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EVENTS
Screenings
Walk the Block | 09/01/2025 | Seattle, WA | Filmmaker Lecture Series with Terance Nance, Amir George Brian McDonald and Gilda Sheppard | |
Santa Cruz Black Film Festival | 08/01/2025 | |||
Docu Series Peace Lutheran Church | 05/01/2025 | |||
Evergreen State College Gateways academic program for incarcerated youth | 02/27/2025 | |||
Seattle University Law School | 11/13/2024 | Screening and Conversation with Kimonti Carter and Gilda Sheppard | ||
Climate, Hip Hop and Film | 11/07/2024 | Conversation between award winning filmmaker Albert Hughes (Menace to Society, Book of Eli etc.) and Gilda Sheppard (Since I Been Down). | ||
SIFF Film Center Cinema | 10/17/2024 | Screening and Panel. Sponsored by MacDonald, Haogue, and Bayless Law Firm | ||
Imagine Justice, AmeriCorps | 08/22/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda
Sheppard and Kimonti Carter | ||
Langston Cultural Arts Center “Special Policy Makers Screening “ | 07/31/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Kimonti Carter | ||
Green Hill Youth Prison
| 07/26/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard
and Kimonti Carter | ||
Institute of Black Justice:Freedom Summer Symposium | 06/22/2024 | Gilda Sheppard in Dialogue with Michelle Alexander author of The New Jim Crow | ||
Institute for Black Justice (IBJ) | 06/22/2024 | Conversation between Michelle Alexander author of The New Jim Crow and Gilda Sheppard Filmmaker “Since I Been Down” | ||
Washington Corrections Center for Women, Gig Harbor | 06/01/2024 | Screening
and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard | ||
San Francisco Documentary Festival | 05/30/2024 | |||
Thinking for Change, Seattle Central College | 05/21/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Kimonti Carter | ||
University of Washington, Bothell | 05/18/2024 | Screening and Discussion Kimonti
Carter | ||
Transforming Justice Community Gathering (BPC-CG and Participatory Justice) | 05/15/2024 | |||
Transforming Justice, Second Baptist Church, Everett | 05/11/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Kimonti Carter | ||
Alabama State University | 04/18/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard | ||
University of Washington H.O.P.E. Organization | 04/01/2024 | |||
“Lit Friday” | 03/29/2024 | Conversation with Gilda Sheppard & Jessica Laney | ||
Race and Social Justice Symposium | 03/27/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Dr. Ben Danielson | ||
South Shore K-8 Public School Workshop | 03/27/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Kimonti Carter | ||
August Wilson African American Cultural Center | 02/29/2024 | Screening and
Discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Kimonti Carter | ||
Stafford Creek Correction Center | 02/29/2024 | Discussion with Gilda Sheppard | ||
Langston Cultural Arts Center | 02/24/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard | ||
George Mason University | 02/24/2024 | |||
Orting Branch Library | 02/17/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard | ||
Pierce County Library | 02/16/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard | ||
Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation | 02/11/2024 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard | ||
Multifaith Coalition for Restorative Justice Advocacy Day | 02/07/2024 | |||
Quimper Unitarian, Port Townsend | 12/07/2023 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard | ||
Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship | 10/03/2023 | |||
Temple De Hirsch Sinai | 09/08/2023 | In person | Screening and in-person discussion with Rabbi Daniel Weiner, Gilda Shepard and Kimonti Carter | |
Rise Up Conference | 09/06/2023 | In person | Screening and discussion with Gilda Shappard and Kimonti Carter | |
YWCA of Olympia | 08/05/2023 | In Person | Screening and community conversation with Kimonti Carter and the Black’s Prisoner’s Caucus | |
Recovery Café | 07/26/2023 | In Person | Screening and discussion with Gilda Sheppard | |
