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2025 Festival
September 26-28
Our 21st year
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THE WATCH CLUB February 2025
THE WATCH CLUB: THE STRIKE
For decades, California prisons carried out a practice of ordering certain inmates into solitary confinement, indefinitely and without due process. In 2013, a small group of protesters began a hunger strike at the high-security Pelican Bay Prison.
THE STRIKE tells the story of how that movement spread to prisons across the state, ultimately involving over 30,000 incarcerated individuals of diverse backgrounds. The film, which just premiered on PBS’s Independent Lens series, highlights the transformative power of collective organizing.
Watch THE STRIKE on the PBS Independent Lens website, then make plans to join us in THE WATCH CLUB for a live Q&A with co-directors JoeBill Muñoz and Lucas Guilkey at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 2O.


What is THE WATCH CLUB?
Keep the conversation going throughout the year in THE WATCH CLUB. It's like a book club, but for documentaries. Each month we'll recommend a new documentary to stream, then invite you to join us on YouTube and Facebook for a live online Q&A with the filmmaker.







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Our 2024 Festival Winners
Winner of the 2024 YES Award
Young Emerging-Filmmakers Showcase celebrates new and emerging filmmakers.


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The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival is supported in part by grants from the local cultural councils of the surrounding towns as well as our local sponsors.
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Young Emerging Filmmakers: THE PAHLEVAN ON 5TH AVE

Under missile strikes and roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become.
Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.
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