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Liberated Lens Collective

2015-09-19T00:47:02Z

Noemie:

Liberated Lens Collective is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images!

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
We recently created the FTP, [[FTP Short Film Festival|Films 2 The People Short Film Festival]].
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3uEQxBHGeNOhX5P1-RsjJg YouTube Channel] has our most recent videos to date, and here are our earlier video productions:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_STgWs6GlY From the Holdout to Quilombo]

We are currently working on a documentary about black farmers and food justice in the black community, as well as documenting gentrification in West Oakland.

Liberated Lens Collective

2015-09-19T00:31:47Z

Noemie: Created page with " Liberated Lense Collective is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain un..."

Liberated Lense Collective is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images!

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
We recently created the FTP, [[FTP Short Film Festival|Films 2 The People Short Film Festival]].
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3uEQxBHGeNOhX5P1-RsjJg YouTube Channel] has our most recent videos to date, and here are our earlier video productions:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_STgWs6GlY From the Holdout to Quilombo]

We are currently working on a documentary about black farmers and food justice in the black community, as well as documenting gentrification in West Oakland.

Liberated Lense

2015-09-18T22:59:34Z

Noemie:

Liberated Lense

2015-09-18T22:40:08Z

Noemie:

Liberated Lense collective is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images!

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
We recently created the FTP, [[FTP Short Film Festival|Films 2 The People Short Film Festival]].
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3uEQxBHGeNOhX5P1-RsjJg YouTube Channel] has our most recent videos to date, and here are our earlier video productions:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_STgWs6GlY From the Holdout to Quilombo]

We are currently working on a documentary about black farmers and food justice in the black community, as well as documenting gentrification in West Oakland.

Optik Allusions

2015-09-18T22:39:51Z

Noemie: Replaced content with "We are no longer Optik Allusions! We now have become the Liberated Lense Collective"

We are no longer Optik Allusions!
We now have become the [[Liberated Lense|Liberated Lense Collective]]

Liberated Lense

2015-09-18T22:38:03Z

Noemie: Created page with " Liberated Lense is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We be..."

Liberated Lense is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images!

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
We recently created the FTP, [[FTP Short Film Festival|Films 2 The People Short Film Festival]].
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3uEQxBHGeNOhX5P1-RsjJg YouTube Channel] has our most recent videos to date, and here are our earlier video productions:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_STgWs6GlY From the Holdout to Quilombo]

We are currently working on a documentary about black farmers and food justice in the black community, as well as documenting gentrification in West Oakland.

Optik Allusions

2015-09-17T00:09:17Z

Noemie:

<div style="width:95%;min-height:50px;background:#eee;border: 10px #cc0000 solid;position:relative;margin:auto;text-align:center;padding:10px;">
<span style="font-size:56px;"><strong>FTP</strong>: Films 2 The People</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:48px;">[[FTP Short Film Festival|News from our 2015 Short Film Festival!]]</span><br/>
</div>

Optik Allusions is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images!

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3uEQxBHGeNOhX5P1-RsjJg YouTube Channel] has our most recent videos to date, and here are our earlier video productions:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_STgWs6GlY From the Holdout to Quilombo]

We are currently working on a documentary about black farmers and food justice in the black community, as well as documenting gentrification in West Oakland.

Optik Allusions

2015-09-17T00:08:09Z

Noemie:

<div style="width:95%;min-height:50px;background:#eee;border: 10px #cc0000 solid;position:relative;margin:auto;text-align:center;padding:10px;">
<span style="font-size:56px;"><strong>FTP</strong>: Films 2 The People</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:48px;">[[FTP Short Film Festival|News from our 2015 Short Film Festival!]]</span><br/>
</div>

Optik Allusions is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or on an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images!

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3uEQxBHGeNOhX5P1-RsjJg YouTube Channel] has our most recent videos to date, and here are our earlier video productions:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_STgWs6GlY From the Holdout to Quilombo]

We are currently working on a documentary about black farmers and food justice in the black community, as well as documenting gentrification in West Oakland.

Optik Allusions

2015-08-12T17:02:32Z

Noemie:

<div style="width:95%;min-height:50px;background:#eee;border: 10px #cc0000 solid;position:relative;margin:auto;text-align:center;padding:10px;">
<span style="font-size:56px;"><strong>FTP</strong>: Films 2 The People</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:48px;">[[FTP Short Film Festival|News from our 2015 Short Film Festival!]]</span><br/>
</div>

Optik Allusions is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold.

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3uEQxBHGeNOhX5P1-RsjJg YouTube Channel] has our most recent videos to date, and here are our earlier video productions:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_STgWs6GlY From the Holdout to Quilombo]

We are currently working on a documentary about black farmers and food justice in the black community, as well as documenting gentrification in West Oakland.

Optik Allusions

2015-08-12T17:01:29Z

Noemie:

<div style="width:95%;min-height:50px;background:#eee;border: 10px #cc0000 solid;position:relative;margin:auto;text-align:center;padding:10px;">
<span style="font-size:56px;"><strong>FTP</strong>: Films 2 The People</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:48px;">[[FTP Short Film Festival|News from our 2015 Short Film Festival!]]</span><br/>
</div>

Optik Allusions is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold.

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3uEQxBHGeNOhX5P1-RsjJg YouTube Channel] has our most recent videos to date,and here are our earlier video productions:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_STgWs6GlY From the Holdout to Quilombo]

We are currently working on a documentary about black farmers and food justice in the black community, as well as documenting gentrification in West Oakland.

2015/07/07 Optik Allusions Meeting

2015-07-11T01:05:06Z

Noemie:

'''Tuesday july 7th'''

== Attendees==
* Jabari
* Sean
* Dennis
* Noemie
* S.

== Announcements==
* Article: woman wants to interview us about OpAl. We'll do it with S., Jabari and Noemie
* Jabari an Dragon are going to film fundraising video for the Power to The People/ Africa project!
* S. is writing something that she is passionate about. She needs help if there was an expectation that she would finish by next week. Wants deadlines and kudos for finishing.

==Changing names==

*FearlessFilms
*Films Not
*Fearless Video Collective
*Unapologetic Video Collective
*Bandana Films
*Under the rock
*Radical lenses
*Triple Optik
*Third Lense Blind
*We cover stories that the mainstream doesn't cover
*S. wants rainbow
*Unseen Video Collective
*Unheard Video Collective
*I of the Unseen
*Third look/ third glance

==Finances==
* Grants: Emily is a grant writer. She finds money for folks. She's helping a film maker to find grants; She said she would be willing to come to a meeting to see if she can help. Organizations that are non profit have better chances to get a grant.
* Berkeley Film Foundation: have money for filmmakers!
* Bank Account: Sarah doesn't want to do the bank account. Western Federal Credit Union. Friday.

==Projects==
* Seeds of struggle:
* Setting up a meeting with them:
** Wanda would be a good person:
** Saturday: farmer's market. Anytime from 10 to 3: 12pm at 5316 telegraph
** Mr. Scott: Dennis will be writing questions.
** Need to formalize our organizational model for this project.

Optik Allusions/meetingnotes

2015-07-11T01:03:16Z

Noemie:

Hello!
As a radical film collective, we are committed to transparency and inclusivity.

Read our meeting notes here:

[[2015/07/07 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-07-07]]

[[2015/05/05 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-05-05]]

[[2015/04/28 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-04-28]]

[[2015/04/21 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-04-21]]

[[2015/04/14 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-04-14]]

[[2015/03/31 OptikAllusions Meeting|2015-03-31]]

[[2015/03/10 OptikAllusions Meeting|2015-03-10]]

[[2015/02/24 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-02-24]]

[[2015/02/03 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-02-03]]

[[2015/01/20 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-01-20]]

[[2014/11/18 Optik Allusions Meeting|2014-11-18]]

[[Event:2014/11/04 OptikAllusions Meeting|2014-11-04]]

[[Event:2014/10/14_Optikallusions_Meeting|2014-10-28]]

[[Event:2014/10/21 Optikallusions Meeting|2014-10-21]]

[[Event:2014/10/14 Optikallusions Meeting|2014-10-14]]

[[Event:2014/10/07_Optikallusions Meeting|2014-10-07]]

[[Event:2014/09/30 Optikallusions Meeting|2014-09-30]]

[[Event:2014/09/23_Optikallusions_Meeting|2014-09-23]]

[[Optik_Allusions]]' main page.

2015/07/07 Optik Allusions Meeting

2015-07-11T00:24:20Z

Noemie:

'''Tuesday july 7th'''

== Attendees==
* Jabari
* Sean
* Dennis
* Noemie
* Sarah

== Announcements==
* Article: woman wants to interview us about OpAl. We'll do it with Sarah, Jabari and Noemie
* Jabari an Dragon are going to film fundraising video for the Power to The People/ Africa project!
* Sarah is writing something that she is passionate about. She needs help if there was an expectation that she would finish by next week. Wants deadlines and kudos for finishing.

==Changing names==

*FearlessFilms
*Films Not
*Fearless Video Collective
*Unapologetic Video Collective
*Bandana Films
*Under the rock
*Radical lenses
*Triple Optik
*Third Lense Blind
*We cover stories that the mainstream doesn't cover
*Sarah wants rainbow
*Unseen Video Collective
*Unheard Video Collective
*I of the Unseen
*Third look/ third glance

==Finances==
* Grants: Emily is a grant writer. She finds money for folks. She's helping a film maker to find grants; She said she would be willing to come to a meeting to see if she can help. Organizations that are non profit have better chances to get a grant.
* Berkeley Film Foundation: have money for filmmakers!
* Bank Account: Sarah doesn't want to do the bank account. Western Federal Credit Union. Friday.

==Projects==
* Seeds of struggle:
* Setting up a meeting with them:
** Wanda would be a good person:
** Saturday: farmer's market. Anytime from 10 to 3: 12pm at 5316 telegraph
** Mr. Scott: Dennis will be writing questions.
** Need to formalize our organizational model for this project.

2015/07/07 Optik Allusions Meeting

2015-07-11T00:11:08Z

Noemie: Created page with "'''Tuesday july 7th''' == Attendees== * Jabari * Sean * Dennis * Noemie * Sarah == Announcements== * Article: woman wants to interview us about OpAl. We'll do it with Sara..."

'''Tuesday july 7th'''

== Attendees==
* Jabari
* Sean
* Dennis
* Noemie
* Sarah

== Announcements==
* Article: woman wants to interview us about OpAl. We'll do it with Sarah, Jabari and Noemie
* Jabari an Dragon are going to film fundraising video for the Power to The People/ Africa project!
* Sarah is writing something that she is passionate about. She needs help if there was an expectation that she would finish by next week. Wants deadlines and kudos for finishing.

==Changing names==

*FearlessFilms
*Films Not
*Fearless Video Collective
*Truth Not Lies
*Unapologetic Video Collective
*Bandana Films
*Under the rock
*Radical lenses
*Triple Optik
*Third Lense Blind
*We cover stories that the mainstream doesn't cover
*Sarah wants rainbow

==Finances==
* Grants: Emily is a grant writer. She finds money for folks. She's helping a film maker to find grants; She said she would be willing to come to a meeting to see if she can help. Organizations that are non profit have better chances to get a grant.
* Berkeley Film Foundation: have money for filmmakers!
* Bank Account: Sarah doesn't want to do the bank account. Western Federal Credit Union. Friday.

