Stories Beyond Borders is an organizing initiative that uses documentary films to show a more complete picture of the attacks on immigrants in America. Beyond building empathy, these five short films lift up real stories of strength, while illustrating ways people can give their time, energy, and resources to support immigrant-led organizing.
Ready to make a difference and bring people together to take action around social issues highlighted in a film? Does your organization want to bring new members to your coalition or organization? Want to find new community allies you can build future collaborations with? Organize a film screening with Working Films.
Beyond Walls
Beyond Walls is an organizing initiative featuring documentary films that define and amplify what prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition means, while inspiring people to imagine and take action toward a world without policing. Beyond a goal of simply changing hearts and minds, these five short films, this website, and screening events offer concrete tools and actions that can be taken to help create a world without police and prisons.
Coal Ash Stories
Coal Ash Stories is a compilation of four short films that illustrate the public health concerns, policy issues, and ways communities are responding to this toxic waste. The series informs residents and draws attention to the toxic impact of coal ash on communities. We used Coal Ash Stories to engage the public and increase the demand for stricter regulation of storage facilities and cleanup of past spills. In 2016, the series toured North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Alabama, Virginia, and Florida.
Revisioning Recovery
Revisioning Recovery: Films Uncovering the Roots of Disaster is a collection of short films that illuminate the current injustices, systems at play, and the solutions needed to prepare and respond to climate disasters. The series brings overlooked stories into the light and exposes the historical inequities that are exacerbated when disasters hit. Equitable disaster preparedness and recovery is increasingly urgent as COVID-19 further exposes cracks in the system.
Shore Stories
Shore Stories is an organizing initiative that uses short documentary films to build public opposition to offshore drilling. The six short films curated by Working Films and allied organizations, highlight the grassroots resistance taking place across the US, as well as stories from past oil and gas exploration – including the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster.
You Are Here
You Are Here was an organizing campaign in 2016-2017 using short films and participatory mapping to expose dirty energy infrastructure. The series features five short documentaries that explain the public health concerns of dirty energy infrastructure, policies and regulations in play, and community-based solutions. You Are Here launched in New York, where despite a ban on fracking, more than 137 natural gas pipelines, compressor stations, frack waste, and storage facilities were still proposed, under construction, or in operation. We teamed up with The Sane Energy Project, FracTracker Alliance, and dozens of community based organizations to tour the films and facilitate personal storytelling about residents’ experiences while living and working near these sites. These stories connect the dots and populate the YOU ARE HERE map.