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Citizen Film is committed to collaborating with civic and community institutions to make films that engage audiences in meaningful conversation about the relationship between culture and community. Since 2002, Citizen Film has produced the New Jewish Filmmaking Project, a program of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival dedicated to showcasing diversity in the Jewish Community from the point of view of the culturally diverse generation of Jews that is coming of age today. Sam launched the New Jewish Filmmaking Project thanks to a 2001 Joshua Venture Fellowship.

Bio
Sam Ball is a producer and director of documentary films whose work has been showcased at prestigious art film venues around the world, including MoMA New York (in 2002, 2005, and 2006), the Pompidou Center’s Cinéma du Réel in Paris, the Hirshhorn in Washington DC, the Sundance film festival, and many more.

Twelve of Sam’s films have shown on public television. His latest production is “Balancing Acts: a Jewish Theater in the Soviet Union,” which he directed for the multi-media exhibit Chagall and the Artists of Russian-Jewish Theater (March 22 – September 7, 2009 – the Jewish Museums of New York and San Francisco). Thanks to a grant from the Creative Work Fund, he has begun work on a mixed-media piece about the Group Theater for the Jewish Theater – San Francisco, in collaboration with playwright Corey Fischer.

For the past seven years, Sam has been producing and directing documentary films for the San Francisco-based Citizen Film, Inc., which he co-founded with filmmakers Sophia Constantinou and Kate Stilley. Together, they have produced more than 30 documentaries of all lengths and formats since the company’s founding in 2002.