==Projects==
* Seeds of struggle:
* Setting up a meeting with them:
** Wanda would be a good person:
** Saturday: farmer's market. Anytime from 10 to 3: 12pm at 5316 telegraph
** Mr. Scott: Dennis will be writing questions.
** Need to formalize our organizational model for this project.

Optik Allusions

2015-07-08T17:50:15Z

Noemie:

<div style="width:95%;min-height:50px;background:#eee;border: 10px #cc0000 solid;position:relative;margin:auto;text-align:center;padding:10px;">
<span style="font-size:56px;"><strong>FTP</strong>: Films 2 The People</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:48px;">[[FTP Short Film Festival|News from our 2015 Short Film Festival!]]</span><br/>
</div>

Optik Allusions is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold.

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our YouTube Channel is still a WIP, but here are some of our video productions to this day:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_STgWs6GlY From the Holdout to Quilombo]

We are also working on a documentary about gentrification in West Oakland, as well as collaborating with the Oscar Grant Committee to document the work they do.

Optik Allusions

2015-07-08T17:49:01Z

Noemie:

<div style="width:95%;min-height:50px;background:#eee;border: 10px #cc0000 solid;position:relative;margin:auto;text-align:center;padding:10px;">
<span style="font-size:56px;"><strong>FTP</strong>: Films 2 The People</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:48px;">[[FTP Short Film Festival|News from our 2015 Short Film Festival!]]</span><br/>
</div>

Optik Allusions is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold.

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We operate horizontally, and by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our YouTube Channel is still a WIP, but here are some of our video productions to this day:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_STgWs6GlY From the Holdout to Quilombo]

We are also working on a documentary about gentrification in West Oakland, as well as collaborating with the Oscar Grant Committee to document the work they do.

Optik Allusions

2015-07-07T20:43:34Z

Noemie:

<div style="width:95%;min-height:50px;background:#eee;border: 10px #cc0000 solid;position:relative;margin:auto;text-align:center;padding:10px;">
<span style="font-size:56px;"><strong>FTP</strong>: Films 2 The People</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:48px;">[[FTP Short Film Festival|News from our 2015 Short Film Festival!]]</span><br/>
</div>

Optik Allusions is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold.

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our YouTube Channel is still a WIP, but here are some of our video productions to this day:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_STgWs6GlY From the Holdout to Quilombo]

We are also working on a documentary about gentrification in West Oakland, as well as collaborating with the Oscar Grant Committee to document the work they do.

2015/05/05 Optik Allusions Meeting

2015-06-04T03:31:02Z

Noemie:

==Attendees==
Tell us who you are, what kind of video you'd like to make or see made.
* Sarah wants to make sketch comedy
* Sean wants to make action, people blowing up and people jumpin out of windows. His cast is coming off on May 26th
* Dragon wants wants to make sci fi and horror or docu drama
* Anka wants to finish the OGC project.
* Liz likes working on sets and help make what you guys wanna make
* Set goes by Set and likes the idea of community grounded place to make films and likes documentaries
* Ahn is Sarah's girlfriend wants to make queer porn. Then she withdraws.
* Noemie all of the above

==Announcements==
* Liz has learnt a program called file maker that allow us to keep track of our inventory.
* Dragon: black farmers documentary. People started with Mandela coop want us to do a documentary also oakland fashion week. People of color doing the fashion thing. Not only the high end fashion of NY.
* Anka is gonna kittens, anyone interested?

==Film Project Report backs==
*OGC:
** Noemie went to film the Richmond city council meeting + MayDay, went very well; We have enough to finish the OGC video.
** News from Anka and Marcus. Marcus came to edit. We need to schedule some regular days. The interviews.
* Gentrification: Meet next week.
* AfrikaTown/ Quilombo: To be worked on this week. Tomorrow evening.

== Haley and Sarah's comedy show!==
* Sarah and Haley have been talking about doing a sketch comedy thing. We're trying to figure out if we want to be women only and having men participate in the acting and crewing. Tescia has been unable to meet us. We basically wanna do sketch comedy about the Bay Area. Making fun of radical culture. Let us know if you're interested in participating. We're working on sketch right now.

== Membership ==
Context: We have a big responsibility. As one becomes an OpAl member, one becomes an Omni member. Now we all know eachother, we're all friends or friends of friends, but soon people we've never met will show up. We need a formal process.

* Proposal has been discussed but needs to be finetuned:
** Have new member show up at a meeting and introduce themselves: what they're interested in doing, etc.
** Have a one month period before making them members in which they participate in our activities, so that we can build a relationship with them.
** Make the new person a member after this one month if everyone is comfortable with it. That gives them access to the building (key) and OpAl equipment.
** Consensus reached on this proposal

==Room use==

* We have drafted some basic principles that have been discussed but need to be finetuned:
** Keep the room accessible to the public as much as possible
** Limit the time when it is reserved for exclusive use (one evening a week for OpAl and one evening a week for Music is Healing Us if required, otherwise for exceptional events/workshops). No more than two recurring exclusive reservation everyweek. An individual cannot reserve the entire room for themselves.
** The rest of the time: the room is used collectively, activities that allow other people to use the space simultaneously, using headphones so that several monitors can be used at once.
** The room would be open to reservations for people outside of OpAL to work on the monitors (any post production work on computers), from 9am to 3pm everyday. The rest of the time, priority to OpAl projects. Reservation possible on request. What about drop-ins? Sure
** requirement that people save their stuff on their external drives. Signs: non OpAl works will be deleted without warning.
** Crow's nest: not OpAl's prerogative
** Consensus reached on this proposal!

* Reconsider Google calendar - Is it going to work for us? If it allows to reserve the specific monitors (vs whole room), yes.
** What about a physical calendar in the room?
** We need to change the lock.

==Finance==
* Jabari to open a bank account.
* Collect money for April and May rent.

== Name Change? ==
* Discussion on the idea of changing names.
* Brainstorm on name ideas.

* DIY or DIT
* intersectional feminism
* filming on the street. Documenting. Things that are not covered by mainstream media
* can we change the name after the film festival.
* Oakland
* Women

*Against the grain
*Radical lense
*Silence of the film
*Broken cameras
*Counter Tales

==Shake==

*I'm working on programming on local cable access. I want to add your programs so you can be run on the local cable channel.

*Also I have to have some original programming. I also wanna use a camera to do certain things. Arts and culture, community, community actions, programs, activism and news.
**Independent programming to add to the program. I'm hoping to have somehting weekly. Hopefully by June.
**Whoever wins I can air the films ou select on the cable channel.
**News would be stuff happening locally. It will be wrapped up on the banner of the name. It will be available. It will have a brand. I'll be aggregating local and indie media to time when you can go watch it on TV. Hip hop culture, urban culture, comedy. Anything that will have that Bay Area. Demographic is 18 to 35. And second demographic is foreign nationals - like Noemie.
** Also allows to promote local businesses.
** RTV channel 78

== Short Film Festival Updates == 20 minutes

* SELECTION PROCESS AND CRITERIA
** Sarah: Not Boring
** Noemie: 70 percent local. 3 people want them in. Give a voice to the unheard.
** Anka: Shorts are short. We should focus on local. We don't have too much of a criteria to accept films from everywhere.
** Liz: having the alternative perspective film be shown. That's one of the mission statement.
** Sarah: I want films that express not the mainstream white dude thing. People of different experiences. I don't want that to be like a political documentary about something.I want taste to be taken into account.
** Liz: inviting local film makers.
** Anka: it's a networking opportunity. Who's out there.
** Sarah would like to show stuff from different countries.
** Board and people check the ones they like.
** Sarah we need to decide what films we show as soon as possible.
** if a film gets no check mark we don't watch it.
** Dragon: we should watch what we have now by next week.
Watch the films independently upvote or downvote.
On the 19th we watch all the films that are upvoted.
** Everyone gets to keep one film that they're passionate about and want to defend?
** Cast our favorite 3.
** If people have serious concerns about it can block it.

* INCENTIVE TO PARTICIPATE / compensation or recognition (prizes, money, free pizzas, workshops, free membership for a few months, etc.): Award certificates?
**Have Shake air them on his local TV
**Every film selected has an award and award certificate
**Compilation DVD
**Have a best film voted by the public

*COMMUNICATE WITH APPLICANTS: Ensure all applicants have a chance to communicate with another person about their submission. Noemie has written back to all of them.

*LOCAL OUTREACH: Outreach to local communities in order to provide a body of work that represents non typical and under-represented filmmakers. Noemie + Dragon + Sarah + Sean. Flyering tomorrow. Deadline May 7th
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_oDFqOne1dZOxiy9wTji4paCRaSaWVwD2cfXOv84DlE/edit?usp=sharing

*ONLINE AND OFFLINE OUTREACH MATERIAL: Ensure that online and offline materials are created in a timely fashion to support the outreach effort for the event (flyer/poster for fundraiser, facebook event, etc.). TONIGHT: Flyer and poster

*LOGISTICS OF THE SCREENING: food, collect entrance fee, ceremony) and distribute tasks for the event. (Next week?)

*TO DO AT THIS MEETING:
** Consent on a name for the festival.
** Come up with selection process.
** Discuss flyer/poster for the actual event (name, entrance fee, working group)
** Consent on what to do about Rabbi of Rap
** Poster needs to be finished by next week for posting it everywhere next wednesday.
To do tonight: make flyers for flyering tomorrow.

2015/05/05 Optik Allusions Meeting

2015-06-04T03:30:33Z

Noemie:

==Attendees==
Tell us who you are, what kind of video you'd like to make or see made.
* Sarah wants to make sketch comedy
* Sean wants to make action, people blowing up and people jumpin out of windows. His cast is coming off on May 26th
* Dragon wants wants to make sci fi and horror or docu drama
* Anka wants to finish the OGC project.
* Liz likes working on sets and help make what you guys wanna make
* Set goes by Set and likes the idea of community grounded place to make films and likes documentaries
* Ahn is Sarah's girlfriend wants to make queer porn. Then she withdraws.
* Noemie all of the above

==Announcements==
* Liz has learnt a program called file maker that allow us to keep track of our inventory.
* Dragon: black farmers documentary. People started with Mandela coop want us to do a documentary also oakland fashion week. People of color doing the fashion thing. Not only the high end fashion of NY.
* Anka is gonna kittens, anyone interested?

==Film Project Report backs==
*OGC:
** Noemie went to film the Richmond city council meeting + MayDay, went very well; We have enough to finish the OGC video.
** News from Anka and Marcus. Marcus came to edit. We need to schedule some regular days. The interviews.
* Gentrification: Meet next week.
* AfrikaTown/ Quilombo: To be worked on this week. Tomorrow evening.

== Haley and Sarah's comedy show!==
* Sarah and Haley have been talking about doing a sketch comedy thing. We're trying to figure out if we want to be women only and having men participate in the acting and crewing. Tescia has been unable to meet us. We basically wanna do sketch comedy about the Bay Area. Making fun of radical culture. Let us know if you're interested in participating. We're working on sketch right now.

