Bernal Heights Filmmakers & Artists
Directory of film/video artists living, working or associated with the Hill

Currently indexing 66 Filmmakers & Artists, sorted by Last Name:
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Larry Adelman
Producer, Director, Co-Director/Founder of California Newsreel
Executive producer: Race ­ The Power of an Illusion (2003)
Producer: The Road to Brown (1990)
Producer/Director: The Business of America... (1984)
Producer/Director: Controlling Interest (1978)
www.newsreel.org

Bay Area Center for Arts and Technology (BAYCAT)
produces "Zoom In," a half hour series that airs on Access SF, channel 29. Students, ages 9–15, develop the concept, shoot the video, conduct the interviews, create the animation and compile the music for each of the segments. By participating in classes taught by working filmmakers titled “Art of Animation,” “My TV,” and “First Movie/First Audio,” students with no previous experience with film or video produced the insightful Why Violence?

Mary Beaven Editor, The Jar,graduated from the Academy of Art in 1990 with a degree in Photography. Interestingly, video production is where she ended up. She has worked for the City of Fairfield for over 10 years where she shoots and edits video productions. Mary is proud to be a Native Northern Californian, and happy to call her beloved Bernal Heights home. Hayley Foster, Mary’s niece and producer/director of The Jar, has always had an artistic eye and a love of cinema. When given the assignment to produce a movie for her eighth grade class, she stepped easily into the role of producer, and with a group of her classmates produced their first movie, The Jar. Hayley hails from the South Bay, but she visits her Aunt often as Bernal appeals to the dog lover in her.

Eric Bergman
Producer/Director /Video-Editor/ Cameraman/Carpenter/Bartender/ businessman/student-of-the-world. Garden of Friendship. After receiving an M.A. from SF State, Eric took a hiatus from the video production field to save a little money for travel and other explorations. He hopes to combine his passion for travel and learning with documentary work and is seeking other media artists to collaborate on a documentary about the art of the Burning Man Festival.

Larry Betts
Director, Producer
Shoe Biz, Narrative, 16mm 25 min.
Festivals/Awards:
Breckenridge, Haifa, Bronze City, Los Angeles Film Fest, Edinburgh International, Manheim, Amiens, Worldfest Houston, Malta, Suffolk County, Joey Awards, Wine Country Film Festival

Caroline Blair
Writer/Producer/Editor
Instructor, Film Department, CCSF
Urban Steal

Carlos Bolado
Director, Editor
Director/Editor: Bajo California (1999)
Editor: Like Water for Chocolate

Virginia Bowen
Mixed Media Pictorial Artist
Producer/Director: Two of a Kind (2002)
Also works in video, photography and printmaking.

Brian Burroughs
Producer/Director: Suckerfish; Urbana; "Aquamorpheus"
Filmmaker and freelance photographer; producer of short
experimental films

Debra Chasnoff Director/Producer Academy Award®-winning documentary filmmaker Senior producer at Women's Educational Media Co-creator of The Respect for All Project Director/producer: One Wedding and a Revolution (2004); Let's Get Real (2003); That's a Family! (2000); It's Elementary—Talking About Gay Issues in School (1996); Deadly Deception—General Electric, Nuclear Weapons & Our Environment (1991); Homes & Hands—Community Land Trusts in Action (1998; co-director); Wired for What? (1999); Choosing Children (1984)

Janet Cole
Executive Producer
Promises: Regret to Inform; Freedom Machines; Paragraph 145
Cole has specialized in the strategic distribution and production of social issue films for over 20 years and is a frequent consultant and advisor to filmmakers, media arts groups and foundations.

Sophia Erini Constantinou
Director of Photography
Director of Photography: Life History of a Star( 1998); Help Come
Free Me; Desi's Looking for a New Girl

Marque Cornblatt Performance Artist Producer/Director: Bubble: Isolation and Redemption in the Urban Ocean. Marque Cornblatt has a diploma in theater technology from the Baltimore School of the Arts ad a BFA in film from NYU. He has written, produced, directed and perfomed in several short films and is currently developing a cell phone feature. Cornblatt’s robots and sculptures have been exhibited at the SFMoMa, San Jose Museum of Art and at galleries throughout the US. Most recently, he has been gaining popularity as Waterboy, the scuba-diving oracle of the annual Burning Man Fesitval in Nevada.

