Today's Messages

The Beyond Boundaries Screening and Discussion Series is pleased to announce its fall 2025 schedule. All films start at 7:00 p.m. and are free and open to the public. There is always a discussion after the film.

Deaf President Now! (2025)

Thursday, September 18, Burchfield Penney Art Center

Directors: Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim

Over eight intense days in 1988, a student protest at the world’s only deaf university changed the course of history. 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. 

Union (2024) 

Thursday, October 23, Upton Hall 230

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. Documenting the struggle in intimate cinema verite, Union presents a gripping human drama about the fight for power and dignity in today’s globalized economic landscape. Union won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Art of Change at the Sundance Film Festival.

Sugarcane (2024)

Thursday, November 13, Burchfield Penney Art Center

Directors: Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie

Sugarcane follows an investigation into Saint Joseph's Indian Residential School located near Williams Lake, British Columbia, igniting a reckoning in the lives of survivors and descendants. It won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at Sundance Film Festival.

Beyond Boundaries is curated by Ruth Goldman and Meg Knowles, associate professors of communication, and is co-sponsored by the Communication Department, Equity and Campus Diversity Office, and Burchfield Penney Art Center.