When Democracy Works is the first educational media project to ever examine the policy initiatives of the radical right wing. Presented over the course of three case studies, this documentary takes a look at racist David Duke's electoral bids in Louisiana, the struggle over homophobic Amendment 2 in Colorado, and the scapegoating of immigrants, people of color, and women through Proposition 187 and Proposition 209 in California. But there’s hope —  in each case, the work of progressive grassroots organizers show how much can be achieved when democracy works.

Have you ever wanted to be a boy? Would that be different from being a lesbian or a passing woman? What does the story of Brandon Teena have to offer lesbians? Video, shot with a PXL2000 camera.

Ivy Young (1947-2023), a journalist and organizer, knows that mainstream society will not preserve her story after she's gone, so she rallies friends and her niece Jade – a history teacher whom she inspired with her vision and her grit – to defy the past for the sake of a shared future of resilience, compassion, and love. Together with history student Mariah, and lifelong friend Catherine, they explore Ivy’s archive of experience, illuminating her life across queer generations, forging a bridge between memory, activism, and identity.

Through its lyrical structure, Chavela takes viewers on an evocative, thought-provoking journey through the iconoclastic life of game-changing artist Chavela Vargas. Centered around never-before-seen interview footage of Chavela shot 20 years before her death in 2012, and guided by the stories in Chavela’s songs, the film weaves an arresting portrait of a woman who dared to dress, speak, sing, and dream her unique life into being.

Meanwhile is a docu-poem in six verses about artists breathing through chaos. In dynamic collaboration, Jacqueline Woodson (text), Meshell Ndegeocello (soundscape), Erika Dilday (support), M. Trevino (structure), and Catherine Gund (direction), combine artists’ expressions with historical and observational footage to unveil a rare cinematic meditation about identity, race, racism and resistance as they shape our shared breath.

When Samira Rice’s 12-year-old son Tamir Rice was killed by the Cleveland police department in November 2014, the citizens of Cleveland, and the country at large, waited for the officers responsible to be held accountable, but to no avail. Cleveland’s Prosecutor Timothy McGinty refused to indict the officer in question, and ignored the needs of the people he was meant to serve. Dispatches from Cleveland is a feature-length documentary in five parts that follows ordinary people – long shaken by police misconduct, social discrimination, and poverty – whose love for their home pushes them to work together to bring about real change.

Raised by his grandmother to be a Pentecostal minister, Ron Athey was speaking in tongues by the age of ten, a heroin addict by seventeen, and a performance artist by twenty-three. An HIV-positive gay man, Athey practices sadomasochistic ritual as a personal religion, using it as a means of transcendence. Hallelujah! presents Athey's life and work, spending time with him on and off the stage in Mexico City, Zagreb, and Los Angeles. Using an intimate hand-held, Hi-8 camera style, Hallelujah! combines at home verite footage and interviews with scenes from Athey's trilogy: Martyrs and Saints, Four Scenes in a Harsh Life, and Deliverance.

Intimate scenes of gentle sexuality and domesticity set to the mechanical cadence of a projector (evoking a feeling somewhere between the repetitive labour of a sewing machine and violence of a machine gun) are juxtaposed with images of police and sirens to highlight the alarming intrusion of America’s laws on queer people and women’s bodies in healthcare, sexual expression, and desire.

Produced by Catherine Gund and Cyrille Phipps, for The Gay and Lesbian Emergency Media Campaign. Documents the insurgent "Religious" Right and its broad-based agenda, analyses their campaigns for anti-gay initiatives in Oregon and Colorado in 1992, also examines issues of family and religion in lesbian and gay communities.

The first tape produced by those "Damned Interfering Video Activists" (DIVA TV) exhibits a wide range of styles and statements on ACT UP's massive demonstration at City Hall on March, 28, 1989, to protest state-level governmental negligence in the AIDS crisis. Begins with a poignant music video of new activists being trained in civil disobedience. Segues into an intimate portrait of one large affinity group called CHER, in which passionate first-timers glowingly support each other in a committed battle against the system. The final section, called "L.A.P.I.T." (Lesbian Activists Producing Innovative Television"), emphasizes the role of ACT UP’s women and deconstructs the media hype around the illegal strip searches they endured in jail.

Produced by DIVA TV, this tape documents New York City's Gay and Lesbian Pride week, 1989, including the homophobic gay bashing which occurred in Sheridan Square during the 20th anniversary celebration of the Stonewall Riots, often cited as the birth of the modern Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movement. In addition, Pride juxtaposes footage from The Wizard of Oz with their coverage of the Gay and Lesbian Pride March, especially featuring ACT UP/NY.

Produced by the activist video collective of ACT UP/NY called DIVA TV, this tape analyzes the collaborative demonstration “Stop the Church” by WHAM! (Women's Health Action and Mobilization) and ACT UP/NY on December 10, 1990, against Cardinal John O'Connor and the Roman Catholic Church's murderous stand on abortion rights, safer sex and homosexuality.