Join us for our inaugural ACT Year Round screening on Thursday, February 7, at The Lyric.
TransMilitary
6:30 p.m.
The Lyric – 1209 N College Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80524
Tickets at: https://lyriccinema.com
Around 15,500 transgender people serve in the U.S. military (notably the largest transgender employer in the U.S.), where they must conceal their gender identity because military policies ban their service. TransMilitary chronicles the lives of four individuals (Senior Airman Logan Ireland, Corporal Laila Villanueva, Captain Jennifer Peace & First Lieutenant El Cook) defending their country’s freedom while fighting for their own. They put their careers and their families’ livelihoods on the line by coming out as transgender to top brass officials in the Pentagon in hopes of attaining the equal right to serve. The ban was lifted in 2016, but with President Trump now trying to reinstate it, their futures hang in the balance again. The 2018 SXSW Audience Award-winning feature film debut by Gabriel Silverman & Fiona Dawson, TransMilitary follows the Emmy-nominated short film Transgender, at War and in Love. Watch the trailer.
ACT Year Round
Join the ACT Human Rights Film Festival for special screenings of must-see films that won’t come to Fort Collins anytime soon, if ever! Most screenings include talk back sessions with local experts and special guests and recognize the work of local nonprofits and organizations.
ACT Human Rights Film Festival Joins International Human Rights Film Network
Raise Your Voice
Thanks to the generosity of our ACT Human Rights Film Festival community, we surpassed our crowdfunding goal with 60 donors giving more than $6,800. You can still be part of this year’s tremendous success by making your gift online today.
Your Complete Guide to Streaming ACT 2018
Want another chance to see the 2018 ACT lineup? Here’s your complete guide.
Social Justice Filmmakers and Activists at ACT
ACT hosted world renowned filmmakers, and social justice activists during the festival. Revisit them here.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. Read More
