Directors/Producers: Gabriel Diamond and Candice Holdorf
Description:
If you were to make a sign that revealed something you normally hide and hold it in public, what would it say? That's the question that Vulnerable Rally asks of its participants. Co-founded in 2016 by Gabriel Diamond and Candice Holdorf, Vulnerable Rally invites connection between strangers through the power of vulnerability. What Would Your Sign Say documents the touching, curious, and hilarious moments shared during a San Francisco Vulnerable Rally in 2018.
Biography:
Gabriel Diamond started working in video at age 13 at KDOL–TV in Oakland. Along with Ken Ikeda, he co-founded the Youth Sounds Factory, a filmmaking lab for Bay Area youth. Works created under his mentorship have won dozens of top prizes and awards, including an Emmy. His first feature, Less, follows an idealistic and troubled man who has chosen to live on the streets in San Francisco. He shot a short documentary in Nepal entitled We Are In The Field: Adventures of a Nepalese Environmental Activist. It’s being developed into a feature length film, All Living Things, with Jane Goodall. In 2016, he co-founded the Vulnerable Rally as part of a global invitation to reconnect to our common humanity in the most vulnerable way: part absurdist street theatre, part shadow work, and part social commentary. He’s now the staff filmmaker and photographer at the Skoll Foundation, where he helps tell stories about some of the world’s most inspiring changemakers, activists, and artists.
Candice Holdorf, during her professional career, helped found an independent theater group, Flux Theatre Ensemble and co-wrote/co-produced the play 36:24:36, based on her and her castmates experiences with eating disorders. Her goal is to create art that brings authenticity, intimacy and compassion back to humanity.