John Cremer
Producer/Director
Quality custom programs produced, written and directed. Solid experience, since 1985, in Docs, VNR’s, Spots, Marketing Videos and Safety Training. Clients include healthcare, educational institutions, financial institutions, hospitality industry, PR and marketing agencies.

Audrey Ray Daniel Producer, Director, Videographer — Centers of Creativity with Elias Katz, PhD — Audrey Ray Daniel started in video in the mid 80’s with performance art in Los Angeles. In the 90’s she left video to study photography at Marylhurst College under Christopher Raushenberg who inspired her pursuit of documentary photography. In 2002 she sold her favorite still camera and bought a video camera to return to story telling through moving pictures. In 1999, she and her husband composer, Joe, moved to the Bernal Heights community.

Karil Daniels Point of View Productions Writer/Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Editor. Voices of Dissent: Activism & American Democracy; Water Baby: Experiences of Water Birth; Well & Strong: A True Story; Wake Up!: The Hazards of Radioactive Waste Dumping; Making a Difference: An Appeal to Congressional Leaders to Save Our Rainforests Special interest in programs about health and wellness, ecology and the environment, sustainable business and social responsibility, peace, anti-nuclear issues, international topics, social justice, the arts, empowerment, and subjects of special importance to women.

Doug Dunderdale
Sound Recordist
The Rise and fall of Jim Crow
Kist Bits if /sybdab (2003)
Xtreme: Sports to Die For
Cowboy Poets (1988)
Assistant Camera: Crumb (1994)

eImage
Andrew Linda & Angela Gamburg
www.eimage.com
Seasoned producer of corporate, broadcast, and independent programs. Creative concepts, camerawork, and editing, or full script-to-screen service, including CD-Rom and DVD authoring and video compression for the Web. Over 20 years of international experience.

Kevin Epps
Documentary Filmmaker
The Black Rock
Rap Dreams
Straight Outta Hunters Point

Vic Ferrer Producer, SAN FRANCISCO EXPOSITION ORGAN. Vic Ferrer is a San Francisco based corporate communications and documentary producer. He is currently producing a documentary about America's historic pipe organs and why they should be considered works-of-art worthy of preservation.

Pat Ferrero Producer/Diector Pat Ferrero is an independent filmmaker whose work as a producer/director includes Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World, Hearts & Hands and Quilts in Women's Lives. These films have won numerous awards, have been screened nationally on cable and PBS, and have been exhibited at national festivals including Sundance, New York Film Festival, National Educational Film and Video Festival, the Hawaii and San Francisco International Film Festivals, as well as international festivals in Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Ferrero also teaches film production in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University.

Jeanne C. Finley
Writer, Director,Editor/Professor of Media Studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts
Language Lessons (2002); The Trial of Harmony and Invention, (2000); The Adventures of Blacky, (1999); O Night Without Objects, (1998)

Vicky Funari
Film/Videomaker
Producer/Director: Paulina (1998), SKIN-ES-THE-SI-A
Co-director/Editor: LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE!
Work focuses on the lives of women and workers and explores questions of cultural and gender identity

Gregory Gavin
Public Artist/Filmmaker
Writer/Director/Camera: Bernaltown (1997) Public art¹s goal is to make art accessible to all people as well as to engage them. Gregory Gavin¹s projects particularly involve the participation of young people. In TimeWarp (1999-2000), students imagined and created objects, images and stories from the year 3000. Riverscapes, created in collaboration with both children and adults, have earned numerous grants and awards including the Potrero Nuevo Prize and a California Arts Council Fellowship. In addition, Greg is an instructor at California College of Arts.

Jose Garrotte
Filmmaker/Producer/Director/Editor
BFA San Francisco Art Institute
Photographer/Editor for KDTV 14 Univision
Jose has been involved in videos and films projects in the Bay Area, also
short stories for TV/News.
Currently writing his first feature film.

