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SFWFF - Master Class with Judith Helfand
Peabody award-winning filmmaker and SFWFF 2010 Tribute honoree Judith Helfand is bringing a specially tailored master class to this yearâs festival. Helfand is a filmmaker, activist and educator, best known for her ability to take the dark, cynical worlds of chemical exposure and heedless corporate behavior and make them personal, resonant, highly charged, and entertaining. Her films, The Uprising of â34 (Co-directed with George Stoney), the Sundance-award-winning Blue Vinyl (co-directed with Daniel B. Gold and nominated for two Emmyâs), and its Peabody-award-winning prequel A Healthy Baby Girl (a five-year video-diary about her experience with DES related cancer), explore home, class, corporate accountability, intergenerational relationships and the ever shrinking border between what is "personal" and what is a critical part of the public record.
Helfand will share storytelling strategies that lead to effective, resonant and riveting (even funny and entertaining) filmmaking and âcall to actionâ activism. Building on her career of developing innovative outreach and organizing efforts around the distribution of her own films, Helfand is a leader in creating audience engagement campaigns that dynamically link high-profile non-fiction filmmaking to cutting edge social change organizing.
Helfand will combine serious fun with comedy, irony and that highlight the bittersweet sides of life, death, the threat of human extinction, chemical exposure, denial, scientific uncertainty and a seemingly never ending supply of corporate cynicism and human optimism. This is a âHow To Guide' drawing from her own body of work from 1990-2010. She will share enlightening and beguiling moments of process, distress and struggle; the challenge to be personal and universal all at once, creative triumphs and hard won lessons about finding story, tone, character development and how to balance the deep needs of a narrative with the needs of on-the-ground organizers always with an eye towards authentic and global action.
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LocationThe David Brower Center/Tamalpais Room (View)
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States
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