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JoeBill Muñoz

  • Director, Producer and Writer, Freelance
  • Director, The Strike
New York
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filmmaker. dir of thestrikefilm.com. current fellow at @newamerica. formerly: @sundanceorg, @firelightmedia @Reveal @FrontlinePBS.
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‘The Strike’: When Collective Action Leads to Prison Reform

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By JoeBill Muñoz
| New America
2024 New America Fellow JoeBill Muñoz's film, The Strike, was reviewed in the New York Times. The word “solidarity” — basically, agreement between and support for members of a group — is not hard to define. But it can be hard to wrap your mind around, in a world more oriented toward personal development and individual success than the common good.
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The Strike | Hot Docs

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By JoeBill Muñoz, Lucas Guilkey
| hotdocs.ca
Showing with captioning. The intro and Q&A on April 28 will include ASL interpretation. Industry Passholder tickets are available online starting at 9:00 pm the night prior to the screening date, and up until one hour before the screening time. Passholders can also obtain tickets in person at the screening venue's box office on the day of the screening upon presentation of their pass. Venue box offices open one hour prior to the venue's first screening of the day.
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The Strike

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By JoeBill Muñoz
| New America
Amidst the redwood trees on the California-Oregon border sits one of the most infamous prisons in US history. Pelican Bay is a labyrinthine construction of solid cement blocks – a supermax prison – opened in 1989 and designed specifically for mass-scale solitary confinement. For decades, it held mostly Black and Brown men alone in tiny cells indefinitely. Then one day in 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on hunger strike.
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