Mark Gunson
Producer/Director: Great Highway : Journey to the Soul of Bay Area Surfing (2006) — Documentary on the history of surfing from San Francisco’s Ocean Beach to Maverick's. Producer/Director: The NorCal Project (2005) - Surf movie shot in Pacifica, Santa Barbara, Indonesia and more. Producer: Zero Tolerance (1990) - Documentary about George Bush's war on drugs and the erosion of personal rights.

Samantha Ham

Marc Henrich
Director/Editor
Director& Editor: The Threshold (1996); The Visit (1998); Into The Wind (in> progress)
Co-director/Editor: Unsettled (1994);,
A Bay Area filmmaker, freelance video editor and teacher. Marc is currently directing his first feature film.

Harriet Anderson Heinrich
Writer/Director/Producer
Writer, Director: Hardwood
Actress: Malevolence
Actor/Producer: Gate of Souls
Producer: The back up
Co-founder of Lightning 2SOH Films. Active member Young Performer Theatre
2SOHhor1@netzero.com

Francisco Hernandez
Videographer
BR. No. 51-91 (2004)

Brook Hinton
Film and Video Maker/Audio Artist
Familiar (1998/2002); Hack (1999); Flow (2001); 7 Silent Sketches (2001); Wave/Wake (2002); Momentum (2003); Transit (2004); Slow Force Glimpse (2004)

Susan Hoffman Writer/Producer/Director: Sound of a Voice (2003) Producer/Director: Seeing and Hearing Ourselves (2004)

Tim Holland
Sound Editor
Supervising Sound Editor: The Emperor’s Club (2002); The Ring (2002); The Mexican (2001); Monkeybone (2001); Liberty Heights (1999),
Sound Effects Editor: Gardens of Stone (1987); The Godfather Part III (1990); Tucker: the Man & His Dream (1988)

Pat Jackson
Sound Editor
Supervising Sound Editor: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002); Autumn in New York (2000)
Sound Editor: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Associate Editor, Supervising Sound Editor: The English Patient (1996)

Julia Jaragui

Sasha Beatrice Kobow
Experimental Filmmaker
Orpheus & Eurydice (2004); Feodora (2004); The Taming of the Night (2003; selected by and produced in collaboration with Wim Wenders at 53rd Berlinale Talent Campus); The Promise (2002); Yume No Ato — What is Left of the Dream (2002; MFA Thesis, Columbia University); Origami — How you Fall in Love (2002); Against Sadness — Vergiss Mein Nicht (2001; recipient numerous awards for director and screenplay); Rapunzel Goes to the Movies (2001); Sonett 24 (2001)

Eric Koziol
Director; Founding member of H-Gun labs. Serves as
Artistic Director, Animator and editor. Has conceptualized and
photographed over 70 music videos

Chris Lawson
Visual Artist
Feedback 1 & 2

ViVi Letsou
Writer/Producer/Director
Skeleton Woman (2000)
Hidden in Plain Sight

Jeff Miller

Leo Miller
Band member
Animosity —music video (2002)

Cornelius Moore
Distributor, California Newsreel

Emiko Omori Director, Cinematographer, Camera Operator Cinematographer: a Kalahari Family, Part III: Real Water (2002); A Kalahari Family, Part II: End of the Road (2002); Rebels with a Cause (2000); Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians (2000); Regret to Inform (1998); The Women Outside (1996); Hard Act to Follow (1990); Director, Cinematographer : Rabbit in the Moon (1999)

Melissa Peabody
Producer/Director/Editor
Worked as co-producer and editor of numerous award-wining documentaries, including a 3-part video series on workplace heath issues and several concerning the environment and wildlife. Her 3-minute fundraising video Bernal Hill — Still Wild at Heart will be screened at BHOC

Howard Petrick
Producer/Director
The Case of the Legless Veteran (1980); This is no Grenada (1986); Refugee (1988)
Howard@nvcsf.net

