Activism Movies

The San Francisco Foundation presents 2013 Community Leadership Awardee, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC), with The San Francisco Foundation...

Documentary about Aminatou Haidar and her fight for the Sahrawi rights

This is a documentary produced by Richard Freeman. This part contains the now famous 1992 protest in which the Henry Administration Building was...

Michael Franti, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the Helen Crocker Russell Award) - artist, activist, founder...

After Coal profiles inspiring individuals who are building a new future in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky and South Wales. Meet ex-miners using...

A Litany for Survival' explores the shades between love, rage, and rebellion as a black person surviving in America. Two months before the shocking...

The San Francisco Foundation 2013 Community Leadership Awards presents Greg Moore, president and CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy,...

"Mission Asset Fund's work cuts to the core of the financial pain points families everywhere face." - Sam Ruiz

From teach-ins to sit-ins, students and youth are working with others to target and expose the corporate players behind government cutbacks and the...

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

In a society on the brink of collapse due to climate change, a woman grapples with the psychological effects of an unnatural existence. Cut off from...

Advertising shits in your head. London artists are taking to the streets to reclaim public spaces and challenge passerby's to think differently about...

Brenda Way, founder and artistic director of ODC, is a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation Community Awards "for creating a community hub...

"Some people are political just because of who you are." - Linda Tillery.

The San Francisco Foundation 2013 Community Leadership Awards presents Reverend Michael McBride with the John R. May Award, made for initiatives in...

National Center for Lesbian Rights, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the John R. May Award), for its...

Activist James Richards is an icon of the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. For 80 years, he has fought steadfastly to provide his community with...

"The role of the arts is to tear down what is evil and build up what is good." - Chinaka Hodge

Linda and Kenya narrate their testimony about being women and living with HIV in a time where stigma, negligence and androcentricity force them to...