Imani Celeste (City of Dreamz Filmmaker) proclaims that now, more than ever, is the time to build community. Whether it's to make a film or address a need, crowd-funding, resource-sharing, and bridge-building are all ways we can chip in and show up for each other.

Inspired by her comedic film addressing workplace micro and macroaggressions, C.C. Randle (A Mind of Its own Filmmaker) proposes that building a more empowered sense of self through acts of self-care can help thwart the flagrant attacks to identify coming from the higher powers that be. 

Miguel Angel Caballero and Luis Aldana (The Ballard of Tita and the Machines Filmmakers) encourage us to become better neighbors and stand beside immigrant communities under attach, because "as we know through history - first they came for them, and then they come for us."

Representing Lea Tupu'anga/Mother Tongue - a short film now in Oscar contention - Stacy Young (Founder and Executive Director of the Pacific Island Film Festival) underscores the very mission of More To Talk About. Once a film is made, we must create more opportunities to extend the impact potential of storytelling through conversation and connection.