Working Films

05/28/2026

Every dollar raised through our Courage Has A Cost campaign helps ensure that courageous filmmakers, workers, organizers, and communities can keep telling the stories that too many systems try to silence.

We’re deeply grateful to everyone who has donated, shared, amplified, and stood with us so far. Because of you, we’re already 2/3 of the way toward our $10,000 goal.

These stories matter. The people behind them matter. And building pathways for films to reach communities, movements, and audiences across the country takes real collective support.

If you haven’t yet contributed, we’d love your help getting across the finish line. Every gift makes a difference. Link in bio to donate!

05/22/2026

How do you make people feel like they truly belong? Organizers Warren Tidwell with The ACROSS Network & Daniel Solorzano with Amanecer People’s Project, who are members of our 2025 Rural Cinema cohort, share how film screenings can break barriers, start real conversations, and grow movements. Read our recap of their full conversation, and tell us in the comments, how do YOU make people feel like they belong at your events?



Read all about it in the link in our bio.

05/13/2026

How do you make people feel like they truly belong? Organizers Warren Tidwell with The Across Network & Daniel Solorzano with Amanecer People's Project- members of our 2025 Rural Cinema cohort - share how film screenings can break barriers, start real conversations, and grow movements. Read the conversation, and tell us in the comments, how do YOU make people feel like they belong at your events?

Using documentaries to advance social justice and environmental protection.

05/08/2026

Working Films is partnering with organizers and filmmakers to bring urgent stories about workers organizing and building collective power to communities across the country. These screenings are helping spark conversation, connection, and action at a moment when all three are deeply needed.

Your donation helps make those screenings possible. Contribute to our Spring Courage Has a Cost campaign now! We're almost halfway to our goal!

Support the tour: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/workingfilms-inc/courage-has-a-cost

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05/02/2026

Don’t miss FREE JOAN LITTLE tomorrow (Sunday, May 3) at 3pm in Wilmington, NC at Cameron Art Museum as part of the North Carolina Black Film Festival!

The film chronicles a woman’s courageous fight for survival, whose 1975 acquittal challenged injustice and inspired a nation to confront sexual violence and racism.

05/02/2026

May Day is for organizing ✊

Host a TRY US screening and bring your community together around what it actually takes to build power at work.

These films are part of Working Films’ Docs in Action initiative, created to help people see the wins that are possible through labor organizing and step into it themselves.

Screen one. Screen all three. Bring your coworkers. Your neighbors. Your people. Start a conversation that leads somewhere!

🔗 Link in bio to host

04/28/2026

Do you want to see more stories of people standing together, organizing, and winning, even when the odds are stacked against them? Working Films wants to keep bringing stories like that to you, and connecting you to change-makers in your community. But we need your help. We just launched our Courage Has a Cost spring fundraising campaign, to raise $10,000 to support the underrepresented filmmakers and community organizers whose work we bring together through grants and screening tours. Find out more and make a donation now.
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04/27/2026

Don't miss Yoruba Richen's FREE JOAN LITTLE at the NC Black Film Festival in Wilmington, NC this Sunday May 3rd. The film tells the story of the 1975 groundbreaking case of Joan Little who was the first woman in U.S history to be acquitted for using deadly force to resist sexual assault. At 20 years old Joan (pronounced Jo-Ann) was incarcerated in North Carolina when she killed a white jailer who was trying to r***r her. Her trial drew international attention and became a rallying point for civil rights, women’s rights and prison reform. The case brought together diverse activists and catalyzed an international conversation about sexual assault and racial justice that has reverberations to this day. Link to buy tickets in the comments!

04/24/2026

NOW OPEN: Submit your documentary films to Race Flicks 2026!! Working Films is honored to partner with the Facing Race Conference, hosted by , for the sixth year to showcase powerful, solutions-forward films that can be used as a resource for organizers to grow our movements and move people to action. Read more about the program and submit your films by June 22nd at bit.ly/raceflicksapp2026 (link@in bio)

04/23/2026

More than 500 students! Deep conversation. Real connection 🎥♥️

At the San Diego Latino Film Festival, Working Films’ Impact Kickstart awardee Colette Ghunim screened Traces of Home with high school students. The reception was phenomenal! They showed up ready to reflect on migration, identity, and their own family histories.

This is how impact takes root. 🌱