Movies: Activism

Sarah is a trans sex worker who fulfills her dream of breast augmentation. She show us her daily routine of life, showing people that whores are not vampires who only go out at night to do sex work, but also human beings with a normal life....

Sara writes a harsh blog about the bleak lives of Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) women. Shulamit is an independent photographer who documents violent incidents on segregated busses on which women are required to seat at the back. Both of them were banned b...

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A documentary on climate activism on 6 continents...

Documentary about the 1993 "Whore Culture: A Festival of Sex Work" event in Toronto....

Michael Franti, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the Helen Crocker Russell Award) - artist, activist, founder of Spearhead, for embodying a social movement of justice and activism and being a voice for the vuln...

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Planting Earth Week follows a radical climate activist who tells the story of a splitting decentralized movement that made headlines in 2019....

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When Rock, a young Chicago punk, shares a romantic spark with the free-spirited Ty at a local show, she contemplates a desperate, dangerous measure to prove herself worthy of Ty’s traditionalist punk sensibility....

Aim High is a recipient of the San Francisco Community Leadership Awards "for closing the achievement gap through programs that inspire a love of learning and a strong sense of community. Through its innovative, free summer school program, it support...

In the 1970's, filmmakers Tom Burger, Bill McKiggan and Chuck Lapp began documenting the history and current struggles of inshore fishermen in Atlantic Canada to form a union. Until 1979 it was illegal for fishermen to form a union in Nova Scotia. Th...

NIN E TEPUEIAN - MY CRY is a documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, at a pivotal time in her career as a committed artist. Santiago Bertolino's camera follows a young Innu poet over the course of ...

A devoted group of entrepreneurs and activists believe they see the writing on the wall, and they're determined to add a new chapter....

The San Francisco Foundation presents 2013 Community Leadership Awardee, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC), with The San Francisco Foundation Award, made to an organization demonstrating exemplary commitment to improving human relations in the ...

The workers of Safai Karmachari Andolan, led by Roman Magsaysay Award winner activist Bezwada Wilson, are on a mission to eradicate manual scavenging, a practice in which lower-caste men and women manually clear human excrement from gutters, and lib...

This documentary speaks to local activist groups in the music industry and culture scene to find out why people are driven to fight back and speak out on subjects they’re passionate about. With an aim of inspiring the next generation, each activist ...

She Draws a Circle reflects on the work of generations of women to interrupt cycles of violence and oppression, looking to the ways in which our spiritual connections to the land and one another help us to hold space for regenerative healing, br...

Humanity on Trial follows humanitarian Salam Aldeen as he is accused of human smuggling by the Hellenic Coast Guard....

Indigenous youth, led by Duke Redbird, argue their ideas against the blunt pragmatism of American activist and writer Saul Alinksy. Author of the book “Rules for Radicals”, Alinsky is widely considered the father of community organizing who spent his...