Public Education: Participatory Democracy in Times of Privatization
This web-documentary, witnesses participatory democracy to put the public in public education. Following community groups as they struggle against neoliberal education “reform,” the project features community organizing, while addressing national phenomena. It weaves film-text, historical-present, and practical-theoretical as an interactive experience that documents actions and interviews activists. Web-documentaries allows viewers to navigate at their own pace, creating their own route through the content.
Parrhesiazestthai is the activity of telling dangerous truths. Films for the People tells multimedia stories about everyday people and their acts of truth-telling from within systems of marginalization.
