Persons
Chelsea Hernandez
Chelsea Hernandez is a Mexican-American filmmaker based in Austin, Texas, recently named as one of Texas Monthly’s “10 Filmmakers on the Rise.” She is an 8-time Emmy winning director, producer and editor in the Texas region. Chelsea has directed and produced various short documentaries including the 2012 Austin Film Festival Best Short Documentary Winner, See the Dirt. Building the American Dream is her feature directorial debut. In the shadow of a lucrative building boom in Texas, a modern slavery has encompassed the construction industry, leading immigrant workers on a downward spiral to poverty, illness, and death. Building the American Dream [...]
Anita Gay
Anita Gay works across several programs at BAVC Media, including Operations, Workforce, and Employee Engagement. She liaisons with the City and County of San Francisco on Tech Apprenticeship initiatives, and oversees facility operations at BAVC Media's home in San Francisco, the Ninth Street Independent Film Center. Prior to joining BAVC Media in 2017 Anita spent many years in the world of photographic arts and retail, working in sales, bookkeeping, and human resources. She spent some formative years living in Thailand and South Korea, which fed a lifelong desire for world travel. In 2017 she co-founded the East Bay Photo Collective [...]
Morgan Morel
Morgan Morel is an audiovisual preservationist who has worked to preserve audio and video materials for libraries, archives, artists, and communities across the globe. He is a strong supporter of open-source solutions for audiovisual preservation, and has created educational resources to help under-resourced communities preserve their audiovisual heritage. He currently lives in Culpeper, VA, and has previously taught classes and preserved media in Detroit, Philadelphia, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Myrna Lim
About the Show: We insist that the media continues to educate, inform, and challenge San Franciscans on the issues we face not only within our city, but also within the state, nationally, and the world. Five corporations who control 90% of what people around the world hear and see as their “news” have hijacked our media, a very powerful tool. Freedom of speech hangs in the balance when there are no checks and balances between right and wrong. Law and justice takes a back seat to those who have the means and the money. We, citizen journalists, must fill the [...]
Ken Johnson
About the Show: There are many people promoting positive change among us, in our neighborhood centers, schools and churches. As an individual, it's easy to lose track of what is going on in our city. Television can easily be a tool for local advocacy leaders who have sat in Ken's gues chair. "We're trying to get people invovled, doing things in their community instead of just watching TV. But, to get involved, people need to feel encouraged to get out there. So we try to highlight the activities of local organizations and compel our viewers to make a difference and take [...]
Idell Wilson
About the Show: Black Diva Media is a live television show, with a emphasis on the live format. As there is unpredictability in real life in the real world, Idell channels a level of unpredictability rarely seen on television. Each episode is a reflection of the day itself -- the studio tone, topic and guests all dictated by the world outside these doors. "Making the impossible, possible." On the Air Since: 11/10/2009 When to Watch: 7pm every Sunday on Channel 29
Dorothy Cook
About the Show: Gospel from the Roots Up is a program that aims to take audiences to a new level of understanding of gospel music. Highlighting a different family of gospel sounds with each episode, audiences are taken through the early spirituals through more contemporary music within the genre. "My favorite thing about being a producer is giving the people an opportunity to show their talent and to demonstrate real gospel music to a vast audience. What really makes me smile is when the children are on, and the children get to see themselves on television." When to Watch: Every Sunday at [...]
David Frias
About the Show: It's Time for a Living Wage is a program that covers events in the San Francisco Bay Area relating to economic and social change issues. The progran aims to expose viewers to footage of rallys, press conferences, speeches and performances -- properly contextualized, and without the heavy handed editing often seen in commercial news. With the support of the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition, people can be moved through media to participate in the kind of activism that truly impacts their lies at a local level. "I like for the viewer to hear and see footbage that you couldn't [...]
Mike Fisher
About the Show: On the Air Since: When to Watch: Every Wednesday at 3pm on channel 29.
Danny Shipman
About the Show: Reality Check TV, is a music variety show covering big time rock stars, comic book conventions, adult film stars, etc. On the Air Since: 6/1/2009 When to Watch: 10:30pm every Saturday on Channel 29