== Membership ==
Context: We have a big responsibility. As one becomes an OpAl member, one becomes an Omni member. Now we all know eachother, we're all friends or friends of friends, but soon people we've never met will show up. We need a formal process.

* Proposal has been discussed but needs to be finetuned:
** Have new member show up at a meeting and introduce themselves: what they're interested in doing, etc.
** Have a one month period before making them members in which they participate in our activities, so that we can build a relationship with them.
** Make the new person a member after this one month if everyone is comfortable with it. That gives them access to the building (key) and OpAl equipment.
** Consensus reached on this proposal

==Room use==

* We have drafted some basic principles that have been discussed but need to be finetuned:
** Keep the room accessible to the public as much as possible
** Limit the time when it is reserved for exclusive use (one evening a week for OpAl and one evening a week for Music is Healing Us if required, otherwise for exceptional events/workshops). No more than two recurring exclusive reservation everyweek. An individual cannot reserve the entire room for themselves.
** The rest of the time: the room is used collectively, activities that allow other people to use the space simultaneously, using headphones so that several monitors can be used at once.
** The room would be open to reservations for people outside of OpAL to work on the monitors (any post production work on computers), from 9am to 3pm everyday. The rest of the time, priority to OpAl projects. Reservation possible on request. What about drop-ins? Sure
** requirement that people save their stuff on their external drives. Signs: non OpAl works will be deleted without warning.
** Crow's nest: not OpAl's prerogative
** Consensus reached on this proposal!

* Reconsider Google calendar - Is it going to work for us? If it allows to reserve the specific monitors (vs whole room), yes.
** What about a physical calendar in the room?
** We need to change the lock.

==Finance==
* Jabari to open a bank account.
* Collect money for April and May rent.

== Name Change? ==
* Discussion on the idea of changing names.
* Brainstorm on name ideas.

* DIY or DIT
* intersectional feminism
* filming on the street. Documenting. Things that are not covered by mainstream media
* can we change the name after the film festival.
* Oakland
* Women

*Against the grain
*Radical lense
*Silence of the film
*Broken cameras
*Counter Tales

==Shake==

*I'm working on programming on local cable access. I want to add your programs so you can be run on the local cable channel.

*Also I have to have some original programming. I also wanna use a camera to do certain things.
Arts and culture, community, community actions, programs, activism and news.
** Independent programming to add to the program. I'm hoping to have somehting weekly. Hopefully by June.
** Whoever wins I can air the films ou select on the cable channel.
** News would be stuff happening locally. It will be wrapped up on the banner of the name. It will be available. It will have a brand. I'll be aggregating local and indie media to time when you can go watch it on TV.
Hip hop culture, urban culture, comedy. Anything that will have that Bay Area. Demographic is 18 to 35. And second demographic is foreign nationals - like Noemie.
** Also allows to promote local businesses.
** RTV channel 78

== Short Film Festival Updates == 20 minutes

* SELECTION PROCESS AND CRITERIA
** Sarah: Not Boring
** Noemie: 70 percent local. 3 people want them in. Give a voice to the unheard.
** Anka: Shorts are short. We should focus on local. We don't have too much of a criteria to accept films from everywhere.
** Liz: having the alternative perspective film be shown. That's one of the mission statement.
** Sarah: I want films that express not the mainstream white dude thing. People of different experiences. I don't want that to be like a political documentary about something.I want taste to be taken into account.
** Liz: inviting local film makers.
** Anka: it's a networking opportunity. Who's out there.
** Sarah would like to show stuff from different countries.
** Board and people check the ones they like.
** Sarah we need to decide what films we show as soon as possible.
** if a film gets no check mark we don't watch it.
** Dragon: we should watch what we have now by next week.
Watch the films independently upvote or downvote.
On the 19th we watch all the films that are upvoted.
** Everyone gets to keep one film that they're passionate about and want to defend?
** Cast our favorite 3.
** If people have serious concerns about it can block it.

* INCENTIVE TO PARTICIPATE / compensation or recognition (prizes, money, free pizzas, workshops, free membership for a few months, etc.): Award certificates?
**Have Shake air them on his local TV
**Every film selected has an award and award certificate
**Compilation DVD
**Have a best film voted by the public

*COMMUNICATE WITH APPLICANTS: Ensure all applicants have a chance to communicate with another person about their submission. Noemie has written back to all of them.

*LOCAL OUTREACH: Outreach to local communities in order to provide a body of work that represents non typical and under-represented filmmakers. Noemie + Dragon + Sarah + Sean. Flyering tomorrow. Deadline May 7th
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_oDFqOne1dZOxiy9wTji4paCRaSaWVwD2cfXOv84DlE/edit?usp=sharing

*ONLINE AND OFFLINE OUTREACH MATERIAL: Ensure that online and offline materials are created in a timely fashion to support the outreach effort for the event (flyer/poster for fundraiser, facebook event, etc.). TONIGHT: Flyer and poster

*LOGISTICS OF THE SCREENING: food, collect entrance fee, ceremony) and distribute tasks for the event. (Next week?)

*TO DO AT THIS MEETING:
** Consent on a name for the festival.
** Come up with selection process.
** Discuss flyer/poster for the actual event (name, entrance fee, working group)
** Consent on what to do about Rabbi of Rap
** Poster needs to be finished by next week for posting it everywhere next wednesday.
To do tonight: make flyers for flyering tomorrow.

2015/05/05 Optik Allusions Meeting

2015-06-04T03:29:41Z

Noemie:

==Attendees==
Tell us who you are, what kind of video you'd like to make or see made.
* Sarah wants to make sketch comedy
* Sean wants to make action, people blowing up and people jumpin out of windows. His cast is coming off on May 26th
* Dragon wants wants to make sci fi and horror or docu drama
* Anka wants to finish the OGC project.
* Liz likes working on sets and help make what you guys wanna make
* Set goes by Set and likes the idea of community grounded place to make films and likes documentaries
* Ahn is Sarah's girlfriend wants to make queer porn. Then she withdraws.
* Noemie all of the above

==Announcements==
* Liz has learnt a program called file maker that allow us to keep track of our inventory.
* Dragon: black farmers documentary. People started with Mandela coop want us to do a documentary also oakland fashion week. People of color doing the fashion thing. Not only the high end fashion of NY.
* Anka is gonna kittens, anyone interested?

==Film Project Report backs==
*OGC:
** Noemie went to film the Richmond city council meeting + MayDay, went very well; We have enough to finish the OGC video.
** News from Anka and Marcus. Marcus came to edit. We need to schedule some regular days. The interviews.
* Gentrification: Meet next week.
* AfrikaTown/ Quilombo: To be worked on this week. Tomorrow evening.

== Haley and Sarah's comedy show!==
* Sarah and Haley have been talking about doing a sketch comedy thing. We're trying to figure out if we want to be women only and having men participate in the acting and crewing. Tescia has been unable to meet us. We basically wanna do sketch comedy about the Bay Area. Making fun of radical culture. Let us know if you're interested in participating. We're working on sketch right now.

== Membership ==
Context: We have a big responsibility. As one becomes an OpAl member, one becomes an Omni member. Now we all know eachother, we're all friends or friends of friends, but soon people we've never met will show up. We need a formal process.

* Proposal has been discussed but needs to be finetuned:
** Have new member show up at a meeting and introduce themselves: what they're interested in doing, etc.
** Have a one month period before making them members in which they participate in our activities, so that we can build a relationship with them.
** Make the new person a member after this one month if everyone is comfortable with it. That gives them access to the building (key) and OpAl equipment.
** Consensus reached on this proposal

==Room use==

* We have drafted some basic principles that have been discussed but need to be finetuned:
** Keep the room accessible to the public as much as possible
** Limit the time when it is reserved for exclusive use (one evening a week for OpAl and one evening a week for Music is Healing Us if required, otherwise for exceptional events/workshops). No more than two recurring exclusive reservation everyweek. An individual cannot reserve the entire room for themselves.
** The rest of the time: the room is used collectively, activities that allow other people to use the space simultaneously, using headphones so that several monitors can be used at once.
** The room would be open to reservations for people outside of OpAL to work on the monitors (any post production work on computers), from 9am to 3pm everyday. The rest of the time, priority to OpAl projects. Reservation possible on request. What about drop-ins? Sure
** requirement that people save their stuff on their external drives. Signs: non OpAl works will be deleted without warning.
** Crow's nest: not OpAl's prerogative
** Consensus reached on this proposal!

* Reconsider Google calendar - Is it going to work for us? If it allows to reserve the specific monitors (vs whole room), yes.
** What about a physical calendar in the room?
** We need to change the lock.

==Finance==
* Jabari to open a bank account.
* Collect money for April and May rent.

== Name Change? ==
* Discussion on the idea of changing names.
* Brainstorm on name ideas.

* DIY or DIT
* intersectional feminism
* filming on the street. Documenting. Things that are not covered by mainstream media
* can we change the name after the film festival.
* Oakland
* Women

*Against the grain
*Radical lense
*Silence of the film
*Broken cameras
*Counter Tales

==Shake==

*I'm working on programming on local cable access. I want to add your programs so you can be run on the local cable channel.

*Also I have to have some original programming. I also wanna use a camera to do certain things.
Arts and culture, community, community actions, programs, activism and news.
** Independent programming to add to the program. I'm hoping to have somehting weekly. Hopefully by June.
** Whoever wins I can air the films ou select on the cable channel.
** News would be stuff happening locally. It will be wrapped up on the banner of the name. It will be available. It will have a brand. I'll be aggregating local and indie media to time when you can go watch it on TV.
Hip hop culture, urban culture, comedy. Anything that will have that Bay Area. Demographic is 18 to 35. And second demographic is foreign nationals - like Noemie.
** Also allows to promote local businesses.
** RTV channel 78

== Short Film Festival Updates == 20 minutes

* SELECTION PROCESS AND CRITERIA
** Sarah: Not Boring
** Noemie: 70 percent local. 3 people want them in. Give a voice to the unheard.
** Anka: Shorts are short. We should focus on local. We don't have too much of a criteria to accept films from everywhere.
** Liz: having the alternative perspective film be shown. That's one of the mission statement.
** Sarah: I want films that express not the mainstream white dude thing. People of different experiences. I don't want that to be like a political documentary about something.I want taste to be taken into account.
** Liz: inviting local film makers.
** Anka: it's a networking opportunity. Who's out there.
** Sarah would like to show stuff from different countries.
** Board and people check the ones they like.
** Sarah we need to decide what films we show as soon as possible.
** if a film gets no check mark we don't watch it.
** Dragon: we should watch what we have now by next week.
Watch the films independently upvote or downvote.
On the 19th we watch all the films that are upvoted.
** Everyone gets to keep one film that they're passionate about and want to defend?
** Cast our favorite 3.
** If people have serious concerns about it can block it.

* INCENTIVE TO PARTICIPATE / compensation or recognition (prizes, money, free pizzas, workshops, free membership for a few months, etc.): Award certificates?
**Have Shake air them on his local TV
**Every film selected has an award and award certificate
**Compilation DVD
** Have a best film voted by the public

* COMMUNICATE WITH APPLICANTS: Ensure all applicants have a chance to communicate with another person about their submission. Noemie has written back to all of them.

