Persons

For over 20 years Susan has been a birth doula, helping women bring their babies into the world. Today she is bringing her own big ideas to life as a writer and filmmaker and recently completed her first short film, First Clue. She lives and works in San Francisco. First Clue is a web-based media project that collects and shares stories from LGBT individuals answering the question, “What was your first clue that you were a lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender?”

Life After Life is a story of multi-generational violence, youth incarceration, life in prison, and the struggle to return home. It follows two men, incarcerated as teenagers for murder and who come of age in prison, as they learn to provide for themselves and their families for the first time. Jesse is a cinematographer with over a decade of experience shooting in environments ranging from large sound stages to San Quentin Prison. His commercial work has earned him four Emmy Awards and two of his features have received national releases.

Tamara is a changemaker who has developed transformative programs training at-risk youth and incarcerated men in filmmaking, spoken on prison and human rights issues in a TEDx talk and received the National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Award. Life After Life is a story of multi-generational violence, youth incarceration, life in prison, and the struggle to return home. It follows two men, incarcerated as teenagers for murder and who come of age in prison, as they learn to provide for themselves and their families for the first time.