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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New 2020 California Documentary Project Guidelines Now Available
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Congratulations to the 2020 California Documentary Project NextGen Grantees
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If You Know History, You Know Yourself
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A Conversation with CRIP CAMP Co-Directors
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Congratulations to the 2020 California Documentary Project Grantees
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CDP NextGen Deadline Extended
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HOLLYWOOD CHINESE Comes to the Bay Area—CANCELLED
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Women Who Changed California
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Night of Ideas—and Documentary Film
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Watch GEOGRAPHIES OF KINSHIP in the Bay Area
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Black History in California
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Upcoming Screenings of CHINATOWN RISING
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Support Us at a Screening of a Celebrated California Film
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Scott Shafer on Jerry Brown
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Watch New Documentary FIRST ANGRY MAN
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California Humanities Grantees at 2020 Sundance Film Festival
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UPDATE: California Documentary Project Application Open—Deadline Changed to November 4
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We Are More: Stories by Queer Comic Artists Extended Through October with New Events
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Post-Production Grants Available for LGBTQ+ Films
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RSVP for Upcoming Grantseeker Workshops in Sacramento & San Luis Obispo
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New Exhibit We Are More: Stories by Queer Comic Artists Opens in July
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Announcing the 2019 California Documentary Project NextGen Awards
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LGBTQ+ Stories on the Silver Screen
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Voices of California’s Veterans
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Highlighting the Diversity of Families in California
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Asian & Pacific Islander Stories in the Spotlight
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ADIOS AMOR Screening in Fresno
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Our Bodies, Our Planet: Celebrating Earth Day & World Health Day
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Congratulations to the 2019 California Documentary Project Grant Awardees
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Entering Ursula K. Le Guin’s World with Arwen Curry
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Take a Look, It’s in a Book: A Selection of Literary Projects
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Four Projects Highlight Cesar Chavez and Today’s Farmworker Struggles
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Uncovering the Story of a Woman Leader of the Farmworker Rights Movement
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Phelicia Wright on the Los Angeles Skating Scene
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United Skates’ Co-Directors on Making the Documentary
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The Civil Rights History of Roller Skating
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Women’s History from Bike Warriors to Retirement Communities
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THE INTERSECTION PODCAST
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Trailer: No Más Bebés
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Trailer: Real Boy
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Grace Lee’s K-TOWN ’92 Tells a Different Story of LA Riots
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California Documentary Project
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Trailer: Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
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Trailer: Now En Español
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Short Documentary: American Baghdad, Filmmaker Interview
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Trailer: Dogtown Redemption, Filmmaker Interview
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California Humanities-Supported Documentaries Now Showing in Skyfest, Exclusively on Virgin America!
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Trailer: The Last Season
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Trailer: Oscar-Nominated ‘Last Day of Freedom’ Filmmaker Interview
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Trailer: An American Mosque, Project Director Interview
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Trailer: Going On 13
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Trailer: Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice
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Trailer: Hollywood Chinese
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Trailer: Regarding Susan Sontag
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Trailer: Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times
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Trailer: A Fierce Green Fire on American Masters
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Trailer: Rebels With a Cause
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Trailer: Mrs. Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful
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Trailer: Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle
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Trailer: The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the United Farmworkers Union
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Short Documentary: Mass Confucian: Chinese Language or Communist Propaganda?
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Trailer: The Case Against 8
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Grapes of Wrath, Retracing the Steps 75 Years Later
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Trailer: We Were Here: The AIDS Years in San Francisco
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Trailer: Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
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Video: A New Harvest: The Future of Small Town California
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Trailer: The Waiting Room
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Trailer: Chicano Rock! The Sound of East LA
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Trailer: When Medicine Got It Wrong
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Trailer: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines