Upcoming Events

Steal This Story, Please!

Thursday, May 21st
7pm @ Otis S. Johnson, Ph.D. Cultural Arts Center

We’re bringing this remarkable documentary back for those who missed it during the festival. Winner of over a dozen Jury and Audience awards at various festivals including Oslo, Santa Barbara, Woodstock, Santa Fe, Mill Valley, Seattle, Hamptons, Palm Springs, and the Best Feature Award at Hindsight, Steal This Story, Please! has premiered to sell out screenings including DOC NYC with big name celebrities like Susan Sarandon in attendance and Jane Fonda now signing on as an executive producer.

It’s an inspiring portrait of a most extraordinary journalist and reporter, Amy Goodman, and arguably one of the most important and most timely documentaries of our time. For over 30 years, her "Democracy Now!" broadcasts have often been the most balanced, objective, fiercely independent, and always factual news reporting in the US. Whether or not you have followed her, you will be glad to learn the deep backstory of her life and work.

For this encore Savannah screening, we will have a live Q&A with the film’s Oscar-nominated co-director, Carl Deal.

$10 in advance or at the door. Purchase tickets at:
https://cinemasavannah.com/

Official synopsis:
Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media. Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions – as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on the press – and on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?

Past Events

Apollo 1

Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
The Hindsight Film Festival was proud to present an exclusive look at the personal story of three exceptional astronauts who came together in America’s race for the Moon – Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. With exceptional access granted to the production team along with a rich unseen personal archive, it’s a story of jeopardy, adventure, tragedy and recovery, as told by those closest to the crew.

The screening was followed by a Q&A with Mark Craig, director of Apollo 1 and The Last Man on the Moon.

We also hosted a screening at the Savannah Arts Academy, where Mark stuck around to talk with high school students about making historical documentaries.

The Making of Taylor Square

December 11th, 2025
Hindsight Film Festival was proud to present this half-hour documentary by local director Caroline Josey Karoki and producer Abbey Hoekzema, who dutifully captured the ups and downs of this story as it unfolded. Many Savannah residents attended the jubilant dedication ceremony last year, and now the rousing backstory was presented on the big screen, followed by an in-depth conversation with the filmmakers and the stars of the film.

The Day Iceland Stood Still

October 10th, 2025
Hindsight Film Festival screened The Day Iceland Stood Still, which premiered at HotDocs and has shown internationally to wide acclaim, but is still not available online. The film recalls one day in 1975 when 90 percent of the women in Iceland skipped their jobs and housework to demonstrate in the streets for equal pay and opportunity. The film was followed by an interview with the filmmakers, Emmy-winner Pamela Hogan, and Icelandic producer Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir, by Amy Paige Condon of the Savannah Morning News.

Amy Paige Condon asks The Day Iceland Stood Still filmmakers about how documentary films like this can amplify progressive voices in a moment of regression for gender equality.

Emmy-winning filmmaker Pamela Hogan talks about the challenges of finding distribution for niche documentaries today and the excitement of showing her film in places like Savannah.

Full interview with filmmakers before the screening on October 10th, 2025

The feature presentation was preceded by Armadillo Olympics, a 10 minute film by local student filmmaker Bae Allen, which looks back an agricultural phenomenon that started 45 years ago in Southeast Georgia. We chatted with Bae Allen about his process of discovering the lost Southern tradition and bringing it to the big screen.

The Disappearance of Miss Scott

June 6th, 2025
Hindsight Film Festival hosted our first preview event at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center. The Disappearance of Miss Scott, a PBS American Masters film, was shown to a diverse capacity crowd of 250 attendees. Our sponsor Cinema Savannah helped promote the event to their loyal following of over 1,000 film enthusiasts, and The Better Angels Society generously sponsored the travel for Emmy Award-winning director Nicole London to be there for an in-person Q&A. The son of Hazel Scott, Adam Clayton Powell III, was also interviewed on a live-stream by Christina Davis, Professor of History from Savannah State University, the local HBCU.