* LOCAL OUTREACH: Outreach to local communities in order to provide a body of work that represents non typical and under-represented filmmakers. Noemie + Dragon + Sarah + Sean. Flyering tomorrow. Deadline May 7th
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_oDFqOne1dZOxiy9wTji4paCRaSaWVwD2cfXOv84DlE/edit?usp=sharing

* ONLINE AND OFFLINE OUTREACH MATERIAL: Ensure that online and offline materials are created in a timely fashion to support the outreach effort for the event (flyer/poster for fundraiser, facebook event, etc.). TONIGHT: Flyer and poster

*LOGISTICS OF THE SCREENING: food, collect entrance fee, ceremony) and distribute tasks for the event. (Next week?)

**TO DO AT THIS MEETING:
* Consent on a name for the festival.
* Come up with selection process.
* Discuss flyer/poster for the actual event (name, entrance fee, working group)
* Consent on what to do about Rabbi of Rap
* Poster needs to be finished by next week for posting it everywhere next wednesday.
To do tonight: make flyers for flyering tomorrow.

2015/05/05 Optik Allusions Meeting

2015-06-04T03:27:45Z

Noemie:

==Attendees==
Tell us who you are, what kind of video you'd like to make or see made.
* Sarah wants to make sketch comedy
* Sean wants to make action, people blowing up and people jumpin out of windows. His cast is coming off on May 26th
* Dragon wants wants to make sci fi and horror or docu drama
* Anka wants to finish the OGC project.
* Liz likes working on sets and help make what you guys wanna make
* Set goes by Set and likes the idea of community grounded place to make films and likes documentaries
* Ahn is Sarah's girlfriend wants to make queer porn. Then she withdraws.
* Noemie all of the above

==Announcements==
* Liz has learnt a program called file maker that allow us to keep track of our inventory.
* Dragon: black farmers documentary. People started with Mandela coop want us to do a documentary also oakland fashion week. People of color doing the fashion thing. Not only the high end fashion of NY.
* Anka is gonna kittens, anyone interested?

==Film Project Report backs==
*OGC:
** Noemie went to film the Richmond city council meeting + MayDay, went very well; We have enough to finish the OGC video.
** News from Anka and Marcus. Marcus came to edit. We need to schedule some regular days. The interviews.
* Gentrification: Meet next week.
* AfrikaTown/ Quilombo: To be worked on this week. Tomorrow evening.

== Haley and Sarah's comedy show!==
* Sarah and Haley have been talking about doing a sketch comedy thing. We're trying to figure out if we want to be women only and having men participate in the acting and crewing. Tescia has been unable to meet us. We basically wanna do sketch comedy about the Bay Area. Making fun of radical culture. Let us know if you're interested in participating. We're working on sketch right now.

== Membership ==
Context: We have a big responsibility. As one becomes an OpAl member, one becomes an Omni member. Now we all know eachother, we're all friends or friends of friends, but soon people we've never met will show up. We need a formal process.

* Proposal has been discussed but needs to be finetuned:
** Have new member show up at a meeting and introduce themselves: what they're interested in doing, etc.
** Have a one month period before making them members in which they participate in our activities, so that we can build a relationship with them.
** Make the new person a member after this one month if everyone is comfortable with it. That gives them access to the building (key) and OpAl equipment.
** Consensus reached on this proposal

==Room use==

* We have drafted some basic principles that have been discussed but need to be finetuned:
** Keep the room accessible to the public as much as possible
** Limit the time when it is reserved for exclusive use (one evening a week for OpAl and one evening a week for Music is Healing Us if required, otherwise for exceptional events/workshops). No more than two recurring exclusive reservation everyweek. An individual cannot reserve the entire room for themselves.
** The rest of the time: the room is used collectively, activities that allow other people to use the space simultaneously, using headphones so that several monitors can be used at once.
** The room would be open to reservations for people outside of OpAL to work on the monitors (any post production work on computers), from 9am to 3pm everyday. The rest of the time, priority to OpAl projects. Reservation possible on request. What about drop-ins? Sure
** requirement that people save their stuff on their external drives. Signs: non OpAl works will be deleted without warning.
** Crow's nest: not OpAl's prerogative
** Consensus reached on this proposal!

* Reconsider Google calendar - Is it going to work for us? If it allows to reserve the specific monitors (vs whole room), yes.
** What about a physical calendar in the room?
** We need to change the lock.

==Finance==
* Jabari to open a bank account.
* Collect money for April and May rent.

== Name Change? ==
* Discussion on the idea of changing names.
* Brainstorm on name ideas.

* DIY or DIT
* intersectional feminism
* filming on the street. Documenting. Things that are not covered by mainstream media
* can we change the name after the film festival.
* Oakland
* Women

*Against the grain
*Radical lense
*Silence of the film
*Broken cameras
*Counter Tales

== Shake ==

** I'm working on programming on local cable access. I want to add your programs so you can be run on the local cable channel.

** Also I have to have some original programming. I also wanna use a camera to do certain things.
Arts and culture, community, community actions, programs, activism and news.
* Independent programming to add to the program. I'm hoping to have somehting weekly. Hopefully by June.
* Whoever wins I can air the films ou select on the cable channel.
* News would be stuff happening locally. It will be wrapped up on the banner of the name. It will be available. It will have a brand. I'll be aggregating local and indie media to time when you can go watch it on TV.
Hip hop culture, urban culture, comedy. Anything that will have that Bay Area. Demographic is 18 to 35. And second demographic is foreign nationals - like Noemie.
* Also allows to promote local businesses.
* RTV channel 78

== Short Film Festival Updates == 20 minutes

* SELECTION PROCESS AND CRITERIA

** Sarah: Not Boring
** Noemie: 70 percent local. 3 people want them in. Give a voice to the unheard.
** Anka: Shorts are short. We should focus on local. We don't have too much of a criteria to accept films from everywhere.
** Liz: having the alternative perspective film be shown. That's one of the mission statement.
** Sarah: I want films that express not the mainstream white dude thing. People of different experiences. I don't want that to be like a political documentary about something.I want taste to be taken into account.
** Liz: inviting local film makers.
** Anka: it's a networking opportunity. Who's out there.
** Sarah would like to show stuff from different countries.

** Board and people check the ones they like.
** Sarah we need to decide what films we show as soon as possible.
** if a film gets no check mark we don't watch it.
** Dragon: we should watch what we have now by next week.
Watch the films independently upvote or downvote.
On the 19th we watch all the films that are upvoted.
** Everyone gets to keep one film that they're passionate about and want to defend?
** Cast our favorite 3.
** If people have serious concerns about it can block it.

* INCENTIVE TO PARTICIPATE / compensation or recognition (prizes, money, free pizzas, workshops, free membership for a few months, etc.): Award certificates?
**Have Shake air them on his local TV
**Every film selected has an award and award certificate
**Compilation DVD
** Have a best film voted by the public

* COMMUNICATE WITH APPLICANTS: Ensure all applicants have a chance to communicate with another person about their submission. Noemie has written back to all of them.

* LOCAL OUTREACH: Outreach to local communities in order to provide a body of work that represents non typical and under-represented filmmakers. Noemie + Dragon + Sarah + Sean. Flyering tomorrow. Deadline May 7th
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_oDFqOne1dZOxiy9wTji4paCRaSaWVwD2cfXOv84DlE/edit?usp=sharing

* ONLINE AND OFFLINE OUTREACH MATERIAL: Ensure that online and offline materials are created in a timely fashion to support the outreach effort for the event (flyer/poster for fundraiser, facebook event, etc.). TONIGHT: Flyer and poster

* LOGISTICS OF THE SCREENING: food, collect entrance fee, ceremony) and distribute tasks for the event. (Next week?)

** TO DO AT THIS MEETING:
* Consent on a name for the festival.
* Come up with selection process.
* Discuss flyer/poster for the actual event (name, entrance fee, working group)
* Consent on what to do about Rabbi of Rap
* Poster needs to be finished by next week for posting it everywhere next wednesday.
To do tonight: make flyers for flyering tomorrow.

2015/05/05 Optik Allusions Meeting

2015-06-04T03:27:12Z

Noemie:

==Attendees==
Tell us who you are, what kind of video you'd like to make or see made.
* Sarah wants to make sketch comedy
* Sean wants to make action, people blowing up and people jumpin out of windows. His cast is coming off on May 26th
* Dragon wants wants to make sci fi and horror or docu drama
* Anka wants to finish the OGC project.
* Liz likes working on sets and help make what you guys wanna make
* Set goes by Set and likes the idea of community grounded place to make films and likes documentaries
* Ahn is Sarah's girlfriend wants to make queer porn. Then she withdraws.
* Noemie all of the above

==Announcements== 7 minutes
* Liz has learnt a program called file maker that allow us to keep track of our inventory.
* Dragon: black farmers documentary. People started with Mandela coop want us to do a documentary also oakland fashion week. People of color doing the fashion thing. Not only the high end fashion of NY.
* Anka is gonna kittens, anyone interested?

==Film Project Report backs== 7 minutes
*OGC:
** Noemie went to film the Richmond city council meeting + MayDay, went very well; We have enough to finish the OGC video.
** News from Anka and Marcus. Marcus came to edit. We need to schedule some regular days. The interviews.
* Gentrification: Meet next week.
* AfrikaTown/ Quilombo: To be worked on this week. Tomorrow evening.

== Haley and Sarah's comedy show!== 10 minutes
* Sarah and Haley have been talking about doing a sketch comedy thing. We're trying to figure out if we want to be women only and having men participate in the acting and crewing. Tescia has been unable to meet us. We basically wanna do sketch comedy about the Bay Area. Making fun of radical culture. Let us know if you're interested in participating. We're working on sketch right now.

== Membership == 15 minutes
Context: We have a big responsibility. As one becomes an OpAl member, one becomes an Omni member. Now we all know eachother, we're all friends or friends of friends, but soon people we've never met will show up. We need a formal process.

* Proposal has been discussed but needs to be finetuned:
** Have new member show up at a meeting and introduce themselves: what they're interested in doing, etc.
** Have a one month period before making them members in which they participate in our activities, so that we can build a relationship with them.
** Make the new person a member after this one month if everyone is comfortable with it. That gives them access to the building (key) and OpAl equipment.
** Consensus reached on this proposal

*==Room use== 15 minutes

* We have drafted some basic principles that have been discussed but need to be finetuned:
** Keep the room accessible to the public as much as possible
** Limit the time when it is reserved for exclusive use (one evening a week for OpAl and one evening a week for Music is Healing Us if required, otherwise for exceptional events/workshops). No more than two recurring exclusive reservation everyweek. An individual cannot reserve the entire room for themselves.
** The rest of the time: the room is used collectively, activities that allow other people to use the space simultaneously, using headphones so that several monitors can be used at once.
** The room would be open to reservations for people outside of OpAL to work on the monitors (any post production work on computers), from 9am to 3pm everyday. The rest of the time, priority to OpAl projects. Reservation possible on request. What about drop-ins? Sure
** requirement that people save their stuff on their external drives. Signs: non OpAl works will be deleted without warning.
** Crow's nest: not OpAl's prerogative
** Consensus reached on this proposal!

* Reconsider Google calendar - Is it going to work for us? If it allows to reserve the specific monitors (vs whole room), yes.
** What about a physical calendar in the room?
** We need to change the lock.

