Cal Humanities

"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more in context."

— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project

"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more when it is in context."

— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project

TRAILER: The Worlds of Bernice Bing

The Worlds of Bernice Bing - Community Stories

The Worlds of Bernice Bing is a lush tribute to this little-known California master artist and activist, who helped reshape the San Francisco art world in the ’60s and ’70s.

Film: From The Quarters to Lincoln Heights

From the Quarters to Lincoln Heights - California Documentaries Project

Experience a taste of the documentary From the Quarters to Lincoln Heights, which delves into the story of how thousands of African Americans came to work in Northern California’s lumber mills nearly a hundred years ago and explores the multi-racial rural towns they called home.

Film: Everything Comes from the Streets

Cars are always vehicles, but when do they become vehicles for organizing communities, celebrating history, and taking pride in one’s cultural heritage?

THE INTERSECTION PODCAST

THE INTERSECTION PODCAST just released their second season: SHORELINE + SPACE PARK About the Intersection Podcast: The Bay Area is changing. The San Francisco skyline is filled with cranes. Dive bars […]

Trailer: The Case Against 8

The Case Against 8 is a behind-the-scenes look inside the case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Shot over five years, the film follows two famous litigators from opposite […]

Trailer: Going On 13

Going On 13 - California Documentary Project

GOING ON 13 is a documentary film directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan & Dawn Valadez that follows four girls growing up over four years.

Trailer: No Más Bebés

From: Independent Lens No Más Bebés tells the story of a little-known but landmark event in reproductive justice, when a small group of Mexican immigrant women sued county doctors, the state, […]

Trailer: Real Boy

REAL BOY is an intimate story of a family in transition. As 19-year-old Bennett Wallace navigates sobriety, adolescence, and the evolution of his gender identity, his mother makes her own transformation from […]

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