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including the winner of the 2020 academy award, for sure documentary. this year, with some of the best films weve ever been privileged to showcase. they tackled some of the biggest issues of the last 18 months, from democracy and covid, to race and the teaching of history. you are about to see three films here, plus my conversations with two of the directors. first up is the facility, directed by seth west lure. later in the program, youll see mail down in dixie, and golden age karate....

♪ ♪ ♪ >> a, have you heard from nilson? >> he is in delta, in the -- im so worried about nilson because he got a really health condition. >> and with him refusing medication, one of the ice lady said hes gonna get a permit from the judge, to force feed us. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello. >> nilson -- >> this colin view from irwin

Pandemic, and the sort of this move by all of us to start using video communication tools, it made it possible for me to get inside an ice facility, but i probably never would have been able to get into otherwise. the detention center at one point, and i wrote about this in the new york times magazine story that i published last year, did sever my access to the video app. and some of the people inside lost access to the tablets that theyve used, to have these conversations. i was able to sign ba...

Planks? >> you know, ice detention, immigration detention, just to fill in some background here. its civil detention. its not prison. its not meant as punishment, at least as a legal matter. its a thing that exists to hold most dozens who are facing the threat of deportation, ostensibly so that they dont have scones, showing up in court. its at the discretion of the federal government and ice. so, nearly everybody who was detained in i.c.e. detention could actually be released at any point at th...

Detained would be detained. so, nilson had been pulled over for driving violation, and was locked up in i.c.e. detention after an arrest following the driving isolation violation. and we had come to los angeles from columbia by a tourist visa, intended to come into the country. but when officials at the airport asked if she feared returning to our country, she was detained and treated as an arriving, as an arriving asylum seeker. you know, the trump administration, arriving asylum seekers were s...

Your film is also, how you got your access. and in many ways, you made it clear during the film that you had to pay for the video access at times, to make sure we saw that. but explain how you met nilson? how you met andrea? how you got that access? >> sir. at the beginning of the pandemic, you, know my plans for reporting, were sort of upended right? i had plans to go reports toys for the magazines i write for. and i was trying to figure out how i was gonna continue, as a print reporter, as thi...

County detention center. >> hi, nilson. how are you? >> i am okay. i mean, you know. i havent eaten for five days, today. nothing. we havent drink any water also, taken any of my medications. when i get up, you know, i get dizzy. honestly, i am feeling weak. this is a very on humanitarian. and, i mean, we havent committed no crime. we are not hurting anybody. we didnt behave aggressively in any way whatsoever. so, its really hard to understand why they are treating us this way. >> [speaking fore...

Seth, what was interesting about your film is also how you got your access. and in many ways, you made it clear during the film that you had to pay for the video access at times, you made sure we saw that. but explain how you met nilson and andrea, how you got that access. >> sure. so, at the beginning of the pandemic, you know, my plans for reporting were sort of upended, right? i had plans to go report stories for magazines that i write for, and i was trying to figure out how i was going to co...

That kind of video access. in fact, you know, in a way, the pandemic and the sort of -- this move by all of us to start using video communication tools, it made it possible for me to get inside of an i.c.e. facility that i probably never would have been able to get into otherwise. the detention center at one point, and i wrote about this in "the new york times" magazine story that i published last year, did suffer my access to the video app and some of the people inside lost access to the tablet...

Trump administration that nearly anybody who could be detained would be detained, so nilson had been pulled over for a driving violation and was locked up in i.c.e. detention after an arrest following the driving violation. andrea had come to los angeles from colombia by plane with a tourist visa, intended to enter the country, but when officials at the airport asked her if she feared returning to her country, she was detained and treated as an arriving -- as an arriving asylum seeker and under ...