Beyond Boundaries Film & Discussion Series

Deaf President Now! 2025

Thursday, September 18

Directors: Nyle DiMarco and David Guggenheim

Over eight intense days in 1988, a student protest at the world’s only deaf university changed the course of history. The powerful new film DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! is a first-person account of the historical protests of the same name from the students-turned-organizers who came into their own and helped change the way the world saw the Deaf community, in turn advancing the disability rights movement.

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Union, 2024

NOTE DATE AND LOCATION: Thursday, OCTOBER 23, 2025, 7:00 p.m. in Upton Hall

Directors: Stephen Maing and Brett Story
 
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.  Winner of the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change, UNION presents a gripping human drama about the fight for power and dignity in today’s globalized economic landscape.

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Sugarcane, 2024

Thursday, November 13, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

Director: Julie Cohen
 
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves near an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada sparked a national outcry about the forced separation, assimilation, and abuse many children experienced at this network of segregated boarding schools designed to slowly destroy the culture and social fabric of Indigenous communities. When Kassie- a journalist and filmmaker- asked her old friend and colleague, NoiseCat, to direct a film documenting the Williams Lake First Nation investigation of St Joseph’s Mission, she never imagined just how close this story was to his own family. Winner of over a dozen awards including the Sundance Directing Award: U.S. Documentary, SUGARCANE follows an investigation into the Canadian Indian residential school system, igniting a reckoning in the lives of survivors and descendants.

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