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The Campaign
Christie Herring
The Campaign rides the daily emotional rollercoaster of the people working to stop Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative ending gay marriage in California by amending the state constitution. Granted exclusive access to the "No on 8" headquarters in San Francisco, the film offers an intimate portrait of committed individuals inside a pressure cooker, compelled by both circumstance and their passionate beliefs to go far beyond their everyday selves.
Change Over Time
Ewan Duarte
Change Over Time is an experimental, animated, personal documentary about the filmmaker¹s first year on Testosterone from an impressionistic and poetic perspective. The filmmaker asks himself the questions, what kind of man will I become? What emotional and soul changes will I experience during my first year on Testosterone? How will it affect my relationship with myself as well as others?
Chinese Couplets
Felicia Lowe
A daughter’s quest to end a legacy of secrets, lies and shame born of her mother’s illegal immigration to America reveals the consequences of economic privation, war, exclusion, and the long term impact of the veiled experience on four generations of Chinese American women and their identities, even as American citizens. Part memoir, part history, part investigation, the discoveries made profoundly change the relationship between mother and daughter and serves as a cautionary tale in the ongoing debates about unwanted immigrants.
City of White Gold
Geordie Lynch
The discovery of silver in 1859 propelled San Francisco from a chaotic mining boomtown into a spectacular world-class metropolis. Wealth from the Comstock Lode sent San Franciscans into frenzy. Anything became possible. But as extraordinary lives rose with the opulence of the City, the lives of many others were cast into ruin. This historical documentary will tell the epic stories of the City and of the individuals who built the West on Comstock silver.

Claiming The Title (Counting to Five)
Robert H. Martin, Jonathan Joiner
Since deciding its first gay rights case more than 50 years ago, the Supreme Court has become a battleground in the fight for gay and lesbian equality. These are the true stories of gays and lesbians who've had their day in court and the hidden, surprising stories of how the court came to some of its most controversial decisions.
Class Dismissed
Jeremy Stuart
From home study and kitchen table math, to perpetual recess and park days, Class Dismissed follows the story of an ordinary American family in their quest to educate their child outside the school system. As they struggle to discover what path is best for them, the social ramifications of their choices come to light, family dynamics are revealed and they come to realize that homeschooling is not just an educational choice, but also a lifestyle choice that affects the very heart of the American family. Truth and consequence, myth and assumption all come together in this fresh look at what it means to be educated in the 21st century.
Close the Eyes
Michael W. Wilson, Natalie Zimmerman
Close the Eyes is an investigation into the impact of dreaming on the individual and collective psyches. Beginning in the city of Vienna, the filmmakers build a psycho-geographic map from their experiences, encounters, observations and reflections.

Collectible
Ellen Lake
Collectible is a series of short documentaries that investigate collecting, obsession and archiving. This work explores diverse styles and modes of collecting and celebrates unusual, small collections found in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Common Sky
Kathy Carlson, Yovel Schwartz
Common Sky follows a cross section of American combat veterans from four generations as they bring War into focus from enlistment to extraction. From the weather and food to the visceral specifics of combat and the compounded cost of their experience, they tell each other’s stories until only one remains. It is a soldier’s tale, told with unflinching honesty and unrelenting sensory and emotional details that illuminate the indelible mark of War’s enduring cycle.
Connected
Tiffany Shlain
In this funny, eye-opening, and inspiring film, director Tiffany Shlain takes audiences on an exhilarating rollercoaster ride to discover what it means to be connected in the 21st century. Equal parts documentary and memoir, the film unfolds during a year in which technology and science literally become a matter of life and death for the director. A personal film with universal relevance, Connected explores how, after centuries of declaring our independence, it may be time for us to declare our interdependence instead.

Conscious
Mark Kitchell, Alan Baiss
Einstein said, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it". Humanity has achieved wondrous creations through technology and yet frustration persists. As human kind increasingly experiences the insufficiency of its intellect to solve today's global crisis, a mounting urgency is felt to awaken to a greater consciousness that will inform earthly existence. Conscious is a feature film that explores humanity's potential to intentionally participate in a leap toward a new level of consciousness. Will we make it?
Conversations with Clowns
Dalia Vidor
Through her conversations with clowns Dalia the Clown reveals the inner world of clowning and uncovers the hidden hierarchy among clowns based on skill level, performance venue and type of performance. This compelling and educational film seeks to dispel many misconceptions about clowns and offer an opportunity for families to come together to laugh and learn.
Coroner
Jacob Motz, Tommy Andres
As the Los Angeles County Chief Medical Examiner from 1967 until 1982, Dr. Thomas Noguchi played a unique and pivotal role in some of Hollywood's most mysterious and engrossing tragedies before being forced from office in scandal. This is his story.
Creation: 3 Women Making Art
Pam Walton, Ruth Carranza
Creation: 3 Women Making Art is an educational video that will allow students and teachers of art, as well as the general audience, to involve themselves in the creative processes of three older women who’ve been working as artists their entire adult lives. One is a potter who has used her seemingly boundless energy to become a well known ceramic artist; the second a New York Times best selling author who tells dark dystopian tales; and the third a painter who showed great promise early on but now appears to have lost faith in her own work. What do these women have to tell us about art, life and the meaning of creation?
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