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A SHOW FOR A CHANGE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES JUNE 2020 AWARD WINNERS FOR SOCIAL IMPACT FILMS

Los Angeles, CA – July 10, 2020 – A Show For A Change today announced several winners for its monthly global film festival, celebrating social impact films from around the world. The awarded films include projects from around the world and were created by numerous celebrated filmmakers.

“We’re proud to recognize these powerful films that advance the social causes of our time,” said Jared Milrad, founder and president of A Show For A Change. “Our festival continues to attract a strong diversity of socially conscious films from around the world. This month’s awarded films address timely causes, including racial justice, immigration and criminal justice.”

This month’s winners include:

● Social Impact Award: Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore Directed by Kenton Card. 'Geographies of Racial Capitalism' explores the research and praxis of Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore by unpacking the topics of racial capitalism, the prison industrial complex, abolition geography, and place based struggle.

● Creativity Award: Cornered Directed by Raquel Salvatella de Prada. Part sculpture, part light installation and video animation, Cornered is an immersive visual experience that represents the motivation and struggles of migrants leaving their home country and making an attempt, most often failed, to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish cities of Melilla and Ceuta, the only European cities on Africa’s mainland. Watch the trailer here!

● Storytelling Award: Augustus Directed by Jon Alston, Amanda. Augustus, a literate escaped slave masquerading as a free man in Massachusetts in 1841, experiences nightmares of his son's death and a future that resembles the struggles of his own time. Shaken to his core, Augustus realizes the horrors of slavery and racial inequalities will continue if he remains complicit. He’s left with one choice; speak up or lose his freedom. Watch the trailer here!

● Cinematography Award: Until the Last Drop Directed by Tim Webster. In an occupied land where water is a privilege, two farmers working the same land face increasingly unequal opportunities. Despite being physically connected to the same land, the two farmers’ experiences are detached and unequal. However, despite the odds and an uncertain future for his children, Abu is determined to keep farming and keep resisting until the last drop. Watch the trailer here!

“I’m grateful that A Show For Change has recognized Geographies of Racial Capitalism with their Social Impact Award. Today, Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s ideas are more important than ever. She exemplifies how a scholar can make a major academic contribution (e.g. her book Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California), while also cofounding a grassroots movement to abolish the prison industrial complex (Critical Resistance). Dr. Gilmore is a public intellectual we should learn from today to understand how to challenge racial capitalism, the prison system, and abolish the police."

– Kenton Card, Director of Geographies of Racial Capitalism

“In awarding my video project Cornered with the Creativity Award, the “A Show For A Change” Film Festival draws attention to the migratory crisis on Spain’s southern border. I am encouraged and grateful that the award recognizes the power of the atmospheric and emotional approach Cornered takes to this crisis and the human drama it involves.

–Raquel Salvatella, Director of Cornered

"We're beyond honored to have won the Storytelling Award for A SHOW FOR A CHANGE. In addition to being an incredibly relevant film that speaks to the state of issues that many of us in America continue to deal with, AUGUSTUS is equally an incredibly personal film. The film's ultimate message is unity, and should also serve as an individual call to action in the fight one's own beliefs and freedoms... especially now in an election year. A SHOW FOR A CHANGE will certainly be a catalyst for helping us share our message with the world. Thank you!

– Jon Alston, Director of Augustus

“As annexation threatens the entire West Bank, Palestine is once more in the headlines. This makes Until the last drop, my film from Palestine even more urgent. I saw first-hand how Israel uses water as a weapon to force Palestinians from their own land. Winning this award means is a thrilling achievement which makes me even more determined stand up to injustices wherever I find them.”

– Tim Webster, Director of Until the Last Drop

A Show For A Change invites filmmakers who share a passion for changing the world through the power of storytelling to submit to our monthly film festival. We seek diverse, engaging stories that address societal, environmental, and cultural issues. To apply for our next film festival, filmmakers can submit their projects by July 29, 2020 using this link: https://filmfreeway.com/ashowforachange

About A Show For A Change Film Festival

With 400+ global submissions, A Show For A Change has awarded some of the most creative, groundbreaking, and inspiring stories highlighting social issues since launching its monthly festival in December 2017. The company’s mission is to celebrate socially impactful films through the art of storytelling and advocate for enduring social change. It embraces films that challenge the status quo and stand up for urgent causes like human rights, animal rights, and the environment.

Learn more about our current projects and monthly global film festival at ashowforachange.com

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