Screenings & Awards

Upcoming Screenings

*Director Rick Goldsmith will be present for a post-screening discussion

Feb 3rd, Rohnert Park, CA – NorCal Public Media In-Studio Screening and Live Panel Discussion*

The Panel will include director Rick Goldsmith, Queena Kim from the California Newsroom, and John D’Anna, Managing Editor
of CalMatters, and be moderated by Greta Mart, News Director at KRCB FM 104.9
More info and registration here

More 2025 screenings in progress!

If you’d like to bring Stripped for Parts to your community, please reach out to Rick Goldsmith at rgoldfilm@gmail.com and Grace Galletti at ggalletti@berkeley.edu.

Awards

Best Documentary Award – United Nations Association Film Festival, Palo Alto, CA, 2023
Maysles Bros. Lifetime Achievement Award – St. Louis International Film Festival, 2023
Rose F. and Charles L. Klotzer First Amendment Award for Free Speech in Service of Democracy – Gateway Journalism Review, 2023
Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) NorCal award for Documentary Film, 2024

2025 Screenings

Rocky Mountain PBS, Denver, CO – Screening and community conversation

Ner Shalom, Cotati, CA – Community screening

KGNU Community Radio, Longmont, CO – Community Screening

My Neighborhood News Network, Edmonds, WA – Community Fundraising Screening

Featured a great local panel, read the detailed recap here!

Albany Film Festival, El Cerrito, CA

Q&A with director Rick Goldsmith

University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK – Educational screening in partnership with OETA TV as part of the 2025 UCO Media Ethics Conference

The Record North Shore and The League of Women Voters, Chicago, IL – Community fundraiser screening for The Record North Shore

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ – Educational screening

Panel with Director Rick Goldsmith and independent journalist Todd Miller, co-founder of the Border Chronicle

Lookout Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz – Community screening

Panel included Lookout CEO Ken Doctor, CalMatters CEO Neil Chase and Julie Reynolds, co-founder of Voices of Monterey Bay

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL – Educational Screening and class visit with director Rick Goldsmith

Orlando Sentinel Guild, Orlando, FL – Community screening

Panel with Director Rick Goldsmith, Cristóbal Reyes of the Orlando Sentinel Guild, and Judith Smelser, president and general manager of Central Florida Public Media.

Nickelodeon Theater, Columbia, SC – Community screening

Indivisible NOCO, Fort Collins, CO – Community screening

Colorado Sun, Denver, CO – Community screening

The Colorado Sun is a nonprofit newsroom featured in Stripped for Parts
Panel included director Rick Goldsmith and a host of local journalists including Jennifer Brown, Greg Moore, Chuck Plunkett, Larry Ryckman and Kimberly Spencer

LebTown, Lebanon, PA — Community screening

League of Women Voters Santa Clara County Civic Engagement Program, Virtual community screening

Encircle Films, Eugene, OR — Sold out community screening

Panel included Dann Miller, Executive Editor of LookOut Eugene, Camilla Mortensen, Editor of Eugene Weekly, Chris Pietsch, Photojournalist at Register Guard, Jim Rondeau, General Manager at KLCC, and Brent Walth, Professor at University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication

West Central Initiative, Wheaton, Morris, Alexandria & Pelican Rapids, MN — Four community screenings

Ashland.news, Ashland, OR — Community screening in partnership with Southern Oregon University Department of Communication, Media & Cinema, University of Oregon School of Journalism, and Agora Journalism Center

Check out their great recap here

The Hill School, Pottstown, PA— Class visits to The Hill School and Pottstown High School and community screening sponsored by the NewsGuild-CWA Local 38010

Q&A with Director Goldsmith and local Alden-Global-Capital-owned Mercury journalist Evan Brandt

Albright College, Reading, PA — Community screening and class visits

Q&A with Director Goldsmith moderated by Professor of Communication, Jon Bekken

Virtual Screening with the Topanga Peace Alliance

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN — Community screening and class visits

Q&A with Director Goldsmith moderated by Professor Gerry Lanosga

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL — Community screening and class visits

Q&A with Director Goldsmith and Knight Chair Professor in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting Brant Houston

Media and Democracy Project, Virtual screening

Pleasanton Library, Pleasanton, CA — Community screening with the Embarcadero Media Foundation

Orinda Theater, Orinda, CA — Theatrical screening and Q&A

Q&A with Director Goldsmith and investigative journalist Julie Reynolds, moderated by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Jason Cohen

Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael, CA — Theatrical screening and panel

Q&A with Director Goldsmith and moderated by journalist and San Francisco Film Critics Circle president Randy Myers

Berkeley Hillside Club, Berkeley, CA — Screening and panel

Q&A with Director Goldsmith, moderated by Katherine Rowlands, VP of the Hillside Club and publisher of the regional wire service Bay City news and nonprofit Local News Matters as well as former editor of the East Bay Times and Mercury News, all highlighted in the film.

