Film
BSU: AN INSIDE LOOK
In 1968, two young men bring the Civil Rights Movement to San Francisco State University, sparking national news and launching a student-led revolution that transforms the face of the American educational system. "BSU: An Inside Look" blends historical retelling, personal perspectives and contemporary resonance through archival photographs, strike footage and first-person interviews with James Garrett and Mayor Willie Brown, etc. Our intention is to show how B.S.U. organized a coalition that ultimately forced the administration to create the First Ever College of Ethnic Studies in the nation and its everlasting impact on academic curriculum in the US.
Home is a Hotel
Across America, cities are struggling with homelessness and housing affordability. How does one decades old solution – cramped Single Room Occupancy units – impact the lives of those who live in them? Home Is a Hotel takes you inside San Francisco’s SRO housing through intimate portraits of their residents filmed over six years. This character-driven, verité documentary immerses viewers in what it means to call a single room home in the heart of one of America’s richest cities. It’s the story of an immigrant single mom in Chinatown, a blind songwriter fighting harassment and eviction, an ex-couple in recovery co-parenting [...]
A Brief Diary of an Unimportant Man
A Brief Diary of an Unimportant Man is an experimental documentary told entirely through internal monologue, live-looped folk songs, and ambient sound captured in public spaces along the East Coast. It blends performance art, music, and hand-drawn animation to explore memory, grief, identity, and the absurd sanctity of karaoke.
Kizuna
Kizuna is an animist film & intergenerational prayer journey following the spirit of an unborn aborted child into the heart of a taiko drum and into the dusty fertility shrines of a mountain village facing depopulation and cultural loss.
Expectations
When Jane wakes up during involuntary sex, she's forced to confront not only her husband's violation but the invisible expectations that have shaped their relationship. Expectations is a ten minute exploration of one of the most common, yet most hidden, forms of intimate partner violence. It allows the audience to feel and experience the quiet sorrow, self-doubt, and confusion of a woman whose partner doesn't truly see her humanity, and it fills in the missing middle of the social conversation about rape by showing the little compromises and ingrained assumptions that build the power dynamics behind sexual assault.
Dragon Babies
When filmmaker Kathy Trinh discovers forgotten footage from her kindergarten classroom, a simple search for her former classmates—thirty years later—becomes a journey of healing and longing for connection. Set in San Francisco’s Richmond District, DRAGON BABIES is a deep exploration of how unresolved grief, intergenerational trauma, and memory shape who we become—and whether closure is possible when we finally confront the truths we’ve carried since childhood.
Living Harriet Tubman
Living Harriet Tubman chronicles the story of Nancy Whittle, a Fresno woman who has spent thirty years performing as Harriet Tubman at contentious Civil War reenactments across California. As she nears the end of her 30-year reenacting journey, she enlists her community to stage a final performance—one that not only honors Tubman’s legacy but also tells her own life’s journey.
Northern Lights Re-Release
Winner of the 1979 Camera d'Or, Northern Lights, a unique work of political cinema from the late 1970s, dramatizes small North Dakotan wheat farmers' political struggle against the bankers and railroad magnates pushing them into bankrupcy. Two young lovers get swept up in the turmoil surrounding the formation of the populist Nonpartisan League in the mid-1910's. Shot on location in black-and-white 16mm with a cast of nonprofessional actors, this deeply moving, politically committed film is a masterpiece of American independent cinema. The 4K digital restoration of Northern Lights was created by IndieCollect and Metropolis Post in collaboration with directors John [...]
Last Witness
Story Structure: Some secrets refuse to stay buried, and some wounds never fully heal. In 2010, Luuk Meijer, a researcher at the Anne Frank House, discovers Max Heppner’s memoir, I Live in a Chickenhouse. The book implicates Luuk’s father in a wartime murder. Meanwhile, 11-year-old Theo van Daalen unearths an artifact of past violence that sets him on an obsessive journey to uncover the region’s hidden past. As their independent searches intertwine, flashbacks reveal the same world in 1942, where the Dutch Resistance sought to protect Jewish refugees, including two boys, Felix Goldman and Max Heppner, and their families. When [...]
