The System: Ableism @filmindependent

Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Eden Hardwick and Liam Klipstine
Van Nuys High School, 9th Grade

75 students from Van Nuys High School, Westbrook Academy, and Renaissance High School for the Arts, together with filmmaker mentors, spent this semester exploring themes of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, and then made documentary and oral history projects in their own communities as part of Film Independent's Civil Liberties Filmmaking Program.

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