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Justice Film Festival 2015

Imba Means Sing follows the story of Moses, a member of the African Children’s Choir raised in the slums of Kampala, Uganda. With the help of his choirmates, Moses embarks on his inspiring journey to becoming a pilot.

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A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story follows Lizzie in her efforts to fight bullying. Born with a rare syndrome preventing her from gaining weight, Lizzie has been called “the world’s ugliest woman” and has been subject to cyber-bullying most of her life. The documentary joins Lizzie on her journey to Capitol Hill as she lobbies for the first anti-bullying bill. 

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Justice Film Festival 2015

INK180 is a documentary featuring Chris Baker, a tattoo artist working with the FBI, Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies to offer free cover-up tattoos to sex trafficking survivors and former gang members to help improve their lives and community. 

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Justice Film Festival 2015

Aullido (Howl) is a narrative short based on the true story of what can happen when children stand up in the face of injustice and how those in power can stand on their behalf. 

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Untouchable: Children of God through the stories of the “untouchable” Badi people of Nepal and Dalits of India, the film chronicles the fight against human trafficking. Over 10,000 girls are trafficked from Nepal to Indian brothel each year. Despite the odds, abolitionists fight to end the brutality of modern-day slavery. 

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Finding Beauty in the Rubble is a story of hope and courage, about a woman who survived the huge tsunami that devastated Japan who now makes gorgeous jewelry out of debris she finds on the beach.

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We The Pearls reveals the harsh world of sex trafficking in Thailand from survivors ready to tell their stories in hopes of saving and protecting possible victims through messages of hope. 

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Daylight Come features two Americans help a group of Congolese women rebuild their lives from sexual violence and poverty in the wake of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Justice Film Festival 2015

If I Give My Soul captures the stigmatized lives of Brazilian inmates, who are typically poor, black, uneducated males. By joining the prison-based, inmate-led Pentecostal Churches, the inmates find new meaning and cope with Brazil’s brutal justice system through faith.  

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Justice Film Festival 2015

A River Between Us is a documentary telling the story of the native tribes living on the Klamath River. The tribes still fight for their land and culture, despite it being decimated by settlers and industry. 

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Lighter Than Orange features ten North Vietnamese veterans and their experience during the war and Agent Orange. They discuss the struggles they face as a consequence of both, as well as the three million victims of Agent Orange living today.  

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Truth Has Fallen is a documentary sharing the stories of three individuals who were wrongfully incarcerated and eventually acquitted. Through the use of animation, the film suggests changes to the U.S. justice system to prevent such cases from happening again. 

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Camp 72 decades after watching the brutal murder of her mother during the Liberian Civil War, Gladys and other survivors return to “Camp 72″, where she begins to rebuild her life. 

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Justice Film Festival 2015

Untouchable follows human rights activist Bishnu Maya Pariyar as she journeys across Nepal to return to the village where she was born and raised, often marginalized because of her low-caste heritage. 

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In Plain Sight is a documentary following six modern-day abolitionists in their fight to end sex trafficking in the United States, and defend the thousands of women and children forced into commercial the sex trade every day.  

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Katie, a short film inspired by true events, is the story of an adolescent girl caught in the web of domestic sex trafficking.