Citizen Film Movies

Meet the residents and workers of The Arc SF, the Bay Area’s largest learning and resource center for individuals with developmental disabilities and...

Ron Padgett (1942- ) is a poet and editor whose artistic career took off during his teenaged years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, along with Joe Brainard...

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

Legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) captured moments of grace in the cafeterias and laundromats of the American Southwest, in the ho...

Brenda Way, founder and artistic director of ODC, is a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation Community Awards "for creating a community hub throug...

Joe Brainard (1941-1994) was an artist particularly noted for his work in collage and comics. Brainard’s artistic career took off during his teenaged...

Citizen Film worked closely with The California Nurses Foundation (CNF) to identify nurses who are strong storytellers, and engage them in creating fi...

Legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) captured moments of grace in the cafeterias and laundromats of the American Southwest, in the ho...

Dr. Joseph Marshall, Jr., winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2006 Community Leadership Awards (The Robert Kirkwood Award) - for redefining youth v...

Encore uses the power of personal stories and other communications techniques to challenge conventional thinking about aging and create a new narrativ...

Anna Halprin, choreographer, for pioneering the post-modern dance movement. For more than 60 years, you have been a seminal force in dance and music a...

Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2008 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award) - for buildi...

"As a right, people should have access to affordable housing and jobs that allow them to support their families with dignity" - Luis Granados

Alonzo King, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2007 Community Leadership Awards (the Helen Crocker Russell Award). Alonzo redefined classical bal...

Jewish photographers had enormous impact in changing how Americans came to see themselves. The liberating power of their cameras, both in the past and...

In July 1945, 19-year-old rifleman Stuart Canin found himself on the veranda of President Harry S. Truman’s temporary “little White House” in Potsdam,...

Ester Hernandez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2004 Community Leadership Awards (Helen Crocker Russell Award) - for fostering community and r...

Chinese for Affirmative Action is a recipient of the San Francisco Community Leadership Award for being "a champion against discrimination and for adv...

The San Francisco Foundation presents 2013 Community Leadership Awardee, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC),with The San Francisco Foundation Aw...

Legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) captured moments of grace in the cafeterias and laundromats of the American Southwest, in the ho...