For the 2023 Martin Luther King Holiday, The World House Project at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law within Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies will host a free, four-day virtual film festival/webinar beginning Friday evening,  Jan. 13 through Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. As in previous years, we will offer a selection of over 40 documentaries, as well as interviews and panel discussions with Dr. Clayborne Carson and guests. The focus of the 2023 World House Film Festival will be The Crisis of Democracy in the World House. 

The festival is produced in partnership with Bullfrog films, California Newsreel, the Camera as Witness Program (Stanford Arts), Clarity Films, Journey Films, the Kunhardt Film Foundation, the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center,  the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life at Stanford, and the USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice.