Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA) — Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison is the far-reaching and complex history of human relations with the largest land mammal in North America. One of the most enduring and iconic images of the West — once numbering in the millions — bison have been reduced to a few pockets of remnant populations, and the land “where the buffalo…

(San Francisco, CA) — A film by award-winning filmmaker Whitney Dow (Two Towns of Jasper), When the Drum is Beating is an incisive and revealing portrait of the tumultuous history of Haiti, which went from being the first free black republic, with a huge wealth of natural resources, to the poorest country in the western hemisphere. In this beautifully…

“Circo is a marvel of a documentary, a clear-eyed and affectionate film that tells a remarkable story with both visual and personal sensitivity.” - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times “The most amazing act in the Gran Circo Mexico doesn’t take place in the ring — it’s the grind between performances. In Circo, Aaron Schock documents the fearsome labor and…

(San Francisco, CA) — Precious Knowledge reports from the frontlines of one of the most contentious battles in public education in recent memory, the fight over Mexican American studies programs in Arizona public schools. The film interweaves the stories of several students enrolled in the Mexican American Studies Program at Tucson High School with…

(San Francisco, CA) —The award-winning documentary by Constance Marks called Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, about legendary Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash, will premiere on the Emmy® Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by Mary Louise Parker, on Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 10 PM, followed by a special encore presentation on…