==Finance== 10 minutes
* Jabari to open a bank account.
* Collect money for April and May rent.

== Name Change? == 15 minutes
* Discussion on the idea of changing names.
* Brainstorm on name ideas.

* DIY or DIT
* intersectional feminism
* filming on the street. Documenting. Things that are not covered by mainstream media
* can we change the name after the film festival.
* Oakland
* Women

*Against the grain
*Radical lense
*Silence of the film
*Broken cameras
*Counter Tales

== Shake ==

** I'm working on programming on local cable access. I want to add your programs so you can be run on the local cable channel.

** Also I have to have some original programming. I also wanna use a camera to do certain things.
Arts and culture, community, community actions, programs, activism and news.
* Independent programming to add to the program. I'm hoping to have somehting weekly. Hopefully by June.
* Whoever wins I can air the films ou select on the cable channel.
* News would be stuff happening locally. It will be wrapped up on the banner of the name. It will be available. It will have a brand. I'll be aggregating local and indie media to time when you can go watch it on TV.
Hip hop culture, urban culture, comedy. Anything that will have that Bay Area. Demographic is 18 to 35. And second demographic is foreign nationals - like Noemie.
* Also allows to promote local businesses.
* RTV channel 78

== Short Film Festival Updates == 20 minutes

* SELECTION PROCESS AND CRITERIA

** Sarah: Not Boring
** Noemie: 70 percent local. 3 people want them in. Give a voice to the unheard.
** Anka: Shorts are short. We should focus on local. We don't have too much of a criteria to accept films from everywhere.
** Liz: having the alternative perspective film be shown. That's one of the mission statement.
** Sarah: I want films that express not the mainstream white dude thing. People of different experiences. I don't want that to be like a political documentary about something.I want taste to be taken into account.
** Liz: inviting local film makers.
** Anka: it's a networking opportunity. Who's out there.
** Sarah would like to show stuff from different countries.

** Board and people check the ones they like.
** Sarah we need to decide what films we show as soon as possible.
** if a film gets no check mark we don't watch it.
** Dragon: we should watch what we have now by next week.
Watch the films independently upvote or downvote.
On the 19th we watch all the films that are upvoted.
** Everyone gets to keep one film that they're passionate about and want to defend?
** Cast our favorite 3.
** If people have serious concerns about it can block it.

* INCENTIVE TO PARTICIPATE / compensation or recognition (prizes, money, free pizzas, workshops, free membership for a few months, etc.): Award certificates?
**Have Shake air them on his local TV
**Every film selected has an award and award certificate
**Compilation DVD
** Have a best film voted by the public

* COMMUNICATE WITH APPLICANTS: Ensure all applicants have a chance to communicate with another person about their submission. Noemie has written back to all of them.

* LOCAL OUTREACH: Outreach to local communities in order to provide a body of work that represents non typical and under-represented filmmakers. Noemie + Dragon + Sarah + Sean. Flyering tomorrow. Deadline May 7th
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_oDFqOne1dZOxiy9wTji4paCRaSaWVwD2cfXOv84DlE/edit?usp=sharing

* ONLINE AND OFFLINE OUTREACH MATERIAL: Ensure that online and offline materials are created in a timely fashion to support the outreach effort for the event (flyer/poster for fundraiser, facebook event, etc.). TONIGHT: Flyer and poster

* LOGISTICS OF THE SCREENING: food, collect entrance fee, ceremony) and distribute tasks for the event. (Next week?)

** TO DO AT THIS MEETING:
* Consent on a name for the festival.
* Come up with selection process.
* Discuss flyer/poster for the actual event (name, entrance fee, working group)
* Consent on what to do about Rabbi of Rap
* Poster needs to be finished by next week for posting it everywhere next wednesday.
To do tonight: make flyers for flyering tomorrow.

2015/05/05 Optik Allusions Meeting

2015-06-04T03:26:58Z

Noemie: Created page with "==Attendees== 5 minutes Tell us who you are, what kind of video you'd like to make or see made. * Sarah wants to make sketch comedy * Sean wants to make action, people blowing..."

==Attendees== 5 minutes
Tell us who you are, what kind of video you'd like to make or see made.
* Sarah wants to make sketch comedy
* Sean wants to make action, people blowing up and people jumpin out of windows. His cast is coming off on May 26th
* Dragon wants wants to make sci fi and horror or docu drama
* Anka wants to finish the OGC project.
* Liz likes working on sets and help make what you guys wanna make
* Set goes by Set and likes the idea of community grounded place to make films and likes documentaries
* Ahn is Sarah's girlfriend wants to make queer porn. Then she withdraws.
* Noemie all of the above

==Announcements== 7 minutes
* Liz has learnt a program called file maker that allow us to keep track of our inventory.
* Dragon: black farmers documentary. People started with Mandela coop want us to do a documentary also oakland fashion week. People of color doing the fashion thing. Not only the high end fashion of NY.
* Anka is gonna kittens, anyone interested?

==Film Project Report backs== 7 minutes
*OGC:
** Noemie went to film the Richmond city council meeting + MayDay, went very well; We have enough to finish the OGC video.
** News from Anka and Marcus. Marcus came to edit. We need to schedule some regular days. The interviews.
* Gentrification: Meet next week.
* AfrikaTown/ Quilombo: To be worked on this week. Tomorrow evening.

== Haley and Sarah's comedy show!== 10 minutes
* Sarah and Haley have been talking about doing a sketch comedy thing. We're trying to figure out if we want to be women only and having men participate in the acting and crewing. Tescia has been unable to meet us. We basically wanna do sketch comedy about the Bay Area. Making fun of radical culture. Let us know if you're interested in participating. We're working on sketch right now.

== Membership == 15 minutes
Context: We have a big responsibility. As one becomes an OpAl member, one becomes an Omni member. Now we all know eachother, we're all friends or friends of friends, but soon people we've never met will show up. We need a formal process.

* Proposal has been discussed but needs to be finetuned:
** Have new member show up at a meeting and introduce themselves: what they're interested in doing, etc.
** Have a one month period before making them members in which they participate in our activities, so that we can build a relationship with them.
** Make the new person a member after this one month if everyone is comfortable with it. That gives them access to the building (key) and OpAl equipment.
** Consensus reached on this proposal

*==Room use== 15 minutes

* We have drafted some basic principles that have been discussed but need to be finetuned:
** Keep the room accessible to the public as much as possible
** Limit the time when it is reserved for exclusive use (one evening a week for OpAl and one evening a week for Music is Healing Us if required, otherwise for exceptional events/workshops). No more than two recurring exclusive reservation everyweek. An individual cannot reserve the entire room for themselves.
** The rest of the time: the room is used collectively, activities that allow other people to use the space simultaneously, using headphones so that several monitors can be used at once.
** The room would be open to reservations for people outside of OpAL to work on the monitors (any post production work on computers), from 9am to 3pm everyday. The rest of the time, priority to OpAl projects. Reservation possible on request. What about drop-ins? Sure
** requirement that people save their stuff on their external drives. Signs: non OpAl works will be deleted without warning.
** Crow's nest: not OpAl's prerogative
** Consensus reached on this proposal!

* Reconsider Google calendar - Is it going to work for us? If it allows to reserve the specific monitors (vs whole room), yes.
** What about a physical calendar in the room?
** We need to change the lock.

==Finance== 10 minutes
* Jabari to open a bank account.
* Collect money for April and May rent.

== Name Change? == 15 minutes
* Discussion on the idea of changing names.
* Brainstorm on name ideas.

* DIY or DIT
* intersectional feminism
* filming on the street. Documenting. Things that are not covered by mainstream media
* can we change the name after the film festival.
* Oakland
* Women

*Against the grain
*Radical lense
*Silence of the film
*Broken cameras
*Counter Tales

== Shake ==

** I'm working on programming on local cable access. I want to add your programs so you can be run on the local cable channel.

** Also I have to have some original programming. I also wanna use a camera to do certain things.
Arts and culture, community, community actions, programs, activism and news.
* Independent programming to add to the program. I'm hoping to have somehting weekly. Hopefully by June.
* Whoever wins I can air the films ou select on the cable channel.
* News would be stuff happening locally. It will be wrapped up on the banner of the name. It will be available. It will have a brand. I'll be aggregating local and indie media to time when you can go watch it on TV.
Hip hop culture, urban culture, comedy. Anything that will have that Bay Area. Demographic is 18 to 35. And second demographic is foreign nationals - like Noemie.
* Also allows to promote local businesses.
* RTV channel 78

== Short Film Festival Updates == 20 minutes

* SELECTION PROCESS AND CRITERIA

** Sarah: Not Boring
** Noemie: 70 percent local. 3 people want them in. Give a voice to the unheard.
** Anka: Shorts are short. We should focus on local. We don't have too much of a criteria to accept films from everywhere.
** Liz: having the alternative perspective film be shown. That's one of the mission statement.
** Sarah: I want films that express not the mainstream white dude thing. People of different experiences. I don't want that to be like a political documentary about something.I want taste to be taken into account.
** Liz: inviting local film makers.
** Anka: it's a networking opportunity. Who's out there.
** Sarah would like to show stuff from different countries.

** Board and people check the ones they like.
** Sarah we need to decide what films we show as soon as possible.
** if a film gets no check mark we don't watch it.
** Dragon: we should watch what we have now by next week.
Watch the films independently upvote or downvote.
On the 19th we watch all the films that are upvoted.
** Everyone gets to keep one film that they're passionate about and want to defend?
** Cast our favorite 3.
** If people have serious concerns about it can block it.

* INCENTIVE TO PARTICIPATE / compensation or recognition (prizes, money, free pizzas, workshops, free membership for a few months, etc.): Award certificates?
**Have Shake air them on his local TV
**Every film selected has an award and award certificate
**Compilation DVD
** Have a best film voted by the public

* COMMUNICATE WITH APPLICANTS: Ensure all applicants have a chance to communicate with another person about their submission. Noemie has written back to all of them.

* LOCAL OUTREACH: Outreach to local communities in order to provide a body of work that represents non typical and under-represented filmmakers. Noemie + Dragon + Sarah + Sean. Flyering tomorrow. Deadline May 7th
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_oDFqOne1dZOxiy9wTji4paCRaSaWVwD2cfXOv84DlE/edit?usp=sharing

* ONLINE AND OFFLINE OUTREACH MATERIAL: Ensure that online and offline materials are created in a timely fashion to support the outreach effort for the event (flyer/poster for fundraiser, facebook event, etc.). TONIGHT: Flyer and poster

* LOGISTICS OF THE SCREENING: food, collect entrance fee, ceremony) and distribute tasks for the event. (Next week?)

** TO DO AT THIS MEETING:
* Consent on a name for the festival.
* Come up with selection process.
* Discuss flyer/poster for the actual event (name, entrance fee, working group)
* Consent on what to do about Rabbi of Rap
* Poster needs to be finished by next week for posting it everywhere next wednesday.
To do tonight: make flyers for flyering tomorrow.

Optik Allusions/meetingnotes

2015-06-04T03:22:00Z

Noemie:

Hello!
As a radical film collective, we are committed to transparency and inclusivity.

