Join us for a special screening of “The Strike,” a new feature documentary incubated in the school’s Investigative Reporting Program, by JoeBill Munoz (’19) and Lucas Guilkey (’19), that recounts the historic non-violent uprising against longterm solitary confinement by some 30,000 people incarcerated in California prisons in 2013. More than a dozen students and alumni contributed to the film. A Q&A following the screening will be moderated by Professor David Barstow.

Read our June interview with the filmmakers here.

About the Filmmakers

JoeBill Muñoz

JoeBill Muñoz is an award-winning Mexican-American director and producer whose work includes feature documentaries and TV series that have showcased at international film festivals and broadcast on Hulu, Showtime, PBS, and more. From Texas, his love for making documentaries started as a teen, lugging around a VHS camcorder through sweltering football fields to tell the stories of kids like him with big dreams.

JoeBill is the director of The Strike, and has directed short films for Independent Lens (Maletero, Evidence Lost) and NBC (Follow the Sun), which tell the stories of heroic people absent in popular media. As a producer, he spent two years doggedly working on Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s The Grab (Magnolia Pictures, Participant), an investigation into the global powers securing the world’s dwindling natural resources. He was on the team behind the Emmy-winning, Kids Caught in the Crackdown (Frontline), about President Donald Trump’s policy to separate immigrant children from their parents, and most recently has been working with Left/Right Media on series like The Circus (Showtime), The New York Times Presents (Hulu), and an upcoming collaboration with HBO and Words + Pictures.

His independent work has been supported through fellowships from the Sundance Institute, New America, Firelight Media, SFFILM and Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. He resides in New York City with his partner and poodle.

Lucas Guilkey

Lucas Guilkey is an award-winning documentary filmmaker in Oakland, California. He is a student of decolonization, challenging white supremacy, and social movements from below.

He recently directed and produced The Strike, and was the story producer on Aftershock, a feature documentary about the US maternal health crisis that premiered at Sundance in 2022 and is streaming on Hulu. His directorial debut, What Happened to Dujuan Armstrong?, a short documentary about the coverup of a young man’s death in county jail, won best documentary at the BAFTA student film awards. He is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Wesleyan University. In addition to working as an independent documentary producer, you can also find him on a dance floor or the nearest body of water.

Co-Sponsored by Berkeley Underground Scholars