7th Annual Socially Relevant Film Festival Goes Online

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Parent Category: Film and the Arts

Category: Previews

Published on Thursday, 18 June 2020 18:10

Written by Brad Balfour

Now in its seventh year, the non-profit Socially Relevant Film Festival will be streamed online (https://www.ratedsrfilms.org/) to audiences this June 18th to the 28th. Tackling issues of oppression, identity, racism, and sexism, the Socially Relevant Film Fest has always been upfront on the issues it tackles. Increasing the viewer interactivity of the new digital version of the fest is Meetings with Filmmakers which will be featured on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTSz55oZhoPPlhJos82RoSw), giving viewers a chance to see the people behind these films up close.

The film screening and panel Climate, Violence, and the Environment: Women Paying the Price, features six short film accompanied by a panel discussion. Films such as Like No Other and Mother Daughter Sister come from Pakistan and Bangladesh, and address hard hitting issues facing women around the world. 

Other narrative films and documentaries address gun control (Gun Show and Unsafe), online peer pressure (Butter), women entrepreneurs (Igniting Impact and Our Albertine), Tibetan exiles (Mother of Tibetans) and more.

To learn more, go to: https://www.ratedsrfilms.org/

Socially Relevant Film Festival
June 18 - 28, 2020

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