This is an ode to the artists that have taken on the role of leaders using art to create awareness in murals, poster art, as well as ground breaking memorials, that have been created to address social change. We hear the voices of artists creating public artwork as a form of social dialogue. The film features Interviews with San Francisco and Oakland based political and mural artists, as well as public art organizations and advocates including, Favianna Rodriguez founder of The Center for Cultural Power, Susan Cervantes founder of Precita Eyes Mural Project,Art Hazelwood of the SF Poster Syndicate, Inga Bard, Co Founder @PainttheVoidproject, Mission Artists, Calixto Robles, Gert McMullin, caretaker of the Aids Quilt, Artist, andNancy Hom, Poet and Community Activist.
Biography:
Audrey Ray Daniel has been producing for the last 25 years visual media that inspires audiences to take action. In her first video project 1984, she followed a group of Italian artists from the "Arte Povera" movement brought to collaborate with U.S. artists through the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Her talent expands to documentary photography, including a major photo exhibition traveling currently: "Sephardi Women of Turkey," which she has also published as a book. Audrey’s videos dig deep to find her subject’s passion, as reflected in projects such as Fields of Color, Kurt Stoeckel Artist, Rumi Tsuda: A Colony of One and Fire and Spirit. In Spring of 2013 Audrey's additional passion for art, poetry, filmmaking, photography and all arts, led her to create a web TV series called Culture Connect TV.
Nelson George is an established author and filmmaker with a passion for telling stories of the black experience in America. He directed Queen Latifah to a Golden Globe in the HBO film Life Support. He directed the Lifetime film The Real MVP and was a writer/producer on Netflix’s The Get Down series. He has directed a number of documentaries including Finding the Funk, The Announcement and Brooklyn Boheme. George was a producer on the award-winning documentary on black music executive Clarence Avant, The Black Godfather. His most recent docs are Say Hey, Willie Mays!, Thriller 40 and A Great Day in Hip Hop Revisited.