Lourdes Portilljo
Producer/Director
Producer/Director: Senorita Extraviada - Missing Young Woman (2001); Cojjrpus: A Home Movie for Selena; Las Madres: The Mothers
of Plaza de Mayo; Sometimes My Feet Go Numb; The Devil Never Sleeps
Producer of Independent dramatic films, performance art , videos, and documentaries

Danielle Renfrew
Producer/Director
CFO of Concentric Media — documentary film company
Producer: Groove (2001)
Assoc. Producer: From the Back alleys to the Supreme Court and
Beyond (PBS series)
Producer/Director: Dear Dr. Spencer

B. Ruby Rich
Film Critic/Cultural Commentator/Adjunct Professor of Film, UC Berkeley
Her critical commentary has appeared in the New York Times Arts & Leisure Section, the Nation, the SF Bay Guardian, the Village Voice, Sight And Sound (UK), The Advocate, and other publications. In 1998, Duke University Press published, Chick Flicks: Theories And Memories of the Feminist Film Movement. An active radio and television film commentator as well as curator, speaker, and film festival programmer, she serves on the juries of numerous film festivals around the world and is a member of the Sundance Film Festival's National Advisory Board.

Ken Shelf
Writer/Director/Producer
www.PLetherProductions.com
Narrative Feature Film - Humans Being (2003)
Writer/Director/Producer
Staged Productions Insatiable Salivation (1993) Safe Death (1993) Caffeine (1993)
Santa In Lights (1993) Henry's Gun (1993) Paying Your Dues (1994) The Satan Clause (1994) thesantavirus (1995) Dumb Yourself Down (1996) Ho Ho Holy Shit (1996) Also drummer for The Dont's

Greta Snider
Experimental/Documentary Filmmaker
The Magic of Radio (2001); Urine Man (2000); Quarry Movie (1999); FLIGHT (1997) ; Portland (1996); NOZONE (1993); Our Gay Brothers (1993); Mute (1991); Blood Story (1990); Futility (1989); Hard Core Home Movie (1989)

Valerie Soe,
Art and Film Critic
Experimental/Documentary Film/Videomaker
Founding member, X-Factor, an experimental film and videomaker coalition
Producer/Director: Carefully Taught (2002); Beyond Asiaphilia (1997); Mixed Blood (1992)
Co-Producer/Director: Each One Teach One: The Alvarado School Art Program (2002)

Dr.Annie Sprinkle
Porn Actress turned Post-Porn Film Producer/Director and Sex Educator.
Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle (XXX--1982); Linda/Les and Annie--The First Female to Male Transsexual Love Story (1989); Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop (1992); Fire In the Valley--Female Genital Massage (2001); Zen Pussy (2001); Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn (2002); The Art of the Loop (2002); Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasm--An experimental documentary (2004)
Started out in the mainstream commercial sex industry in 1973; evolved into a feminist porn activist, making sex films geared towards women. After receiving Ph.D in human sexuality, produced educational, arty, sexually-oriented documentaries.

Sara St. Martin Lynne
Writer/Director, Producer, Assistant Editor
Director/Writer: Rock in a Hard Place (2003)
Assoc. Producer/Asst. Editor: Bernal Hill — Still Wild at Heart (2004)
Script Consultant: Drive Thru

Scott Stark
Filmmaker, Videographer
To Mutable Commute (2003); Chop (2003); Love or To Die (2003); The Tells (2002); More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda (2001); Angel Beach (2001); SLOW (2001); Posers (2000); in.side.out (1999); NOEMA (1998); Back in the Saddle Again (1997); Archimedes' Screw (1996) ; Under a Blanket of Blue (1996); Acceleration (1993); I'll Walk with God (1994); Unauthorized Access (1993); Denea Bull Run (1993); Imperfect Solutions (11984/1992); Tender Duplicity (1992); Don't Even Think (1992); So Ein Tag (1991)Episiotomy (1990); Protective Coloration (1990); Satrapy (1988) ; W (1988)
Scott's films and videos have shown locally (San Francisco), nationally and internationally, including recent one person shows at New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Pacific Film Archive.

