Paige SchwartzinSF Urban Film FestComing Up: Youth EmpowermentIt’s no secret that young people today (those born after Millennials, sometimes called Generation Z) are leading an extraordinary rise in aApr 12, 2019Apr 12, 2019
Paige SchwartzinSF Urban Film FestThe Stories We Will Tell: Interactive Media and PlacemakingIt felt a little bit like a hip party happening 20 years in the future.Mar 15, 2019Mar 15, 2019
Paige SchwartzinSF Urban Film FestRules in Reality: Understanding the Human Story in California’s Housing Crisis“I have to warn you,” Jonathan Pachecho Bell told the audience gathered in SPUR, “there’s a part of this talk where I get choked up.” Bell…Dec 27, 2018Dec 27, 2018
Paige SchwartzinSF Urban Film FestWarm Souls, Cold WorldIt was Friday night, and though the air outside was heavy with smoke, inside the whitewashed brick walls of City Hope, the mood was light…Dec 27, 2018Dec 27, 2018
Paige SchwartzinSF Urban Film FestStreet Art as Political CurrencyResidents were encouraged to stay home that night — SF was facing some of the worst air conditions in its history — but a large crowd made…Dec 27, 20181Dec 27, 20181
Paige SchwartzinSF Urban Film FestCollective Memory in the Civic Commons“The city is changing every moment”: this is what inspires an urban photographer in Connection, one of the films drawn from SF Urban Film…Dec 27, 2018Dec 27, 2018
Paige SchwartzinSF Urban Film FestSports in the City — For Economy or Community?To Oakland soccer coach Dania Cabello, playing sports is an act of “joyful resistance,” an empowering expression of freedom and agency…Dec 27, 2018Dec 27, 2018
Paige SchwartzinSF Urban Film FestInfrastructure for EquityThe room was full at SPUR for an evening of storytelling, at turns inspirational and infuriating, about infrastructure and its tendency to…Dec 27, 2018Dec 27, 2018
Paige SchwartzinSF Urban Film FestProtest and Celebration in Our Shared SpacesAs footage of the 2016 Women’s March played on screen nearly two years later at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, the audience laughed…Dec 27, 2018Dec 27, 2018
Paige SchwartzinSF Urban Film FestThe City That Holds UsAs the audience filed into the glass-walled theater room at SPUR, each person received a piece of paper with a question like “Where in the…Dec 27, 2018Dec 27, 2018