Changefest International Film Fest.

Picture this: a gathering of individuals from all over the world, coming together to share stories, exchange ideas, inspire one another, and make a positive impact ✨We’re talking about: ChangeFest, Social Change's International Film Festival-which uses art, film and action to create change-& it’s coming to a theater near you! Red Carpet - 12pm

‍12PM Changefest Youth

Panel moderated by Producer, model, and actress.Gia Skova

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The Orchestra Chuck Built

A testament to the transformative power of music with the ICYOLA - The Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles. Lawyer-turned-conductor Chuck Dickerson is on a mission to diversify the future’s professional orchestras through educating Black and BIPOC youth.

Guest: Youth music performance and talkback

Guest, conductor Chuck Dickerson

Director: Christopher Stoudt

Country: USA

Runtime: 22:13

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Birth of a Mind

The beginnings of hate, prejudice, and bias through the eyes of children. Follows dialogue between a Black, Asian, and White child and their conversations with parents on allyship from a tender age.

Guest: Youth actors

Director and guest: Daren D. Dien

Country: USA

Runtime: 13:56

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Levi: Becoming Himself (excerpt)

Documenting the journey of AFAB Vietnamese twin adoptees and their white Canadian parents. One of the twins begins to navigate their gender identity as transgender with warm support in this family love story.

Special guest: Levi

Director and guest: Shannon Kaplun

Country: Canada

Runtime: 6:00

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When Mama & Me Lived Outside

Tiny Gray-Garcia's story about growing up on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco & Oakland. A candid film and illustrated book about surviving houselessness through the inseparable bond of a mother and child. Tiny will be present to tell her story.

Guest & Poet “Tiny“ Gray-Garcia.

Country: USA

Director Peter Menchini Runtime: 8:11

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1:30PM Freedom and access for all

Panel moderated by actor and producer Jason Mimms

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Danceable

Three dancers with disabilities find freedom through movement. Their journeys exemplify how dance can serve as a tool for healing, liberation, and building community.

Country: USA

Director and guest: Kelsey McGee

Runtime: 22:33

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Heal the disconnect

A 15-year-old Latina girl, Alissa, survives adverse experiences, traumas, and three suicide attempts before beginning a high school mental health club for teens.

Guest: Alissa

Country: USA

Director: Daniel E Kennedy

Runtime: 15:33

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Lucha De Familias

Shows the lives of families who have been ripped apart by deportation. Proposes the Right 2 family act that would provide crucial rights to 11 million people including work visas and the opportunity to return deported veterans, fathers, and mothers. Visit right2family.com

Country: USA

Director: Emma Lozano

Runtime: 15:00

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END OF FIRST BLOCK

3pm Art Beyond Prison Bars

Panel moderated by lawyer, Social Change Executive Director Todd Belcore

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If light closed its eyes (Excerpt)

A filmed verbatim documentary play created from 100 interviews with men who had experienced incarceration and the criminal justice system.

Special guests: Cast members

Country: USA

Director and guest: Dr. Ashley Hamilton

Runtime: 30:00

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Straight from the pen (Excerpt)

Twenty-four inmates in a maximum-security prison yard took on a creative writing challenge to process trauma and express themselves as well as reduce recidivism.

Guests: Robert Gullett, Kevin Howerton Country

Country: USA

Director Paul Sutton, Lori Sutton

Runtime: 27:00

4:30PM Honoring Indigenous Perspectives

Panel moderated by Loerie-award winning producer, Lethabo Mokgatle

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Islandtrification

The journey of Kānaka Maoli families resisting predatory gentrification on Maui, Hawaii, which has a deep history of displacing locals due to economic development-agribusiness where the world elite build their multimillion-dollar estates.

Country: USA

Director and guest: Lani Cupchoy

Runtime: 8:00

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Sama Dilaut

A community of nomadic sea gypsies between Malaysia and the Philippines, the Sama Dilaut, are forced to leave their sea-dwelling life due to environmental degradation, and the rise of commercial fishing.

Country: USA

Special guests: Sama Dilaut community

Director and guest: Christine Ramos

Runtime: 27:16