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“Today, storytelling is more important than ever, whether the story be told through film or writing. As Native Americans, we are often left out of the larger dialogue about race and discrimination. Storytelling through film is an excellent way for us to be included in this dialogue.” — Daniel Golding (Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe), Producer
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California Documentary Project

  • A poster with a long green bus. Different hands and a crutch stick out of the busses windows. On the bus the writing says, “Nothing about us without us.”

    Documenting California

    Since 2003, we have made over 250 grants and awarded nearly $6.5 million through the California Documentary Project grant program to humanities-based media projects.

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  • A young African American woman wearing black roller skates performing a skate trick.

    New 2020 California Documentary Project Guidelines Now Available

  • An African American girl, who is wearing eye glasses, is in a recording studio speaking on a microphone.

    Congratulations to the 2020 California Documentary Project NextGen Grantees

  • Banner for ASIAN AMERICANS documentary series

    If You Know History, You Know Yourself

  • A Conversation with CRIP CAMP Co-Directors

  • Congratulations to the 2020 California Documentary Project Grantees

  • CDP NextGen Deadline Extended

  • HOLLYWOOD CHINESE Comes to the Bay Area—CANCELLED

  • Portrait of Mary Church Terrell, a groundbreaking civil rights activist.

    Women Who Changed California

  • Night of Ideas—and Documentary Film

  • Watch GEOGRAPHIES OF KINSHIP in the Bay Area

  • Black History in California

  • Upcoming Screenings of CHINATOWN RISING

  • Support Us at a Screening of a Celebrated California Film

  • Scott Shafer on Jerry Brown

  • Watch New Documentary FIRST ANGRY MAN

  • California Humanities Grantees at 2020 Sundance Film Festival

  • CDP Grant Guidelines for 2016 - Entry Deadline: 11/1/16

    UPDATE: California Documentary Project Application Open—Deadline Changed to November 4

  • We Are More: Stories by Queer Comic Artists Extended Through October with New Events

  • Post-Production Grants Available for LGBTQ+ Films

  • RSVP for Upcoming Grantseeker Workshops in Sacramento & San Luis Obispo

  • New Exhibit We Are More: Stories by Queer Comic Artists Opens in July

  • Announcing the 2019 California Documentary Project NextGen Awards

  • LGBTQ+ Stories on the Silver Screen

  • Voices of California’s Veterans

  • A young woman and her mother sit together, smiling at the camera.

    Highlighting the Diversity of Families in California

  • Asian & Pacific Islander Stories in the Spotlight

  • Maria Moreno. Photo Credit: George Ballis/Take Stock Images of Change

    ADIOS AMOR Screening in Fresno

  • A desert landscape at dusk. The moon can be seen over the horizon in the distance and brush and small plants are growing on the desert floor.

    Our Bodies, Our Planet: Celebrating Earth Day & World Health Day

  • A woman stands on a stage under a spotlight. She is singing into a mic, smiling, and her arm is outstretched.

    Congratulations to the 2019 California Documentary Project Grant Awardees

  • Two people stand next to each other on a beach. It is dusk and the light is dim. Both wear sturdy jackets, and the one closer to the camera has long hair pulled back and a scarf. Some of their hair is loose and flying in the wind. The other standing further back looks older and has gray hair in a circular cut. They both look at something off in the distance.

    Entering Ursula K. Le Guin’s World with Arwen Curry

  • A shelf of books with titles about California.

    Take a Look, It’s in a Book: A Selection of Literary Projects

  • Four Projects Highlight Cesar Chavez and Today’s Farmworker Struggles

  • Maria Moreno. Photo Credit: George Ballis/Take Stock Images of Change

    Uncovering the Story of a Woman Leader of the Farmworker Rights Movement

  • Phelicia Wright on the Los Angeles Skating Scene

  • United Skates’ Co-Directors on Making the Documentary

  • The Civil Rights History of Roller Skating

  • Women’s History from Bike Warriors to Retirement Communities

  • THE INTERSECTION PODCAST

  • Trailer: No Más Bebés

  • Trailer: Real Boy

  • Grace Lee’s K-TOWN ’92 Tells a Different Story of LA Riots

  • California Documentary Project

  • Trailer: Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning

  • Now En Español - California Documentary Project

    Trailer: Now En Español

  • Short Documentary: American Baghdad, Filmmaker Interview

  • Trailer: Dogtown Redemption, Filmmaker Interview

  • California Humanities-Supported Documentaries Now Showing in Skyfest, Exclusively on Virgin America!

  • The Last Season - California Documentary Project

    Trailer: The Last Season

  • Trailer: Oscar-Nominated ‘Last Day of Freedom’ Filmmaker Interview

  • Trailer: An American Mosque, Project Director Interview

  • Going On 13 - California Documentary Project

    Trailer: Going On 13

  • Cruz Reynoso - California Documentary Project

    Trailer: Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice

  • Hollywood Chinese - California Documentary Project

    Trailer: Hollywood Chinese

  • Trailer: Regarding Susan Sontag

  • Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times

    Trailer: Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times

  • Trailer: A Fierce Green Fire on American Masters

  • Trailer: Rebels With a Cause

  • Mrs. Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful

    Trailer: Mrs. Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful

  • Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle

    Trailer: Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle

  • Trailer: The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the United Farmworkers Union

  • Short Documentary: Mass Confucian: Chinese Language or Communist Propaganda?

  • Trailer: The Case Against 8

  • Grapes of Wrath, Retracing the Steps 75 Years Later

    Grapes of Wrath, Retracing the Steps 75 Years Later

  • We Were Here: The AIDS Years in San Francisco - California Documentaries Project

    Trailer: We Were Here: The AIDS Years in San Francisco

  • Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone - California Documentaries Project

    Trailer: Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

  • A New Harvest: The Future of Small Town California - California Documentaries Project

    Video: A New Harvest: The Future of Small Town California

  • Trailer: The Waiting Room

  • Chicano Rock - California Documentaries Project

    Trailer: Chicano Rock! The Sound of East LA

  • When Medicine Got It Wrong - California Documentaries Project

    Trailer: When Medicine Got It Wrong

  • Trailer: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines

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