Thank you for your support!!!

Founded in 2025 by shiloh burton and Luis Peña-Alvarez, Sanctuary Cinema (SC) is a New Mexico–based nonfiction film and community dialogue project dedicated to creating brave spaces for belonging, reflection, and transformative justice through documentary film. Anchored in narrative sovereignty, SC screens stories told by those most impacted, honoring lived experience as essential knowledge and rejecting passive spectatorship by fostering audience engagement, collective storytelling, and civic action.

The free, monthly series activates accessible public venues across Albuquerque, pairing POV/PBS films with facilitated panels, local filmmakers, cultural workers, nonprofit partners, and audience participation. By bridging artistic, civic, and community worlds, Sanctuary Cinema builds trust, strengthens relationships, and provides pathways for meaningful local engagement, using documentary film as a catalyst for collective care, collaboration, and community-led change.

To continue to make an impact on New-Mexico-based film and community dialogue, please consider supporting Sanctuary Cinema by:

MAKING A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION

  You can use a credit card or Paypal or Venmo (click on the Paypal option) by filling out the form below.

OR you may send a check by mail to: 

FUSION
700 1st St. NW
Albuquerque, NM  87102

In the check notation write: Sanctuary Cinema