Featured New Films
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Penta
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world.
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Breaking Silence: The Story of the Sisters at Desales Heights
An examination of social and cultural change, and the impact of such change upon individuals
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Home Economics: A Documentary of Suburbia
As mortgage market "meltdowns" and the environmental crisis bespeak its wider consequences, HOME ECONOMICS bursts the bubble of the American Dream of homeownership and reveals the deep human costs of suburbanization and automobilization.
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Debra Chasnoff |
 Debra Chasnoff is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has fueled progressive social-change movements in many fields. She is a the executive director at GroundSpark, formerly Women's Educational Media, and co-creator of The Respect for All Project, a program that produces media and training resources to help prevent prejudice among young people.
Her Respect for All films include: Let's Get Real (2003; director/producer), a powerful documentary about young teens' experiences with name-calling and bullying in which youth speak up about racial tensions, anti-gay taunting, sexual harassment and much more; That's a Family! (2000; director/producer), which looks at family diversity from a kids' perspective, and was screened at the (Clinton!) White House and been embraced by scores of national children's advocacy, education and civil-rights organizations; and It's Elementary - Talking About Gay Issues in School (1996; director/producer), which was hailed as "a model of intelligent directing" by International Documentary and has served as a catalyst for schools all over the world to become more proactive in addressing anti-gay prejudice in the classroom.
In 2007, Chasnoff directed It's STILL Elementary, a retrospective look at why It's Elementary was originally produced, the response it drew from the conservative right, and the impact the film has had on the national safe schools movement and some of the original students who appeared in the film.
Chasnoff's other film credits include the Oscar-winning Deadly DeceptionGeneral Electric, Nuclear Weapons & Our Environment (1991; director/producer), a crucial component of a successful international grassroots campaign to pressure GE out of the nuclear-weapons industry; Homes & Hands - Community Land Trusts in Action (1998; co-director), which is used extensively to inspire local communities to explore new models of creating permanently affordable housing; Wired for What? (1999; director/producer), part of the PBS series Digital Divide about the push to computerize education; Choosing Children (1984; director/producer), which explored the once seemingly impossible idea that lesbians and gay men could become parents; One Wedding and a Revolution (2004:Director/Co-producer), captures the frantic days leading up to the bold political decision of San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom to start issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.
Chasnoff serves on the national advisory board for Frameline, the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and Jewish Voices for Peace. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and lives in San Francisco with her two school-age children, who have been the inspiration for many of her films.
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| Email: dchasnoff@groundspark.org http://www.groundspark.org/ |
Films By Debra Chasnoff: |
 Let's Get RealAn in-depth look at name-calling and bullying in middle schools today, told entirely from a youth perspective.
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 It's ElementaryThe ground- breaking film that addresses anti-gay prejudice by providing adults with practical lessons on how to talk with children about gay people.
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 It's Still ElementaryTen years later, students and teachers talk about how learning and teaching about gay issues in school has changed their lives.
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 That's a Family!What children have to say about the changing shape of American families. That's a Family!
breaks new ground in helping children in grades K-8 embrace diversity. |
 Deadly DeceptionGrassroots activists successfully expose a corporate giant's environmental record |
 One Wedding and a RevolutionThe frantic planning inside city hall for the first gay marriage |
 Straightlaced - How Gender's Got Us All Tied UpWith a fearless look at a highly charged subject, Straightlaced unearths how popular pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens. Their stories reflect a diversity of experiences, demonstrating how gender role expectations and homop |
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