wbur: A traveling film festival brings 'Resistance of Vision' to the Brattle
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- May 6
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May 01, 2025. By Claire Ogden. From wbur
Born in the wake of the 2024 election and premiering in New England this weekend, a new traveling film festival shows the power of collective action in turbulent times.
“Resistance of Vision” is a thematic series of short film packages focused on social justice cinema, all designed for political organizers working on the issues portrayed in the films. It was created by Anna Feder and Jeff Ross, who met through their work on previous festivals.
Ross co-founded San Francisco Indie Fest in 1998 and is still the director of the organization, despite moving to Salem last September. He had long kept up with Feder’s work curating the Bright Lights Cinema Series at Emerson College, which was abruptly canceled in summer 2024. After Feder was let go from that job, Ross saw an opportunity to collaborate.
“It hurt my heart that this thing that I had built with students, faculty, staff, alumni at Emerson has gone away, that someone could just kill it,” Feder said. “So I'm just taking that energy and my love and my passion, and I'm finding a different outlet to do the same thing.”
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