CCDA is launching its first Justice Film Festival at the National Conference in September! Our theme is Immigration, which CCDA Founder, Dr. John M. Perkins described as “the most critical human rights issue of our day.” Featured films expose the stories of human struggle, providing a window into the worlds of perpetrators and those affected by injustice, transforming the way we view the people behind the issues. A facilitated discussion will follow each showing.

Click here for the official film festival poster.

Limited parking will be available in Park Community Church's parking garage, adjacent parking lot, and on surrounding streets.

Admission:

General Admission: $10 donation encouraged at the door
Conference Attendees: Free with name badge

Schedule:

Wednesday, September 8
9:30pm screenings begin (doors open at 8:45pm)

The Visitor
Feature Film - Immigrant Detention / 104 min / Auditorium
Worlds collide when a professor comes home to find a Syrian immigrant and his Senegalese girlfriend living in his New York apartment. (Discussion with Detention Watch Network representative around immigration detention issues.)

Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action
Documentary - Native American Sovereignty / 88 min / Rm. 205-206
Four Native activists and their communities throughout the US fight against multinational energy companies for the land and sovereignty of their reservations. (Discussion with blogger and lecturer, Mark Charles, about Native perspectives on immigration.)

Which Way Home
[Academy Award Nominee] Documentary - Child Migrants / 90 min / Rm. 204 A/B
The story of several unaccompanied child migrants, as they journey through Mexico to the US on a freight train.

Thursday, September 9
9:30pm (doors open at 8:45pm)

9500 Liberty (Q&A with Co-director, Eric Byler)
Feature Documentary- US Domestic Policy / 80 min / Auditorium
The passage of a new immigration ordinance in Prince William County, VA incites intense fear and racial division--dividing a community.

Return to El Salvador
Documentary- US Foreign Policy / 68 min / Rm. 205-206
Intricate geo-political systems impact individuals and communities in both El Salvador and the US through the recurring effects of a past civil war.

Made in L.A.
[Emmy Award Winning] Feature Documentary- Labor Abuse / 70 min / Rm. 204A-B
Three Latinas working in L.A. sweatshops unite in a struggle to secure basic labor protections.

Friday, September 10
Afternoon – 1:30pm (doors open at 12:45pm)

Immigrant Nation (Q&A with Director, Esaú Melendez)
Feature Documentary- Modern Struggles / 96 min /
Auditorium
Elvira Arellano, a single mother and pro-immigrant community leader, resists her own deportation in Chicago.

Papers
Documentary- Undocumented Youth / 95 min /
Rm. 205-206
Immigrant youth living in the U.S. find their futures and dreams restricted when they come of age without legal status. (Discussion with CCDA CEO, Noel Castellanos, around the DREAM Act.)

Friday, September 10
Evening – 9:30pm (doors open at 8:45pm)

God Grew Tired of Us
[Sundance Festival Grand Jury Award & Audience Award Winner] Documentary- Sudanese Refugees / 89 min / Auditorium
Orphaned by civil war, the “Lost Boys” of Sudan are granted asylum in the U.S. but struggle to transition to American life. (Discussion with World Vision representative around Sudanese refugee resettlement.)

Crossing Arizona
Documentary- US/Mexico Border / 75 min / Rm. 205-206
Illegal immigration issues are explored through the perspectives of locals on both sides of the Arizona/Sonora border.