Festival Alumni React to Police Brutality Protests

Several festival alumni took to Twitter throughout the weekend to react to the police brutality protests held in several municipalities and, for many, show their support for the #BlackLivesMatter international activist movement. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.

Below are a collection of responses and perspectives shared on Twitter by festival alumni filmmakers:

When you've never had to fight for anything in your life, when life has been handed to you on a plate and you don't understand your privelage you tweet the following: https://t.co/JCJtybkhLX #ToryBritain #BlackLivesMatter #privilege
— John McPhail (@worryingdrake) June 1, 2020

This is sickening, and heart breaking and frustrating. What are the policies we can put in place to change this? Or, if better, what are the policies we need to eliminate? https://t.co/2YsA9gFzAG
— Tim Driscoll (@TimRyanDriscoll) June 1, 2020

I’m not celebrating cops being peaceful because that’s literally part of their job. They are being paid to keep the peace. Not beat the shit out of protestors and run them over with their cars. No cookies for the cops who simply do their job.
— roryuphold (@roryuphold) May 31, 2020

Murderers and white supremacist terrorists need to be held accountable. If you’re white and wondering what you can do, here are a few ideas. None of us are doing enough. #blacklivesmatter #EndPoliceMurders #EndWhiteSupremacy
https://t.co/bt9nnmkC5Q
— Sophia Kruz (@kruzproductions) May 31, 2020

Link is in my IG Profile. This is the most important way you can spend 18 minutes of your life. PLEASE LISTEN AND FOCUS while you listen. He will give you words to explain to others the things you feel but cannot articulate. Make your kids listen. S… https://t.co/J58K4kLPwG pic.twitter.com/iRDeuSSKOS
— Christine Elise (@celisemccarthy) May 31, 2020

White people listen to these cries. ?. Hold back judgements and critique on protests. Listen and apologize. We have to do better. People deserve better. Children deserve better. People. #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/hLD5F4H0Bd
— Tony Gapastione ? | BraveMaker (@tonygapastione) May 31, 2020

Everyone, take care of yourself, and stand up for your friends, family, and those you don't know. Show up the best way you can. https://t.co/ZJUCIrxFUg
— Amy Vorpahl ??? (@vorpahlsword) May 31, 2020

Your actions after a protest save Black Lives. Get involved in your community, VOTE people out, VOTE people in,consider running for board seats, council seats, school boards, build a platform for which the voices of your communities lift up those that are unheard & marginalized.
— mylissa fitzsimmons (@mylissafitz) May 31, 2020

FLINT. Hell yeah. https://t.co/qIBUyBfbtQ
— Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) May 31, 2020

I’m feeling helpless tonight – turning that feeling into donations to #BlackLivesMatter, #MinnesotaFreedomFund and the official George Floyd Memorial Fund. Join me if you can https://t.co/aRLiqktINk
— Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) May 31, 2020

When you acknowledge your privilege… your ethnicity, gender, age, socio economic status… sexual orientation, then you can do great things. Embrace your own privilege and then use it to do great things. This is how we get out the shit together.
— Marcus Markou (@PapaSonsFilm) May 30, 2020

Nothing has changed at all. #minneapolisriots #GeorgeFloyd https://t.co/CIwaYI4e5f
— John McPhail (@worryingdrake) May 28, 2020

Think of not being racist is an active practice, not a decision you make that's complete & therefore your work is done & only other people are racist. Once I started testing that out on myself, seeing it as a PRACTICE, I started seeing things very differently. Still workin on it.
— Xan Aranda (@XanAranda) May 28, 2020

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Festival Alumni React to Police Brutality Protests

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