Films for Freedom, Presented by The Film-Makers' Cooperative and Canyon Cinema

The Film-Makers' Cooperative and Canyon Cinema joined forces in 2025 to support Fall of Freedom, an urgent nationwide arts movement united in defiance of the rise of authoritarianism. We sent out a call for 10-second films. Over 100 artists sent us their work.

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Featured filmmakers:

Tommy Becker
Anne Colvin
Clair Bain
Julie Halazy
Toby Kaufmann-Buhler
Abigail Child
Joe Miller
Auguste Bartninkaite
Thomas Dimopoulos
Rudy Gerson
Chihiro Ito
Sean Paul
Amal Alshoura
Andrew Tamburrino
The Davis (CA) Visibility Brigade
Césaire José Carroll-Domínguez
Bill Baldewicz
Craig Baldwin
Leonard Henny (courtesy Eye Filmmuseum)
Max Wolf
Horatio Perry
Katherine Bauer
Jan Adamove
Dana Teen Lomax
Jamie Naqvi
Charles de Agustin
Alexis Krasilovsky
Diganto Mori
Lucien Pin
J Woltz
Tommaso Paris
Robert Schneider
Jeffrey Skoller
Ausín Sáinz
Roland Cartagena
Noel Molloy
Chris Nyklewicz
Miguel Chichorro
Ellie Vanderlip
Dominic Angerame
Brigitte Valobra Wald
Randolph Bird
ALice Leonardo
Tara Lamorgese
Madeline Florio
MM Serra
Wenwen Zhu
Karen Bosy
Pauline Mateos
Andrew Reichel
Zazie Kanwar-Torge
ALina Taalman
Lillian Canright
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
Jem Cohen
Susan Kouguell
Evgeny Kondrov
Arisha Chowdhury
Tony Merritt
Aiden Castillo
Lynne Sachs
Samuel Rivera Cortes
Evan Bode
Hogan Seidel
Kathleen Quillian
Juyi Mao
Billie Sorribès
Joel Singer
Mark Street
Leonardo Severino
Rankin Renwick
Candy Powell
Erica Schreiner
Ate Von Hes
Vahid Valikani
Anne Senstad
Conor Williams
Phil Weisman
Roman Ženatý
James Hollenbaugh
Gloria Chung
Lawrence Jordan
Liam Kenny
Julius Klein
Koomah
Callon Murphy
Ruth Hayes
Ira Vicari
James Sansing
Thad Povey
Michelle Rauch
Yann les Jours
Spyrous Patsouras
Kevin Roy and Tim Mustoe
Zhang Yida
Walter K. Lew and Alissa Xhixhabesi
Janis Crystal Lipzin
William Brown and Mila Zuo
Tushar GIdwani
Keum-Taek Jung
Annie Robertson
Caroline Savage
Jim Hubbard
Mary Filippo
Tyler Turkle
Brian Padian
Nechama Winston
Robert Joshua San Luis
Fred Camper
Adam E. Stone
Matt McKinzie
Tav Falco
Anthony Tko
Rrose PResent
rylik zzoo
Maxmilien Luc Proctor
Vanja Mervič
Christophe Charre

Organized by Brett Kashmere (Canyon Cinema), Matt McKinzie (The Film-Makers' Cooperative), and Lynne Sachs. Edited by Mary Rose McClain.

For more information visit:
CANYON CINEMA: canyoncinema.com
THE FILM-MAKERS' COOPERATIVE: film-makerscoop.com
FALL OF FREEDOM: falloffreedom.com