California Movies

An aerial journey through California's coastline.

The film details an entire live performance from Devo's 1996 reunion tour with Lollapalooza, opening for Metallica. The band performs a stripped down...

This is the mockumentary describing the rise of infamous candy bootlegger Sweet-E (Eddie)

Designing with Nature provides a vivid account of a pivotal chapter in the architectural history of Northern California. Set in the late 19th and...

Late 1970s television documentary on the people of Marin County, California, one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. The documentary...

A documentary about the San Diego bar punk scene and how all the bands fight amounst themselves. Featuring JFA, Gizzards, The Yucks, DPI, Bowel Tones...

Creeper helps friend and comedian Christina P rediscover her Inner Chola.

Hollywood, CA, a place of refuge for dreamers from all over the world. Enter a small town girl from Kansas who comes to LA to hit it big....a jaded...

A short film featuring two new records from Jasmine Cephas Jones' forthcoming debut album PHOENIX, detailing the journey of growth, transformation,...

Milestone No. 3 is a documentary following three lifelong friends as they travel across the country to California for the very first time. Armed with...

While California is going bankrupt, one business is booming. "How Weed Won the West" is the story of the growing medical cannabis / marijuana...

Named after the Shoshonean word for "Earth", this is the third and final part of Benning's "California Trilogy" and his approach to the Californian...

On August 15th, 2006, filmmaker Ryan Dacko set out to get a 30-minute meeting with a major Hollywood producer by running on foot from Syracuse, New...

Questions of race, identity and heritage are explored through the lives of young American women growing up as adoptees from China. These four...

Jordan (Demarcus Jackson) enters a time loop after a masked man breaks into his house, sending him on a trip backwards in time.

In this surreal romance, two young lovers lose their sense of identity through the powerful, and manipulated, emotions of love.

Girls Night In is a satirical horror short that was created based on the Bechdel test. The test examines works of fiction to see whether there are...

Jim Bridwell was one of the best climbers in the world in the 70s, 80s. The documentary chronicles Bridwell's career from those early days to his...

A series of static shots of the buildings of the California Mission system, as they existed in 1907. Because many of the Mission buildings were in...

Every Christmas, Bruce Mertz lights up the neighborhood with the 50,000 lights covering his house. For decades he's obsessively added to his display,...