When We All Get to Heaven Receives 2026 Peabody Awards Recognition
California Humanities is proud to celebrate When We All Get to Heaven, a recipient of the 2024 California Documentary Project grant, on its recognition with a 2026 Peabody Award—one of the […]
Route 66 at 100: More Than One Story
As Route 66 celebrates its 100th anniversary, it is often remembered as a symbol of freedom—the open road, endless possibility, the promise of movement and reinvention. But that story is incomplete. This year, […]
Grantee Highlight: American Sons: Storytelling Through the Eyes of a Fallen Marine
What does it mean to tell a story through someone no longer here to tell it? For filmmakers Laura Varela and Andrew James Gonzales, the late Corporal JV Villarreal became […]
California Humanities Announces 2025 California Documentary Project Grant Awards
Oakland, CA — California Humanities is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 California Documentary Project (CDP) grant awards. This year, ten outstanding film and audio projects have been […]
Grantee Spotlight: Women’s Voices Now
We recently engaged in a series of thoughtful email exchanges with the leadership of Girls’ Voices Now (GVN), a proud grantee of California Humanities California Documentary Projects Grants. For over […]
California Portraits: FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK Returns to Sacramento
An interview with Bobbi Jo Hart, the filmmaker behind the documentary FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK.
California Documentary Project in 2024: Emmys, Premieres, New Audiences, & November 4 Deadline Announcement
Ahead of this fall’s CDP grant deadline, we are highlighting some exciting grantee accomplishments and accolades over the past year.
Two California Documentary Projects Premiere at Frameline48
Spotlighting HELEN AND THE BEAR and SALLY! during LGBTQ+ Pride Month at San Francisco’s longest-running showcase of queer cinema.
AAPI Stories in the Spotlight: Ashley Chea and HOME COURT
Spotlighting the California Humanities-supported HOME COURT documentary for AAPI Heritage Month
California Humanities Awards $400k to 13 New California Documentary Project Grantees
13 new California Documentary Project grantees for 2024 will document California in all its complexity.
