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 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.

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.

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

The Movement and the “Madman” chronicles the untold story of the mass movement that helped limit and end the long and brutal war in Vietnam, proving that nonviolent protest movements can make a difference.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 (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.

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’s purpose is to humanize media representations of underrepresented communities through a focus on personal stories from those communities in documentary film and nonfiction media.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

Combining the majestic music of JS Bach with the composer’s uniquely expressive autograph manuscripts, filmmaker and violinist Paul Festa presents the first fully realized films of the six sonatas and partitas for solo violin on the three-hundredth anniversary of their composition.

A documentary profile of Stewart Udall, who left a profound legacy of conservation and environmental justice as Secretary of the Interior during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

Sweetness & Power is the story of how Europe's taste for sugar transformed the world and developed a model of agriculture and labor that is defining our current and future existence.

Tails of the City is a cheerful, heartwarming short film about a neighborhood park that has become a touchstone for dogs, their owners, and families - finding love, laughter, and friendship in the process.

Through simple story telling and songs, four friends are introduced to ideas which build their emotional intelligence, self-awareness and social skills, while encouraging positive communication methods.

We Outside explores the big BMX wheelie bike scene–a renegade bicycle movement that offers a critical outlet for youth and adults to push themselves physically, find role models, and build community.

WHITEWASHED is the story of Eugenics, as promoted by Leland Stanford Jr. University's first president, David Starr Jordan, and how this theory's history was covered up and only recently revealed.

An intimate portrait of the D’Vious Wayz Motorcycle Club, Oakland’s first Black all-women motorcycle club.

Zoo Story explores the past, present and future of North American zoos.