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    Best of VWI: June

    Celebrating the best shorts from the Voices With Impact film library through a quirky drama on loneliness, a drama on the impact of underage drinking, and an experimental mixed media short examining the mental health impacts of Japanese internment camps.

    Plant People
    Topics Covered
    Social Connections, Isolation and Loneliness
    Content Heads Up
    Depictions of loneliness
    Representation
    White, Woman / female
    Film Style
    Drama
    Blue Garden
    Topics Covered
    Intergenerational Trauma, Racism
    Content Heads Up
    Mention of experiences in an internment camp
    Representation
    College age, East Asian, Man / male, Woman / female, Adult, Immigrant
    Film Style
    Documentary
    Tsi Teyoto:te (Even in the Silence)
    Topics Covered
    Alcohol Use Disorder, Grief and Loss, Mental Wellness, Trauma
    Content Heads Up
    Depiction of a DUI-caused car accident
    Representation
    College age, Indigenous, Woman / female
    Film Style
    Drama
    Best of VWI: June | Voices With Impact