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TRICIA CREASON-VALENCIA

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.

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 production. She works as a documentary editor in San Francisco.

MEADOW HOLMES

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.