Citizen Film

HAPPY #PURIM! The Jewish theater has its roots in Purim plays. Learn more below about how it was modernized by Russian artists like #Chagall in this excerpt from our short film Balancing Acts. Exhibited by: Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, The Jewish Museum, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Philharmonie de Paris

Working parents, kids and street legends once rubbed elbows at Virgo’s, a family owned grocery store in the Western Addition. Years later, the Fillmore of today still remembers that sense of community. #BlackHistoryMonth

#Afrofuturism! Join the webinar hosted by our partners at Stanford University's d.school with special guests Dr. Lonny J Avi Brooks, Ahmed BEST, and Fathomers this Thursday, February 18!

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY What’s it like to date a Super Jew? From the archive: Not Another Jewish Movie explores the twists and turns of teen love -- produced for the Jewish Film Institute's 2009 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

YES! Thumbs up to our partners at San Francisco Girls' School for the work they're doing to boost #WomenInSTEM#InternationalDayofWomenInScience

What happens when 18-year olds design their own experience as first-time voters? Join Citizen Film’s Sam Ball and Stanford University d.school designer in residence Lisa Kay Solomon for FREE at the Commonwealth Club of California online tomorrow to find out! Watch documentary clips and explore what Vote by Design, an unusual collaboration between next gen voters from Oakland to Appalachia shows us about the future of American democracy.

This beautiful weather is the perfect opportunity to #heartyourparks! Take a walk down the Bernal Cut Path and read more about Citizen Film’s Bernal Cut Restoration from the informational signs erected along your way.

Meet the GI who fiddled for Stalin on the eve of the Cold War, in The Rifleman’s Violin, livestreamed at this year’s GI Film Festival San Diego! Join us Thursday, October 1 at 5PM PST followed by a Q&A with the rifleman himself, Stuart Canin, alongside director Sam Ball and producer Abraham D. Sofaer of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Get your tickets below! #GIFilmFestSD

Public spaces are more important than ever, so join the San Francisco Parks Alliance’s #heartyourparks campaign and the parks in your life! Today Citizen Film celebrates the Bernal Cut - come down and see the work we’re doing to help build community resilience!

Congratulations to our colleague Carrie Lozano on her new position! Sundance Film Festival - GREAT PICK!!!

TOMORROW Citizen Film’s own Sam Ball moderates a discussion of Mrs. G with American-Israeli fashion designer Ruti Zisser at the virtual 29th Annual Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival! Check out Mrs. G below! WHEN: Thursday, September 3, from 2-3pm WHERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2576889099... Zoom Passcode: SVJFF2020

THIS WEEKEND ONLY catch River City Drumbeat Movie for FREE at the virtual American Black Film Festival plus interviews and more with MARY J. BLIGE, BARRY JENKINS, and LENA WAITHE! Congrats to Anne Flatte, Marlon Johnson, and the rest of our friends at Owsley Brown Presents on their selection! #ABFF2020

NATIONAL SENIOR CITIZENS DAY ain’t what it used to be! Today we celebrate Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust’s encore workers, like Roy Weinberg at Sun Sounds of Arizona, who prove that getting older doesn’t have to mean slowing down when you can make a real difference in your community at any age.

Fight voter suppression with our partners at the JCCs of the Bay Area! JCC of the East Bay, PJCC - Peninsula Jewish Community Center, Oshman Family JCC, Osher Marin JCC, APJCC in Los Gatos

We can’t tell if we’re proud, tickled, or unsettled that Sarah Lefton was so ahead of the curve. Check out her t-shirt designs in our 2015 Contemporary Jewish Museum multimedia exhibition "Hidden in Plain Sight: T-Shirts & the Curation of Identity" at http://www.ethnictshirts.org/

DON’T MISS OUT this Saturday for a night of music, dancing, and celebration as we virtually honor our partners at GLIDE. The 11th Annual GLIDE Legacy Gala will feature a special conversation and Q&A with 2020 honorees Michael Franti and Spearhead and Amanda Gorman. Support GLIDE today!

MAKE YOUR VOICE COUNT! Citizen Film is joining Dean Preston and Aaron Peskin in the #SFCensuschallenge to ensure a complete and accurate count of all communities, regardless of immigration status. Fight for representation for your community by filling it out today! #WeCount2020 #SFCounts

We are saddened to hear of the passing of the great Kali O’Ray, director of the San Francisco Black Film Festival. The impact he and his work made on this city will continue to be felt for years to come. Citizen Film and Buchanan Mall send condolences to his family and colleagues at the Festival.