Read our meeting notes here:

[[2015/05/05 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-05-05]]

[[2015/04/28 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-04-28]]

[[2015/04/21 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-04-21]]

[[2015/04/14 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-04-14]]

[[2015/03/31 OptikAllusions Meeting|2015-03-31]]

[[2015/03/10 OptikAllusions Meeting|2015-03-10]]

[[2015/02/24 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-02-24]]

[[2015/02/03 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-02-03]]

[[2015/01/20 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-01-20]]

[[2014/11/18 Optik Allusions Meeting|2014-11-18]]

[[Event:2014/11/04 OptikAllusions Meeting|2014-11-04]]

[[Event:2014/10/14_Optikallusions_Meeting|2014-10-28]]

[[Event:2014/10/21 Optikallusions Meeting|2014-10-21]]

[[Event:2014/10/14 Optikallusions Meeting|2014-10-14]]

[[Event:2014/10/07_Optikallusions Meeting|2014-10-07]]

[[Event:2014/09/30 Optikallusions Meeting|2014-09-30]]

[[Event:2014/09/23_Optikallusions_Meeting|2014-09-23]]

[[Optik_Allusions]]' main page.

2015/04/28 Optik Allusions Meeting

2015-06-04T03:21:19Z

Noemie: Created page with " ==Attendees== * Liz * A guy named Kohl came by, into Video activism, hoping to join OpAl. Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1356337832/visions-stories-pers..."

==Attendees==
* Liz
* A guy named Kohl came by, into Video activism, hoping to join OpAl. Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1356337832/visions-stories-perspective-and-empowerment-of-the?ref=nav_search
* Sarah
* Dragon

==Announcements==
* A guy named Kohl came by, into video activism, hoping to join OpAl.
* Lots of film submissions!
* Noemie wants to reach out to more local communities: community colleges and high schools. Any other ideas?
** Dragon will start by talking to Oakland Unified School district, Laney Community College, UC Berkeley, and SFAI
* MayDay will be a day of filming! Might be the last sequence of the OGC documentary! Who is down?
** Sarah is down
** Dragon is almost down
* Sarah and Hayley are working to put together a comedy group that would make 3-minute video sketches playfully mocking bay area / radical culture.
** Dragon has one: the Macktivist

==Room use==

* Anka and Noemie have a proposal:
** Keep the room accessible to the public as much as possible
** Limit the time when it is reserved for exclusive use (one evening a week for OpAl and one evening a week for Music is Healing Us, otherwise for exceptional events/workshops).
** The rest of the time: the room is used collectively, activities that allow other people to use the space simultaneously, using headphones so that several monitors can be used at once.
** The room would be open to reservations for people outside of OpAL to work on the monitors (any post production work on computers), from 9am to 3pm everyday. The rest of the time, priority to OpAl projects. Reservation possible on request. What about drop-ins? Sure

* Reconsider Google calendar - Is it going to work for us? If it allows to reserve the specific monitors (vs whole room), yes.
** What about a physical calendar in the room?

==Membership==

*Context: We have a big responsibility. As one becomes an OpAl member, one becomes an Omni member. Now we all know eachother, we're all friends or friends of friends, but soon people we've never met will show up. We need a formal process to make sure the people we bring in are people we trust.

*Anka and Noemie wrote a proposal:
** Have new member show up at a meeting and introduce themselves: what they're interested in doing, etc.
** Have a one month period before making them members in which they participate in our activities, so that we can build a relationship with them.
** Make the new person a member after this one month if everyone is comfortable with it. That gives them access to the building (key) and OpAl equipment.

==Rental==

* Equipment assessment will wait until after we have a joint bank account
** Jabari: Research on credit unions?

==Short Film Festival Updates==
* We need to make a flyer for submissions that we can start posting around local places, and another flyer in a couple weeks for the general event that can be posted everywhere
* Let's watch some shorts! In order of submission

Optik Allusions/meetingnotes

2015-06-04T03:19:07Z

Noemie:

Hello!
As a radical film collective, we are committed to transparency and inclusivity.

Read our meeting notes here:
[[2015/05/05 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-05-05]]

[[2015/04/28 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-04-28]]

[[2015/04/21 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-04-21]]

[[2015/04/14 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-04-14]]

[[2015/03/31 OptikAllusions Meeting|2015-03-31]]

[[2015/03/10 OptikAllusions Meeting|2015-03-10]]

[[2015/02/24 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-02-24]]

[[2015/02/03 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-02-03]]

[[2015/01/20 Optik Allusions Meeting|2015-01-20]]

[[2014/11/18 Optik Allusions Meeting|2014-11-18]]

[[Event:2014/11/04 OptikAllusions Meeting|2014-11-04]]

[[Event:2014/10/14_Optikallusions_Meeting|2014-10-28]]

[[Event:2014/10/21 Optikallusions Meeting|2014-10-21]]

[[Event:2014/10/14 Optikallusions Meeting|2014-10-14]]

[[Event:2014/10/07_Optikallusions Meeting|2014-10-07]]

[[Event:2014/09/30 Optikallusions Meeting|2014-09-30]]

[[Event:2014/09/23_Optikallusions_Meeting|2014-09-23]]

[[Optik_Allusions]]' main page.

Optik Allusions

2015-06-04T03:02:46Z

Noemie:

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<span style="font-size:56px;"><strong>FTP</strong>: Films 2 The People</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:48px;">[[FTP Short Film Festival|News from our 2015 Short Film Festival!]]</span><br/>
</div>

Optik Allusions is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold.

We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
If you like to make videos or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our YouTube Channel is still a WIP, but here are some of our video productions to this day:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

We are also working on a documentary about gentrification in West Oakland, as well as collaborating with the Oscar Grant Committee to document the work they do.

Optik Allusions

2015-06-04T02:57:18Z

Noemie:

<div style="width:95%;min-height:50px;background:#eee;border: 10px #cc0000 solid;position:relative;margin:auto;text-align:center;padding:10px;">
<span style="font-size:56px;"><strong>FTP</strong>: Films 2 The People</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:48px;">[[FTP Short Film Festival|News from our 2015 Short Film Festival!]]</span><br/>
</div>

Optik Allusions is a radical film & video collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California.

We make media that challenge the dominant culture. We tell stories that otherwise might remain untold. We express our alternative views of the world, have fun doing it, and welcome everyone to do so, regardless of prior experience. We learn by doing. We share resources, skills and knowledge to support eachother's creative endeavours. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, supply a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
We also steward a room dedicated to media post-production at the Omni Commons. If you like to make videos and/or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome new members.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To know more about us, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our YouTube Channel is still a WIP, but here are some of our video productions to this day:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

We are also working on a documentary about gentrification in West Oakland, as well as collaborating with the Oscar Grant Committee to document the work they do.
We are organizing a film festival at the end of May 2015. See [[OptikAllusions_Short_Film_Festival|here for info on submissions]]!

Optik Allusions

2015-06-04T02:57:01Z

Noemie:

<div style="width:95%;min-height:50px;background:#eee;border: 10px #cc0000 solid;position:relative;margin:auto;text-align:center;padding:10px;">
<span style="font-size:56px;"><strong>FTP</strong>: Films 2 The People</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:48px;">[[FTP Short Film Festival|News from our 2015 FTP Short Film Festival!]]</span><br/>
</div>

Optik Allusions is a radical film & video collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California.

We make media that challenge the dominant culture. We tell stories that otherwise might remain untold. We express our alternative views of the world, have fun doing it, and welcome everyone to do so, regardless of prior experience. We learn by doing. We share resources, skills and knowledge to support eachother's creative endeavours. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, supply a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
We also steward a room dedicated to media post-production at the Omni Commons. If you like to make videos and/or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome new members.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To know more about us, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our YouTube Channel is still a WIP, but here are some of our video productions to this day:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

We are also working on a documentary about gentrification in West Oakland, as well as collaborating with the Oscar Grant Committee to document the work they do.
We are organizing a film festival at the end of May 2015. See [[OptikAllusions_Short_Film_Festival|here for info on submissions]]!

Optik Allusions

2015-06-04T02:56:48Z

Noemie:

<div style="width:95%;min-height:50px;background:#eee;border: 10px #cc0000 solid;position:relative;margin:auto;text-align:center;padding:10px;">
<span style="font-size:32px;">Join on <strong>May 29th, 7pm at the Omni Commons!</strong>! </span><br/>
<span style="font-size:56px;"><strong>FTP</strong>: Films 2 The People</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:48px;">[[FTP Short Film Festival|News from our 2015 FTP Short Film Festival!]]</span><br/>
</div>

Optik Allusions is a radical film & video collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California.

We make media that challenge the dominant culture. We tell stories that otherwise might remain untold. We express our alternative views of the world, have fun doing it, and welcome everyone to do so, regardless of prior experience. We learn by doing. We share resources, skills and knowledge to support eachother's creative endeavours. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, supply a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings.
We also steward a room dedicated to media post-production at the Omni Commons. If you like to make videos and/or want to become a member, come to our tuesday meetings at 7 pm! We're open and happy to welcome new members.

To contact us, write to:

optikallusions@lists.riseup.net

To know more about us, join our announce mailing list:

optikallusions.announce@lists.riseup.net

To become involved, come to our meetings on Tuesdays, 7pm at the Omni Commons!

Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!

To follow what has been going on, read our [[Optik_Allusions/meetingnotes|meeting notes]].

Our YouTube Channel is still a WIP, but here are some of our video productions to this day:

[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-the-omni-commons-for-all-of-oakland Omni Crowdfunding Video]

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP9qYNkyBEQutm_cCSF5hucpLrVbeSVMp The Omni Commons in 30 seconds]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRE5wqxjSvQ Einstein for Mayor]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntYNNlV6TQ0 Oakland stands in solidarity with Ferguson]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdJ_IW09SQ No Beauty with an Absence of Color]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRA9oQmVgb4&feature=youtu.be The murder of Pedie Perez]

We are also working on a documentary about gentrification in West Oakland, as well as collaborating with the Oscar Grant Committee to document the work they do.
We are organizing a film festival at the end of May 2015. See [[OptikAllusions_Short_Film_Festival|here for info on submissions]]!

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-06-04T02:46:46Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the LINEUP of the festival with LINKS TO MOST OF THE FILMS!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

Best Action Film Award

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

Best Youth Perspective Award

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

Award for Best Metaphoric Video

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

Best Rap Video Award

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

Most Courageous Film Award

6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3FfKTNoFmA And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

Best Visual Poetry

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

Best Family Drama

'''People's Choice Award!'''

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

Best Satire Award

9. [https://vimeo.com/123255033 Safi] ~ 4:30
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

Peaceful Warrior Award

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

Poetic Rebellion Award

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

Poetic Rebellion Award

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

Victory Against Oppression Award

13. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPtDByI-5s&feature=youtu.be Ballad of the Green Beret] ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

Award for Best Screenplay

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

Award for Best Anti-War Movie

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

Most compelling movie

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

Nat Turner Award

'''People's Choice Award!'''

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

Award for Best Local Struggle Movie

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

Best Guerilla Gardening Movie

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

Most Badass Hero Award

'''People's Choice Award!'''

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

Award for Most Creative Editing

Click [[FTP_Awards_2015|HERE]] for the LIST OF AWARDS!

