Straightlaced – How Gender’s Got Us All Tied Up

With a fearless look at a highly charged subject, Straightlaced unearths how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens. Their stories demonstrate how gender role expectations and homophobia are interwoven, and illustrating the different ways that these expectations connect with culture, race, and class.

Part of the Respect For All Project.

Let’s Get Real

Name-calling and bullying are often the root causes of school violence. Let's Get Real examines issues that lead to bullying, including racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, learning disabilities, religious differences, sexual harassment and others. The film gives young people the chance to tell their stories in their own words–and the results are heartbreaking, shocking, inspiring, and poignant.

Part of the Respect For All Project.

That's a Family!

That's a Family! is an entertaining documentary that breaks new ground in helping children in grades K-8 understand the many different shapes families take. With courage and humor, children share what it’s like to grow up in a family with parents of different races or religions, divorced parents, a single parent, gay or lesbian parents, adoptive parents, or grandparents as guardians.

Part of the Respect For All Project.

It’s Elementary

It’s Elementary is the first film of its kind to address anti-gay prejudice by providing adults with practical lessons on how to talk with kids about gay people. Hailed as “a model of intelligent directing,” It’s Elementary shows that children are eager and able to wrestle with stereotypes and absorb new facts about what it means to be gay or lesbian.

Part of the Respect For All Project.

It’s STILL Elementary

In this moving story about the power to ignite positive social change through documentary film and grassroots organizing, this film examines the incredible impact of It’s Elementary—Talking About Gay Issues in School over the last decade, and follows up with the featured teachers and students to see how lessons about LGBTQ people changed their lives.

Part of the Respect For All Project.

Choosing Children

Hailed as a pioneering achievement upon release in 1984, Choosing Children tells the stories of six lesbian-headed families making decisions about becoming pregnant, navigating the process of adoption, and addressing reactions from relatives, doctors, others. These parents helped redefine what “family” means and open the door for everyone to consider parenting, regardless of sexual orientation.

One Wedding and...a Revolution

One Wedding and...a Revolution reveals the inspiration, motivation and political challenges at San Francisco City Hall during the frantic days leading up to the first government-sanctioned same-sex marriage. This film contains now-historic footage of the tearful exchange of vows between long-time lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, the first couple to tie the knot.

Celebrating the Life of Del Martin

Legendary lesbian civil rights pioneer Del Martin passed away in 2008. In this 58 minute film, Celebrating the Life of Del Martin shares the moving memorial service San Francisco held to celebrate her achievements. Phyllis Lyon, her partner for over 50 years, was, of course, in attendance, along with a who’s who of city’s pioneering community of LGBT rights’ advocates.

Unlocking Investment in Rural America

This short film explores “Persistent Rural Poverty”: regions in the US where 20% of the population has lived below the poverty line for 30+ years and the US Department of Education’ new funding initiative: Uplift America. The fund aims to support Community Development Financial Institutions to develop desperately needed infrastructure and services.

Homes & Hands: Community Lands Trusts in Action

Three communities deliver the American dream of home ownership to low-income residents. Through the personal stories of community activists in North Carolina, New Mexico, and Vermont, we are compelled to rethink their assumptions about housing and community development in the United States.

Wired for What?

As schools across the country are racing to connect themselves to the World Wide Web and upgrade to the latest technologies, little is being done to assess the usefulness of high-tech devices in improving education. Wired for What? visits four elementary schools grappling with computerization to find out if technology is improving our schools or dulling students' creativity and draining educational resources.

A Foot in the Door

This short documentary tells the story of Kindergarten to College (K2C), the first universal children’s savings account program in the United States. Launched by the City and County of San Francisco, the program automatically provides a college savings account to children when they start kindergarten.