Press Releases

(San Francisco, CA)—The story of young Priscilla Star Diaz (a.k.a. P-Star), currently in her second season on PBS’s hit The Electric Company, is told in Gabriel Noble’s gritty, intimate, and moving P-Star Rising. The film will premiere nationally on the Emmy® award winning PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by Maggie Gyllenhaal, on Tuesday, February…

(San Francisco, CA) — Mine is the poignant and powerful story of pet owners separated from their animals during Hurricane Katrina, and of their struggles to find and bring their beloved companions home. A meditation on the essential bond between humans and animals, Mine is an equally compelling story of race and class, and the power of compassion in…

Visit the companion website (San Francisco, CA)— Four years in the making, Behind the Rainbow explores the transition of the African National Congress (ANC) from a liberation organization into South Africa's ruling party, through the evolution of the relationship between two of its most prominent leaders—Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. While exiled…

Visit the companion website (San Francisco, CA) — Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness asks how a white American anthropologist of Jewish ancestry came to remake the historical understanding of black people — changing racial perceptions, igniting controversy, and finally, challenging the way we think about racial identity. A film by Llewellyn Smith,…

More information about the program (San Franciso, CA)—On February 8, 1968, eight seconds of police gunfire left three young men dying and at least 28 wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College at Orangeburg. All of the police were white, all of the students African American. Almost all of the victims were shot from behind as they fled the gunfire…