Persons
Nicole Rivera
Nicole Rivera is a senior at Balboa High School in San Francisco, CA. Nicole participates and leads the Youth Advisory Board in Balboa’s Teen Health Clinic Center. Through her work with the board she has presented at various conferences including Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed (PTO) and forum theatre in Ohio and Nebraska. She has studied with a number videographers and learned several skills of cinematography and the impact of collaboration. Another passion of Nicole is writing, where she works with Spokes in YouthSpeaks. Her interest in poetry has blossomed ever since, which gave way to the possibility of [...]
Yan Peng
Yan Peng is currently a junior attending Abraham Lincoln High School. She enjoys superhero and Disney films. She is usually the video editor in group projects as the one with the best computer. She has edited plays and a short film about a dystopian world. This is her first year at BAVC Media and she is looking forward to being a more integrated part of the community as a GEARS member.
Omri Walker
Omri Walker is a student at arise high school and at BAVC Media. Omri love to stand up for thing that he dose not think are right. Omri is a leader in different part around his school and helps when ever he cans.
Alemnew Mesfin
Alemnew Mesfin is a film maker at BAVC Media. Alemnew is an outgoing person who is open to different ideas and customs. Alemnew is Ethiopian-American, but he labels himself as an Ethiopian. Alemnew is a people person, and enjoys conversing with people. Alemnew is a good listener who takes everything into account.
Kevin D. Wong
Amidst attention grabbing headlines of IPOs, Apps, and extreme wealth, Home is a Hotel is a different San Francisco story: a day spent following the lives of four working-class residents of San Francisco’s residential hotels. Kevin D. Wong is a Bay Area-based director, editor, and producer. After a stint at Lucasfilm's ILM he ventured out into the world of freelance filmmaking where he writes, directs, edits and otherwise renders both fiction and nonfiction films. His narrative films include Forgetting, an adaptation of a Radiolab episode about a man who can't remember faces, and Be My Baby, a family drama that was featured on Comcast's Pinoy [...]
Alcee H. Walker
Alcee H. Walker, an acclaimed filmmaker and founder of a film production company, Chasing My Dreams Film Group. He is known for his thought-provoking films and is committed to empowering young talents in both the film and music spheres. Holding an MFA in Social Documentary and a MPS in Directing from the School of Visual Arts, Walker has garnered recognition for his compelling work, including his award-winning documentary "Pain of Love," honored by the Directors Guild of America. His films "Inferno" and "Child Support" have also earned accolades from the DGA. Through his unfiltered storytelling, Walker tackles diverse social issues, [...]
Robert Rooy
After working as an assistant director on more than forty Hollywood productions, filmmaker Robert Rooy formed his own production company Rooy Media LLC, which has created more than fifty film and video programs that engage and educate people about important human issues. RooyMedia also provides production services for socially responsible companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Deej is the story of a “smart self’s walk down freedom’s trail.” Abandoned by his birth parents, abused in foster care, and labeled “retarded,” DJ Savarese (“Deej”) found not only a loving family but also a life in words, which he types out on a text-to-voice synthesizer. Advocating for [...]
Jethro Patalinghug
Jethro Patalinghug is a filmmaker based in San Francisco, California. His film My Revolutionary Mother was cited as the best documentary film in the Philippines for 2015 by a coalition of film critics at pinyorebyu.com. It also won Best Short Documentary Film at the Boston Asian American Film Festival, Singkwento International Film Festival, and Unofficial Google Film Festival 2013 among others. Patalinghug is also an experienced television and corporate video producer and has produced content for Google, MTV Philippines, Studio23 MYX, GMA7, QTV11 and ABC5. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Film and Video Production at the Art Institute of California [...]
Nico Opper
The F Word is a docu-comedy web series that will chronicle the journey of Nico and Kristan, a queer Bay Area couple who plan to become fost-adopt parents and are committed to learning everything they can about the troubled institution on which they are staking their dreams of parenthood. Determined to dispel the pervasive idea that the kids adopted from foster care are "damaged goods", they seek out a range of people working to change the system - from social workers, therapists, judges and advocates to the true experts, former foster youth themselves, some who were eventually adopted, others who [...]
Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz
Como Vivimos is an intimate, verite portrait of a year in the lives, working experiences, and educational trajectories of farmworking families who reside in a state-subsidized Migrant Family Housing Center in French Camp, CA. Through the textures of daily and seasonal routines, the film explores how farmworking families, many of whom are US citizens, frame a stable sense of belonging while living within an institution that mandates an annual transnational migration. Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz is an award-winning, Iranian American documentary filmmaker (Inheritance, Mama Icha's House) and educator with a history of producing work that inquires into diasporic identity and the [...]
