Citizen Film Movies

  • 1970
    Youcubed

    Youcubed

    Youcubed

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    Citizen Film partners with Stanford Math Professor Jo Boaler to help tell the story of her groundbreaking work at YouCubed.org. Housed at Stanford...

    Youcubed
  • 1970
    A Foot in the Door

    A Foot in the Door

    A Foot in the Door

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    A Foot in the Door tells the story of Kindergarten to College (K2C), the first universal children’s savings account program in the United...

    A Foot in the Door
  • 2001
    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

    Divided Loyalties

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    Fractured into a Turkish North and a Greek South, the island of Cyprus is divided by ethnicity, faith and land. through a tragic modern history, this...

    Divided Loyalties
  • 1970
    The Rifleman’s Violin

    The Rifleman’s Violin

    The Rifleman’s Violin

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    In July 1945, 19-year-old rifleman Stuart Canin found himself on the veranda of President Harry S. Truman’s temporary “little White...

    The Rifleman’s Violin
  • 1970
    Zimbabwe Wheel

    Zimbabwe Wheel

    Zimbabwe Wheel

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    “Factory-made wheelchairs are huge, heavy and ugly.” To counter this reality, wheelchair riders Ralph Hotchkiss and Omar Talavera began...

    Zimbabwe Wheel
  • 1985
    Choosing Children

    Choosing Children

    Choosing Children

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    CHOOSING CHILDREN is a pioneering film about parenting in non-traditional families and helped to open dialogue about the meaning and reality of the...

    Choosing Children
  • 1996
    It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School

    It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School

    It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School

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    The groundbreaking film that addresses anti-gay prejudice by providing adults with practical lessons on how to talk with children about lesbian, gay,...

    It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
  • 1970
    Ian James Made

    Ian James Made

    Ian James Made

    01970HD

    Ian James has been creating leather goods for nearly a decade, but only recently realized his dream of opening his own shop. When James got laid off...

    Ian James Made
  • 1970
    The Two Eighty Project

    The Two Eighty Project

    The Two Eighty Project

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    Chris Renfro doesn’t just grow and harvest grapes on a hillside high above San Francisco’s Highway 280 to make delicious local wine. He...

    The Two Eighty Project
  • 2021
    Prognosis: Notes on Living

    Prognosis: Notes on Living

    Prognosis: Notes on Living

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    When filmmaker Debra Chasnoff faces stage-4 cancer, she turns her lens on herself and the disease. What emerges is a portrait of her extended LGBTQ...

    Prognosis: Notes on Living
  • 1970
    In the Maze of Our Own Lives

    In the Maze of Our Own Lives

    In the Maze of Our Own Lives

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    During the Great Depression, the Group Theater—including Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Elia Kazan and Clifford Odets—gave voice to a new...

    In the Maze of Our Own Lives
  • 1970
    Wendy MacNaughton Draws Castro Commons

    Wendy MacNaughton Draws Castro Commons

    Wendy MacNaughton Draws Castro Commons

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    This playful short film was produced in collaboration with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco as part of a multimedia installation entitled...

    Wendy MacNaughton Draws Castro Commons
  • 1970
    The Labor of Lunch

    The Labor of Lunch

    The Labor of Lunch

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    Making from-scratch meals for 5,000 kids is hard work for everyone, and it happens every day at the Berkeley Public Schools Central Kitchen. Part of...

    The Labor of Lunch
  • 1970
    Live this Loudly: Afatasi

    Live this Loudly: Afatasi

    Live this Loudly: Afatasi

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    Afatasi The Artist is a San Francisco based mixed-media conceptual artist and futurist. Her artwork—which includes textiles and fine art...

    Live this Loudly: Afatasi
  • 1970
    Wired for What?

    Wired for What?

    Wired for What?

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    Wired for What? visits four very different elementary schools grappling with computerization to find out if technology is helping to change our...

    Wired for What?
  • 2007
    It's Still Elementary

    It's Still Elementary

    It's Still Elementary

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    In 1996, Women's Educational Media released their groundbreaking documentary Its Elementary-Talking About Gay Issues in School. It's Still Elementary...

    It's Still Elementary
  • 2004
    One Wedding and a Revolution

    One Wedding and a Revolution

    One Wedding and a Revolution

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    This short film reveals the inspiration, motivation and political challenges at San Francisco City Hall during the frantic days leading up to the...

    One Wedding and a Revolution
  • 1970
    Throwing Curves: Eva Zeisel

    Throwing Curves: Eva Zeisel

    Throwing Curves: Eva Zeisel

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    "Throwing Curves" uses striking archival images, observational footage of the 97-year old industrial designer, Eva Zeisel, who is still an artist at...

    Throwing Curves: Eva Zeisel
  • 2012
    People of the Graphic Novel

    People of the Graphic Novel

    People of the Graphic Novel

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    "People of the Graphic Novel" is a playful introduction to the history of an art form: from the first "funny pages" to seminal artists including Will...

    People of the Graphic Novel
  • 1970
    Gary's Story - Under a Car in Life

    Gary's Story - Under a Car in Life

    Gary's Story - Under a Car in Life

    01970HD

    Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have...

    Gary's Story - Under a Car in Life