The films, exploring police brutality against African Americans and a lot more, are mostly, but not entirely, documentaries. The director of the Ferguson documentary Whose Streets says, “It sometimes seems like all of our political actions are exhausted or have been compromised, and there’s a real pressing sense of the magnitude of the issues, with no clear path forward. … I think the way out of that is for us to look around, and in our backyard, and tackle problems in front of us, rather than being consumed in this massive huge story.”