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Keep On Moving Forward

Keep On Moving Forward

Emma’s Revolution is the dynamic, award-winning activist duo of Pat Humphries and Sandy O. Performing at the frontlines of justice movements for over twenty years, their songs have been sung for the Dalai Lama, praised by Pete Seeger, covered by Holly Near and sung around the world. This is their story.

The Last Forests

The Last Forests

The Last Forests is a visually compelling, high stakes film following the decline of California’s kelp forests, the communities impacted by their decline, and the ongoing effort to save them from collapse.

A Life in Art

A Life in Art

After dropping out of art school and nearly taking his own life, a small act of kindness sets Gary Bukovnik on an unimaginable path: his watercolor paintings of flowers become celebrated worldwide, raising millions for nonprofits and proving that staying true to one's creative calling can transform one’s life.

Like Heaven Without God

Like Heaven Without God

Like Heaven Without God is a documentary about five Berkeley residents in a homeless RV community who struggle to survive on the margins of society. As a public program expires, they are forced to move out of the parking lot they have called home over the past year.

Looking for Mr. Israeli

Looking for Mr. Israeli

As a teenager growing up in a Zionist household, I had a crush on a young, handsome Israeli featured in Life Magazine in 1973. Fifty years later, I tracked him down – and found he’d gone from being a symbol of what most Americans thought of as Israel’s best years, to symbolizing its most difficult.

Martin

Martin

Iconic chef Martin Yan charmed audiences with his infectious smile and impossibly fast knife skills, shaping American television and cuisine when the odds were stacked against him.

Materano

Materano

An American filmmaker reunites his family in the Stone Age Italian city of caves and extreme poverty that his grandfather fled a century ago.

Maya

Maya

Inspired by her senior rescue dog, an apathetic divorcée takes another shot at the life she thought she’d left behind.

Maya and Olivia's Total Eclipse

Maya and Olivia's Total Eclipse

In 2017 San Francisco, two sixth-grade girls make a pact to travel far from home to see a total solar eclipse — an adventure story about friendship, dreams and reality.

Norton I, America's Emperor

Norton I, America's Emperor

Norton I, Emperor of America, Protector of Mexico, was an immigrant, a tycoon, a bankrupt, a fantasist, a mascot, a campaigner, a visionary and monarch. This film explores Norton’s legend, in his own time and ours.

Now It's a Strange House

Now It's a Strange House

Through 30-year-old videotapes of Ethan’s great-grandmother & recently captured digital footage, Now It's a Strange House explores how the small German village of Eubigheim grapples with the history of their Nazification and the rise of fascism in Germany today.

O3 Movie

O3 Movie

The O3 Movie is a cinematic exploration of a forgotten yet powerful medicine—ozone therapy—hidden in plain sight. Through investigative storytelling and personal testimonies from both pioneers and patients, the film reveals how science, politics, and profit collide in the battle over what medicine has become, just as the world needs it most.

Oakland Originals

Oakland Originals

Oakland Originals is a series of short documentaries that spotlight the ground-breaking artists, thinkers and do-ers that have shaped Oakland, California into a uniquely vibrant and thrilling city, but also whose works have inspired and impacted the world beyond.

Paper Trail

Paper Trail

Paper Trail is a documentary film about the life and legacy of the renowned journalist, Warren Hinckle. This engaging documentary attempts to unravel the enigmatic persona of Hinckle, who played a pivotal role in shaping the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s through his fearless investigative reporting and unyielding commitment to in-your-face challenges to authority.

Paramita

Paramita

PARAMITA is a poetic personal documentary bearing testament to the story of Prajna Paramita Choudhury, a first generaton South Asian American queer woman, as she comes out to her family and steps onto a spiritual journey that embodies Buddhist liberation practices, earth based mysticism and connection to nature as a pathway for collective healing.

Parts of Pippi

Parts of Pippi

Aging actor Scot Free performed comedy drag under the name Pippi Lovestocking starting in the early 1990s. After paying tribute to his recently deceased life-long friend in front of hundreds, he collapsed. A cardiac event then led to Scot becoming a quad amputee. This is his story.

