StopWaste is a public agency that helps Alameda County’s businesses, residents, and schools waste less, recycle properly, and use water, energy, and other resources efficiently. In this video, learn about three local leaders whose unique connections to food heal and sustain their communities, and take away some simple tips to make the most of food resources in your own home.
Client: StopWaste
Role: Director/Producer, Camera
Date/Location: January-May 2023, Alameda County
Team: BAGT Lens video production team (Maya & Eli)
Berkeley Food Network’s 2021 in review video, thanking their volunteers, partners, donors and supporters for another amazing year getting food out to the local community. And three videos describing BFN’s Sourcing, Preparation and Distribution programs.
Client: Berkeley Food Network
Role: Producer, Cinematographer
Date/Location: December 2021
Team: Edited by Eli Gallego (BAGT Lens film team)
East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EB PREC) annual member meeting 2021 - a Juneteenth land liberation celebration at Liberation Park in East Oakland.
EB PREC is a trailblazing land and housing organization that facilitates BIPOC and allied communities to organize, purchase, and steward land and housing. More at: www.ebprec.org
Client: East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
Role: Camera
Date/Location: Juneteenth 2021 - Liberation Park, Oakland
Team: Co-Filmed & Edited by Tayo Fasusi
Over 200 farmworkers and community supporters marched for disaster pay at an upscale wine event in Healdsburg. In a year that will continue to be marked by climate crisis, farmworkers are organizing for what they deserve from this billion dollar industry. More at: www.northbayjobswithjustice.org
Client: North Bay Jobs With Justice
Role: Camera, Editor
Date/Location: May 2023
Video tours of “green homes” in the East Bay, California — homes that are ready for the challenges of climate change. Homeowners take viewers on a tour of their home’s features, homes that are powered by renewable energy, conserve water, do not pollute or emit greenhouse gasses; do sequester carbon in the soil and make the most of reused, recycled, and composted materials. Full 2023 video collection here
Client: East Bay Green Home Tours
Role: Producer, Videographer, Editor
Date/Location: Spring 2023
Team: BAGT Lens film team (Maya & Eli)
Unveiling of climate action group Extinction Rebellion’s San Francisco climate mural in Clarion Alley: "The World is on Fire".
A celebration of the power of art to create action to combat climate change and biodiversity loss.
More here: www.xrsfbay.org
Music by The Seastars: https://theseastars.org
More about Clarion Alley Mural Project: www.clarionalleymuralproject.org
Client: Extinction Rebellion SF Bay
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: June 6, 2021 - San Francisco, CA
A virtual tour of local responses to issues of food waste, food insecurity and community health in Alameda County, California. In this film, you’ll meet Wanda from Common Vision and Hoover Elementary, Xochitl and AshEL of Essential Food and Medicine, and Grace and Holden from the Berkeley Food Network – all dedicated to redistributing healthy food to feed their communities.
Client: Bay Area Green Tours (in collaboration with StopWaste)
Role: Producer, Primary Camera
Team: BAGT Lens (Made possible with funding from StopWaste.)
Date/Location: Jan-May 2021 - Alameda County, CA
Sister Barbara Hagel and Sister Jeanette DeYoung chat about their relationship with bees on the motherhouse property of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, in honor of Earth Day. Video featured in the Global Sisters Report in this news article.
Client: Global Sisters Report
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: Apr. 2020 - Fremont, CA
Essential Food and Medicine, Natural Builder Miguel Elliot of Living Earth Structures, and Artists Building Communities worked together with residents of the West Oakland Wood Street housing encampment to build a kitchen, community health clinic, bathroom, shower, and free store.
These earthen structures serve the residents and volunteers of the encampment so they can safely and comfortably prepare meals, gather in the gardens for communal dinners, seek health advise from holistic healers and medical professionals, and take what they need from the free store.
Support this project: gofund.me/008a7946
Client: Cob on Wood project
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: April 2021 - Wood Street, Oakland, CA
Media Coverage:
The Guardian
NBC News
CNBC
SF Chronicle
Post News Group
The Mercury News
And more!
PLACE for Sustainable Living’s Crowdfund video highlights the new stewards team gearing up to create a more accessible, beautiful, and accommodating space their community. More about the campaign here.
Client: PLACE for Sustainable Living
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: Spring, 2019 - Oakland, CA
Essential Food and Medicine is an Oakland, CA collective of community organizers, activists, local farmers, gardeners, health workers, nutritionists, culinary artists, herbalists, healers committed to to reclaiming surplus and locally grown produce to make juice, soups, smoothies, and natural medicines that directly serve the most vulnerable people in our communities, for free.
Shorter version on Facebook here.
