by Frances Phillips | Oct 3, 2020
Julie Wyman, a Bay Area-based filmmaker with dwarfism, is collaborating with Little People of America to create HOW WE LOOK, five short films that imagine alternatives to the stereotypical, limiting, and medicalized ways that little people have historically been...
by Frances Phillips | Dec 1, 2018
Documentary filmmaker Jane Greenberg is collaborating with Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (Ella Baker Center) to co-create a 15-20 minute video profiling five women who have each lost a loved one to state violence, ranging from a son who died during incarceration...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 25, 2018
Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay (JF&CSEB) operates the only program specifically serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex refugees seeking to resettle in the United States. Collaborating with JF&CSEB, the Magnes Collection of...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 26, 2018
Artists Anna Fitch and Banker White are collaborating with Family Caregiver Alliance to create a multimedia work, Heaven Through the Backdoor. The project tells the story of Yolanda Shae, a fiercely independent 88-year-old Swiss émigré whose distinctive brand of...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 30, 2018
Each year an average of 86,000 women leave the Philippines, joining more than ten million overseas Filipinas — many of them domestic laborers. Raising other people’s children and providing care to the elderly, these workers are indispensable to the families they serve...