Love, [[Optik_Allusions|Optik Allusions]]

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-06-04T02:41:03Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the LINEUP of the festival with LINKS TO MOST OF THE FILMS!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

Best Action Film Award

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

Best Youth Perspective Award

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

Award for Best Metaphoric Video

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

Best Rap Video Award

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

Most Courageous Film Award

6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3FfKTNoFmA And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

Best Visual Poetry

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

Best Family Drama

'''People's Choice Award!'''

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

Best Satire Award

9. [https://vimeo.com/123255033 Safi] ~ 4:30
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

Peaceful Warrior Award

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

Poetic Rebellion Award

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

Poetic Rebellion Award

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

Victory Against Oppression Award

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

Award for Best Screenplay

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

Award for Best Anti-War Movie

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

Most compelling movie

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

Nat Turner Award

'''People's Choice Award!'''

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

Award for Best Local Struggle Movie

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

Best Guerilla Gardening Movie

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

Most Badass Hero Award

'''People's Choice Award!'''

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

Award for Most Creative Editing

Click [[FTP_Awards_2015|HERE]] for the LIST OF AWARDS!

Love, [[Optik_Allusions|Optik Allusions]]

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T19:48:52Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the LINEUP of the festival with LINKS TO MOST OF THE FILMS!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

Best Action Film Award

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

Best Youth Perspective Award

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

Award for Best Metaphoric Video

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

Best Rap Video Award

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

Most Courageous Film Award

6. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7vdkas293rci49/Screening%20Jumped%20Into%20the%20Water.mov?dl=0 And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

Best Visual Poetry

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

Best Family Drama

'''People's Choice Award!'''

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

Best Satire Award

9. [https://vimeo.com/123255033 Safi] ~ 4:30
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

Peaceful Warrior Award

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

Poetic Rebellion Award

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

Poetic Rebellion Award

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

Victory Against Oppression Award

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

Award for Best Screenplay

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

Award for Best Anti-War Movie

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

Most compelling movie

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

Nat Turner Award

'''People's Choice Award!'''

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

Award for Best Local Struggle Movie

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

Best Guerilla Gardening Movie

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

Most Badass Hero Award

'''People's Choice Award!'''

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

Award for Most Creative Editing

Click [[FTP_Awards_2015|HERE]] for the LIST OF AWARDS!

Love, [[Optik_Allusions|Optik Allusions]]

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T19:48:22Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the LINEUP of the festival with LINKS TO MOST OF THE FILMS!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

Best Action Film Award

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

Best Youth Perspective Award

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

Award for Best Metaphoric Video

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

Best Rap Video Award

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

Most Courageous Film Award

6. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7vdkas293rci49/Screening%20Jumped%20Into%20the%20Water.mov?dl=0 And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

Best Visual Poetry

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

Best Family Drama

'''People's Choice Award!'''

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

Best Satire Award

9. [https://vimeo.com/123255033 Safi] ~ 4:30
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

Peaceful Warrior Award

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

Poetic Rebellion Award

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

Poetic Rebellion Award

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

Victory Against Oppression Award

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

Award for Best Screenplay

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

Award for Best Anti-War Movie

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

Most compelling movie

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

Nat Turner Award

'''People's Choice Award!'''

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

Award for Best Local Struggle Movie

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

Best Guerilla Gardening Movie

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

Most Badass Hero Award

'''People's Choice Award!'''

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

Award for Most Creative Editing

Click [[FTP_Awards_2015|HERE]] for the LIST OF AWARDS!

Love, [[Optik_Allusions|Optik Allusions]]

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T05:42:18Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the LINEUP of the festival with LINKS TO MOST OF THE FILMS!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

Best Action Film Award

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

Best Youth Perspective Award

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

Award for Best Metaphoric Video

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

Best Rap Video Award

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

Most Courageous Film Award

6. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7vdkas293rci49/Screening%20Jumped%20Into%20the%20Water.mov?dl=0 And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

Best Visual Poetry

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

Best Family Drama

People's Choice Award!

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

Best Satire Award

9. Safi ~ 4:30 (password : to be confirmed)
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

Peaceful Warrior Award

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

Poetic Rebellion Award

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

Poetic Rebellion Award

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

Victory Against Oppression Award

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

Award for Best Screenplay

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

Award for Best Anti-War Movie

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

Most compelling movie

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

Nat Turner Award

People's Choice Award!

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

Award for Best Local Struggle Movie

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

Best Guerilla Gardening Movie

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

Most Badass Hero Award

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

Award for Most Creative Editing

Click [[FTP_Awards_2015|HERE]] for the LIST OF AWARDS!

Love, [[Optik_Allusions|Optik Allusions]]

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T05:37:56Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the LINEUP of the festival with LINKS TO MOST OF THE FILMS!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

Best Action Film Award

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

6. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7vdkas293rci49/Screening%20Jumped%20Into%20the%20Water.mov?dl=0 And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

9. Safi ~ 4:30 (password : to be confirmed)
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

Click [[FTP_Awards_2015|HERE]] for the LIST OF AWARDS!

Love, [[Optik_Allusions|Optik Allusions]]

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T05:36:17Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the LINEUP of the festival with LINKS TO MOST OF THE FILMS!

And click [[FTP_Awards_2015|HERE]] for the LIST OF AWARDS!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

Best Action Film Award

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

6. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7vdkas293rci49/Screening%20Jumped%20Into%20the%20Water.mov?dl=0 And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

9. Safi ~ 4:30 (password : to be confirmed)
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T05:36:06Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the LINEUP of the festival with LINKS TO MOST OF THE FILMS!

And click [[FTP_Awards_2015|HERE]] for the LIST OF AWARDS!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.
Best Action Film Award

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

6. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7vdkas293rci49/Screening%20Jumped%20Into%20the%20Water.mov?dl=0 And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

9. Safi ~ 4:30 (password : to be confirmed)
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T05:33:35Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the LINEUP of the festival with LINKS TO MOST OF THE FILMS!

And click [[FTP_Awards_2015|HERE]] for the LIST OF AWARDS!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

6. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7vdkas293rci49/Screening%20Jumped%20Into%20the%20Water.mov?dl=0 And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

9. Safi ~ 4:30 (password : to be confirmed)
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T05:33:05Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the lineup of the festival with links to most of the films!

And click [[FTP_Awards_2015|HERE]] for the LIST OF AWARDS!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

6. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7vdkas293rci49/Screening%20Jumped%20Into%20the%20Water.mov?dl=0 And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

9. Safi ~ 4:30 (password : to be confirmed)
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T05:31:53Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the lineup of the festival with links to most of the films!

And click [[FTP_Awards_2015|here]] for the list of awards!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

6. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7vdkas293rci49/Screening%20Jumped%20Into%20the%20Water.mov?dl=0 And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

9. Safi ~ 4:30 (password : to be confirmed)
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Awards 2015

2015-05-31T05:31:06Z

Noemie:

1. Khombo, by Bluu 1 minute

Best Action Film Award

2. Pressure, by Lily Yu - 2:05

Best Youth Perspective Award

3. Checkmate , by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang - 4:00

Award for Best Metaphoric Video

4. Dream, by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff - 4:07

Best Rap Video Award

5. Fat-shamed into Self Love, by Lour Darden - 3:37

Most Courageous Film Award

6. And They Jumped Into The Water…Some, by Lois Moses ~ 8:37

Best Visual Poetry

7. La Petite Salon, by Caroline H. Le 15:00

Best Family Drama

People's Choice Award!

8. The Choice, by Caleb Parazette - 8:18

Best Satire Award

9. Safi, by Rinkesh Patel - 4:30

Peaceful Warrior Award

10. Black Skin, White tee - 0:47

11. The Real Bogeyman - 4:00

by Remo Conscious

Poetic Rebellion Award

12. Showdown at Highway 134, by Franklin Lopez - 5:12

Victory Against Oppression Award

13. Ballad of the Green Beret, by Kevin Keating - 5:00

Award for Best Screenplay

14. Consequences of War, by Leland Mitchell Tong - 5:57

Award for Best Anti-War Movie

15. Pure Lung, by Kent Kessinger ~ 10 :32

Most compelling movie

16. Chainwheel, by Sean Tambour Marshall - 13:00

Nat Turner Award

People's Choice Award!

17. Welcome To Afrikatown, by Caitlin Manning - 6:02

Award for Best Local Struggle Movie

18. Pueblote, by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland 7:11

Best Guerilla Gardening Movie

19. Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program, by Lucas Guilkey 7:45

Most Badass Hero Award

People's Choice Award!

20. Pravda Ecstatic, by Tsering Norbu

Award for Most Creative Editing

FTP Awards 2015

2015-05-31T05:30:14Z

Noemie:

1. Khombo, by Bluu 1 minute

Best Action Film Award

2. Pressure, by Lily Yu - 2:05

Best Youth Perspective Award

3. Checkmate , by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang - 4:00

Award for Best Metaphoric Video

4. Dream, by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff - 4:07

Best Rap Video Award

5. Fat-shamed into Self Love, by Lour Darden - 3:37

Most Courageous Film Award

6. And They Jumped Into The Water…Some, by Lois Moses ~ 8:37

Best Visual Poetry

7. La Petite Salon, by Caroline H. Le 15:00

Best Family Drama
People's Choice Award!

8. The Choice, by Caleb Parazette - 8:18

Best Satire Award

9. Safi, by Rinkesh Patel - 4:30

Peaceful Warrior Award

10. Black Skin, White tee - 0:47
11. The Real Bogeyman - 4:00
by Remo Conscious

Poetic Rebellion Award

12. Showdown at Highway 134, by Franklin Lopez - 5:12

Victory Against Oppression Award

13. Ballad of the Green Beret, by Kevin Keating - 5:00

Award for Best Screenplay

14. Consequences of War, by Leland Mitchell Tong - 5:57

Award for Best Anti-War Movie

15. Pure Lung, by Kent Kessinger ~ 10 :32

Most compelling movie

16. Chainwheel, by Sean Tambour Marshall - 13:00

Nat Turner Award
People's Choice Award!

17. Welcome To Afrikatown, by Caitlin Manning - 6:02

Award for Best Local Struggle Movie

18. Pueblote, by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland 7:11

Best Guerilla Gardening Movie

19. Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program, by Lucas Guilkey 7:45

Most Badass Hero Award
People's Choice Award!

20. Pravda Ecstatic, by Tsering Norbu

Award for Most Creative Editing

FTP Awards 2015

2015-05-31T05:29:30Z

Noemie:

1. Khombo, by Bluu 1 minute

Best Action Film Award

2. Pressure, by Lily Yu - 2:05

Best Youth Perspective Award

3. Checkmate , by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang - 4:00
Award for Best Metaphoric Video

4. Dream, by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff - 4:07
Best Rap Video Award

5. Fat-shamed into Self Love, by Lour Darden - 3:37
Most Courageous Film Award

6. And They Jumped Into The Water…Some, by Lois Moses ~ 8:37
Best Visual Poetry

7. La Petite Salon, by Caroline H. Le 15:00
Best Family Drama
People's Choice Award!

8. The Choice, by Caleb Parazette - 8:18
Best Satire Award

9. Safi, by Rinkesh Patel - 4:30
Peaceful Warrior Award

10. Black Skin, White tee - 0:47
11. The Real Bogeyman - 4:00
by Remo Conscious
Poetic Rebellion Award

12. Showdown at Highway 134, by Franklin Lopez - 5:12
Victory Against Oppression Award

13. Ballad of the Green Beret, by Kevin Keating - 5:00
Award for Best Screenplay

14. Consequences of War, by Leland Mitchell Tong - 5:57
Award for Best Anti-War Movie

15. Pure Lung, by Kent Kessinger ~ 10 :32
Most compelling movie

16. Chainwheel, by Sean Tambour Marshall - 13:00
Nat Turner Award
People's Choice Award!

17. Welcome To Afrikatown, by Caitlin Manning - 6:02
Award for Best Local Struggle Movie

18. Pueblote, by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland 7:11
Best Guerilla Gardening Movie

19. Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program, by Lucas Guilkey 7:45
Most Badass Hero Award
People's Choice Award!

