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Homegrown
Celebrate our Bay Area neighbors with these local documentaries. You’ll meet Jok, the beloved children’s scientist and leather-clad AIDS activist, as well as Penny, a Filipino immigrant and restaurateur working through the pandemic. Wherever you live, these six, unique portraits from our community are sure to resonate.
Short films showing in this program:
Bayanihan & Resilience
Penny Baldado, a queer Filipino immigrant and proud owner of Café Gabriela, makes it through the COVID-19 pandemic by giving back to Oakland.
Beakman & Jok
Beakman & Jok explores the complex and fascinating life of Bay Area artist, leather man, AIDS activist, and renowned children’s science educator Jok Church. Church revolutionized children’s science education through his internationally syndicated comic strip, bestselling children’s books, and the hit TV show Beakman’s World.
Blackness Is Everything
This experimental/performative short film celebrates the diversity of the Black diaspora in the Bay Area.
DENNIS: The Man Who Legalized Cannabis
Here’s the story of Dennis Peron, a Vietnam War veteran, LGBTQ+ and cannabis activist, who fought to get cannabis to HIV/AIDS patients in 1990s San Francisco.
Sensorium
A queer fantasia on the slippages of memory, scholarship, meaning-making, and the transcendental. Created, written, and directed by Elliot Gordon Mercer with Michael Cicetti.
Surviving Voices: The Substance Use and Recovery Community
Presented by the National AIDS Memorial, the latest installment of this ongoing oral history project provides a unique perspective from the substance use and recovery community.
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