In this episode, we bring you an exclusive one-hour special highlighting this year’s CAAMFest. First, we speak to Director and Producer, Erica Tanamachi and Executive Producer, Diane Quon, about their documentary Home Court. CAAM-funded Home Court is a story of an All-American baller Ashley Chea following her pursuit of college level hoop dreams. In the three years this film follows her, we witness the highs and lows of her Cambodian immigrant family’s experiences in America. It will have its Bay Area premiere on May 12th at 12:30pm at the Great Star Theater in San Francisco as part of CAAMFest 2024. We then talk to Thúy Trần who is the Festival and Exhibitions Director of CAAMFest about this year’s program. Be sure to buy your tickets now to CAAMFest 2024 kicking off this week, May 9-19 at https://caamfest.com/.

Transmission Studio is a series of intimate conversations with the independent artists and community-based organizations living and working within the vibrant, complicated and ever-evolving ecosystem of San Francisco arts and culture. It aspires to inform, inspire and more importantly spark meaningful and critical dialogue on the state of the artists who remain committed to this city in spite of unprecedented social, economic and political challenges.

Watch Transmission Studio on SF COMMONS every 2nd and 4th Thursday at SFC.TV

SF COMMONS is the home of public access TV in San Francisco, broadcasting live from our state-of-the-art studio. We offer our services to help you develop the skills to create broadcast-ready content. Interested in producing your own how? Find out more at https://www.sfc.tv

Credits:

• Transmission Studio is produced by SF Commons x BAVC Media

• Executive Producer: Andy Kawanami

• Producers: Javan Jiles, Isa Nakazawa

• Host: Isa Nakazawa

• Editor: Javan Jiles

• Design & Animation: Katherine Pertuso

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In this episode, we bring you a conversation with Ronald R. Sundstrom. Ron is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He is also a member of USF’s African American Studies program, teaches for the university’s Honors College, and is the Humanities Advisor for the SF Urban Film Festival. His research focuses on the philosophy of race and the related areas of racism, xenophobia, and mixed-race identity; political philosophy and urban policy; and figures in African American political theory, especially Frederick Douglass. SF Urban Film Festival is celebrating their 10th Anniversary this April 15-21. Visit https://sfurbanfilmfest.com/2024/ for more information!

Transmission Studio is a series of intimate conversations with the independent artists and community-based organizations living and working within the vibrant, complicated and ever-evolving ecosystem of San Francisco arts and culture. It aspires to inform, inspire and more importantly spark meaningful and critical dialogue on the state of the artists who remain committed to this city in spite of unprecedented social, economic and political challenges.

Watch Transmission Studio on SF COMMONS every 2nd and 4th Thursday at SFC.TV

SF COMMONS is the home of public access TV in San Francisco, broadcasting live from our state-of-the-art studio. We offer our services to help you develop the skills to create broadcast-ready content. Interested in producing your own how? Find out more at https://www.sfc.tv

Credits:

• Transmission Studio is produced by SF Commons x BAVC Media

• Executive Producer: Andy Kawanami

• Producers: Javan Jiles, Isa Nakazawa

• Host: Isa Nakazawa

• Editor: Javan Jiles

• Design & Animation: Katherine Pertuso

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In this episode, we bring you a conversation with Fay Darmawi. Fay is a social practice artist who focuses on cities, storytelling, and media. She is the Founder and Executive Producer of the SF Urban Film Fest, a film festival focused on civic engagement inspired by great storytelling. Fay is an immigrant from Jakarta, Indonesia but calls San Francisco, where she raised her now college-aged twin sons, her hometown. SF Urban Film Festival is celebrating their 10th Anniversary this April 15-21. Visit https://sfurbanfilmfest.com/2024/ for more information!

Transmission Studio is a series of intimate conversations with the independent artists and community-based organizations living and working within the vibrant, complicated and ever-evolving ecosystem of San Francisco arts and culture. It aspires to inform, inspire and more importantly spark meaningful and critical dialogue on the state of the artists who remain committed to this city in spite of unprecedented social, economic and political challenges.

Watch Transmission Studio on SF COMMONS every 2nd and 4th Thursday at SFC.TV

Credits:

• Transmission Studio is produced by SF Commons x BAVC Media

• Executive Producer: Andy Kawanami

• Producers: Javan Jiles, Isa Nakazawa

• Host: Isa Nakazawa

• Editor: Javan Jiles

• Design & Animation: Katherine Pertuso

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In this episode, we bring you a conversation with Hoi Leung, the Deputy Director of the Chinese Culture Center. Hoi oversees the internal culture, programs and operations of the organization. Leung was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the US in 2004. Previously, Leung was the Curator at CCC for 4 years, where she established a distinct practice specializing in Asian diasporic contemporary art, developing emerging artists, and designing community engagement in immigrant neighborhood settings. Leung is an emerging leader in the field as she devotes her unique background in artist support and community curation into building a healthy, sustainable, and imaginative arts ecosystem.

Transmission Studio is a series of intimate conversations with the independent artists and community-based organizations living and working within the vibrant, complicated and ever-evolving ecosystem of San Francisco arts and culture. It aspires to inform, inspire and more importantly spark meaningful and critical dialogue on the state of the artists who remain committed to this city in spite of unprecedented social, economic and political challenges.

