Our Issues

Bullying and Name-Calling

Family Life in America

Over the past decade US families have come to represent a wide array of household structures and networks of care. That’s A Family!, created for children in grades K-6, takes viewers on a tour through the lives of kids who 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.

Choosing Children is an emotionally powerful film that challenges society’s definitions of family by exploring the ways lesbians are raising children in couples, alone, with gay men, and in extended families of friends.

Nuclear Weapons and the Environment

Deadly Deception chronicles the true stories of people whose lives were devastated by General Electric’s involvement in testing and making nuclear weapons during the 1980s. The impact of GE’s negligence on the environment and public health is explored through moving testimony and narrative.

Housing and Community Development

Homes & Hands is an inspiring documentary about three communities in North Carolina, New Mexico and Vermont where low-income residents have found an empowering new way to make housing permanently affordable to people who are usually left out of the American dream.

Education and Technology

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.

Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender

As LGBT citizens have entered a new phase of openness and equality, these films explore the ongoing challenges and prejudices that still limit the full participation and respect for lesbian and gay people in American society today. From combating the earliest acts of prejudice in our schools, to the current struggles for marriage and family planning in the courts, these films spark dialogue and discussion about the ongoing struggle for full civil rights in America.

Gender

There are very few media resources for teens that address anti-gay prejudice, and those that do, focus solely on the lives of young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. There is no disputing the fact that gender-based stereotypes and anti-gay attitudes affect the lives of all students today.” Straightlaced provides a way into a much-needed dialogue about gender roles and homophobia among teenagers. With refreshing honesty, the diverse youth in the film open up about the pressure to conform to rigid gender role expectations.

Education and Teaching

The Respect For All Project (RFAP) seeks to create safe, hate-free schools and communities. RFAP provides youth and the adults who guide their development the tools they need to engage in age-appropriate discussions about human difference, preventing prejudice and building caring communities. RFAP offers a comprehensive set of resources for educators and youth-service providers, including award-winning documentary films, high-quality curriculum guides and a comprehensive workshop series for professionals and community members