One Wedding and a Revolution
The day San Francisco said "I do."
2004 · 19 min · ★ 1.0 · Documentary
This short film 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.
Directed by Debra Chasnoff
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That's a Family · 2000That's a Family
★ 7.02000
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With courage and humor, the children in That's a Family! take viewers on a tour through their lives as they speak candidly about 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.
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment · 1991Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment
★ 5.91991
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This 1991 Academy Award®-winning documentary uncovers the disastrous health and environmental side effects caused by the production of nuclear materials by the General Electric Corporation.
It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School · 1996It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
★ 4.61996
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Depicts what happens when students K-8 discuss LGBT-related topics in age-appropriate ways. Shot in six public and private schools (in San Francisco and New York City, as well as Madison, Wisconsin, and Cambridge, Massachusetts), It’s Elementary models excellent teaching about family diversity, name-calling, stereotypes, community building, and more.
Choosing Children · 1984Choosing Children
★ 4.01984
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CHOOSING CHILDREN is a pioneering film about parenting in non-traditional families and helped to open dialogue about the meaning and reality of the "modern family." This film takes an intimate look at the issues faced by lesbians and gay men who decide to become parents after coming out.
Let's Get Real · 2004Let's Get Real
★ 3.32004
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Examines issues that lead to taunting and bullying, including racial differences, perceived sexual orientation, learning disabilities, religious differences, sexual harassment and others. Part of The Respect For All Project.
It's Still Elementary · 2007It's Still Elementary
★ 1.02007
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In 1996, Women's Educational Media released their groundbreaking documentary Its Elementary-Talking About Gay Issues in School. It's Still Elementary tells the fascinating history of why and how the 1996 film was made, the infamous response it provoked from the conservative right, and the questions it raises about the national safe schools movement today. Includes interviews with some of the original students and teachers from Its Elementary.
Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up · 2009Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up
★ 1.02009
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A powerful documentary about the lives of teens and young adults as seen through the gender lens. Approaching society's ideas and ideals of gender through clothes, sexuality, sports, dance, safety, consumerism and emotion, the film addresses the complexities of conceptions of masculinity and femininity for Generation Z.
Prognosis: Notes on Living · 2021Prognosis: Notes on Living
2021
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When filmmaker Debra Chasnoff faces stage-4 cancer, she turns her lens on herself and the disease. What emerges is a portrait of her extended LGBTQ family —a story about hanging on while letting go.
Someone You Should MeetSomeone You Should Meet
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Someone You Should Meet focuses on an extended family gathering organized by two filmmakers who only recently learned they were related through their great-grandparents. As the family explores their shared history and evolving Jewish identity over five generations, old wounds surface, and a sense of belonging is discovered.
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