The Patient Woman

The Patient Woman

A SF Bay Area based immigrant woman filmmaker searches for 'home' among intentional and radical communities in California as she wrestles with the legacy of her Iranian father and the rich, distinct culture she left behind.

Piss Elegance

Piss Elegance

Billie, a trans elder, re-enacts her life and her role in American queer history as she prepares to enter the afterlife.

Poet on Trial

Poet on Trial

In 1966, an obscure Beat poet was catapulted into the national spotlight when her self-published book of poems, The Love Book, was seized by police and subjected to San Francisco’s longest obscenity trial in history. POET ON TRIAL is the timely story of forgotten poet Lenore Kandel and her fight for artistic freedom.

Prodigal Daughter

Prodigal Daughter

When artist and filmmaker Mabel Valdiviezo reunites with her family in Peru after sixteen years of silence, she confronts childhood memories and her troubled past as an immigrant in the United States. Diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, Mabel embarks on a deeply emotional journey to heal her fractured family ties, using her art as a bridge between two worlds.

The Public Housing Story

The Public Housing Story

The Public Housing Story (working title) follows residents throughout the country fighting to stop the demolition and privatization of public housing, illuminating the nationwide struggle to keep public housing public.

A Quiet Revolution

A Quiet Revolution

From a garage startup to 27 Gold and Platinum Records, A QUIET REVOLUTION explores the genre-bending history of a record label that developed a new sound and musical movement.

Re-Present Media

Re-Present Media

Re-Present Media’s mission is to center personal storytelling from marginalized communities in documentary film and nonfiction media to advance social and economic equity.

The Sale

The Sale

In 1993, California, a young immigrant mother has a dream to start a new life for herself and her family. The first step is to make her first encyclopedia sale.

Saranam Gacchâmi

Saranam Gacchâmi

A visionary Buddhist Monk, hailing from the Himalayan foothills of Nepal, embarked on an extraordinary journey to California, defying all odds to establish one of the Bay Area's largest Tibetan Monasteries—an invaluable sanctuary preserving the endangered Tibetan culture, traditions, and language.

Saving the Bay 2

Saving the Bay 2

Saving the Bay 2 shows how San Francisco Bay is now growing after 150 years of shrinking due to human intervention.

Searching for Sabiha

Searching for Sabiha

SEARCHING FOR SABIHA follows an American journalist’s quest to uncover the astonishing story of her grandmother-- modern Turkey’s first professional female journalist. What she discovers is a trailblazer’s high stakes fight for democracy that’s remarkably relevant almost 100 years later as authoritarian leaders rise around the globe, even in democratic strongholds like the United States.

Sex Radical

Sex Radical

At the turn of the 20th-century, the powerful federal censor, Anthony Comstock, believed he was on a holy mission to save America’s youth from “sexual sin.” But when he tried to silence a visionary “sex radical” named Ida Craddock, she would have the last word.

The Shape of Light

The Shape of Light

In the shadow of technological innovation, San Franciscans struggle to preserve neighborhood cinemas during a global pandemic, shifting social behavior, and a domineering streaming industry. Will they be able to keep the theatrical experience alive?

She Said, Yes

She Said, Yes

After years of caring for her cancer-ridden fiancé, a young woman must confront her feelings of guilt and grief to come to terms with the end of their relationship.

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Keep On Moving Forward
The Last Forests
A Life in Art
Like Heaven Without God
Looking for Mr. Israeli
Martin
Materano
Maya
Maya and Olivia's Total Eclipse
Norton I, America's Emperor
Now It's a Strange House
O3 Movie
Oakland Originals
Paper Trail
Paramita
Parts of Pippi
The Patient Woman
Piss Elegance
Poet on Trial
Prodigal Daughter
The Public Housing Story
A Quiet Revolution
Re-Present Media
The Sale
Saranam Gacchâmi
Saving the Bay 2
Searching for Sabiha
Sex Radical
The Shape of Light
She Said, Yes

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