Film & Digital Media Visiting Artist Series - Film Theory & Praxis
Screening of The Oak Park Story and talk by visiting filmmaker Valerie Soe
The Visiting Artist Series is sponsored by Porter College
Valerie Soe is a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer from San Francisco. She will screen her most recent documentary The Oak Park Story (2010, 22 min.), recounting the struggles of three very different families who find themselves together in a run-down slum in Oakland.
Soe's award-winning productions include Mixed Blood, Picturing Oriental Girls: A (Re) Educational Videotape (Best Bay Area Short, Golden Gate Awards, San Francisco International Film Festival), and "ALL ORIENTALS LOOK THE SAME" (Best Foreign Video, Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani; First Place, Experimental Category, Visions of U.S. Festival). Her work has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the AFI National Video Festival, the World Wide Video Festival in The Hague, and on KQED-TV, KCET-TV and Channel L Cable Manhattan, among many others. Her work looks at identity, culture, mass media, and activism, primarily within the Asian American community. She is a faculty member in San Francisco State University's Asian American Studies Department.
This event is free and open to the public.