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 […]
Dogtown Redemption
DOGTOWN REDEMPTION, a documentary film directed by Amir Soltani, follows the lives of three recyclers in West Oakland’s Dogtown neighborhood.
Trailer: Hollywood Chinese
HOLLYWOOD CHINESE brings together a fascinating portrait of actors, directors, writers, and iconic images to show how the Chinese have been imagined in movies.
Trailer: Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times
INVENTING LA: THE CHANDLERS AND THEIR TIMES, a documentary by Emmy-winning filmmaker Peter Jones, tells the story of the Los Angeles Times and the city’s most powerful family.
Video: A New Harvest: The Future of Small Town California
Throughout the state of California, small town industries like fishing, mining, and agriculture are quickly becoming a thing of the past. As competition stiffens and resources diminish, how will these communities survive?
Short Documentary: Mass Confucian: Chinese Language or Communist Propaganda?
Mass Confucian: Chinese Language or Communist Propaganda?, a short documentary by Philip W. Chung. Mass Confucian documents the controversy over a “Confucius Classroom” Chinese language class in the Hacienda La Puente […]
Trailer: The Last Season
THE LAST SEASON, directed by Sara Dosa, is a meditative look at the legacy of war. While in search of the wild and valuable matsutake mushroom, the lives of two […]
Trailer: Oscar-Nominated ‘Last Day of Freedom’ Filmmaker Interview
California Humanities is proud to have supported Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman’s Oscar® nominated short documentary, Last Day of Freedom, an animated film that tells the story of one man’s […]
Short Documentary: American Baghdad, Filmmaker Interview
AMERICAN BAGHDAD, is a short documentary profiling Iraqi refugees trying to assimilate to American culture after being displaced from Iraq due to the war. El Cajon, a city in San […]
Trailer: Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning is a film about the life, loves and work of photographer, Dorothea Lange, known for her famous image “The Migrant Mother”.
