Screenings & Events
June 5th, 2022 - “The Healing Project”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
August 20th, 2022 - “How Storytelling Can Advance Transformative Justice”, NetRoots Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
August 28th, 2022 - Oakland Shorties, New Parkway Theater, Oakland, CA
October 10, 2022 - Interference Archive, Brooklyn, NY
October 13th, 2022 - “Beyond Walls: Filmmaking For Prison Abolition”, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT
November 2nd, 2022 - College of Marin, San Rafael, CA
December 11h, 2022 - Ella Baker Center’s Celebration of Ella Baker’s Birthday, New Parkway Theater, Oakland, CA
January 26th, 2023 - "An Introduction to Abolition Pedagogy and Practice", UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
February 16th, 2023 - University of North Texas, Denton, TX
March 9th, 2023 - “Beyond The Bars: Seeding Justice”, Columbia University, New York, NY
April 6th, 2023 - Sonoma State University - Social Justice week, Rohnert Park, CA
April 13th, 2023 - Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
April 15th & 17th, 2023 - San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
April 18th, 2023 - San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
April 22nd, 2023 - ACLU of CA 2023 Action Conference, Sacramento, CA
May 6th, 2023 - Santa Cruz Museum Of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA
May 18th, 2023 - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
May 20th, 2023 - New York African Film Festival, New York, NY
June 18th, 2023 - DC/DOX Film Festival, Washington D.C.
June 29th, 2023 - Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco, CA
July 8, 2023 - “Makes Me Wanna Holla” exhibition, Logan Center for the Arts at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
August 3rd & 5th, 2023 - Blackstar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
August 9th, 2023 - Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence, RI
September 7th, 2023 - UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Seminar, Berkeley, CA
October 2023 - International Documentary Association Fall Docs series, Virtual
October 7th, 2023 - SFFILM Youth FilmHouse Residency, San Francisco, CA
October 11th, 2023 - Social Justice Film Festival, Seattle, WA
October 19th, 2023 - Harvard Law School, Inquest, Cambridge, MA
October 23, 2023 - United Nations Association Film Festival, Palo Alto, CA
October 28th, 2023 - Indie Memphis Film Festival, Memphis, TN
October 29, 2023 - APAture Film Showcase: Unearthing, San Francisco, CA
November 10, 2023 - 13th National Conference on Higher Education in Prison, Atlanta, GA
November 15, 2023 - St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, MO
November 29, 2023 - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
December 5th, 2023 - Teach In Prison and Underground Scholars UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
December 23rd, 2023 - People’s Programs Community Mini Film Fest - “Tales of the Town”/”Shoebox”, Oakland, CA
February 8, 2024 - Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
March 4, 2024 - UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
March 8, 2024 - Hayti Film Festival, Durham, NC
April 25-28, 2024 - Seattle Black Film Festival, Seattle, WA
May 8, 2024 - Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Beyond Walls is an organizing initiative featuring documentary films that define and amplify what prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition means, while inspiring people to imagine and take action toward a world without policing. Beyond a goal of simply changing hearts and minds, these five short films, this website, and screening events offer concrete tools and actions that can be taken to help create a world without police and prisons. Beyond Walls was curated by the Center for Political Education, Critical Resistance, MPD150, and Survived + Punished in partnership with Working Films.
The legacy of prisons and policing is built atop a long history of reinforcing oppressive social and economic practices levied by police officers, guards, ICE officers, and others enforcing state violence. Beyond Walls sheds light on the human spirit that cannot be contained by the carceral system. These films lift up stories of resistance through organizing, maintaining relationships with loved ones, and storytelling that help us demonstrate an abolitionist imagination.
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