Social Justice Movies

  • 2009
    Honorable Ronald V. Dellums: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005

    Honorable Ronald V. Dellums: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005

    Honorable Ronald V. Dellums: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005

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    Honorable Ronald V. Dellums, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards (Robert C. Kirkwood Award) - for his decades of...

    Honorable Ronald V. Dellums: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005
  • 2022
    Perianayaki

    Perianayaki

    Perianayaki

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    Fifty-six-year-old Perianayaki contends with the difficulties of fitting into her new home, especially at the local supermarket where she works....

    Perianayaki
  • 2022
    Honeybee

    Honeybee

    Honeybee

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    An undocumented immigrant receives a heartwarming yet heartbreaking phone call from his daughter across the border.

    Honeybee
  • 2026
    Voice Dismissed

    Voice Dismissed

    Voice Dismissed

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    When 19-year-old Frankie finds out that her sexual assault case has been closed due to a 'lack of evidence', she turns to her best friend Chloe, who...

    Voice Dismissed
  • 2023
    Gay Mean Girls: Reloaded

    Gay Mean Girls: Reloaded

    Gay Mean Girls: Reloaded

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    When student journalist Savannah Lin becomes embroiled in the complicated dynamics of a social justice "safe space," she must choose between...

    Gay Mean Girls: Reloaded
  • 1970
    What World Do You Live In?

    What World Do You Live In?

    What World Do You Live In?

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    A collaborative video and activism project between long-time community filmmaker Rebecca Garrett and Sanctuary, a church community drop-in, evolves...

    What World Do You Live In?
  • 2026
    Breathe Freedom: the John McNeil story

    Breathe Freedom: the John McNeil story

    Breathe Freedom: the John McNeil story

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    John McNeil's life turns upside down when he's unexpectedly arrested for a self-defense incident that occurred months earlier. Despite initial police...

    Breathe Freedom: the John McNeil story
  • 1970
    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!

    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!

    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!

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    "A short documentary amplifying what I witnessed this past long weekend. I hope this film helps spread the word about the importance of the Fairy...

    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!
  • 1976
    Pride & Snide

    Pride & Snide

    Pride & Snide

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    A contrast between two kinds of attitudes to gay liberation in Adelaide.

    Pride & Snide
  • 2012
    Anne Braden: Southern Patriot

    Anne Braden: Southern Patriot

    Anne Braden: Southern Patriot

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    Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is a first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader. Braden was hailed by...

    Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
  • 2022
    Laila

    Laila

    Laila

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    Laila lives in a fake Eastern society where all women should wear a veil and the only way of marriage is to be selected by a man. She refuses this...

    Laila
  • 2024
    Tinkebell - Who Killed the Blue Bird?

    Tinkebell - Who Killed the Blue Bird?

    Tinkebell - Who Killed the Blue Bird?

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    Artist Katinka Simonse, alias Tinkebell, is a controversial, very mediagenic phenomenon. In her universe there is no distinction between life, art...

    Tinkebell - Who Killed the Blue Bird?
  • 2025
    Love in the Walls

    Love in the Walls

    Love in the Walls

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    Residents of a Melbourne social housing community strive to reclaim their own hope and identity in the face of recent deaths and a larger societal...

    Love in the Walls
  • 2019
    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    Follow the Drinking Gourd

    Follow the Drinking Gourd

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    FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD is a feature documentary about the Black food justice movement. Family-friendly, funny, and moving, this 60-minute film...

    Follow the Drinking Gourd
  • 2020
    One Book at a Time

    One Book at a Time

    One Book at a Time

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    Sarah Kamya is a school counselor in New York City. She began the project Little Diverse Libraries on June 3rd and has already raised over $13,000,...

    One Book at a Time
  • 1970
    That World Is Gone

    That World Is Gone

    That World Is Gone

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    Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neighborhood, and her block was empty....

    That World Is Gone
  • 1970
    Eva Paterson: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2007

    Eva Paterson: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2007

    Eva Paterson: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2007

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    Eva Paterson, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2007 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award). Eva has empowered...

    Eva Paterson: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2007
  • 2018
    An American Story: Race Amity and The Other Tradition

    An American Story: Race Amity and The Other Tradition

    An American Story: Race Amity and The Other Tradition

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    In contrast to the lens that focuses exclusively on the racist traditions that are rooted in America’s social history, the moral counterweight...

    An American Story: Race Amity and The Other Tradition
  • 2022
    This Temporal World

    This Temporal World

    This Temporal World

    02022HD

    A haunting story of the FBI's dark hand in American life. In 2015, Khalil Abu-Rayyan was just a young Muslim man in Detroit, Michigan: to get by, he...

    This Temporal World
  • 2024
    Let It Be a Tale

    Let It Be a Tale

    Let It Be a Tale

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    An animated tribute to the text of "If I Must Die," the final poem written by Palestinian writer, scholar, activist, and martyr Dr. Refaat Al-Areer.

    Let It Be a Tale