Director: Audrey Daniel
Producer: George Nelson
Description:
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 Daniel, a professional photographer, videographer and broadcaster, for more than 40 years has been producing visual media that explore the artistic process and, in her work for nonprofit groups, prompt viewers to action. In her first video project, in 1984, she followed a group of Italian artists from the "Arte Povera" movement collaborating with a group of U.S. artists in conjunction with the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Her documentary photography includes the 1991 traveling photo exhibition "Sephardi Women of Turkey," also published as a book. Audrey’s video programs dig deep into her subjects’ passions, reflected in her documentaries of artists such as “Albert Paley: Thresholds,” produced in 2017 for the Sonoma Valley (California) Museum of Art to document the city’s first public art project since Christo and Jeanne-Claude's “Running Fence” installation of 1976. Her other short films include: “Rex Amos: A Man of Many Hats,” “Calixto Robles: From the Heart,” “Fields of Color,” “Rumi Tsuda: A Colony of One,” “Fire and Spirit,” “Paul Dahlquist: Photographer” and “Kurt Stoeckel: Artist.” In spring 2013 Audrey produced and hosted a television series at the Mid-Peninsula Media Center called “Culture Connect.” The series of interviews aimed to cultivate people’s understanding of each other locally and globally through the discussion of cultural ideas, performance, art, literature, music, dance, language and experience. The show aired for two years on Community Cable access in Berkeley, San Francisco and Palo Alto.
George Nelson is an artist and filmmaker based in San Francisco. He is a creator in traditional and digital mediums, producing work through an Asian American perspective. George has directed and animated short films since 2020, including With Me and Another Pack, and is currently working on his latest animation, Right Kind of Beat. His outlook is, "There are joys of tomorrow we've yet to fathom" and is an active collaborator and producer in the Bay Area.
Contact Information:
e: audreydaniel@icloud.com
w: http://Rockpaperpaint.com