Clare Major Trailers
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Clare Major is a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker based in Oakland, California, who specializes in handheld observational camerawork and in stories that illuminate the intersection of cultures and the lives of women and girls.
Clare's work has played at festivals around the world and appeared on HBO, PBS, the Discovery Channel, Netflix and the New York Times, among many others. Her recent documentary work includes roles as Cinematographer on Belly of the Beast (Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2020; Peabody Award Nominee 2021; Emmy winner 2021), which exposes a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California women's prisons; Cinematographer for the Oscar-shortlisted short documentary Holding Moses (SFFILM Festival 2022), which tells the raw and emotional parenthood journey of Randi, a queer, non-binary dancer, and Moses, her disabled son; Cinematographer on The Ants & The Grasshopper (Mountainfilm & Sheffield DocFest 2021), which follows a Malawian farmer activist who travels around the US to convince Americans that climate change is real; Vérité Cinematographer on Ahead of the Curve (Frameline 2020), which tells the story of Curve Magazine and its founder's push for lesbian visibility; and Director of Photography for We Are the Radical Monarchs (SXSW 2019), which follows a group of young girls of color on the front lines of social justice in Oakland, California.
Born and raised in Louisiana, Clare graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in American Studies, Plan II, and Radio-TV-Film and earned a Master of Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. Her thesis film, the short documentary Feast & Sacrifice, was a Student Academy Awards national finalist and won First Place Documentary at the 2011 College Television Awards.
Clare served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal and has walked from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail.
In 2020 she was named one of DOC NYC's "40 Under 40" filmmakers to watch
Most Popular Clare Major Trailers
Total trailers found: 13
16 December 2016
An exploration of the origins of memes, how they spread, and the stories behind some of the most popular “human memes” like Ermahgerd Girl, Overly Attached Girlfriend, and Chocolate Rain Guy.
05 January 2023
BIRTHING JUSTICE, a feature-length documentary film, captures the experiences and challenges of Black women, their families, caretakers and advocates, and examines the structures and systems that determine disparate rates of mortality.
20 June 2024
A short film that follows artist and activist Whitney Bradshaw as she photographs womxn mid-scream during transformational gatherings where participants reclaim the power of their voices.
21 November 2023
In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to investigate why Black neighborhoods all over the country were “rioting” in protest.
10 March 2019
A group of tween girls chant into megaphones, marching in the San Francisco Trans March. Fists clenched high, they wear brown berets and vests showcasing colorful badges like “Black Lives Matter” and “Radical Beauty.
23 August 2019
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
28 May 2021
With a fist full of credit cards, a lucky run at the horse track, and a title that called to mind a certain French film star, Franco Stevens launched the best-selling lesbian lifestyle magazine ever published, connecting her community in an unprecedented way.
11 June 2020
When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, they take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.
30 April 2022
In the Bones is a lyrical documentary that explores the personal and political by interweaving the lives of 12 characters living in Mississippi during a legislative session in which equal pay for equal work and abortion rights are being decided.
02 February 2021
Amy Tan has established herself as one of America’s most respected literary voices. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, it would be decades before the author of The Joy Luck Club would fully understand the inherited trauma rooted in the legacies of women who survived the Chinese tradition of concubinage.
21 July 2019
Three great whites are spotted in the waters off Oahu, but another one could be lurking just below the surface.
25 June 2025
A video essay about the personal and political context of a landmark lesbian feminist documentary film from 1977 called "In the Best Interests of the Children" about lesbian mothers fighting to regain custody of their children in the 1970s.
20 June 2025
Meet Babs, an optimistic octogenarian speed-racing through life, one five-year plan at a time. Like a modern day Maude from Harold and Maude, Babs moves through life at breakneck speed.
