Grantee Database
CITIZEN FILM INC
Grant Year
2018-19
Grant Program
Creative California Communities
Award Amount
$150,000.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Citizen Film and Success Centers will tell and share stories that document and support an African American community’s efforts to reclaim Buchanan Mall, a once-vibrant public plaza ravaged by decades of economic decline.
We’ll create 6 short films about entrepreneurship and use them to generate community engagement. This process will show and augment the cultivation, emergence and impact of locally-owned microenterprise giving the Mall new life.
Organization Summary
In San Francisco’s Western Addition, where Citizen Film is located: Buchanan Stories / Buchanan Change is a community engagement campaign bringing the neighborhood’s artists, entrepreneurs and thousands of residents together to revitalize a historically Black neighborhood’s central plaza. With a key partner, Success Centers, and NEA+CAC support, we help local entrepreneurs tell and share their stories illuminating barriers and pathways to opportunity.
Citywide, we collaborate with many CBOs fostering equity. For example, we make films and design public engagement campaigns with YCD (at-risk youth), GLIDE (unhoused San Franciscans), Immigrants Rising (immigrants) and the Leo McCarthy Center.
In the Bay Area and beyond, we create films and site-specific multimedia installations that invite reflection on equal opportunity as an American value. More than 1M people engage with our work in civic spaces, from public parks to PBS.
Organization
Citizen Film
Address
1111 Buchanan St suite 11
San Francisco
94115-4808
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 206-1880
Congressional District
California Assembly district 17
State Assembly District
District 17
State Senate District
District 11
