Hilary Goldberg (( Filmmaker + Artist ))
Hilary is a filmmaker and artist. Goldberg's films and music
videos—including recLAmation, in the Spotlight, Beyond Lovely, Transliminal
Criminal, and Katastrophe’s Big Deal—have been screened in venues ranging from
the American Cinematheque in Hollywood to the Women Make Waves Festival in
Taiwan. Hilary directed Chapter 5 in the upcoming 21-filmmaker collaborative
adaptation of the memoir Valencia and is also acting as a producer and animator
on the feature film. Goldberg's most recent project is the stop motion animated
webseries, The Deer Inbetween.
Rita Piffer (( Filmmaker ))
Rita is a Brazilian filmmaker who has been living and working in the Mission
District for four years. Currently she is enrolled at the MFA program in Cinema
at SF State, in which she produced her latest short film Clarices's Cups, a short
film/poem that takes a look at how memories re-define objects and
vice-versa. Her previous shorts had screened in various local Art Galleries and
Festivals, includingIndie Cine Shack, Oaktown Indie Mayhen, Ark Gallery, Bernal Heights Outdoors
Film Festival, City
Shorts, Cinema
Errante series Brazilian
Voices of Cinema at
ATA, and published at the on-line poetry magazine Caveat Lector Vol.22.n, No. 2.
Nara Denning (( Filmmaker + Illustrator ))
Born in San Francisco in 1976, Nara Denning is a native of the
fringes and seeker of invisible realities. She has made a body of work which
interprets what she has so far encountered, collecting antique elements to create
seductive, turbulent dreamscapes inspired by personal memoir as recalled by the
symbolic language of the heart. Denning creates a heightened reality that
merges the external and internal experience. Her current film series “Under the
Pavement” explores identity crisis in the modern age. Denning was awarded
“Best New Silent Filmmaker 2009” by the SF Weekly as well as the 2010
“Investing in Artists” grant from the Center of Cultural Innovation and the
2011 Individual Artist Commission Award by the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Maria Karpoukhina (( Filmmaker ))
Maria Karpoukhina (( Filmmaker ))
Maria is a Russian
film maker that explores her medium, often weaving together experimental with
narrative, documentary with fiction, realism with absurdity. She is also a
founder of an artistic community center - Ark 221 that acts as a filmmakers'
resource and a screening venue for independent cinema. Her films have been
previously screened at ATA, New Nothing Cinema, Cine Shack, and Teatro
Zinzanni. She is currently in production for her latest narrative film, "The
Milgram Experiment" that deals with the
controversial results of this psychological experiment conducted in 1961 that
explored topics such as obedience to authority, transfer of responsibility, and
heard mentality.
Ellen Lake (( Filmmaker + Fine Artist ))
Ellen
Lake received her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California in 2002, where
she studied sculpture, film & video, and installation. She is
currently a visiting artist at Stanford’s Experimental Media Arts Lab. She is a
recipient of a 2009 Sarah Jacobson Film Grant and 2005/2006 Bay Area Video
Coalition’s Mediamaker Award. French Fries is part of a
series of short documentaries on collections. The Collection Series has been
screened in the Bay Area at New Langton Arts, Mills College Art Museum,
Works/San Jose, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, and The
Lab. Individual work from the series has screened at film festivals,
museums, and microcinemas all over the world including the VHS Festival in
Rotterdam, the Institute for Contemporary Art in London, and Palais de Tokyo in
Paris.
Great Schoenberg (( Filmmaker + Dancer ))
After early dance training in the San Francisco Bay Area, Greta
Schoenberg earned a BFA in Ballet from the University of Utah and went
on to dance in Europe with the Norwegian National Ballet, among others.
After her return to San Francisco she danced with several contemporary
companies and is now exploring her own choreography through dance film.
Her work has been screened throughout the Bay Area, including at
Stanford University, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Roxie
Cinema, Ninth Street Independent Film Center, Artists’ Television
Access, The San Francisco Art Institute, Dance Mission, CounterPulse,
Pirate Cat Radio, at several venues in Arizona, and in London at the
London International Dance Film Festival.
