Citizen Film

05/08/2025

🗳️ HELP GET AMERICAN CREED TO SXSW!

Citizen Film’s panel “PBS’ American Creed: a National Youth Media Challenge” is in consideration for SXSW, but we need your help! Vote now to bring two of the new American Creed PBS series young co-creators Sam Schimmel and Trinity Colón to SXSW 2026 with moderator KQED Education’s Almetria Vaba, and explore youth-driven approaches to building democracy.

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PanelPicker® is the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform. Enter ideas and vote to help shape Conference programming for SXSW and SXSW EDU.

30/07/2025

Today we bid farewell to Vanessa Ellis, our exceptionally talented communications & research specialist 💔 Vanessa excelled as a Citizen Film intern in summer 2022, joined our core staff, and quickly became vital to all of our operations. From research and development to post production and marketing, we have yet to find a project she can’t tackle. She’s one of a kind and impossible to replace, but we are so excited for her next chapter as one of just 9 students selected for entry to Syracuse University's College of Visual Arts Film MFA Program this fall 🎉🧡 Go, Vanessa!

29/07/2025

4 years ago, the world lost Janice Mirikitani — a visionary poet, fierce community advocate, and longtime leader of GLIDE.

Our upcoming documentary This Love celebrates Janice’s profound impact. Through archival footage and intimate new interviews, we reflect on how she turned personal and collective pain into purpose and helped shape a movement that continues today.

Explore Janice’s powerful story and help us carry on her healing work: citizenfilm.org/project/this-love ❤️

21/07/2025

What happens when our memories and realities don’t align? 💭

In “The Feeling Remains,” filmmaker Sophie Rose probes the past through family home videos, audio interviews, and present-day images. Made right here in the Bay Area, we’re excited to co-present the world premiere of “The Feeling Remains” at Jewish Film Institute’s 45th festival! 🎬

📍 Read more & Get your tix here: bit.ly/sfjff-feeling 🎟️

A filmmaker unravels decades of family secrets and distorted memories, confronting the painful truths of a violent past in a compassionate search for understanding.

14/07/2025

Henrietta Szold: a name we should all learn in school 🕊️

We’re proud to co-present the WORLD PREMIERE of Labors of Love at Jewish Film Institute’s 45th festival 🎬 Directed by Abby Ginzberg, this moving doc brings long-overdue recognition to a woman whose far-reaching compassion helped still resonates today.

Get your tix here: bit.ly/sfjff-szold 🎟️

Reviving Henrietta Szold’s legacy, Labors of Love offers a thought-provoking look at a woman who reshaped history through resilience, compassion, and an unwavering belief in the power of humanity.

11/07/2025

🤯 164 educators from all around the country joined KQED Education and the National Writing Project’s workshop showing how to utilize content as a guide for students. Teens tell and share their own place-based stories contributing to a national conversation about common bonds and shared ideals 🗽

Visit americancreed.org/educators to join our educator mailing list, find out about forthcoming stipended workshops, and watch shorts now on PBS Teachers 📚 We can’t wait to see what educators and their students do next with this powerful public resource!

08/07/2025

Summer plans? How about the largest and oldest Jewish film festival in the world! 🌍🍿 Don’t miss two WORLD PREMIERES at the Jewish Film Institute.
🎟️ Labors of Love by Abby Ginzberg — bit.ly/sfjff-szold AND 🎟️ The Feeling Remains by Sophie Rose — bit.ly/sfjff-feeling

Get your tickets now! 🎬

01/07/2025

Back in the Spotlight! Next Avenue profiles the couple who helped bring marriage equality to America with one unforgettable wedding 💍

“One Wedding and a Revolution”, directed by Debra Chasnoff, premiered at Frameline 21 years ago today! 🏳️‍🌈

WATCH THE FULL FILM on Kanopy : https://bit.ly/cfonewedding

27/06/2025

✨From Bayview to the big screen: San Francisco Black Film Festival opening night was a hit! 🎬

We kicked off with a screening of "If We Don’t Work," a stirring tribute to local legend James Richards and his long fight for fair employment and equity in San Francisco, directed by the incomparable Kevin Epps and produced by Citizen Film 🎞️ And what a Q&A with Epps and Danny Glover!
Thank you to everyone who made this evening so special 📸

11/06/2025

🎬 Celebrate Juneteenth at the opening night of the San Francisco Black Film Festival with an iconic story straight out of Bayview Hunters Point!

"If We Don't Work," directed by Kevin Epps and produced by Citizen Film, honors the legacy of James Richards, a lifelong activist from Bayview Hunters Point whose fight for fair employment has reshaped his community and San Francisco as a whole. Epps and Danny Glover will be in attendance! ❤️🖤💚

📅 Thursday, June 19 | Doors open at 5:30 PM
📍 Delancey Street Screening Room (600 The Embarcadero), SF

Spread the word and grab your tickets now! 🎟️bit.ly/CFSFBFF25

06/06/2025

In Bayview Hunters Point, one man’s fight for jobs became a movement that changed the city. Directed by Kevin Epps and produced by Citizen Film, “If We Don’t Work” chronicles the legend of activist James Richards Aboriginal Blackman United.

This Juneteenth, watch history unfold on the big screen at the San Francisco Black Film Festival:
🎟️ TIX: bit.ly/CFSFBFF25
📅 Thursday, June 19 | Doors open at 5:30 PM
📍 Delancey Street Screening Room (600 The Embarcadero), SF
❗ With Kevin Epps and Danny Glover in attendance

02/06/2025

We went to the Roxie Theater and ended up in Havana, Pittsburgh, and back to the Bay all in one night 🤯🌎 All thanks to our very own Amiel Williams, whose film “Ways to Spend It” screened at 8 🎬 We’re so proud to see Amiel’s work shining on the big screen and can’t wait to see where it goes next 👏👏👏