| THE SEED (30 min) US |
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Director/Producer: Helene
Goupil
Description:
Guy Clark’s grandfather owned a broom factory in North
Carolina, one of the few Black business owners at the time, planted
the seed for Clark to start his own business. Clark started his
flower stand in 1982, at a time when the AIDS epidemic took over the
Castro. He donated flowers for funeral after funeral and continues to
show his generosity with people who come by his stand. In 2009, Clark
gets evicted and loses his home of 28 years. After winning awards and
various recognitions, Clark says he feels like his life is a seed,
except in his case, the seed is getting smaller. After 38 years
selling flowers in the Castro, Clark, 71, says he's ready for the end
of the flower man and says that all one can do in life is prepare for
the changing of the seasons.
Biography:
Helene Goupil is a
French-American journalist who films, produces, and edits
documentaries. She is a film fellow and producer at Still I Rise
Films where she helped start and run a fellowship program for women
filmmakers and artists. She shoots and edits films for A Moment in
Time Productions. Most recently, she edited We
All Break, a feature documentary on Haitian
Vodou and jazz funded by The Shifting Foundation. She’s directed
and edited a short documentary that spans 10 years of San Francisco's Flower Man and she’s
currently in production for another short documentary. A grantee of
the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, she produces and edits
illustrated stories on the challenges low-income students have faced
during the pandemic. Helene has reported for The Associated Press,
worked as a news manager at Yahoo, and is the co-author of San
Francisco: The Unknown City , which was shortlisted for a ForeWord
Magazine Book of the Year award. Her stories have been published in
the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Los
Angeles Times among other publications.
Contact Information:
w: http://www.helenegoupil.com
e: helenegoupil@gmail.com