Client: Essential Food and Medicine (EFAM)
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: Summer 2020 - Oakland, CA
A video introducing the NorCal Resilience Network, whose mission is to catalyze a Just Transition to an equitable and regenerative region, by supporting and activating community-based and ecological solutions in Northern California. Their regional network increases capacity for grassroots programs, helps to build out model sites for resilience; and aims to build solidarity across divides of race, class, sector and region with organizations through collaboration and collective impact.
Client: NorCal Resilience Network
Role: Director/Producer, Camera
Team: Edited by Elisabeth Gallego
Date/Location: July 2021 - East Bay, CA
Richmond LAND's Building Power Fellowship supports a cohort of Richmond area residents to design, research, and bring to life community development and housing project concepts that serve low-income residents of color. The cohort advance, clarify and envision these projects through arts and cultural activities, and events that reflect low-income communities of color’s right to stay and live affordably in West Contra Costa County.
This video focuses on the Tiny Home Eco-Village project led by two fellows.
Client: Richmond LAND
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: May 2020, Urban Tilth North Richmond Farm
Trailer for the one-woman theatrical performance of If You Knew She Could Feel, by Carly Ko, directed by See Elluari. Scheduled to open March 2020 in Fairfax, California, the premiere performance was postponed indefinitely due to COVID-19.
Client: Carly Ko
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: Feb. 2020 - Fairfax Studio
Permaculture Action Network, the Campfire Restoration Project, Rising Appalachia, and hundreds of volunteers, joined together in Paradise, California at the Paradise Community Guilds for a Permaculture Action Day of hands-on restoration projects, workshops, music, food, and community building, in the aftermath of the October 2018 Camp Fire.
Client: Permaculture Action Network
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: October 13, 2019 - Paradise, CA
People Power Solar Cooperative’s first solar project installation in Oakland, piloting a new model for grassroots-led, community-owned energy in California, a critical piece of a just transition to a sustainable economy. The residential-sized, 7 kW project is financed entirely by small investments from more than 50 local community members and leaders – the coop’s owners. More at: PeoplePowerSolar.org
Client: People Power Solar Cooperative
Role: Camera
Date/Location: March 2019 - Oakland, CA
The Plant Exchange is a free community event in Oakland, CA that encourages reuse, recycling, organic living, resource sharing, and information exchange. Neighbors, gardeners, landscapers, urban farmers, and outdoor fans gather together from all over the San Francisco Bay Area. More at: www.theplantexchange.org.
Client: Plant Exchange
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: October 2018, Oakland
Campaign video encouraging residents of San Luis Obispo County to vote YES on Measure G on November 6, 2018. The Measure aims to protect water, land and air by banning new future fossil fuel extraction and preventing fracking in San Luis Obispo County. More at: www.protectslocounty.org
Client: Food & Water Watch (via Survival Media Agency)
Role: Camera 2
Date/Location: October, 2018 - SLO, CA
Crowdfunding campaign video for Sustain, an alliance for better food and farming. Sustain advocates for food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity. Crowdfund campaign at: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/the-jellied-eel
Client: Sustain
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: 2017, London UK
Extinction Rebellion action in front of Oakland, California’s Chase Bank, in cooperation with allied organizations of the Bay Area Climate Coalition. Part of the Cut the Chase Challenge and the Stop the Money Pipeline campaign. More at: www.extinctionrebellionsfbay.org
Client: Extinction Rebellion (XR) SF Bay
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: February, 2020 - Chase Bank, Oakland
A video piece to accompany a grant application to fund the Harvest-ometer, a tool for urban farmers to help track how much their gardens are growing. With this data, Capital Growth hoped to support these farmers in demonstrating the value of their yield to potential funders, and help influence policy makers.
Client: Sustain (Capital Growth)
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: October 2016, London UK
A crowdfund campaign video to support Urban Sprouts’ Mission Community Market program in San Francisco. Urban Sprouts offers nutrition education and youth development programs every week at Mission Community Market.
Client: Urban Sprouts
Role: Co-Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: Spring, 2019 - San Francisco, CA
A short documentary featuring Pllek, a young, beach café in North Amsterdam, The Netherlands, which relies on forgotten city spaces, art and creativity, and local community to be an attractive, successful small business.
Client: Streetecology
Role: Producer, 1st Camera, Editor
Date/Location: 2012, Amsterdam
Highlighting London Food Link’s annual celebration of the fabulous produce being grown, made, cooked, saved, and foraged right on London’s doorstep, at Urban Food Fortnight.
Client: Sustain (London Food Link)
Role: Producer, Camera, Editor
Date/Location: Fall 2018, London UK
