Following the death of her mother, a Filipina experiences visions of her mother, taking her on a cultural and emotional pilgrimage back to her roots.

In a story that connects two centuries, Berkeley-based historian and artist, Barnali, spearheads a grassroots campaign to rename a street after Kala Bagai, an unsung South Asian woman who organized communities in California against intense racial discrimination in the early 1910s. In the process, Barnali discovers her own political power.

Queer photographer Jill Posener’s fearless compulsion to document provides us with intimate views of radical feminist London, Bay Area 90s lesbian culture, and contemporary unhoused East Bay communities. A lifelong rebel, she has always felt “at odds”, and now contemplates where she may fit for her final chapter.

City Folx is a comedy web series chronicling two under-employed Drag Kings’ struggle to hold onto their Mission area apartment.

An Iraq-veteran cyclist training for Vermont’s most grueling gravel race risks her closest relationships to come out, transition, and be her true self at age 51.

A 1960s housewife and mother discovers her Cherokee heritage and defies her husband—and her Cherokee father—to immerse herself in her newfound culture.

This documentary film series is a deep dive into the life of The Committee, San Francisco's radical comedy troupe that introduced the counterculture of the 1960s to mainstream America, pioneered an artform, and helped shape modern American satire.

Counted Out investigates the biggest crises of our time through an unexpected lens: math.

An Indonesian boy and his mother attend a church potluck and lie about their dish.

Dead Jeni is the vengeful avatar of the abandoned, broken, and bullied—and tonight, she hunts.

A rebellious Indian-American teenage musician tries to bridge the cultural divide with his immigrant STEM dad, and finds his artistic voice in the process.

The Emerald Triangle explores the world’s favorite illegal drug, how it became legal, and its impact on our culture. Focusing on the heartland of cannabis, it tells the story of the original growers, how they survived everything… except legalization.

The life and legacy of Johnny Otis: the Godfather of R&B, composer, bandleader, disc jockey, civil rights activist, preacher, and artist, who grew up in a Greek immigrant family, but defined himself as African-American.

Fiddles on Fire explores the exploding popularity of fiddle music by following eight contemporary fiddlers whose excellence in their tradition-based fiddle styles has inspired audiences the world over.

A film about the economic theory that turns everything you thought you knew about money, debt, and taxes upside down.

How do we heal ourselves in the natural world? The necessity to nurture the earth and understand the power our natural world holds to heal us, as well as the capacity (and urgent necessity) we hold to sustain our planet... this is the journey into FOOLS’ PARADISE (lost?).

Fossil Foolish (working title) tells the story of two North American nations giving lip service to a clean energy transition while simultaneously ramping up fossil fuel exploitation.

From Sea to Shining Sea tells the fascinating story of Katharine Lee Bates, poet, professor, and progressive advocate; an unsung hero best known for authoring America the Beautiful who was deeply committed to the beauty and principles of our country.

A one-hour portrait film of James Cahill, who transformed the way the world looks at Chinese and Japanese art.

Filmed over eight years, Grains of Sand accompanies the filmmaker's mother and mother-in-law, artists and close friends, as they enter their ninth decade. Through conversation, memories and artwork, they explore together the lifelong project of becoming oneself.

Two young boys experience the nuanced difficulties of racism when one of them enters a foster home.

By delegating the intimate aspects death and dying, we relinquish an essential part of what makes us human. What transformational wisdom is accessed when we dare to engage tangibly with mortality again?

The Highway is a short animated film that recreates a highway protest against police violence in miniature toy scale, along with scenes from historic, cultural, and mythological antecedents in American and Western culture.

A film that captures the tumultuous times and drama of the first organized march on Washington.

At the crossroads between the streets and the churches of San Francisco, In God We Trust follows the intimate journeys of Dawn, Tony, Terry and Harry as they fight to forge their place in a city ravaged by inequalities and for whom “God” has become the ultimate companion.

Three 90-year-old soldiers recount their experiences of life, death and loss on the European front during World War II in this powerful meditation on memory, trauma, and the brutality of war.

Through the life and work of acclaimed author and poet Alejandro Murguia, Keeper of the Fire, a half-hour documentary nearing completion, explores the roles activist writers and poets play in the fight for a just and equitable world.

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 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 feature-length documentary about the life and work of the acclaimed filmmaker Les Blank.