event for small doc teams! ➡️ Save your spot: www.LookyLookyPictures.com #DocumentaryFilmmaking #FilmImpact #AIForFilmmakers

The Hayti Heritage Film Festival Works-in-Progress Lab supports social justice documentaries centering Black storytelling, March 4–7, 2026, in Durham, NC. Apply here: workingfilms.submittable.com/submit We will be accepting apps from Aug 29 through Oct 19, 2025! #workingfilms #durham #documentary

Join DAWG Syllabus Office Hours with Multitude Films! A 4-week series on ethics, care & accountability in documentary filmmaking. Session 1: October 8, 12:00–1:15 p.m. ✅ Register: linktr.ee/WorkingFilms #FilmmakingEthics #DAWGFramework #EthicalFilmmaking #MultitudeFilms #StoryLeadstoAction

🎬✨ AI is transforming documentary filmmaking. The question isn’t IF you’ll use it—it’s HOW to do it responsibly. Join the Film Impact & AI Summit on Oct 9—a live virtual event for small doc teams! ➡️ Save your spot: www.LookyLookyPictures.com #DocumentaryFilmmaking #FilmImpact #AIForFilmmakers

TODAY, we're launching The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, our report dedicated to exposing data center harms in the South and how our people are fighting back. Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states: bit.ly/nodatacenters

Join DAWG Syllabus Office Hours with Multitude Films! A 4-week series on ethics, care & accountability in documentary filmmaking. Session 1: October 8, 12:00–1:15 p.m. ✅ Register: linktr.ee/WorkingFilms #FilmmakingEthics #DAWGFramework #EthicalFilmmaking #MultitudeFilms #StoryLeadstoAction

🎬 Applications Open: Impact Kickstart 2026! Now in its 8th year, the program funds and equips filmmakers with strategy & partnerships to turn films into tools for social justice. 👉 APPLY: workingfilms.org/impactkickst... Deadline: Fri, Oct 3, 2025. #documentary #workingfilms #communityorganizing

✨We are honored to have Working Films' Director of Campaigns & Strategy, Andy Myers, featured as part of The 2025 Grist 50! The 2025 #Grist50 list features 50 climate leaders bringing change to their communities and innovating for a better future. Explore the full list: grist.org/fix/grist-50...

✨ For 25 years, Working Films has been at the forefront of using documentary film to ignite social change. We're celebrating this milestone with a hometown fundraiser! 🎉 Illuminating Change 📅 Fri, Oct 24 📍Wilmington, NC Tickets: bit.ly/WF25thAnnive.... Your support makes our work possible.

Don’t miss these powerful upcoming screenings from our community partners & grantees: 🎬 American Coup: Wilmington 1898 🎬 Calls From Home 🎬 Yintah 🎬 Tending the Soul 🎬 Standing Above the Clouds 🎬 Farming While Black 🎬 Farming is Medicine Learn more about these events at workingfilms.org/events.

“Investors should know that if Starbucks continues to stonewall and fight with union baristas, they aren’t afraid to do what it takes to win the fair contract that they’ve earned. This includes going on strike if they must.”

✨🎬 Join us for the IK 2026 webinar Q&A. The purpose of the webinar is to share our approach to Impact Kickstart and the application decision-making process. 👉 Register: bit.ly/4g4N8UM 👉Apply to Impact Kickstart 2026: workingfilms.org/impactkickst.... Deadline: Friday, Oct 3, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET.

Want to Save Democracy? Organize a Union in Your Workplace. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Join the Reimaging America Project for a weekend of justice education in Charlotte, NC! Three events over two days, September 20-21st Please share and help us spread the word. All events are free!

Starbucks is fighting their own baristas and stonewalling a fair, multi-year union contract that would bring labor peace over less than one average day’s sales. Want to see what really went down? sbworkersunited.org/bargaining-t...

With all the news about the ICE raid on Hyundai's plant, its worth remembering how parts suppliers to the massive car company were using child labor in the U.S. www.reuters.com/investigates...

✨🎬 Join us for the IK 2026 webinar Q&A. The purpose of the webinar: -Share our #IK2026 approach -What panelists are looking for -Tips to make the application process more accessible 👉Register: bit.ly/IK2026Webinar 👉Apply to #IK2026: workingfilms.org/impactkickst...

✨🎬 Applications Open: Impact Kickstart 2026! Now in its 8th year, Impact Kickstart supports underrepresented filmmakers with funding, strategy & partnerships to turn films into tools for justice. 👉 Apply now: workingfilms.org/impactkickst... #documentary #workingfilms #impactstrategy

For 25 years, Working Films has uplifted documentaries that spark dialogue, build power, and drive change, because Story Leads to Action. Celebrate this milestone with us. Your support helps center community voices and connect films to movements for justice. 📽️ ✊ Donate: workingfilms.org/donate.

These farm workers work under a UFW contract in CA’s central coast and negotiated good practices like hydration stations in the fields. These are especially important on days like last week when they were under and extreme heat advisory as the temps reached the high 90’s. #WeFeedYou

This Workers’ Labor Day Week of Action, join us for our #WorkersDeserve kickoff call to hear from workers, union leaders and allies on how America’s unions are fighting for an economy that gives us the freedom, fairness and security we deserve. workerslaborday.org/call

💬🎥 💻 FREE Webinar: Depth Over Distance: Organizing with Film, featuring Belly of the Beast and Razing Liberty Square Join filmmakers of Razing Liberty Square + Belly of the Beast on Aug 28 as they share the risks, rewards & lessons of deep movement organizing. 📅 RSVP: bit.ly/DepthOverDistance

Southern Workers Have a Lot to Teach Us About Organizing Against a Backlash Being part of a union that has power beyond a single workplace, that is networked with other unions, is the best way for workers to build something that looks like class power. Read: hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

Photos from our NYC screening of Calls From Home & Exodus w/ @SurvivePunishNY + @StudyStruggle. We lifted up the fights to #FreeTheMS5 + #MassClemencyNow, raised funds for Assia Serrano’s family, & built powerful solidarity across campaigns.

🎥 Calling all Southern filmmakers with works in progress! Apply now to be part of the Hot Springs Film Festival's Works-in-Progress showcase, co-presented by Indie Media Arts South! 🎬 Submissions open August 1–22. 💸 Free to apply. Southern filmmakers only. 📝 🔗Apply now: forms.gle/cD17CQ65Wxpz....

Workers are harvesting tomatoes in CAs San Joaquin Valley. If you listen, you can hear the new technology that has a machine scan their badge to keep count the amount of the buckets they pick. Workers average 160 buckets and get paid 86 cents per bucket. #WeFeedYou

Workers are calling for consistent access to uniforms and safety equipment, a raise, and immigration provisions in the contract, @nataschaelena.bsky.social reports: labornotes.org/2025/08/maus...

💬🎥 💻 FREE Webinar: Depth Over Distance: Organizing with Film, featuring Belly of the Beast and Razing Liberty Square Join filmmakers of Razing Liberty Square + Belly of the Beast on Aug 28 as they share the risks, rewards & lessons of deep movement organizing. 📅 RSVP: bit.ly/DepthOverDistance