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SVA & AAA Film & Media Festival
Hosted by: Society for Visual Anthropology
Collaborative screening co-organized with the Watsonville Film Festival (WFF). Featuring films about communities in the central coast of California (San Jose, Watsonville, Santa Cruz) done by local filmmakers. The WFF is a grassroots organization that sees film as a catalyst to spark conversations between filmmakers and audiences in order to inspire and engage their diverse community. From empowering local youth through courses on video production and film culture, to supporting a community of local filmmakers; we partner with the WFF and their collaborating filmmakers to discuss the impact of cinema as a mode of engaging issues facing a community and to celebrate its diversity. We will be discussing collaborative forms of documentary production, and ways of producing documentary from within one’s own community that speak to both local and international audiences.