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SeaDoc Portraits is a digital series that highlights Northwest documentary filmmakers. The latest crop of short films features Gilda Sheppard, Christina Antonakos-Wallace and Sharon Nyree Williams.
Join us online on Monday, January 10, at 7 pm for the films and a conversation with the filmmakers. The evening will also include time for connecting with others in small Zoom rooms.
Gilda Sheppard is an award-winning filmmaker who has screened her documentaries throughout the United States and internationally in Ghana, West Africa, and Germany. Sheppard is a 2017 Hedgebrook Fellow for documentary film and a 2019 recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship.
Her film Since I Been Down follows a group of prisoners as they break free from their fate and create a model of education that is transforming their lives, their communities, prisons and our own humanity. Thrown into prison not for education or rehabilitation but for removal and punishment (out of sight, out of mind), these children, now adults, could not be silenced. Together they built a prisoners’ community of healing that extended beyond prison walls. www.sinceibeendown.com IG/FB: @sinceIbeendown
Christina Antonakos-Wallace is an American documentary filmmaker who works in the intersections of documentary film, new media and education. She has worked as a director, editor, camera operator and producer, focusing on storytelling for social justice. She has won several awards, and her short films and interactive work have been exhibited in over a dozen countries.
Her acclaimed film From Here explores what it means to be considered a racial, ethnic or religious outsider in mainstream society. Moving back and forth between New York and Berlin, the film follows four people who are first or second generation immigrants as they face challenges and disappointments, find their voice in art or activism, and reflect on the nature of home and belonging. www.fromherefilm.com.
Sharon Nyree Williams is a storyteller, presenter and producer of performing arts. Her creative outlets include solo performance, poetry, emcee, voiceover, panelist, speaker, facilitator, filmmaker, mentor and producer.
I Miss Going to the House is a poetic exploration of what happens when a family no longer has access to their gathering place. Does this loss affect the family’s relationships with each other? How have family dynamics shifted? This poem is the motivation behind Sharon wanting to do a documentary: youtu.be/5MlrOzkth2w. www.sharonnwilliams.com.