video i Season 12
#1204 – Original Airdate: Mon, February 12th at 10pm
IT'S ALL ABOUT CONSERVATION
Featuring three documentaries highlighting problems as well as solutions
SAN FRANCISCO'S BROKEN PROMISE (Dir. Carol Lancaster Mingus)
San Francisco's Broken Promise is a thirty-minute film created by Modesto Junior College Film Instructor, Carol Lancaster-Mingus and students from her first documentary film class from 2004. The film investigates the original agreements made between the City of San Francisco and the US government designed to govern the operations of the dam and the management of the water resources. The film describes the fact that over the past 75 years, the City and County of San Francisco have disregarded virtually all the promises stipulated in the original agreements. For more information about this film go to: sfbrokenpromise.com.
Filmmaker Bio
Carol Lancaster Mingus received her BA Degree in Radio and Television from the University of Arizona. Carol has over 18 years of experience producing, directing, writing and editing programs for Public Television. In her tenure with PBS she produced award-winning programs for both local and national audiences. Prior to coming to Modesto Junior College, Carol served as Senior Coordinating Producer for local programming at KVIE in Sacramento. She is currently an instructor of Mass Communications, teaching Television and Film Production and Contemporary Film at MJC.
WRAPPINGS (Dir. Katrina Drabkin)
Features an interview with the filmmaker
When Katrina Drabkin wears a dress composed of recycled food packaging to Union Square in San Francisco, she and her cinematographer, Sirpa Nelson, engage and are engaged by bystanders. The dress promotes recycling and calls attention to the accumulation of packaging materials in our environment, which is the result of an increasingly "to-go" culture. For more information about this film, you can reach the filmmaker at: kat@cinefemme.org.
Filmmaker Bio
Katrina Drabkin is the Executive Director and one of the co-founders of Cinefemme. Katrina has produced many of Cinefemme's fundraising events and curated film shows. She is also the director/producer of Gladys Films' Opportunity Bound - Stories of the Harvey Girls, a feature-length documentary film about how a feisty group of waitresses helped shape the American West, and the director of Wrappings, a short film which won a SASA Award, an initiative of the United Nations and screened on PBS in 2006. Katrina has produced television series for PBS, The Travel Channel and The Learning Channel.
GREASE (Dirs. Marrisa Pearl & Carla Gutiérrez)
Grease explores our society's dependence on gasoline and the choices we have as average consumers. The film profiles a group of people in Sebastopol, California who have converted their diesel cars to run on vegetable oil. At the same time, Grease examines the shortcomings of the auto industry to offer fuel-efficient cars. For more information about this documentary, you can contact the filmmaker at: mpearl@gmail.com.
Filmmaker Bio
Carla Gutiérrez is a Los Angeles based documentary filmmaker and editor. She received a Masters in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford. Her editing credits include The Fall Of Fujimori (2005 Sundance Film Festival); Recalling Orange County and Bragging Rights (both slated for 2006 national PBS broadcasts).
Marisa Pearl is a documentary filmmaker based in New York. She has produced pieces for non-profit organizations as well as broadcast outlets including: MTV, Channel Thirteen, and CBS News. She has a Masters in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford.