The collection consists mostly of material on produced films, as well as unrealized projects. Most of the produced films were broadcast on public television. There are grant proposals, scripts, transcripts, budget material, correspondence, research material, and publicity material. Films with significant holdings are Elvia (about Honduran civil rights activist Elvia Alvarado), Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint, and Low 'n Slow (about Chicano lowrider culture). There is a great deal of material on the films made for the long-running American Encounters exhibit at the Smithsonian. There is also significant material on Nuestros Hijos, a film made for the California Human Development Corporation. In the Unproduced Films files, there is material for a project on Ruben Blades. In the General Files, there are documents related to courses taught at various colleges. There is also a significant amount of material on Channel 35, the television station of San Francisco State University.