Thank you @sffilm for the screenwriting + development support for my film, The Gathering 🌱
I’m grateful to be digging deep this year as a FilmHouse resident with this cohort of incisive Bay Area storytellers!
It is no accident that Yosemite National Park, which at its core is a playground— a constellation of ‘vista’ points, built on top of a battlefield— is so damn photogenic.
In fact, Yosemite *only* exists as it does today, because its landscape so neatly matched a visual ideal of 19th c. European landscape painting.
The tandem histories of photography and conquest supercharged a notion that this place was some sort of Edenic Sanctuary, devoid of humans, work, exploitation…
It only took 13 years (1851-1864) and a bloody war, for invading armies and profiteers to transform Yosemite from a living landscape to a tourist destination.
How does one make new images of this infinitely photographed place? Images that recognize the central role that the camera plays in this dark story?
I’m not sure I have a good answer. In part, because another layer of history is a personal one; the layer in which I have been coming to this place again and again for almost 30 years. Because of its cursed beauty, because of its artificial solitude.
So, in spite of the contradictions, here are a few pretty frames that exclude… almost everything— the 90+ heat, the relentless mosquitoes, the 2 rattlesnakes, the people, the dam building, the mining, the genocidal history…
At the very least, they’ve given me an excuse to revisit the book that I find myself recommending most frequently: Savage Dreams by RS
Pictures made on the ancestral land of the Sierra Mono, Southern Sierra Miwok, Chukchansi, Yokut, and Ahwaneechee
Scans by @royalwefilmlab
Thank you so much to our wonderful panelists for an eye-opening conversation at this morning's DOCTALK: FUNDING THE VISION!
With filmmaker and journalist Caron Creighton, Mischa Hedges (Founder & Executive Producer, TrimTab Media), filmmaker Henry Kinder, and filmmaker Vaishali Sinha (GIVE IT A SHOT!), co-founder of the Color Congress–supported Bitchitra Collective: Indian Women in Documentary Film—in conversation with host Rose Kuo (Artistic Director of CAFILM).
Co-presented by CAFILM Education and Video Consortium Bay Area
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#documentaries #doclands #doclandsfilmfestival #filmfestival #bayareafilmmakers #documentaryfilmmakers #bayareaartists #sanrafael
I’m very psyched to share that *two* films from the DEFENDER: Off the Record series will be screening at Oscar-qualifying film festivals in April !✌🏻
DEFENDER: Off the Record is the new digital portrait series from The Adachi Project’s @wearedefender about our shared human experience, as seen through the eyes of public defender clients.
It’s exciting to see these films slowly making their way into the world — we’ll have more to share soon around how the series can be accessed digitally — but for now, you just have two chances:
- 𝙾𝚏𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚍: Julia will be playing at Aspen Shortsfest on April 8
- 𝙾𝚏𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚍: 𝚂𝚊𝚕 will be playing at the Cleveland International Film Festival on April 10
I produced the series– and also directed ‘Sal’ – in collaboration with an all-star team of Bay Area filmmakers and justice advocates:
𝙾𝚏𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚍: 𝚂𝚊𝚕
Director: 🕴️
Producer: @bridget.braley , 🕴️
DP: @jpausanos
1st AC: @camerasquadmatt
Production Sound Mixer: @nixonsanchezz
PA: Annie Oakland
Edited By: @arodholm
Color & Sound: @roastnpost_oakland
Post Producer: Crystal Villamayor
Colorist: Sean Wells
Re-Recording Mixer: @stereosoundofcolor
𝙾𝚏𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚍: Julia
Director: @aurorabobora
Producer: @sabrinassellers , @aurorabobora , 🕴️
DP: @leomaco_tv
1st AC: @q.dannytran
Steadicam: @stonecoldsteveurkell
Production Sound Mixer: @audio_mami , @ligeirohenrique
PA: @marcellohutchinsontrujillo
Edited By: @aurorabobora
Color & Sound: @roastnpost_oakland
Post Producer: Crystal Villamayor
Colorist: Sean Wells
Re-Recording Mixer: @stereosoundofcolor
Sound Designer: Matt Wood
Titles and posters by @alejandro.molestina
for Even/Odd:
EPs: @malcolmpullinger , @mohammad.earth
Creative Director: @mohammad.earth
Managing Director: @justinlomax
Head of Production: @taylorfeltner
Head of Post-Production: @roc_and_co
Business Affairs Manager: Hannah Fariss
Thank you to our partners at the @sfpublicdefender and @compoundcreate
And, of course, infinite gratitude for Sal Prasad and Julia Arroyo’s openness and trust ❤️
SF! We have a very special screening coming up at The Roxie on Tuesday, Dec. 2nd – I hope you’ll join us.
We’ll be showing 3 films that I produced as part of @wearedefender ’s new ‘Off the Record’ series. I also directed two of the films; the third was directed with beauty and care by @aurorabobora (+ made in community with so so many other brilliant filmmakers).
We’ll also be screening a sentencing mitigation film that @ivannarez made, which was screened for a judge at a sentencing hearing to argue for a more lenient sentence. Film as art + impact.
After the screening, we’ll have a short panel discussion moderated by @bootsriley with the SF Public Defender, @manorajupd , film subjects, and filmmakers.
$10 tickets can be purchased at Roxie.com (link in my bio!) All proceeds go to The Adachi Project, a not-for-profit art + film initiative about the work of the SF Public Defender.
This screening is co-presented by
The Adachi Project
@wearedefender@film_sf@caamedia@young_women_free
BY THE PEOPLE
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