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TRICIA
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Tricia
Creason-Valencia worked for years as a community organizer
and trainer, facilitating workshops on political activism
for teenagers, women and seniors. Through her social justice
work, Tricia was inspired to become a filmmaker committed
to creating alternative visions of our communities on screen.
Tricia
directed the award-winning short films, Eighty
Layers of Me (that you'll have to survive), a documentary
about former cheerleaders turned activists and We
Got Next, a narrative about young women basketball
players. Both films won numerous awards and screened at
festivals throughout the United States.
Tricia is the founder of FLACAFILMS, where she works as
a director/producer and digital video editor. Clients include
Drexel University and the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical College. She has taught film/video production
and documentary filmmaking at San Francisco State University
and Drexel University. Tricia received her BA from U.C.
Berkeley (Psychology and Chicano Studies) and graduated
from San Francisco State University with an MFA in Film
Production. She lives in San Jose, California, with her
husband and two kids.
Tricia
was featured in Hispanic magazine as an "Emerging
Latina Voice in Filmmaking". Read the article
here.
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AMY
HAPP
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Amy
Happ is the director and producer of Code
Of Silence, an hour-long documentary about a scandal
surrounding a mysterious prison riot at Folsom State Prison.
Her first film, Resilience, is a personal documentary
about a native Alaskan woman’s struggle with alcoholism.
Resilience won numerous awards, screened in festivals around
the world, including Taos Talking Pictures Festival and
the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam
and was distributed by Women Make Movies.
She also made the documentary, Naysayer, a portrait
of an aging and unrepentant anarchist, which screened at
various alternative venues and festivals such as the Chicago
Underground Film Festival.
Amy Happ received her BA and MFA in Film Production at San
Francisco State University, where she has also taught film
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MEADOW
HOLMES |
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Meadow
Holmes is a seasoned cinematographer, producer and award-winning
editor. She currently works for the City of Oakland's Government
Access television station,
KTOP-10, as a digital editor.
Meadow's
past projects include Eighty Layers of Me and We
Got Next (Director of Photography), Transformative
Power of Faith Fancher, a documentary about an African-American
journalist's public struggle with breast cancer and Home
and Almost Free, a documentary highlighting the reintegration
of ex-convicts into the community after their release from
prison. Most recently she co-produced and edited the documentary
The Crucible, which showcases the fiery arts of
a West Oakland industrial arts school.
Meadow
graduated with a BA in Film Production from San Francisco
State University. She lives in Oakland, CA.
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contact
Tricia Creason-Valencia at 408.375.9057 or tricia@flacafilms.com
©
Flacafilms 2007
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