"Meet the Filmmakers" - LIVE online session 1
Saturday, June 27, 12:30 pm EST
Moderated by:
Lucie Tripon Writer, actor, filmmaker, and founding member SRFF 2020 Team
Tenzin Tseyang ( བསྟན་འཛིན་ཚེ་དབྱངས།) First Tibetan woman working on Gender issues within the Tibetan Community in India under the Central Tibetan Administration, and manager of The Tibetan Community Center of the Tibetan Community of New York & New Jersey.
The films in this program stream online for 48 hours from June 26, 5:00 PM to June 28, 5:00 PM
Short Film Block 6
Social Entrepreneurs and Women

Igniting Impact| Akira Chan |USA| 31'| 2019
Inspirational stories of eight entrepreneurs working around the globe take us on a journey from the origins of corporate social responsibility to the transformation of capitalism using the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Our Albertinia| Chantel Clark| South Africa | 19:41' | 2019
South Africa, 1990. When the crumbling Apartheid regime affords Marie Abrahams an opportunity to sell the family farm, her daughter Inge fights to keep their ancestral land.
Documentary
MOTHER OF TIBETANS | New York Premiere
Niklas Goslar | Germany (Germany, India, Poland) | 2018 | 90'

A woman decides to have a meaningful life after entering the pension age. For 30 years, Irmtraut Wäger headed German Aid To Tibetans and helped the Dalai Lama and Tibetans in exile. She collected about 30 million Euros in donations and took care of over 5,000 Tibetan godchildren. Furthermore, she facilitated the construction of schools, hospitals, kindergartens, and old people's homes all over India. Today Irmtraut Wäger is seen as a shining example of successful refugee relief, and this is her story.
"Meet the Filmmakers" - LIVE online session 2
Saturday, June 27, 2:00 pm EST
Moderated by:
Nora Armani Actor, filmmaker, film curator. SRFF Founding Artistic Director.
The films in this program stream online for 48 hours from June 26, 5:00 PM to June 28, 5:00 PM
Narrative Feature
Documentary

UNDERMINED: Tales form the Kimberley | North American Premiere
Nicholas Wrathall | Australia | 2018 | 92'
Australia’s vast and unspoiled Kimberley region is under threat, with mining, pastoralism and irrigated agriculture driving an unprecedented land grab. The film investigates the politics of an area now branded “the future economic powerhouse of Australia,” and what this means for our First People and their unique cultural landscapes. As pressure from industry exposes the limits of Indigenous land rights, what will remain of over 200 remote Aboriginal communities? We follow a young leader, a veteran cattleman and a Senior Elder through David-and-Goliath battles to preserve their homelands, asking the question: for whose benefit is this development?
"Meet the Filmmakers" - LIVE online session 3
Saturday, June 27, 5:30 pm EST
Moderated by:
Lucie Tripon Writer, actor, filmmaker, and founding member SRFF 2020 Team
Natalie Gologorsky SRFF Team & member of the film selection group
The films in this program stream online for 48 hours from June 26, 5:00 PM to June 28, 5:00 PM
Narrative short

Documentary

STONEWALL WITH A 'T' | New York Premiere
Samy Nemir Olivares | USA | 2019 | 80'
The film examines the New York City transgender activism movement - spanning from the Stonewall era to the present - in a decades-long struggle to acquire civil rights, recognition under the law and society, and fighting against discrimination, including the fight for SONDA and GENDA. It's an untold chapter of the LGBT history revisited 50 years after Stonewall, with interviews with the most active transgender activists of recent times, and a particular focus on transgender women of color, as well as never-seen-before footage of key events of LGBT history, including LGBT pioneer icons Sylvia River and Marsha P Johnson.