Seattle City Hall | 07/11/2023 | In Person | Screening and discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Kimonti Carter | |
Institute of Back Justice Symposium | 06/22/2023 | Screening and Discussion with
Gilda Sheppard and Michelle Alexander | ||
Town Hall | 06/17/2023 | In Person | Screening and discussion with the Black Prisoner’s Caucus at the Madrona Grace Presbyterian Church | |
Filmmakers Workshop, Ghana | 04/22/2023 | In-Person | Screening and discussion with Gilda Sheppard | |
City of Seattle | 03/23/2023 | In Person | Gilda Sheppard joins Seattle Office for Civil Rights Director Derrick Wheeler Smith and Dr. Ben Danielson at the Race & Social Justice Summit | |
The Corp Network, Washington DC | 03/07/2023 | In Person | Screening and discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Kimonti Carter | |
Seattle City Hall | 02/25/2023 | In Person | Screening and discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Kimonti Carter for Black History Month | |
George Mason University | 02/24/2023 | Screening and Discussion with Gilda Sheppard | ||
UW Tacoma | 02/23/2023 | In Person | Screening and discussion with Gilda Sheppard | |
Johannesburg, South Africa | 02/02/2023 | In-Person/Virtual | Screening and discussion with Gilda Sheppard, Kimonti Carter and Tonya Wilson | |
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art | 01/20/2023 | In-Person | Screening and discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Kimonti Carter | |
Meaningful Movies | 01/19/2023 | Virtual and In-Person at the Mt. Baker Community Club | Screening and discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Kimonti Carter | |
Plymouth Church | 12/10/2022 | In-Person | Screening and discussion with Gilda Sheppard and Kimonti Carter |
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Festivals
Centre Film Festival | 2021 |
Social Justice Film Festival | 2021 |
Freep Film Festival | 2021 |
The Reel Hilltopia Film Festival | 2021 |
Montreal International Black Film Festival | 2021 |
Oakland Film Festival | 2021 |
Local Sightings Festival 2021 | 2021 |
Local Sightings Festival | 2021 |
Sebastopol Film Festival | 2021 |
Milwaukee Film Festival | 2021 |
Thin Line Festival | 2021 |
Halifax Black Film Festival | 2021 |
Big Sky Film Festival | 2021 |
Toronto Black Film Festival | 2021 |
Detroit Free Press Freep Film Festival | 2020 |
DOCNYC 2020 with Live Panel | 2020 |
Tacoma International Film Festival | 2020 |
Portland Film Festival | 2020 |
DOKTOBER at the Pickford | 2020 |
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards with a live panel featuring Director Gilda Sheppard and Tonya Wilson, Reentry Outreach Coordinator for The Freedom Project | 2020 |
Social Justice Film Festival with Live Panel | 2020 |
Cleveland International Film Festival | 2020 |
Cineverse International Film Festival | 2024 |
Rotterdam Independent Film Festival | |
Lion International Film Festival | |
Dialog Film Festival | 2024 |
The Great Britain Silver Screen Award | |
Abuja International Film Festival | |
La Femme International Film Festival | 2024 |
San Francisco Documentary Film Festival | 2024 |
Black Bottom Film Festival | 2023 |
New York City Independent Film Festival Gilda Sheppard for Best Director | 2023 |
Indie Fest Film | 2024 |
Documentaries without Borders International Film Festival | |
Birsamunda International Film Festival | 2024 |
The Micheaux Film Festival | 2024 |
New York Independent Film Festival | |
Oscar Micheaux Film Festival October | 2024 |
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Freep Film Festival: Detroit Free Press Reporter Lily Altavena interviews Director Gilda Sheppard and Tonya Wilson, Reentry Outreach Coordinator for the Freedom Project
Host a Screening
Conversation with Adrienne Maree Brown
& Since I Been Down
Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum begins Yom Kippur Address by talking about Since I Been Down
Northwest Community Bail Fund
Panel Discussion with Gilda Sheppard, Kimonti Carter, and Tonya Wilson
Community Screenings & Featured Events
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