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SFWFF - Local Filmmakers Panel

Local Documentary Filmmakers Panel: Learn how these filmmakers are using the power of documentary film to get people involved and inspire them to become ambassadors to create change. Panelists will share the nuts and bolts of creating powerful stories that foster community and create dialogue that can effect change on a global level.

Panelists include:
M.T Silvia director of Atomic Mom
Soumyaa Kapil Behrens director of My Garbage, My Neighborhood

Atomic Mom directed by M.T. Silvia reveals the intimate story about one of the few female scientists working on the testing of the atom bomb in the early 1950's. After decades of silence - and a crisis of conscious prompted by the probing of her filmmaker daughter, she shares her story and is offered an olive branch by a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing.

My Garbage, My Neighborhood directed by Soumyaa Kapil Behrens is a community driven documentary project about urban recycling in San Francisco. Circling around one of the first recycling centers in the city located on Golden Gate Parkland in the famous Haight Ashbury neighborhood, the project connects with community members to discuss their personal relationship to their trash and their neighborhood. Controversy over homeless recyclers and theories on poaching are all issues that come up as one community tries to make plans for a zero waste future.