Movies: Activist

  • 2016
    Urmila - Für die Freiheit

    Urmila - Für die Freiheit (2016)

    Urmila - Für die Freiheit

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    The film tells the story of 25-year-old Urmila Chaudary from Nepal. At the age of six she was sold by her family and was forced to work as a slave under appalling conditions for 12 years. Her dream is to end child slavery in Nepal. To this end she fi...

    Urmila - Für die Freiheit
  • 2002
    Peace Pilgrim

    Peace Pilgrim (2002)

    Peace Pilgrim

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    A silver haired woman, Mildred Norman, calling herself "Peace Pilgrim," walked more than 25,000 miles, from 1953 to 1981, on a personal pilgrimage for peace. She vowed to "remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace, walking until gi...

    Peace Pilgrim
  • 1969
    Rita Semel: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Rita Semel: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012 (1969)

    Rita Semel: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

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    Rita Semel, interfaith pioneer and Jewish activist, is a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards "for her life-long successes in creating healthy, just, and inclusive communities in the Bay Area and worldwide. She builds...

    Rita Semel: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012
  • 2014
    Inside Fur

    Inside Fur (2014)

    Inside Fur

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    A group of highly motivated activists work for years with the goal of exposing the true face of the Nordic fur industry. They sneak into hundreds of fur farms. When their images are publicized it causes media feasts and public outrage, year after yea...

    Inside Fur
  • 2018
    The Undamaged

    The Undamaged (2018)

    The Undamaged

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    The Balkans cradles Europe's last wild rivers and supports abundant wildlife and healthy, intact ecosystems. These rivers are "The Undamaged" – clean, pristine, and undammed. With over 2,700 small and large hydro power plants planned or under constru...

    The Undamaged
  • 2020
    Black Bauhinia

    Black Bauhinia (2020)

    Black Bauhinia

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    Two young Hong Kong activists reflect on their resistance against China, are forced to decide between long-term imprisonment and refugee camps for a life in exile, while their movement inspires mass protests in the city they love....

    Black Bauhinia
  • 2018
    From Source to Sea

    From Source to Sea (2018)

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    From Source to Sea
  • 2016
    Toad People

    Toad People (2016)

    Toad People

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    Toad People introduces audiences to the stories of people like Steve Clegg who make up a community-led movement to save this threatened species. In different parts of the province, people from all ages and walks of life come together to do whatever i...

    Toad People
  • 2022
    Power of the People

    Power of the People (2022)

    Power of the People

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    Power of the People is a touching film that gives voice to poet Laura Eklund Nhaga, who is searching for the right way for her to have an impact. The possibilities and impossibilities of activism are countless, and none are indisputably more effectiv...

    Power of the People
  • 2020
    A horse is a horse of course of course

    A horse is a horse of course of course (2020)

    A horse is a horse of course of course

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    Focusing on the self-narration and visual language of the mounted police, ‘A horse is a horse of course of course’ reflects on how police horses are treated as just another of the many apparatuses police use for the maintenance of social control syst...

    A horse is a horse of course of course
  • 1969
    Being Heumann

    Being Heumann (1969)

    Being Heumann

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    The movie explores Judy Heumann’s efforts to plan the 504 Sit In in San Francisco, an important protest that led to standardizing rights for the disabled....

    Being Heumann
  • 2021
    AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman

    AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman (2021)

    AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman

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    Seizing her power as she confronts her mortality, trailblazing trans activist Connie Norman evolves as an irrepressible, challenging and soulful voice for the AIDS and queer communities of early 90's Los Angeles....

    AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman
  • 1969
    Dust Flower Flame

    Dust Flower Flame (1969)

    Dust Flower Flame

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    Tahirih Qurrat al-Ayn was first Iranian women right activist, Bab-i fighter ,theologian,poet. Tahirih was a woman of letters who lived in the nineteenth-century. Her name is synonymous with the emancipation of women and social justice and her life h...

    Dust Flower Flame
  • 1969
    Gonzalo Rucobo: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011

    Gonzalo Rucobo: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011 (1969)

    Gonzalo Rucobo: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011

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    The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards presents Gonzalo Rucobo, co-founder and executive director of Bay Area Peacekeepers, with The San Francisco Foundation Award for helping former gang members reach their potential and successful...

    Gonzalo Rucobo: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011
  • 1969
    Jordan Simmons: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011

    Jordan Simmons: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011 (1969)

    Jordan Simmons: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011

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    The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards presents Jordan Simmons, artistic director of the East Bay Center for Performing Arts, with the Helen Crocker Russell Award for building a better future for young adults through music and cultu...

    Jordan Simmons: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011
  • 1969
    John Santos: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011

    John Santos: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011 (1969)

    John Santos: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011

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    The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards presents John Santos, musician and cultural activist, with the Helen Crocker Russell Award for making music that transcends cultural barriers and serves as a tool for social justice. As an educ...

    John Santos: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011
  • 1969
    Bishop Yvette A. Flunder: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011

    Bishop Yvette A. Flunder: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011 (1969)

    Bishop Yvette A. Flunder: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011

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    The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards presents Bishop Yvette A. Flunder, founder and director of Ark of Refuge, with the Robert C. Kirkwood Award for courageously addressing the issues of HIV/AIDS prevention, response, and care wit...

    Bishop Yvette A. Flunder: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2011
  • 1969
    Nancy Hom - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    Nancy Hom - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards (1969)

    Nancy Hom - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

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    The San Francisco Foundation 2013 Community Leadership Awards presents Nancy Hom with the Helen Crocker Russell Award, made to an under-recognized, mature artist who has made a significant and ongoing contribution in the Bay Area. Nancy Hom, has used...

    Nancy Hom - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards
  • 1969
    Mike McBride - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    Mike McBride - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards (1969)

    Mike McBride - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

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    The San Francisco Foundation 2013 Community Leadership Awards presents Reverend Michael McBride with the John R. May Award, made for initiatives in response to a significant contemporary problem. Reverend Michael McBride has tirelessly sought to addr...

    Mike McBride - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards
  • 1969
    Greg Moore - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    Greg Moore - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards (1969)

    Greg Moore - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

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    The San Francisco Foundation 2013 Community Leadership Awards presents Greg Moore, president and CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, with the Robert C. Kirkwood Award, made to an individual in recognition of outstanding community servi...

    Greg Moore - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards