It's Still Elementary
This week is United Against Hate Week, and we need it now more than ever! Debra Chasnoff and her filmmaking partner Helen S. Cohen helped lead the charge against hate by making landmark films like “It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in Schools” 🏳️🌈 Stream it & the follow up film “It’s Still Elementary” on Kanopy now 🔗 www.kanopy.com/category/1180 #UnitedAgainstHate
These films are part of the Debra Chasnoff / GroundSpark Legacy Initiative at Citizen Film, and were made in collaboration with a wide range of documentary filmmakers including Fawn Yacker, Shirley Thompson, Sue Chen, Brittney M Shepherd and Katharine Meredith Stilley. They are distributed by New Day Films ☀️
Lunch Love Community - Kids Take Over The Kitchen
Happy National “Kids Take Over the Kitchen” Day! 🍳 Enjoy this clip from Lunch Love Community, a project by Sophie Constantinou and Helen De Michiel / Thirty Leaves Production illustrating the importance and FUN of early culinary education 🥬 Lunch Love Community was recently featured at Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema, and you can watch even more clips online at citizenfilm.org/project/lunch-love-community/ 🔗
Adama Bryant, Weekend Adventures
Meet Adama Bryant, the inspiring founder of Weekend-Adventures 💚 Weekend Adventures provides free, eye-opening excursions in the arts, sciences, and outdoors for youth living in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. We’re so proud to be working with Adama and this impactful program!
Adama is currently raising funds to pay for her son’s medical treatment; to support her and her family, visit bit.ly/helpadama 🔗
James Richards, 80 Years in Hunters Point
Witness the work of James Richards, legendary Bayview activist, in “James Richards, 80 Years in Hunters Point” documentary screening at Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema's Film Crawl on Mission Street 🍿🎥
📅 Thursday, September 5 – hourly screenings 🕖 7, 8, & 9 PM 📍 at Cafe Seventy8
Check out the other fantastic films and register at bhoutdoorcine.org/fc-mission-2024
Presenting the PROLIFIC artist Joe Brainard! 🎨✨ Dive into his story and the rest of our Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema program screening hourly at Cafe Seventy8 on Thursday, September 5, at 7, 8, and 9 PM as part of the Film Crawl on Mission Street 🍿🎬 Visit bhoutdoorcine.org/fc-mission-2024 to see the lineup and register now for this can’t-miss event 👀
SFJFF 1998 Matzoh Trailer
We’re SO EXCITED for the Jewish Film Institute’s #SFJFF, we had to share this gem from the past 💎 Our very own Sam Ball, Sophie Constantinou, Sari Gilman, and Ferne Pearlstein created this trailer for the 18th #SFJFF and Landmark Theatres back in 1998! Pearlstein is back for the 44th SFJFF with her latest collab, XCLD: The Story of Cancel Culture, with Trevor Noah, Judy Gold, ContraPoints, Nimesh Patel, Loretta Ross, Marc Maron, Hari Kondabolu, Ari Melber, Day Zero Productions, TIME Studios and MSNBC Films! Get your tickets at bit.ly/XCLD 🎟️ to see the show with filmmakers Ferne Pearlstein + Robert Edwards in attendance this Saturday at Delancey Street Theater!
XCLD: The Story of Cancel Culture
Our friend and collaborator Ferne Pearlstein is showing her film XCLD: The Story of Cancel Culture at the Jewish Film Institute's #SFJFF! 📽️ Join the Citizen Film team for a screening of this powerful doc underscoring the need for civil dialogue in turbulent times. Produced by Trevor Noah and directed by Ferne Pearlstein, who will be in attendance with featured comedian Judy Gold. This is one showing you don’t want to miss! Get tix here for Saturday, July 27: bit.ly/XCLD 🎟️
Art & Makers SF
On #Juneteenth and beyond, we support and celebrate the brilliant Black artists and makers of San Francisco. Check out the wondrous works of Afatasi the Artist, Dreamer Boyz LLC, Honey Art Studio, Quanies African Shop, Eklypze Enfuzhen, & Ian James Made 🎨❤️ We’re proud to work in collaboration with San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD), the Dreamkeeper Initiative, In The Black Shop, & Shop Dine SF to uplift local Black art.
Black Culinary SF
This #Juneteenth, we’re dining at San Francisco’s Black-owned businesses! Support these entrepreneurs and treat your taste buds at Romes R. Kitchen, Sukulentasf, Boug Cali, Minnie Bell's Soul Movement & Gumbo Social 😍 We love working with these culinary superstars @ Shop Dine SF ⭐
Sukulenta SF
Meet Chef Angélica Mena, founder of Sukulentasf! Mena shares a delectable taste of Afro-Colombian cuisine with the Bay Area at local community events and pop-ups. We had a blast documenting her story; you too can catch her in action this Sunday 6/23 from 1-6pm at The Midway (900 Marin St, SF)!
We continue to be inspired by the innovative democracy-building projects featured at the #FuturesHappening workshop produced by the incomparable Lisa Kay Solomon at Stanford University d.school. Check out this fantastic highlight reel by our friends at Kreatives!
Harlem of the West
Catch “Harlem of the West” at the African American Art & Culture Complex's Buriel Clay Theater on May 30! The screening will feature guests Lewis Watts and Sam Peoples, followed by a reception and souvenir giveaway.
WHEN: Thursday, May 30, 6-7:30pm
WHERE: Buriel Clay Theater, AAACC, 762 Fulton St
“Harlem of the West” is a collaboration between Citizen Film and the San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society. Big thanks to Honey Art Studio, Lewis Watts, On The Water Front Creative, National Writing Project and our trailer editor Zoe Hertz
Minnie Bell's Fillmore Homecoming
Chef Fernay McPherson just achieved a lifelong dream: she brought Minnie Bell's Soul Movement back home to the Fillmore! Minnie Bell’s is part of a larger revitalization bringing Black-owned businesses back to this historic neighborhood; Citizen Film is proud to work with Chef Fernay and other Black entrepreneurs around the Bay to tell their stories in creative and impactful ways.
Mo Magic Yearbook Project
For 8 years, we’ve had the honor of working with students from Mo' Magic SF, an organization serving Fillmore youth. Here’s a clip from the short film this year’s students made about their work transforming their neighborhood into a more vibrant, healthy, and sustainable place to live.
See the full film and a documentary photography exhibition of their work on display at the San Francisco Public Library’s Main Branch now through June 31 🔗bit.ly/SFPL-YEARBOOK
As a young man, Aaron Lansky rallied together an international network of volunteers to rescue 1.5 million Yiddish books. With the news of his imminent retirement as President of the Yiddish Book Center, we invite you to celebrate his career and watch “A Bridge of Books" by Sam Ball, which chronicles Lansky’s astonishing adventures.
Watch the full documentary here: www.yiddishbookcenter.org/about/saving-literature
