We are a women-owned film and video production company conceived by three filmmakers, Amy Happ, Meadow Holmes, and Tricia Creason-Valencia, while students at San Francisco State University’s film school many years ago. The creation of FLACAFILMS allows us to continue our rewarding collaboration as filmmakers, activists, and educators.

Tricia is passionate about filmmaking!

TRICIA CREASON-VALENCIA

Tricia is currently producing a one-hour documentary titled Stable Life, which tells the story of a family of undocumented immigrants who live and work on the backside of a racetrack. She also 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. She has taught film/video production and documentary filmmaking in the Social Documentation department at U.C. Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, Drexel University and in collaboration with several youth-related non-profit organizations. Tricia is a PBS/CPB Producer's Academy Fellow (2008) and a Latino Producers Academy Fellow (2008). She serves on the Board of CreaTV San Jose, a community access television station and traning center. 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 children.


 

AMY HAPP

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.

 



contact Tricia Creason-Valencia at 408.375.9057 or tricia@flacafilms.com

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