San Francisco Public Press, San Francisco, CA — Screening and fundraiser at the Roxie Theater

Cal Maritime, Vallejo, CA — Screening and panel

Q&A with Director Goldsmith and faculty member Jennifer Metz. Solano County Supervisor Monica Brown took time to visit with constituents and to participate in the post-screening discussion with Goldsmith and Metz

2024 Screenings

New Parkway Theater, Oakland, CA – Screening and panel

Moderated by Steve Talbot with Director Goldsmith, local reporter and founder of El Tímpano, Madeleine Bair, and local investigative journalist Thomas Peele

Record North Shore and the League of Women Voters , Chicago, IL— Screening and panel

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA – Class screening

Panel with Director Goldsmith and Vanessa Maria Graber from Free Press, moderated by Professor Fabienne Darling-Wolf

Millersville University, Lancaster, PA – Screening and panel with special guest Evan Brandt, and many class visits

NorCal Public Media, Napa, CA – Screening at Napa Valley College

Q&A with Director Goldsmith and Chris Fusco, executive editor of The Press Democrat

Maine Monitor , Maine— Three screenings in Waterville, Ellsworth and Portland and visits to a college, 2 high schools and 2 middle schools

One-week Oscar qualifying run in Los Angeles, CA at the Laemmle Royal Theater

Q&A with Director Goldsmith moderated by Mark Jonathan Harris

Embarcadero Media Foundation — Two screenings

Palo Alto — Q&A with Director Goldsmith, CEO of Calmatters Neil Chase, and Embarcadero Media Foundation CEO Adam Dawes
Pleasanton — Panel with Director Goldsmith, California State Senator Steve Glazer, District 7 and local journalist Tim Hunt

Estes Valley Voice, Estes Park, CO — Screening as part of the launch of their new independent local newsroom

Screening in partnership with The Columbian newspaper, Vancouver, WA

Reel Work Labor Film Festival, Santa Cruz, CA

Q&A with Director Goldsmith and investigative journalist and film participant Julie Reynolds

Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Fest – Two screenings

Panel moderated by Suki Dardarian, Editor and Senior Vice President from The Minnesota Star Tribune

Bioneers Conference Screening, Berkeley, CA

St. John Film Society, St. John Island, VI – Special screening event and Q&A with Director Goldsmith

Columbia University, New York City– Evening screening at the School of Journalism

A conversation with Director Goldsmith led by Juan Manuel Benítez, Philip S. Balboni Professor of Local Journalism

The Firehouse, DCTV, New York City – Two nights commercial run

Q&A with Director Goldsmith and Steve Waldman of Rebuild Local News

Hunter College, New York City – Class lectures and evening screening

Post-Screening discussion with Director Goldsmith, moderated by Sissel McCarthy, Program Head, Journalism

New Parkway Theater, Oakland, CA – Two sold-out screenings

Q&A with Director Goldsmith and investigative reporters Thomas Peele and Julie Reynolds

Berkeley, CA — Private screening

NewsGuild-CWA — Virtual Screening and Q&A with Director Goldsmith

Ojai Valley News, Ojai, CA — Sold out fundraising screening

2023 Screenings

Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, Lincoln, NE, one-week run
- Screening and Q&A with Director Goldsmith
St. Louis International Film Fest
- Screening and Q&A with Director Goldsmith
Double Exposure (Investigative Reporting) Film Festival – Washington, DC
- Screening and Q&A with Director Goldsmith
United Nations Association Film Festival, Palo Alto, CA — Best Documentary
- Screening and Q&A with Director Goldsmith
Santa Fe International Film Festival – World Premiere
- Screening and Q&A with Director Goldsmith