short films

Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta has passed away. News of her passing was shared on October 28, 2026, one week after the release of BLOOD MONEY, a short film featuring one of her final on-screen appearances. Directed by Ellen Gavin and released October 21, 2026, the four-minute film examines the billions of taxpayer dollars flowing to private prison corporations through America’s ICE detention system, following people detained, companies profiting, protesters, and the working-class ICE agents enforcing the policies. Huerta appears alongside local community activists portraying themselves, and she also appeared in Gavin’s earlier short The People, United, which examined parallels to historical injustices like the Holocaust and Japanese American incarceration. Curious Communications Inc., producer of Laura Flanders & Friends, served as the film’s fiscal sponsor, and BLOOD MONEY is streaming now on YouTube.