2023 Youth Justice Film Series
Join us for the first annual Youth Justice Film Series, which showcases four provocative films that explore the human complexities of being unhoused in today’s America. Scheduled during National Homeless Youth Awareness Month in November 2023, this unique experience will elevate your understanding of a modern crisis. Join us on Nov 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 28th for online and in-person viewing events across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Thursday, November 2, 2023: The Invisible ClassThe Invisible Class explores what it truly means to be homeless in America, challenging stereotypes and examining the systemic causes of mass homelessness in the wealthiest nation in the world. From coast to coast the film is a day in the life of homelessness across America. (1 hr, 30 mins)
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Thursday, November 9, 2023: American Street Kid
Filmmaker Michael Leoni leads us into a world that most people don't know exists. A world where in order to survive, kids are forced to sell drugs, beg for money or sell their bodies. They live under bridges, in abandoned houses or anywhere else they can hide to remain safe from the dangers they face daily on the streets. Follow his journey with homeless teens in Los Angeles as they expose the truth and illuminate the hardcore reality of this American crisis. (1 hr, 44 mins)
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Thursday, November 16, 2023:The Harvest (La Coseche)Every year there are more than 400,000 American children who are torn away from their friends, schools and homes to pick the food we all eat. Zulema, Perla and Victor labor as migrant farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to help their families survive. The Harvest/La Cosecha profiles these three as they journey from the scorching heat of Texas’ onion fields to the winter snows of the Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of Florida’s tomato fields to follow the harvest. (1 hr, 20 mins) |
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023: InocenteThe Academy Award®-winning Inocente is an inspiring coming-of-age story of a 15-year old girl in California. Though homeless and undocumented, she refuses to give up on her dream of being an artist, proving that the hand she has been dealt does not define her – her dreams do. (1 hr, 39 mins)
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