In a State of Change
For better or worse, change is all around us
July 12, 2025
3:30-9:40 PM
Court Square Theater
44-02 23rd St, Long Island City
A Fragile Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland
The island of Ireland is facing a moment of terrible instability. In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement was signed, putting an end to the thirty-year conflict known as The Troubles, and ushering in a springtime of peace. A peace which is now threatened by the specter of Brexit. When the UK leaves the EU, the only land border between the two powers will be on the island of Ireland, running along a wound which has barely healed.
A Fragile Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland follows three people from Northern Ireland as they try to maintain peace in this politically uncertain time.
Bolivia Unbowed
"Bolivia Insumisa" focuses on the events that occurred in Bolivia during November 2019. It is a cinematographic journey through the events surrounding the coup of November 2019, the resistance and Bolivia's fight for democracy and sheds light on the search of justice for the victims of repression and their families, as well as the significance of these events in the history of Bolivia.
The documentary includes: Exclusive interviews with former President Evo Morales Ayma, former Vice President Álvaro García Linera, current Vice President David Choquehuanca, Juan Ramón Quintana, and other important political leaders.
The Artist & the Astronaut
Pat and Jerry would grow up in the same neighborhood and go to the same schools. Pat would travel thousands of miles and Jerry would travel millions of miles before they would eventually meet each other in Houston Texas. This film centers around a uniquely American couple’s captivating story during the pinnacle of American exploration and social change. Although this film is in essence a love story, Pat and Jerry lived entire lives before they even met each other in 1976. Pat was a 1950’s housewife with three daughters married to a football coach. Jerry was an astronaut with six children of his own. The experiences that each of them went through in the 1960’s and 1970’s prepared them to create art that would address the very important social issues of woman’s rights, race relations, issues of the native Americans, environmental sustainability and war.
Dirty Dogs
A hot dog pushcart war in New Orleans’ iconic French Quarter goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Incredibly, SCOTUS rubber-stamped a food cart monopoly that has remained in effect for over 50 years. Thus denying the people of New Orleans, especially people of color, the opportunity to have their own street pushcart business in the very lucrative French Quarter neighborhood. Dirty Dogs aims to right this socio-economic justice wrong and open up culinary pushcart diversity in the Quarter.
