REEL IMPACT

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April 28th

11:00 am − uptown 1

Draft up your petitions and prepare to be motivated! Covering such ground as immigration, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, and trans rights, these lms exploring the personal and political will inspire you to keep ghting for change.

An activist drag queen in rural Alabama is forced to keep her identity secret as she ghts for human rights in a race against the systematic erasure of her own history.

One Never Kills for Love

They meet in the dark of the night. Women, sisters, friends: a feminist group gathering to leave writings on the walls of Montreal. Their challenge: raise awareness to end systemic violences endured by women and minorities.

Justice For Vanessa

Audrey

The story of Vanessa Niko, an indigenous woman murdered by her partner, told by the family members who picked up the pieces of a broken community and sought justice for her untimely death.

Matt

"CANS Can't Stand" follows a group of Black trans women in New Orleans who are ghting to repeal Louisiana's unjust Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) law, which police and prosecutors have used to criminalize LGBTQ+ Louisianians for 40 years.

A family of undocumented immigrants must overcome prejudice and systemic obstacles in order to survive in America.