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🤯 164 educators from all around the country joined KQED Education and the National Writing Project’s workshop showing ho...
07/11/2025

🤯 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!

Summer plans? How about the largest and oldest Jewish film festival in the world! 🌍🍿 Don’t miss two WORLD PREMIERES at t...
07/08/2025

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! 🎬

Back in the Spotlight! Next Avenue profiles the couple who helped bring marriage equality to America with one unforgetta...
07/01/2025

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

✨From Bayview to the big screen: San Francisco Black Film Festival opening night was a hit!  🎬We kicked off   with a scr...
06/27/2025

✨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 📸

🎬 Celebrate Juneteenth at the opening night of the San Francisco Black Film Festival with an iconic story straight out o...
06/11/2025

🎬 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

In Bayview Hunters Point, one man’s fight for jobs became a movement that changed the city. Directed by Kevin Epps and p...
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

We went to the Roxie Theater and ended up in Havana, Pittsburgh, and back to the Bay all in one night 🤯🌎 All thanks to o...
06/02/2025

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 👏👏👏

Teenage musicians bring history to life — not your average history lesson.This season, we teamed up with Golden Gate Sym...
05/29/2025

Teenage musicians bring history to life — not your average history lesson.

This season, we teamed up with Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and over 100 high school musicians to pilot a program for young people to play “Songs of Truth:” a living, breathing music & multimedia performance that features songs created in concentration camps and uses music to fight antisemitism and xenophobia today.

These students didn’t just play the notes. They embodied them. On stage. In community. With courage.

As wraps up, we applaud everyone who helped make it happen—and invite YOU to be part of what’s next.

Bring Songs of Truth to your school or city. Support the project and help us grow:
🔗 citizenfilm.org/project/songs-of-truth/

This  , we honor the legacy of Janice Mirikitani — community activist, beloved leader, and Poet Laureate of San Francisc...
05/28/2025

This , we honor the legacy of Janice Mirikitani — community activist, beloved leader, and Poet Laureate of San Francisco.

For over 60 years, Janice and her husband, Rev. Cecil Williams, led GLIDE with fearless compassion, opening its doors to people of all identities and beliefs.

Our upcoming documentary “This Love” celebrates Janice and Cecil’s ongoing impact. Through archival footage and intimate new interviews, we explore how they turned pain into purpose and built a movement rooted in radical inclusivity. Explore Janice’s powerful story and help bring it to life at citizenfilm.org/project/this-love ❤️

🎬 Journey across time, space, and memory with “Ways to Spend It” by our very own Amiel Williams on the big screen at Rox...
05/16/2025

🎬 Journey across time, space, and memory with “Ways to Spend It” by our very own Amiel Williams on the big screen at Roxie Mixtape #8! 👏

Don’t miss out on this incredible lineup of short films by Bay Area filmmakers on May 21st at 6:30pm at the Roxie Theater.
🎟️ Grab your tickets today: bit.ly/roxiemixtape8

04/24/2025

NASCAR driver Armani Williams shares his story in honor of in this brand new clip! ♾️ Check out bit.ly/armani-pbs to see how Armani breaks barriers to compete on America’s fastest tracks🏎️💨

Citizen Film is proud to work with Armani Williams, PBS Teachers, National Writing Project, and KQED Education to produce short films with curricular supports that help students consider what it will take for everyone in their communities to realize their own superpowers ⚡

Experience the power of music and resilience at Songs of Truth - Reserve FREE TIX here! 🔗  thecjm.org/programs/1461Prese...
04/15/2025

Experience the power of music and resilience at Songs of Truth - Reserve FREE TIX here! 🔗 thecjm.org/programs/1461

Presented at the Jewish Community Center of San Franciscor of San Francisco as part of Holocaust Remembrance Day - or YomHaShoah - this live music and multimedia concert tells the story of Jewish composers who continued to create music while imprisoned during the Holocaust.

Thank you so much to the talented group who help bring this music to life: Urs Leonhardt Steiner, Katharine Meredith Stilley, Jessica House Steward, Lara Patton-Cohen, Chris Poston, Sidney Chen, Loretta Taylor, Daphne Wong, Irene Lin, Adrianna Khoo, Nicole Faghihi, Jeff Rosenstock, Michael Rennie, Paul Rendon and student performers from Arroyo High School in San Lorenzo and Brandeis Marin in San Rafael.

Songs of Truth is a project of Citizen Film and Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in collaboration with the Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Holocaust Remembrance day - or Yom HaShoah - is presented by the Jewish Family and Children's Services Holocaust Center and Jewish Community Center of San Franciscoi in partnership with AJC - American Jewish Committee, the Anti Defamation League of California, Israel in San Francisco, Value Culture, San Francisco based Jewish Community Federation, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Israeli American Council - IAC, the Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco, Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation, JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa, Manny's, Lehrhaus, Repair the World, San Francisco Interfaith Council, StandWithUs, Taube Philanthropies

RESERVE YOUR FREE TICKETS TODAY! 🎻 thecjm.org/programs/1461

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