Watch Transmission Studio on SF COMMONS every 2nd and 4th Thursday at SFC.TV

SF COMMONS is the home of public access TV in San Francisco, broadcasting live from our state-of-the-art studio. We offer our services to help you develop the skills to create broadcast-ready content. Interested in producing your own how? Find out more at https://www.sfc.tv

Credits:

• Transmission Studio is produced by SF Commons x BAVC Media

• Executive Producer: Andy Kawanami

• Producers: Javan Jiles, Isa Nakazawa

• Host: Isa Nakazawa

• Editor: Javan Jiles

• Design & Animation: Katherine Pertuso

Follow BAVC Media for updates:

• https://www.facebook.com/bavcmedia

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COMMUNITY PRACTICE with Connie Zheng

In this episode, we bring you a conversation with Connie Zheng, a Chinese-born artist, writer and filmmaker based out of xučyun / Oakland, California. Connie is a former Artist-in-Residence at 41 Ross - The Chinese Culture Center’s exchange platform for emerging API artists to develop work and expand on community-based practices located in SF’s Chinatown. Projects such as large-scale maps, speculative seed exchanges, seed-making workshops, and experimental films are strategies for navigating diasporic memory, the continued weight of history and the possibilities for collective imagining amidst ongoing and future ecological transformations.

Transmission Studio is a series of intimate conversations with the independent artists and community-based organizations living and working within the vibrant, complicated and ever-evolving ecosystem of San Francisco arts and culture. It aspires to inform, inspire and more importantly spark meaningful and critical dialogue on the state of the artists who remain committed to this city in spite of unprecedented social, economic and political challenges.

Watch Transmission Studio on SF COMMONS every 2nd and 4th Thursday at SFC.TV

SF COMMONS is the home of public access TV in San Francisco, broadcasting live from our state-of-the-art studio. We offer our services to help you develop the skills to create broadcast-ready content. Interested in producing your own how? Find out more at https://www.sfc.tv

Credits:

• Transmission Studio is produced by SF Commons x BAVC Media

• Executive Producer: Andy Kawanami

• Producers: Javan Jiles, Isa Nakazawa

• Host: Isa Nakazawa

• Editor: Javan Jiles

• Design & Animation: Katherine Pertuso

Follow BAVC Media for updates:

• https://www.facebook.com/bavcmedia

• https://www.instagram.com/bavcmedia

• https://www.twitter.com/bavcmedia

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CREATING CULTURE NOT CAREERS with Family Not A Group Part 2

In this episode, we are brought part two of our conversation with 3 additional members of Family Not A Group, an SF-based artist collective “bringing communal healing from the stoop to the world!” boasting an impressive roster of 17 local artists, rappers, comedians, producers, filmmakers and more reflecting the beauty, grit and heart of the city. We learn about FNG’s organic origin story and see San Francisco through the eyes of artists who were born and raised on its soil.

Transmission Studio is a series of intimate conversations with the independent artists and community-based organizations living and working within the vibrant, complicated and ever-evolving ecosystem of San Francisco arts and culture. It aspires to inform, inspire and more importantly spark meaningful and critical dialogue on the state of the artists who remain committed to this city in spite of unprecedented social, economic and political challenges.

Watch Transmission Studio on SF COMMONS every 2nd and 4th Thursday at SFC.TV

SF COMMONS is the home of public access TV in San Francisco, broadcasting live from our state-of-the-art studio. We offer our services to help you develop the skills to create broadcast-ready content. Interested in producing your own how? Find out more at https://www.sfc.tv

Credits:

• Transmission Studio is produced by SF Commons x BAVC Media

• Executive Producer: Andy Kawanami

• Producers: Javan Jiles, Isa Nakazawa

• Host: Isa Nakazawa

• Editor: Javan Jiles

• Design & Animation: Katherine Pertuso

Follow BAVC Media for updates:

• https://www.facebook.com/bavcmedia

• https://www.instagram.com/bavcmedia

• https://www.twitter.com/bavcmedia

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In this episode, we talk to Family Not A Group, an SF-based artist collective “bringing communal healing from the stoop to the world!” boasting an impressive roster of 17 local artists, rappers, comedians, producers, filmmakers and more reflecting the beauty, grit and heart of the city. We learn about FNG’s organic origin story and see San Francisco through the eyes of artists who were born and raised on its soil.

SF COMMONS is the home of public access TV in San Francisco, broadcasting live from our state-of-the-art studio. We offer our services to help you develop the skills to create broadcast-ready content. Interested in producing your own how? Find out more at https://www.sfc.tv

Credits:

• Transmission Studio is produced by SF COMMONS x BAVC Media

• Executive Producer: Andy Kawanami

• Producers: Javan Jiles, Isa Nakazawa

• Host: Isa Nakazawa

• Editor: Javan Jiles

• Design & Animation: Katherine Pertuso

Follow BAVC Media for updates:

• https://www.facebook.com/bavcmedia

• https://www.instagram.com/bavcmedia

• https://www.twitter.com/bavcmedia

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In this episode, we talk to the Bay Area’s own Eric Arnold who has covered hip-hop locally and nationally for over 30 years. Formerly the managing editor of 4080 and columnist for The Source, he chronicled hyphy’s rise and fall, co-curated the Oakland Museum of California’s first hip-hop exhibit in 2018 and won a 2022 Northern California Emmy Award for a mini-documentary on Oakland’s Boogaloo dance culture. He is a contributing editor for That’s My Word, KQED's series on the history of Bay Area hip-hop.

SF COMMONS is the home of public access TV in San Francisco, broadcasting live from our state-of-the-art studio. We offer our services to help you develop the skills to create broadcast-ready content. Interested in producing your own how? Find out more at https://www.sfc.tv

Credits:

• Transmission Studio is produced by SF Commons x BAVC Media

• Executive Producer: Andy Kawanami

• Producers: Javan Jiles, Isa Nakazawa

• Host: Isa Nakazawa

• Editor: Javan Jiles

• Design & Animation: Katherine Pertuso

Follow BAVC Media for updates:

• https://www.facebook.com/bavcmedia

• https://www.instagram.com/bavcmedia

• https://www.twitter.com/bavcmedia

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.