Elizabeth Stephens Director/Producer: "Luba: The Mother Teresa of Art" 2005. Associate Professor Art and Digital Art/New Media, UC Santa Cruz. Stephens is an Intermedia Artist utilizing installation, photography, performance, web based media and video to explore personal and social relationships. Other films include "Oaxacan Women" 1987, "Women Eating" 1990 and "Do You Mind," 1992. Currently engaged in the Love Art Laboratory, a seven-year collaborative project. www.loveartlab.org

Kate Stilley Producer/Editor/Teacher One Wedding and a...Revolution With over fifteen years in documentary filmmaking, Kate Stilley has been an integral part in creating award-winning non-fiction films that have influenced audiences worldwide. Her work has been seen on major US media networks (ABC, CBS, PBS, Fox TV, A&E, Nickelodeon and NPR), and has won awards at film festivals nationally and internationally, including the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award in 2001. Stilley is the Lead Editorial Instructor at the New Jewish Filmmaker Project and has taught editing at the Bay Area Video Coalition for five years. She currently sits on BAVC's Producer's Advisory Board and is a co-founder of “Citizen Film,” a documentary collaborative started with partners Sam Ball and Sophie Constantino.

Lidia Szajko Documentary Filmmaker —Girl Trouble Chair, Film Department, CCSF

Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
Producer/Director
Director: Amerika Ya Ya (1992) The Great Dykes of Holland(1993);
Producer/Writer/Editor: Paulina (1997)
Series Producer: KQED's Independent View (1999-2000)

Marybeth Tereszkiewicz
Producer/Director/Choreographer
Visual and Performing Arts Chairperson, ICA High School
Film "runaways" selected for New York Independent International Film Festival
mbt26@juno.com

Amy Trachtenberg
Visual Artist
Works across disciplines with theater, public space, writers and as a painter. Teaches art in East Bay schools with VALA (Visual Arts Literary Arts). Has received grants and awards from the California Arts Council, Opera America, San Jose Arts Commission and the SF Arts Commission. She shows her work at Brian Gross Fine Arts and is currently lead artist on a new library in San Jose.

Silvia Turchin Director/ Writer/Editor Silvia attended USC, where she majored in Creative Writing and minored in Film. She spent many years in both Poland and Spain, where she studied and worked in film as an editor. She has written and directed one documentary film entitled The Little Pianist. Despite its short running time (6min30sec), she spent well over a year in making it, allowing time to establish a solid connection with the subject. Silvia now resides in Northern California. silviaturchin@gmail.com

Samantha Grant Wiesler
Sound Engineer
Producer/Director/Writer: Church of Craft (in production)
Sound/Camera: Geldersma (2002); Mission Movie (2003); The Insular Empire
(release in 2005); Jumping for Joy (release in 2005)

Sharon Wood
Documentary filmmaker
Co-Producer: Freedom Machines
Writer: And Then One Night: The Making of Dead Man Walking
Co-producer/Writer: KPFA On the Air
Writer: Paragraph 175
Producer: Outside in Sight: The Music of United Front
Producer: Kheturni Bayo: North Indian Farm Women
Wood has been nominated three times for Oscars for her writing: Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press; Straight from the Heart, and Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren as well as the Peabody and Columbia-Dupont award-winning The Celluloid Closet, and Isamu Noguchi:
Stones and Paper, an "American Masters" Special for PBS. Sharon is currently producing historical documentaries for Lucasfilm

David Zacharin Editor: Centers of Creativity with Elias Katz, PhD An award-winning editor, David has been working with film since the mid 1960's for KPIX and CBS Evening News. In the 1970's, he went freelance first working in film and then later with videotape. David has been using non-linear editing systems for the past 11 years. His experience includes long format and short format programming for broadcast (Network, PBS, MTV) and non-broadcast (corporate, consumer) and theatrical projects. David has recently moved to Bernal Heights from Marin County.

Terry Zwigoff
Director, Writer, Producer
Art School Confidential (2004- pre-production)
Producer/Director: Crumb (1994); Louie Bluie (1986)
Director/Writer: Ghost World (2000)
Director: Bad Santa (2003)
Writer: Art School Confidential
Producer: Zwugiff

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