The Oaklandside Culture Makers

474 24th Street,Oakland CA 94612

15 December, 2022

Description

What would it take to make Oakland a thriving filmmaking hub? Who are the people behind the scenes working to establish this kind of infrastructure here? What are some of the roadblocks they face? Movies like Fruitvale Station, Moneyball, Sorry to Bother You, and Black Panther have put Oakland on the Hollywood map, and, combined with homegrown successes like The Waiting Room, there is now a hunger to take Oakland’s film game to the next level. Our three Culture Makers guests are ideally placed to explore these questions: Benjamin Mulholland is an Oakland-based writer and director whose works include the short film M.O.A.B. and the action/satire web series Pennies for the Juggernaut.Laura Wagner is a filmmaker and co-founder of Bay Bridge Productions and the Oakland Film Center. Her feature documentaries include The Scale of Hope, Artifishal, and Art 21’s San Francisco Bay Area. Peter Nicks is an Emmy Award-winning documentary film director, producer, and cinematographer whose most well-known work is a trilogy set in Oakland — The Waiting Room, The Force, and Homeroom — that explores the interconnecting narratives of health care, policing, and education: Our musical guest is Oakland singer-songwriter Satya, whose new EP, Deep Blue, tackles themes of love, heartbreak, and healing with striking vulnerability. The evening will be hosted by Oaklandside's arts and community reporter Azucena Rasilla. The Oaklandside Culture Makers, a quarterly series of live events launched in March 2022, is generously presented by Xfinity with additional sponsorship support from PG&E, East Bay Community Energy, Tidewater Capital, and the Oakland Athletics