Productions

The BAWIFT In Production page is the place to tell us about the project you're working on and ask for help. Here's the info on older productions.
production database
More Than 26.2
Description: Between now and March 7th, we are following the journey of four Oakland high school students who made the choice to pound the pavement rain or shine, sweating and logging many miles to train for the 2004 LA marathon. Instead of watching TV after school or sleeping in on Saturday mornings, they signed up to participate in a rigorous training program run by a small non-profit called Students Run Oakland. We are showing who these kids are, why they made this decision and what’s motivating them to willingly face this challenge. We are also examining the organization, the hurdles it must overcome to survive and its impact on the community.
Format: DV
Contact: Justine Jacob

Mission Movie
Description: Mission Movie is a locally-produced feature film project about the Mission District of San Francisco.
Format: DV
Contact: Marla Leech

E
www.blueize.com
Description: I am currently in post-production on a documentary entitled "E" about the drug Ecstasy (MDMA). The film is fully shot and has been edited down to a fairly tight 52 minute cut. I am working on tightening the story just a bit as well as working on putting the music, titles and some other graphics together.
Format: DV
Contact: Rochael Soper

Culture-Jamming Anyone?
Description: Coming up very soon: an adventurous street theater/film project happening in early July. We are using heavy satire to address the problem of U.S. imperialism/world domination. The film, “American World,” is part documentary, part drama, has much humor but full of educational value (do you like Michael Moore?).
This project is addressing the most serious issue in the world right now, and we plan on having a whole lot of fun doing it (!!!).
Format: DV
Contact: Marlene Winell

The Californians
www.californiansthemovie.com
Description: Feature narrative film production in Marin Co. slated to begin on July 29 for five weeks.
Format: 35mm
Contact: Debbie Brubaker

Five Happiness
Description: Five Happiness is a charming short film (to be around 25 minutes completed) shot locally on a low budget.
The story is about a young chinese woman who is forced to come out of the closet to her parents at their aniversary party. Both humourous and touching this is a great project and I am very excited to be working on it.
At this point what we need is cast.
Format: TBA
Contact: Zoe

The Art of Living Time
www.cinefemme.org
Description: A philosophical and dramatic documentary looking at the life of Lori Ayers, a woman with AIDS, her struggle with death, embrace of life, and relationship to a female partner with a cocaine addiction.
Format: DV
Contact: Sirpa Nelson

OUT OF THE POISON TREE
www.henrietta-productions.com
Description: We are an independent documentary film company based in San Francisco and we are developing a film about tranistional justice in contemporary Cambodia.
OUT OF THE POISON TREE brings together former perpetrators and victims of Pol Pot’s genocide and explores their need for healing and mutual understanding. While providing a historical overview of the Pol Pot regime, the film seeks to engage its participants and viewers in truth gathering and is designed to stimulate conversation surrounding the CGT (Cambodian Genocide Tribunal).
The film places current social conflicts and modern-day challenges in scope by telling the tale of the Pol Pot regime. With respect to the long-standing storytelling tradition in Cambodia, we wish to illustrate this with song and dance.
Format: DV
Contact: Beth Pielert

The Insular Empire: America's Pacific Frontier
www.horseopera.org/ieintro.html
Description: What does it feel like to be a colonial subject of the greatest democracy on earth? The Insular Empire is a one-hour PBS documentary that will answer this question, by exploring America's westernmost limits: the Mariana Islands of the northern Pacific Ocean.
Six thousand miles from the American mainland, the Marianas – which include Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or CNMI – are America's little-known but strategically vital western frontier. This film will follow four of the islands' inhabitants, interweaving their life stories with the history of the islands' long and troubled relationship with the United States.
Format: DV
Contact: Vanessa Warheit

Jericho's Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land
www.jerichosecho.com
Description: This feature-length documentary sheds a whole new light on the situation in the Middle East, by viewing it through the eyes of the young members of the little-known Israeli punk rock scene.
Format: DV
Contact: Liz Nord

Live To Eat
Description: “Live to Eat,” is a Bay Area based cooking program aimed at a late 20’s to early 30’s demographic. Hip, edgy, and multicultural, 'Live to Eat' is exploring the boundaries of ardent eating and artful drinking. From your favorite sitdown restaurants, taquerias, bakeries and bars to the wide variety of other unusual eating experiences found round town, 'Live to Eat' aims to discover the true meaning of diversity.
This show is about more than just food. “Live to Eat” explores dining as an integral component of the urban experience. Each episode is contextualized within the culture and history of a restaurant, its patrons, or it's 'hood. Live to Eat is your backstage pass to the Bay Area's food scene.
Format: DV
Contact: erica milsom

VOICES OF DISSENT: ACTIVISM & AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
www.VoicesOfDissent.us
Description: This 42 minute award-winning documentary uses events, theatre, song, dance, music, satire, spoken word performance, interviews with many well-known personalities and the wisdom of our founding fathers, to reminds us of our roots and the importance of protecting authentic democracy. It challenges anyone who tries to limit the freedoms granted in our Constitution and Bill of Rights as fundamentally un-American, even if they are our own leaders. It inspires viewers to speak out, vote and actively protect our heritage of democracy, before we lose it.
VOICES OF DISSENT features Martin Sheen, Woody Harrelson, Al Franken, Arianna Huffington, Medea Benjamin, Jim Hightower, Daniel Ellsberg, Okland Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Ambassador Joe Wilson, Norman Solomon, Paul Krugman, Kevin Philliips, Will Durst, Rene Hicks, Michael Franti, Ron Kovic and many more.
Format: DV
Contact: Karil Daniels

TEXAS GOLD
www.questforturtleisland.com
Description: TEXAS GOLD is part one of a series that follows remarkable women around the world who are working to find solutions to the global ecological crisis.
Format: DigiCam
Contact: Carolyn Scott

Harrison Montgomery
www.momentumcinema.com
Description: "Harrison Montgomery" is set in the Tenderloin, in a run down apartment building, where we find Ricardo, an aspiring artist who has turned to drug dealing to make ends meet. Next door is Margo, a beautiful young mother who is likewise struggling to get by. In the apartment beneath these two is an old hermit named Harrison Montgomery. It is through this enigmatic character that Margo and Ricardo learn that life isn't about the money, but the people you meet and love along the way. It's a magical story in the most unlikely of locations.
Format: HD
Contact: April Davila

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