How We Resist: The Filmmakers United Member Only

Around the world, documentary filmmakers are navigating censorship, surveillance, legal persecution, and the slow erosion of independent filmmaking. These pressures aren't new. Filmmakers have been developing responses, protections, and collective strategies for decades. But the forms of repression are multiplying: state funding withdrawn and film festivals targeted by politicians; film ratings boards and corporate platforms pressured into compliance; filmmakers surveilled, prosecuted, and exiled for daring to film. In this conversation, filmmakers who have faced these conditions will share how they fought back through legal appeals, media strategy, activist networks, and the slow work of building institutions.

Supported by Grace Lay—LinLay Productions

Moderator: Orwa Nyrabia
Panelists: Lucía Requejo (Fuera de Campo), Vinay Shukla (While We Watched), Ingrid Raphaël (Anonymous Working Group), Alina Simone (Black Snow)