by Frances Phillips | Apr 3, 2014
Interdisciplinary artist Vu T. Thu Ha collaborated with Locus Arts and with Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center (API Wellness) to create an experimental film, Kieu, based on Truyen Kieu (The Tale of Kieu), Viet Nam’s national epic by Nguyen Du. In Vu T. Thu...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 21, 2014
Filmmaker Jennifer Kroot collaborated with the Japanese American Museum of San Jose to create To Be Takei: A Star’s Trek for Life, Liberty and Love, a documentary about the popular Star Trek helmsman, George Takei, his activism on behalf of marriage equality,...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 7, 2014
Filmmaker Laurie Coyle collaborated with the Chicana/Latina Foundation to create a half-hour digital documentary, Adios Amor. While working as lead researcher and associate producer for a film about Cesar Chavez, Coyle discovered some 200 photographs of Maria Moreno,...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 19, 2014
Media artist Lise Swenson, and Southern Exposure collaborated to create Mission Movie, a film exploring the changing character of San Francisco’s Mission District in the late 1990s. Mission Movie premiered outdoors in a Mission parking lot, and was later...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 6, 2014
Pioneering digital filmmaker Jan Millsapps collaborated with La Casa de las Madres to create an interactive CD-ROM about domestic violence. The finished work, “Episodes,” was housed in a free standing kiosk that was set up in the San Francisco Public Library, San...
