El Pachuco Comes Home: A California Story Returns
Written by David Alvarado What does a culture choose to keep, perform, and pass on? In June 1943, mobs of servicemen swept through Los Angeles for days, attacking the young […]
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 […]
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 […]
La Jolla—Saund vs Cochran Filmmaker talk about Dalip Singh Saund
La Jolla, CA—Join award-winning filmmaker Mridu Chandra for a free community talk on her upcoming documentary SAUND vs COCHRAN. The film explores the groundbreaking 1956 congressional race between Dalip Singh Saund, […]
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.
United Skates’ Co-Directors on Making the Documentary
An interview with Tina Brown and Dyana Winkler, the filmmakers behind new documentary UNITED SKATES.
LOS ANGELES — Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin at Los Angeles Valley College
View the feature documentary film followed by a Q&A with the director and editor.
Voices of California’s Veterans
From video interviews to playwriting, the medical humanities to film screenings, a list of past projects centering the veteran experience.
WEBINAR—California Documentary Project Grants
Learn about updates to the 2021 California Documentary Project Grant.
California Humanities Launches Virtual Programming
New Virtual Programming
