Citizen Film Movies
- 1970
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...
- 1970
A Foot in the Door
A Foot in the Door01970HD
A Foot in the Door tells the story of Kindergarten to College (K2C), the first universal children’s savings account program in the United...
- 2001
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...
- 1970
The Rifleman’s Violin
The Rifleman’s Violin01970HD
In July 1945, 19-year-old rifleman Stuart Canin found himself on the veranda of President Harry S. Truman’s temporary “little White...
- 1970
Zimbabwe Wheel
Zimbabwe Wheel01970HD
“Factory-made wheelchairs are huge, heavy and ugly.” To counter this reality, wheelchair riders Ralph Hotchkiss and Omar Talavera began...
- 1985
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...
- 1996
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,...
- 1970
Ian James Made
Ian James Made01970HD
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...
- 1970
The Two Eighty Project
The Two Eighty Project01970HD
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...
- 2021
Prognosis: Notes on Living
Prognosis: Notes on Living02021HD
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...
- 1970
In the Maze of Our Own Lives
In the Maze of Our Own Lives01970HD
During the Great Depression, the Group Theater—including Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Elia Kazan and Clifford Odets—gave voice to a new...
- 1970
Wendy MacNaughton Draws Castro Commons
Wendy MacNaughton Draws Castro Commons01970HD
This playful short film was produced in collaboration with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco as part of a multimedia installation entitled...
- 1970
The Labor of Lunch
The Labor of Lunch01970HD
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...
- 1970
Live this Loudly: Afatasi
Live this Loudly: Afatasi01970HD
Afatasi The Artist is a San Francisco based mixed-media conceptual artist and futurist. Her artwork—which includes textiles and fine art...
- 1970
Wired for What?
Wired for What?01970HD
Wired for What? visits four very different elementary schools grappling with computerization to find out if technology is helping to change our...
- 2007
It's Still Elementary
It's Still Elementary12007HD
In 1996, Women's Educational Media released their groundbreaking documentary Its Elementary-Talking About Gay Issues in School. It's Still Elementary...
- 2004
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...
- 1970
Throwing Curves: Eva Zeisel
Throwing Curves: Eva Zeisel01970HD
"Throwing Curves" uses striking archival images, observational footage of the 97-year old industrial designer, Eva Zeisel, who is still an artist at...
- 2012
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...
- 1970
Gary's Story - Under a Car in Life
Gary's Story - Under a Car in Life01970HD
Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have...