20. Pravda Ecstatic, by Tsering Norbu
Award for Most Creative Editing

FTP Awards 2015

2015-05-31T05:28:52Z

Noemie:

1. Khombo, by Bluu 1 minute
Best Action Film Award

2. Pressure, by Lily Yu - 2:05
Best Youth Perspective Award

3. Checkmate , by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang - 4:00
Award for Best Metaphoric Video

4. Dream, by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff - 4:07
Best Rap Video Award

5. Fat-shamed into Self Love, by Lour Darden - 3:37
Most Courageous Film Award

6. And They Jumped Into The Water…Some, by Lois Moses ~ 8:37
Best Visual Poetry

7. La Petite Salon, by Caroline H. Le 15:00
Best Family Drama
People's Choice Award!

8. The Choice, by Caleb Parazette - 8:18
Best Satire Award

9. Safi, by Rinkesh Patel - 4:30
Peaceful Warrior Award

10. Black Skin, White tee - 0:47
11. The Real Bogeyman - 4:00
by Remo Conscious
Poetic Rebellion Award

12. Showdown at Highway 134, by Franklin Lopez - 5:12
Victory Against Oppression Award

13. Ballad of the Green Beret, by Kevin Keating - 5:00
Award for Best Screenplay

14. Consequences of War, by Leland Mitchell Tong - 5:57
Award for Best Anti-War Movie

15. Pure Lung, by Kent Kessinger ~ 10 :32
Most compelling movie

16. Chainwheel, by Sean Tambour Marshall - 13:00
Nat Turner Award
People's Choice Award!

17. Welcome To Afrikatown, by Caitlin Manning - 6:02
Award for Best Local Struggle Movie

18. Pueblote, by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland 7:11
Best Guerilla Gardening Movie

19. Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program, by Lucas Guilkey 7:45
Most Badass Hero Award
People's Choice Award!

20. Pravda Ecstatic, by Tsering Norbu
Award for Most Creative Editing

FTP Awards 2015

2015-05-31T05:28:33Z

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1. Khombo, by Bluu 1 minute
Best Action Film Award

2. Pressure, by Lily Yu - 2:05
Best Youth Perspective Award

3. Checkmate , by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang - 4:00
Award for Best Metaphoric Video

4. Dream, by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff - 4:07
Best Rap Video Award

5. Fat-shamed into Self Love, by Lour Darden - 3:37
Most Courageous Film Award

6. And They Jumped Into The Water…Some, by Lois Moses ~ 8:37
Best Visual Poetry

7. La Petite Salon, by Caroline H. Le 15:00
Best Family Drama
People's Choice Award!

8. The Choice, by Caleb Parazette - 8:18
Best Satire Award

9. Safi, by Rinkesh Patel - 4:30
Peaceful Warrior Award

10. Black Skin, White tee - 0:47
11. The Real Bogeyman - 4:00
by Remo Conscious
Poetic Rebellion Award

12. Showdown at Highway 134, by Franklin Lopez - 5:12
Victory Against Oppression Award

13. Ballad of the Green Beret, by Kevin Keating - 5:00
Award for Best Screenplay

14. Consequences of War, by Leland Mitchell Tong - 5:57
Award for Best Anti-War Movie

15. Pure Lung, by Kent Kessinger ~ 10 :32
Most compelling movie

16. Chainwheel, by Sean Tambour Marshall - 13:00
Nat Turner Award
People's Choice Award!

17. Welcome To Afrikatown, by Caitlin Manning - 6:02
Award for Best Local Struggle Movie

18. Pueblote, by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland 7:11
Best Guerilla Gardening Movie

19. Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program, by Lucas Guilkey 7:45
Most Badass Hero Award
People's Choice Award!

20. Pravda Ecstatic, by Tsering Norbu
Award for Most Creative Editing

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T05:25:22Z

Noemie:

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F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
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Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the lineup of the festival with links to most of the films!

And click here for the list of awards!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

6. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7vdkas293rci49/Screening%20Jumped%20Into%20the%20Water.mov?dl=0 And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

9. Safi ~ 4:30 (password : to be confirmed)
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

12. [http://www.submedia.tv/showdown-at-highway-134/ Showdown at Highway 134] ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

14. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyQ1XxgbgZ0 Consequences of War] ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

15. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64pKKLy5qyU Pure Lung] ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

16. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TenfF09FCA Chainwheel] ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

17. [https://vimeo.com/123859697 Welcome To Afrikatown] ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

19. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG5bHKqpfo Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program] ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

20. [http://tseringnorbu.com/Pravda-Ecstatic Pravda Ecstatic] ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T05:21:17Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
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Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the lineup of the festival with links to most of the films!

And click here for the list of awards!

1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUY2_w89_4k&feature=youtu.be Checkmate] ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeaLVYtTRA&feature=youtu.be Dream] ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

5. [https://vimeo.com/110632515 Fat-shamed into Self Love] ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

6. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/a7vdkas293rci49/Screening%20Jumped%20Into%20the%20Water.mov?dl=0 And They Jumped Into The Water… Some] ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

8. [http://thechoice-film.com/watch.php The Choice] ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

9. Safi ~ 4:30 (password : to be confirmed)
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ROQ0x4tRY Black Skin, White Tee] ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0EFttCbVHQ The Real Bogeyman] ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

12. Showdown at Highway 134 ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

14. Consequences of War ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

15. Pure Lung ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

16. Chainwheel ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

17. Welcome To Afrikatown ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

19. Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

20. Pravda Ecstatic ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-31T05:17:13Z

Noemie:

<gallery>
F2p festival poster small 7x11.jpg
</gallery>

Thanks to everyone for coming to our festival! We had a great time and enjoyed sharing our fun selection of films with you. And again: thank you for your generous donations!

Here is the lineup of the festival with links to most of the films!
1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfjXo7f-luY&feature=youtu.be Khombo] ~ 1:00
by Bluu (Oakland, California)
A stop-motion animation by a local 7'th grade student.

2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlCkguJjoc&feature=youtu.be Pressure] ~ 2:05
by Lily Yu (Oakland, California)
An exploration in the daily stresses of a teenage girl.

3. Checkmate ~ 4:00
by Lily Yu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Stephanie Hoang (Oakland, California)
This visual interpretation of a spoken word piece explores the struggle of a student facing the decision to drop out or stay in school.

4. Dream ~ 4:07
by Marielle Boland and Julia Retzlaff (Berkeley & San Francisco, California)
Dream is an experimental music video about a young woman coming to terms with her demons and addiction.

5. Fat-shamed into Self Love ~ 3:37
by Lour Darden (Los Angeles, California)
A reenactment of the director’s own personal dealings with public fat-shaming and self-image.

6. And They Jumped Into The Water…Some ~ 8:37
by Lois Moses (Philadelphia)
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.

7. La Petite Salon ~15:00
by Caroline H. Le (Oakland, California)
Quynh, a young Vietnamese American woman, works at her mother’s hair salon. There she feels displaced within the Vietnamese culture and community.

8. The Choice ~ 8:18
by Caleb Parazette (San Francisco, California)
A teenage boy has made a monumental decision about his sexuality which he shares with his father.

9. Safi ~ 4:30 (password : to be confirmed)
by Rinkesh Patel (San Francisco, California)
Safi is an attempt at exploring an ordeal that a person might go through in order to maintain the beliefs that he/she was born with.

10. Black Skin, White Tee ~ 0:47
by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A visual poem on racial profiling and being human in Oakland, California.

11. The Real Bogeyman ~ 4:00
Original music and video by Remo Conscious (Oakland, California)
A music video showing the FTP protest following the non-indictment of Michael Brown’s murderer, Darren Wilson, on November 24th, 2014.

12. Showdown at Highway 134 ~ 5:12
by Franklin Lopez (Montreal, Canada)
SubMedia.tv witnessed the brutal raid by the Royal Colonial Mounted Police on the indigenous Mi’kmaq blockade of fracking equipment.

13. Ballad of the Green Beret ~ 5:00
by Kevin Keating (San Francisco, California)
This black and white film follows a few days in the life of a veteran of America's endless wars.

14. Consequences of War ~ 5:57
by Leland Mitchell Tong (Fremont, California)
A short psychological thriller about our current theatre of war, and the toll it takes on many of our veterans and their families.

15. Pure Lung ~ 10 :32
by Kent Kessinger
A film about the issues facing Honduras currently.

16. Chainwheel ~ 13:00
by Sean Tambour Marshall (San Francisco, California)
Black youth in the United States reconnect to African Indigenous cultures, and resist European Imperialist culture, racism, and police brutality.

17. Welcome To Afrikatown ~ 6:02
by Caitlin Manning (Oakland, California)
The Afrika Town Community Garden combats the displacement of Black/Afrikan people amidst the rapid gentrification of West Oakland.

18. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViMxg772oU&feature=youtu.be Pueblote] ~ 7:11
by Esteban Noyola, Cyrus Bautista, and Marielle Boland (Berkeley, California)
PODER's youth program, Urban Campesinos, strives to make social and environmental change in their community.

19. Aunti Frances Loves Mission Self-Help Hunger Program ~ 7:45
by Lucas Guilkey (Oakland, California)
Aunti Frances, adopted and raised by the Black Panther Party, coordinates a free meal every week in Triangle Park/Driver Plaza in North Oakland.

20. Pravda Ecstatic ~ 3:07
Tsering Norbu (Oakland, California)
A musical ode to the Bay Area.

<gallery>
Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>

FTP Short Film Festival

2015-05-19T22:51:01Z

Noemie:

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</gallery>

Optik Allusions is so pleased to announce their very first Short Film Festival! Come discover our out-of-the-ordinary line up of intersectional short films from all over Oakland and all over the world!

The event will also be a fundraiser for our video collective to keep thriving: Optik Allusions provides equipment for video production and post production, organizes workshops... We share skills and resources to make films expressing points of view that are usually silenced, and tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. The fundraiser will also help pay our rent to a room dedicated to media post production.

https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Optik_Allusions

Most of all, this event will be a way to connect with the greater community: YOU!

Please come hungry, because Sarah Bierman will be cooking her famous fried chicken plate with corn, and japaeno cabbage slaw. And her equally famous vegan gumbo!
Love,

The [[OptikAllusions]] video collective.

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Festival-flyer-submissionsFTP.jpg|Flyer for Submissions English
Festival_flyer_submissions_spanish.jpg|Flyer for Submissions Spanish
</gallery>