Sophie E. Constantinou Trailers
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Sophie Constantinou is a film director, cinematographer and producer.
Co-founder of Citizen Film, a documentary production nonprofit based in San Francisco, Constantinou creates documentaries at the intersection of storytelling and community engagement. At Citizen Film, Constantinou has worked on the Community Leadership Series (2003-2013), Joann Sfar Draws from Memory (2012), Lunch Love Community (2014), GLIDE’s Values series (2014-2024), and Narrative Shift (2021-2024), primarily as the Director of Photography. Independent of Citizen Film, she worked as Director and Cinematographer on Frameline selection Trans (1994), Between the Lines (1997), which was distributed on the Sundance Channel, and Divided Loyalties (1999). She filmed The Joy of Life (2005) and The Royal Road (2015), both official selections of the Sundance Film Festival in their respective years. She was also the director of photography for PBS documentary Presumed Guilty (2000), PBS/POV film Maquilapolis (2006), and HBO documentary Unchained Memories (2004). She filmed Emmy Award-winning Home Front (2001) and HBO documentary Regarding Susan Sontag (2014). Her work is acclaimed for tackling complex issues with artistry and sensitivity while catalyzing place-based change and creating healthy, sustainable communities. Since 2010, she has worked in San Francisco’s Western Addition on a series of films, engagement initiatives, and education programs bringing attention to the inequities of the neighborhood’s predominantly Black community. These projects include Buchanan Stories / Buchanan Change and Green Streets. She is also the founder of the Bernal Cut Project, a community-led biodiversity initiative to transform 16 acres of inner city open space into a habitat corridor and immersive learning.
Most Popular Sophie E. Constantinou Trailers
Total trailers found: 34
19 August 2004
From the moment David Brower first laid eyes on the beauty of the Yosemite Valley, he wanted to the fight to preserve the American wilderness for future generations.
05 December 1991
Jessie Weston is an ex-con recently released from prison after serving two years for auto theft. He is welcomed back into his small California down by his best friend Dillion and his older brother, Paul.
01 March 2001
Fractured into a Turkish North and a Greek South, the island of Cyprus is divided by ethnicity, faith and land.
20 April 2014
An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal, life-changing moments through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson.
03 March 2006
Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive sweatshops often owned by the world's largest multinational corporations.
10 February 2003
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress.
22 March 2015
A fascinating and unlikely reinvention story, The Royal Road simultaneously explores cinematic spiritual channeling, the conquest and colonization of Mexico and the American Southwest, fading historical Californian urban landscapes, and the passions found in butch identity to achieve an achingly beautiful and poetic defense of remembering.
26 April 2016
In 2002, Sophie Constantinou and Bill Weir interviewed Padgett about his life and works, specifically his friendship and collaborations with the New York School of Poets.
09 November 2008
Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish actor and director Solomon Mikhoels.
09 June 1994
First premiering in the 18th San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (now Frameline) and moving on to play every major North American LGBTQ festival between 1994 and 1996, Sophie Constantinou’s playful document of trans man Henry gives first-hand voice to his nuanced experience and extolls the singular joy of wearing a suit.
08 February 2015
Flamin' Hot glimpses into a middle school science class, "What's On Your Plate," to reflect how kids behave even when they conduct experiments with the combustion of a Hot Cheeto.
01 June 2004
This short film reveals the inspiration, motivation and political challenges at San Francisco City Hall during the frantic days leading up to the first government-sanctioned same-sex marriage.
01 January 1997
A circle of men on a San Francisco rooftop play the telephone game with a kiss to the strains of a 1940's Dorothy Lamour song.
08 November 2010
At Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley, twice per month 400 children experience cross-disciplinary learning in the garden.
04 August 2002
Harry Hay was one of the founding fathers of the gay rights movement, and for more than 50 years was synonymous with the term "gay pride.
20 January 2021
Collaborating remotely under conditions brought on by the pandemic, the GLIDE Ensemble’s new rendition of “Say Their Names” is a response to the older, continuing, lethal epidemic of violence against Black people and people of color, a cry for justice, a cry of love and solidarity because Black Lives Matter.
22 May 2002
It's about everything and one thing: choice.
11 February 2009
The film focuses on the light and shadow playing on the walls of the Castro Camera Store, a location in Gus Van Sant’s Milk.
18 June 2005
The first major uprising against police brutality, harassment, and societal oppression was not at Stonewall in 1969, but at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco three years earlier.
22 May 2005
A blending of documentary and experimental narrative strategies, combining stunning 16mm landscape cinematography with a bold, lyrical voice-over to share two San Francisco stories: the history of the Golden Gate Bridge as “suicide landmark,” and the story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery.
04 November 2018
Join former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, historian David Kennedy and a diverse group of Americans to explore whether a unifying set of beliefs, an American creed, can prove more powerful than the issues that divide us.
25 April 1996
Third is an experimental narrative with a second life in its deeply layered soundtrack. Lit for night, and gelled for theatricality, Third looks at a trapped couple and their final release/demise.
28 June 1998
Natalie, a disenchanted office worker, lives in the space between dreams and reality. When her dream life overlaps with reality, her dull 9-5 existence is flooded with overwhelming and unexpected desire, and Natalie is forced to sink or swim.
10 September 2009
Race to Nowhere is a film containing stories of young people across the country who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried that students aren’t developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what’s best for their children.
01 January 2008
A documentary on a New York City woman who has spent most of her 93 years in the world of movies, TV, commercial, and print media.
04 November 2010
The savory short features 2015 Berlinale Kamera honoree Alice Waters, whose vision started Berkeley Unified School District’s free, universal and delicious organic lunch program.
21 October 2019
Young refugee storytellers curate their own prized possessions. Then, they collaborate with a team of digital artists and documentarians on a series of short films and “show and tell” multimedia events.
04 November 2010
An online documentary project offering shareable films, community engagement, and creative resources to inspire change in the way kids eat.
10 November 2010
The Labor of Lunch shows the hard work that happens every morning in the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) Central Kitchen and how it relates to the wider network of around instituting this kind of systemic change.
03 November 2010
Through struggles and controversy, Berkeley citizens put the democratic process to work, one neighbor, one politician, one piece of legislation at a time.
04 November 2010
The Parent Factor looks at the original group of parents pioneers in the 1990s and how they organized to change the way Berkeley children eat in school.
08 November 2010
It took more than 10 years to reinvent the Berkeley school lunch program and create the Dining Commons.
28 October 2009
Between the Lines is a visually lyrical experimental documentary about women who cut themselves. The film is about gray areas in women’s relationship to their bodies in the context of deliberate self-harm.
10 March 2002
Three years of trench warfare in the jails, holding cells, and courts of San Francisco as public defenders seek justice for their clients.
