RESISTANCE OF VISION is a touring festival presented by the 27-year-old San Francisco IndieFest comprising four programs of short films roughly 90 minutes in length that will premiere in early May 2025 with in-person screenings in both Boston and San Francisco.

These films will be available for booking for groups seeking to hold spaces for dialogue, organizing, and action in their communities. Partnerships with national organizations will support each program to assist with resources, audience building, and calls to action. Participating filmmakers will receive screening fees for all bookings and presentations.

RESISTANCE OF VISION is committed to showcasing stories of resilience and the fight for liberation that are often excluded by corporate-controlled exhibition channels. Discussions following the screenings with filmmakers, film participants, activists & academics are encouraged after every program to allow our audience to dig deeper into the issues presented on screen.

Programs for the 2025-2026 festival:

OUR BODIES, OUR CHOICE (Gender Justice): a program dealing with bodily autonomy, including transgender and reproductive healthcare, and other issues affecting individuals based on sex or gender.

THIS IS AN EMERGENCY (Environmental Justice): a program dealing with our relationship to the natural world and efforts to fight laws and institutions that fail to protect our environment and actively contribute to the worsening climate crisis.

FIGHT THE POWER (Racial justice): a program dealing with all forms of racial discrimination, including Indigenous communities around the globe and stories of individuals and organizations fighting for a more just and equitable world.

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? (Labor and Housing Justice): program dealing with labor concerns, including union organizing and mobilizing for a living wage and housing justice, and protecting the rights and dignity of the unhoused.

Awards & Prizes

Audience Awards and Jury Prizes for Best Shorts in these categories:

Gender Justice
Environmental Justice
Racial justice
Labor and Housing Justice

Participating filmmakers will receive screening fees for all bookings and presentations.

Rules & Terms

Any film completed after January 1, 2022 is eligible for consideration. We have no premiere requirements.

LEGAL STUFF: Submitters understand that submission of their work authorizes the Festival to use the work for exhibition, education and/or publicity purposes related to the festival; that the Festival will handle the prints and drives with a maximum of care but cannot be held liable for any damage or loss during shipping, preview, or screening; and that the Festival is also not responsible for any claim involving copyright, trademark, credits, or royalty infringement related to the work. Submitters may receive future correspondence from the Festival. The festival will never publish your film online without explicit permission.