Announcing STORY TO ACTION 5 - Three new films and campaigns!

STORY TO ACTION is Story Money Impact’s flagship program where we work with Canadian documentary films to create impact strategies, build partnerships, and organize screenings that create measurable progress in the issues featured in their films. If you are interested in helping us organize a screening of one or more of these films for your community, please contact Impact Director Anthony Truong Swan at anthony@storymoneyimpact.com.

A Place Where I Belong

Facing a system that fails to recognize their full humanity, six 2SLGBTQIA+ people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) fight for visibility, love, and freedom through a radical program that’s at risk of disappearing: CQC (Connecting Queer Communities). Through CQC, the protagonists find safety and solidarity while exploring their sexual desire and gender. People with I/DD are often excluded from queer community by their caregivers’ discomfort with their sexuality, and segregated from society to the point where they don’t have the experience to describe their queer identity. CQC models for the world how inclusivity can transform lives so that everyone can find a place where they belong.

This campaign aims to destigmatize intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD) particularly in queer communities, support queer organizations to create more disabled-inclusive programming, and help intellectual disability care organizations responsibly support dating, sex and expression of gender for the people they serve.

Please contact us if you are involved with, or can introduce us to:

• 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations, communities, or spaces

• Intellectual and/or developmental disability-centered organizations, communities or spaces

• Community living organizations that include people with I/DD

• 2SLGBTQIA+ or I/DD advocacy organizations

Canadian Adobo

When Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) leave their modest comforts in the Philippines for the promise of a brighter future, they leave their families behind to take care of other people’s families in Canada. Who is left to care for them, and their children back in the Philippines? The emotional struggles of these parents striving to provide for their families back home is captured through the raw and intimate lens of family and group therapy, as well as the unexpected challenge of reconnecting with their estranged children who grapple with their new lives in another country.

Canadian Adobo hopes to hold screenings that will honour Filipino workers and labour within Filipino communities, but also empower all immigrant communities to address the intergenerational impacts of domestic worker migration. The campaign is looking for opportunities to materially strengthen communication between Filipinos in Canada and their families back home with refurbished phones and discounted phone plans, or other creative ways to talk to each other more often.

Please contact us if you are involved with, or can introduce us to:

• Filipino communities, neighborhood groups, organizations, places, or organizers in Canada

• Churches with a large Filipino congregation

• Event spaces that are often used by Filipino organizers

• Counseling or therapy service providers with experience or interest in serving immigrants, particularly Filipinos'

• Mental health organizations with a focus on immigrants

• Someone who has experience with collecting and distributing refurbished phones

Tea Creek

Directed by Ryan Dickie | Produced by Ben Cox | 73 min

In three short years, Indigenous food sovereignty activist Jacob Beaton has transformed his family farm into Tea Creek, an Indigenous Food Sovereignty training centre with a mission to revive the abundance that once defined Turtle Island. Tea Creek works to rediscover and reveal the Indigenous expertise that historically outperformed colonial agriculture practices until that knowledge was erased by colonial systems and residential schools. Now, we follow Tea Creek as they reintegrate traditional agricultural knowledge through the growing season, and resist the ongoing impacts of colonization, led by a passionate leader with a vision for change, healing and abundance.

This campaign will be screening Tea Creek to help audiences connect Indigenous food insecurity to the effects of colonization. We also hope to secure the future of the Tea Creek organization by connecting them with donors or individuals who can introduce them to networks that can provide dependable program funding. Other food sovereignty initiatives are welcome to partner with Tea Creek or the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Association to increase capacity across Canada for this crucial work.

Please reach out if you are involved with, or can introduce us to:

• Indigenous food organizations or initiatives in your region

• Funders or donors who are interested in meeting with Tea Creek

• Policy makers or influencers with an interest in Indigenous issues, food security, or agriculture