Documentaries

Women Are Sacred

There is a silent crisis in the United States. Native women are being targeted, missing, and murdered at a rate 10x higher than any other ethnic or racial group. It is becoming an epidemic, where more than 75% of native women will experience some form of sexual assault, trauma, or worse.

Partnerships for Change has partnered with Melinda Janko to help create a documentary called “Women Are Sacred,” which highlights not only the struggles of Native Women, but the processes and structural insufficiencies that brought us to this challenge today.

Please review the video below for background on why Women Are Sacred is such an important addition to the documentary landscape.

Partnerships for Change is accepting donations on behalf of Melinda Janko and her important video. If you’re interested in donating and supporting this important – critical – work, please click the Donate button below and offer your support. All of your contributions are helpful and tax-deductible.

100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice

100yrs 100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice chronicles the courageous efforts of Elouise Cobell, a petite Native American warrior who discovered billions of dollars missing from the century old government managed Indian Trust Fund belonging to 300,000 Native Americans. In 1996, Cobell filed the largest class action lawsuit ever filed against the U.S. Government. For 15 long years and through three Presidential administrations, Cobell relentlessly fought for justice for her people. This is the story of how she prevailed and made history.

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Sanctuary – A Film of the Contemporary American West

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Partnerships For Change is proud to have worked with the markers of Sanctuary, a documentary of the Contemporary American West. The documentary explores the changes to American Public Lands and how we should look at its past, present, and future.

Sanctuary explores modern cowboys, wild horses, and how people and animals compete for dwindling natural resources that have been exasperated by oil and mineral extraction. It looks at how the government and corporate interests are behind weakening this natural land, and the concerns about what it might mean in the future if these issues are not stopped immediately.

Shame

shamethumb A film by Richard Yeagley.

A young man's identity is called into question when he visits a religious based sexual re-orientation therapist.

Shame is a feature length documentary tht follows Nathan Gniewek, a 27 year old gay man, as he struggles to come to terms with his sexual identity. Nathan, a devout Catholic, is so troubled by his secual orientation that he seeks counseling in the form of reparative therapy from a therapist named Chris Doyle.