ACTIVE CINEMA ARCHIVE

The Mill Valley Film Festival has featured dozens of films in the Active Cinema program since its inception in 2008. The issues they address and the subjects they explore continue to be timely, relevant and worthy of viewing—either for the first time or as a potent reminder of work that still needs to be done. We invite you to check out many of these powerful films and find new ways to stay engaged.

FILM COMMUNITY PARTNER ORGANIZATION
AL HELM: MARTIN LUTHER KING IN PALESTINE
ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY: VILLA GRIMALDI La Peña Cultural Center
ATOMIC MOM SF Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility
AWAKENING FROM SORROW: BUENOS AIRES 1997 Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas
BIDDER 70 Bioneers
BURNING THE FUTURE: COAL IN AMERICA
BUSONG (PALAWAN FATE)
CALIFORNIA STATE OF MIND: THE LEGACY OF PAT BROWN UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies
CAPTURING GRACE Dance for PD
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE
CHILDREN OF THE AMAZON Rainforest Action Network
CUT POISON BURN Pine Street Clinic
DESERT FLOWER Amnesty International
DYING TO KNOW: RAM DASS & TIMOTHY LEARY Drug Policy Alliance
ELEMENTALl
FOOD STAMPED Marin Food Bank
FINDING THE GOLD WITHIN Hunters Point Family
FIRE UNDER THE SNOW Bay Area Friends of Tibet
F R E E Destiny Arts Center
GARDENERS OF EDEN David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
GRANITO: HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas
HEART OF SKY, HEART OF EARTH Marin Interfaith Council
HEIST: WHO STOLE THE AMERICAN DREAM? Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
THE HORSE BOY Autism Speaks
HOW I GOT OVER Center Point
THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT Teens Turning Green
IN PLAIN SIGHT Make a Stand
JIM THORPE: THE WORLD’S GREATEST ATHLETE Marin American Indian Alliance
JOURNEY FROM ZANSKAR
LEAVE THEM LAUGHING The ALS Association
LION ARK Animal Defenders International
MATT SHEPARD IS A FRIEND OF MINE Facing History and Ourselves
MINE Marin Humane Society
THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS Center for Investigative Reporting
THE NEW ENVIRONMENTALISTS Goldman Environmental Prize
NIGER ’66: A PEACE CORPS DIARY Northern California Peace Corps Association
NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley
THE ORGANIC LIFE Local Harvest
PARIAH Frameline
PROJECT HAPPINESS
QUEEN OF THE SUN Sustainable Fairfax
RACE TO NOWHERE
RACING TO ZERO: IN PURSUIT OF ZERO WASTE Bioneers
REBELS WITH A CAUSE Cal Humanities
ROAD TO INGWAVUMA Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED)
SAINT MISBEHAVIN’: THE WAVY GRAVY MOVIE Seva Foundation
SARABAH Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project
SKIN
SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION
STANDING ON SACRED GROUND Marin American Indian Alliance
STOLEN Canal Alliance
SWEET DREAMS Museum of the African Diaspora
TAKING ROOT: THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI Friends of the Urban Forest
TAPPED Food and Water Watch
THEMBA: A BOY CALLED HOPE Marin AIDS Project
THEY KILLED SISTER DOROTHY Rainforest Action Network
A THOUSAND SUNS
TO EDUCATE A GIRL
TOXIC HOT SEAT San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation
TRUST: SECOND ACTS IN YOUNG LIVES Canal Alliance
UNA NOCHE
VOICES FROM THE SHADOWS Bay Area CFS Support Group
WAR WITCH Museum of the African Diaspora
THE WELCOME Veterans’ Village
WHEN WE LEAVE
WHERE THE WATER MEETS THE SKY Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED)
WONDER WOMEN: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES