February 2026 Newsletter: Time is NOW!
Mark Your Calendars: UNMUTED Drops Feb 20 🎞️
UNMUTED will be available to stream on Kinema in just 3 days left. We want to pause and recognize something essential to this series: it would not exist without collaboration.
UNMUTED was created in partnership with organizations working on the front lines of gender justice, survivor support, and systemic change. These partners do not just appear in the series. They helped shape it, guided it, and continued the work long after the cameras stopped rolling.
FEATURED PARTNERS 🤝
Face Forward
Advancing survivor-centred storytelling and advocacy to challenge stigma and drive systemic change.
Food for Life Vrindavan
Providing food, shelter, education, and long-term care for abandoned women and children in India.
Equality Now
Using the law to end discrimination and violence against women and girls worldwide.
Unchained At Last
Leading the movement to end child marriage in the U.S. and supporting survivors forced into marriage.
Reproductive Health Uganda
Expanding access to sexual and reproductive health services, education, and rights across Uganda.
Sahiyo
Ending female genital cutting through survivor-led advocacy, community dialogue, and cultural change.
CERESAV
Supporting survivors of sexual violence in Mexico through crisis care, legal advocacy, and long-term healing services.
Each organization brings deep expertise, lived experience, and leadership to the issues explored in UNMUTED. Since its early screenings, UNMUTED has reached audiences in over 30 countries, partnered with more than 40 NGOs, 50+ cast & crew and engaged 1,000+ attendees worldwide. What began as a film has grown into a global conversation.
In the weeks ahead, we will continue sharing more about these partners, the people behind the work, and ways to engage beyond watching.
Because real impact does not happen alone, it happens together.
👉 UNMUTED premieres Feb 20 on Kinema — sign up by launch day to get one free episode.
2026: Upcoming Events 👀
🎬 An Unchained At Last Hybrid Parallel Event – March 13, 2026
As the UN launches the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Unchained At Last is hosting a hybrid parallel event featuring a screening of UNMUTED: Child Brides. A short panel will follow on how unflinching storytelling can help accelerate the fight to end forced and child marriage and advance gender equality.
📅 March 13, 2026
🕧 12:30–1:30 PM ET | 9:30–10:30 AM PT | 4:30–5:30 PM GMT
📍 In person: Church Center for the United Nations
777 United Nations Plaza, NYC (No registration required)
💻 Hybrid event (Zoom registration required)
Impact Lounge @ Sundance – Recap 🎬
At the Impact Lounge at Sundance, we gathered to discuss what it actually takes to create change on some of the hardest issues we face. Bringing together the teams behind UNMUTED and the Oscar®-nominated documentary To Kill a Tiger, alongside leaders in social impact, the conversation explored how storytelling can move us from awareness of gender-based violence to action.
When honest, complex, deeply human stories ground us in shared values, they don’t just inform — they help shift culture. Speakers Included:
Vicki Shabo — Senior Fellow for Gender Equity and Founder/Director, Entertainment Initiative, Better Life Lab at New America
Charlotte Lubert — Founder, Without Exception Films (UNMUTED)
Nisha Pahuja — Filmmaker & Producer, To Kill a Tiger
Brian Walker — CEO, Citizen Picmo
Thank you to the Impact Lounge for hosting vital conversations on how film can drive positive societal change and to everyone doing the work to build a culture where violence is no longer normalized and responsibility is shared.
🎥 Bring UNMUTED to Your Community
Host a screening — virtually or in person — to inspire dialogue and action against gender-based violence. Screenings requested before February 20 are free.
Screenings requested after February 20 will require a fee.
