Citizen Film

11/22/2025

It was a true joy to work with GLIDE and Angela Coleman to share her story with the Glide Holiday Jam community. Thank you to San Francisco Chronicle for highlighting our piece and amplifying the voices of community members like Angela!

Check out this clip from the Angela Coleman story and excerpt from Andrew Gilbert’s article with the Chronicle!

11/20/2025

We're still hard at work conducting interviews in preparation for the Feeding 5000 event. We and our partners at the San Francisco African American Faith-Based Coalition, Burge LLC, and Livable City urgently need your help!

Volunteers are the essential force that makes this incredible event possible, and we need compassionate individuals like you to join our team.

📆 Friday, December 13, 8am-2pm
📍 Rafiki Coalition (601 Cesar Chavez St, SF)

Breakfast and lunch will be provided for all volunteers throughout the day! 🥞🍔

Scan the QR Code or click this link to register by Dec 6: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfC45sCMcaVL6rAhJ1Hqcx2DWE0VRy0C3UE1gUm5vT4BV687Q/viewform

11/19/2025

The 2025 GLIDE Holiday Jam was an absolute treat! It’s always an honor to be in space with such a beautifully vibrant community. We’re incredibly thankful for the opportunity to screen our short video piece honoring Glide’s very own, Angela Coleman.

From presenting the Inaugural Lizzie Glide Spirit Award to Joan Baez for Ms, Baez's unwavering commitment to social justice, to a performance from hip-hop star and spoken word artist Ruby Ibarra - fresh off winning NPR’s 2025 Tiny Desk Contest. There’s so much fun to cover!

Here are some of the special moments from this year's Glide Holiday Jam.

11/17/2025

ATTENTION ENGLISH TEACHERS 📚American Creed is headed to Denver for the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention!

📝Join the American Creed NCTE session for an exclusive preview of new PBS short films about “extraordinary, ordinary” young people across the country who take on what they see as the greatest challenges facing their communities and express their visions of foundational American ideals. Plus, learn how your students can contribute their own perspectives to a Youth Media Challenge disseminated by KQED and its partner PBS stations around the country.

📅WHEN: Saturday, November 22, 5:45-6:45pm

📍WHERE: Room 102, Colorado Convention Center

11/12/2025

Our longtime collaborators at the Jewish Film Institute are back with the fifth annual Pitch + Kvell! Join us free on Sunday, Nov 16 at 10 a.m. PST (via Zoom) — RSVP today and celebrate emerging documentary filmmakers 🥳🙌🎥

10/30/2025

A HUGE thank you to Tina Woodburn and Microsoft for hosting us! It was so special to team up with Michelle, Arran, and David Speirs from Speirs Racing to share and discuss the stories of racecar drivers navigating their autism-related disabilities and superpowers, dealing with stigma, and, through the force of their personalities, making the world around them more interesting and accepting. Kids like Arran are the reason we make films 🏎️

🏁 To learn how you too can support our upcoming “Racing on the Spectrum” documentary and audience engagement campaign, visit https://citizenfilm.org/project/support-racing-on-the-spectrum/

(Microsoft will match employee contributions up to $15,000 through the end of October!)

10/27/2025

Congratulations to our friend Eden Wurmfeld on her amazing new documentary! Catch a Bay Area screening of "Classroom 4" THIS SATURDAY, followed by conversation with Eden and one of the incarcerated students in the film, Nick Fiveoaks, who was recently released!

RSVP at [email protected]

Image courtesy of Lewis & Clark College.

10/03/2025

Happy Friday San Franciscans!

We’re still buzzing from the wonderful energy at Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Film Crawl on Mission Street last month!! 🍿🎥

Thank you again to our awesome hosts Cafe Seventy8 and all the wonderful folks that joined in the community! 🙂

If you didn’t get the chance to see the films screen at Cafe Seventy8 don’t worry we’ve got you covered! Check out our website where you can stream the films produced by Citizen Film (This Love Trailer, Immigrants Rising, 575 Castro and Wendy MacNaughton Draws Castro Commons) for free!

Our Work:
https://citizenfilm.org/citizen-film-portfolio/

09/30/2025

Hey Bay Area ❤️ !!

🎬 A massive thanks to everyone who was able to make it out to the 23rd Oakland International Film Festival!

It was an absolute honor to screen If We Don’t Work, an iconic story straight out of Bayview Hunters Point at the historic Grand Lake Theater!

"If We Don't Work," directed by Kevin Epps and produced by Citizen Film, honors the legacy of James Richards, founder of Aboriginal Blackman United, and lifelong activist from Bayview Hunters Point.

James’s fight for fair employment has reshaped his community and San Francisco as a whole. ❤️🖤💚

09/19/2025

🎬 What does death, dying, and grief look like through a global lens? Join us and our “PROGNOSIS - notes on living” outreach partner International End of Life Doula Association for Thanatology Around the World - a powerful conversation that challenges how we understand death care across cultures.
🔗 Register Here: https://inelda.org/webinar/september-webinar-thanatology-around-the-world/

INELDA educator Wilka Roig, Transpersonal Psychologist & Cole Imperi, founder of the School of American Thanatology will examine how different cultures approach end-of-life care - and what we can learn from each other. Get ready for eye-opening discussions!

💰 Free for International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA) members | $15 for non-members

Thanatology Around the World Wednesday, April 30th, 2025, 7pm – 8:30pm ET Our February webinar is open to all INELDA members as part of membership *September Webinar* Thanatology Around the World

09/18/2025

Teaching with great doc stories today is harder than ever, so check out our BACK TO SCHOOL SALE this Fall!

Here's to everyone who made these films possible: Debra Chasnoff, Helen S. Cohen, Johnny Symons, Mimi Kim Klausner, Katharine Meredith Stilley

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It's Elementary - Talking About Gay Issues in School - by Debra Chasnoff & Helen S. Cohen
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It's STILL Elementary - The movie & movement addressing homophobia in schools - by Debra Chasnoff & Johnny Symons
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That's a Family! - What kids want us to know about what "family" means today - by Debra Chasnoff & Helen S. Cohen
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Let's Get Real - Name-calling, bullying & bias among middle school aged students - by Debra Chasnoff & Helen S. Cohen
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09/18/2025

🎬 Join us tomorrow for the 23rd Oakland International Film Festival at the historic Grand Lake Theater for a screening of If We Don’t Work, 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 & founder of Aboriginal Blackman United from Bayview Hunters Point whose fight for fair employment has reshaped his community and San Francisco as a whole. ❤️🖤💚

📅 September 18th, from 4pm - 6pm
📍3200 Grand Avenue Oakland, California 94610 United States, Oakland, CA

🎟️Spread the word and grab your tickets from the link below while supplies last!!!
https://www.oiff.org/.../day-9-thursday-september-18th.../