Down N Dirty...behind the scenes in Queer Filmmaking Presents DOLISSA MEDINA!! February 24, 2007

Please join us in the 8th Down N Dirty, Behind the Scenes of Queer
Filmmakers, kicking off this year's season is, award-winning filmmaker
Dolissa Medina! Ms. Medina has been a major mover and shaker in local
San Francisco filmmaking for more than 7 years and her films have
screened internationally.

WHEN: Saturday February 24, 2007
WHERE: Femina Potens Gallery, 465 S. Van Ness btwn 15 &16th streets
SHOWTIME: doors at 7:30 pm / show 8pm
TICKETS: $5-10 sliding scale no one turned away for lack of funds.
INFO: www.feminapotens.com / (415) 217-9340
for interviews or press photos contact [email protected]
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Wheel Chair Accessible
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Femina Potens is proud to feature this award-winning artist' work.
Last year, Ms. Medina was awarded the prestigious Mediamaker Award,
with Bay Area Video Coalition for her film "Cartography of Ashes",
her 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Centennial project, which she will
show clips from, and discuss this process in this unique community
collaboration.

This ongoing series, the only of its kind in the country to offer such
an interactive event series focusing on filmmaking and queer artists. The
event features short film work and intimate dialogue with Bay Area
Queer Filmmakers who have directed at least three short films.
Down N Dirty has returned for a second season at
the Mission District's Femina Potens Art Gallery, the event is
programmed by guest curator, artist, and filmmaker Shani Heckman. Help
us celebrate and promote local queer, trans, and women video artists
as we feature intimate and interactive conversations with local
filmmakers, a shot-by-shot analysis of their filmmaking process,
stories from behind the scenes, and the inside scoop on San
Francisco's filmmaking community each film is followed by an intimate
Q&A with the audience. Conversations range from the "how did you do
that" to the academic, every month is different. Artists featured so
far include: Shawna Virago, Madeliene Lim, Sally Rubin, Bill Basquin,
Justin Kelly, Siobhan O'Brien and Trina Lopez.

ARTIST BIO:

Dolissa Medina is a San Francisco-based experimental filmmaker whose
films include "Grounds," "A Lineage of Kind Men," "Cartography of
Ashes" and the award-winning "19: Victoria Texas." Her work has
screened internationally at festivals including Rotterdam and
Oberhausen, Germany. She is a recipient of a 2006 Bay Area Video
Coalition Mediamaker Award and a 2005 Cultural Equity Grant from the
San Francisco Arts Commission. She has also received grants from the
Pacific Pioneer Fund for Emerging Documentary Filmmakers, the Film
Arts Foundation, and the LEF Foundation. She has lectured at the
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, UC-Davis, University of San
Francisco, and San Francisco State University. She has also served as
a curator, film journalist, festival publicist, and film mentor. In
addition to exploring Latino, women's and LGBT experiences, Ms. Medina
is interested in historical investigation and the mapping of urban
space through mythologized storytelling. She holds journalism and
history degrees from San Francisco State University.

MORE INFO ON THE EVENT:

Shani Heckman, Guest Curator is a long-time activist, publicist and
creator of Shanestar Productions. In 2006 she won of the Best of the Bay
with the SF Weekly and the T. Corinne Award for Lesbian Media Artists.
She started her film career as recipient of the Film Arts Foundation's
STAND grant for first time film directors in 2003. She has curated popular short
film screenings for the past three years. Her recent short doc "Wrong
Bathroom" won Best of Bernal 2006 and Best Local Voice award at the
2006 San Francisco International Women's Film Festival and is touring
the international festival circuit. www.shanestar.org

Femina Potens is a nationally recognized art gallery and performance
space dedicated to the advancement of women and trans-folk through art
and winner of the San Francisco's Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay,
2006. Sponsored by the Queer Cultural Center, with support from the
San Francisco Arts Commission and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,
Femina Potens is one of the leading queer organizations in San
Francisco. Femina Potens has been featured on the Australian
television show, Out and About, Q-Television, the documentary
TranArchy, Japan's Foil Magazine, Bitch Magazine, and the San
Francisco Guardian, which called Femina Potens a crucial bit of
justice.

Event submitted by Eventful.com on behalf of shaniheckman.