A video goes viral, showing a white police officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her school desk and throw her across the floor. Healer-Activist Vivian Anderson uproots her life in New York City to move to South Carolina to support the girl and dismantle the system behind the assault at Spring Valley, including facing the police officer. Adding context, geographer Janae Davis treks the surrounding swamps and encounters the homes of formerly enslaved people of African descent, connecting the past to the present.
2022
Official Selection
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
41 minutes
30 seconds
Director:
Garrett Zevgetis
REIFF 2022
Official Selection
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
16 minutes
18 seconds
Director:
Thomas Sutherland
REIFF 2022
The identify of the little girl in a famous photograph from 1951 has remained a mystery for over seventy years. I'M THE GIRL investigates the power of a single image and the women who claim to be her.
Official Selection
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
7 minutes
Director:
Shanden Simmons
REIFF 2022
This hip-hop musical short was the 2022 Best Film Winner of the Paducah 48 Hour Film Project - A scientist on the run tracks down a conspiracy that saw him framed for the murder of his colleague.
Official Selection
Animation
Hong Kong, SAR China
Runtime:
4 minutes
Director:
Lily Hoi Man Lai
REIFF 2022
A staving girl is trying to create a growth potion to make a jumbo soup dumpling meanwhile her cat is not happy with his foods
Official Selection
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
59 minutes
Director:
Cade Bursell
REIFF 2022
During the late 1980s and the1990s, a small, dedicated group of activists fought on the ground and in the courts to stop clearcutting, oil and gas drilling, and ATV use in the Shawnee National Forest located in Southern Illinois.
They won the support of their community and the struggle in court.
17-years later, the injunction was lifted by the court, and the Forest Service resumed logging.
Will our Illinois treasure be despoiled? How do we keep the forest standing?