updates

Earlier this year, we attended a documentary film conference hosted by the International Documentary Association (IDA) in Los Angeles. The IDA is a nonprofit organization that supports documentary filmmakers and offers fiscal sponsorship to projects like ours, since some grant funders only offer money to projects connected to formal entities.  The IDA also hosts large gatherings for networking and workshopping. We happened to be filming in LA at the time, so we decided to go.

Hello friends, We just landed in the Bay Area and are catching our breath after a seriously full 6 weeks on this western coast. There’s a lot to share. In September we made our way to Los Angeles and started interviewing two groups: Reclaiming Our Homes and the OVAS. Reclaiming Our Homes (ROH) will be featured in the opening Fire chapter. The passion they bring to growing strong networks of support to defend their direct

Last month we made it down to Borikén (so-called Puerto Rico) to meet up with a few of the different Centros de Apoyo Mutuo (mutual aid centers). About a dozen centers were established across the island after Hurricane Maria and half of those are still going strong. By rescuing abandoned buildings – primarily schools shuttered through austerity cuts – the centers have established an impressive amount of infrastructure for their communities to meet their own

This project has been in pre-production for so long, tended from behind computer screens, that it’s a little hard to believe we’re already one month into our production tour. Still spending a lot of time behind computer screens, but also some very satisfying time behind rolling cameras. We left Ypsilanti, MI right after celebrating May Day with our friends and comrades and headed straight to Montreal for our first interview with a street artist and