Films produced as final projects for Film 28A (Introduction to Documentary), Spring 2005
Film 28A
Doc projects
Patricia Lopez The EC
A humorous "city symphony" focusing on El Cerrito, California.
Esther Shubinsky Bogalusa Baby
A video diary about the travels of the two French students (the filmmaker and her friend) into the wilds of Bogalusa, Louisiana.
Chris Eggers Untitled (mockumentary)
A hilarious mockumentary about the trials of selecting and following through with a documentary film project.
Kyle Parker Chronicle of a Tuba
A look at public perceptions of tuba players and at the social lives of Cal Band tuba folk.
Matt Lee / Keith Hong 2440 Dana
An observational-style documentary that follows a day in the life of an all-male student residence facility in Berkeley.
Marc Engberg Prague Song
A poetic look at street music and street musicians in Prague
Stephen Gary Riding the Berkeley Wave
Focuses on public perceptions and self-perception of surfers.
Nicolas Lauricella Concepts and Reality
A self-reflexive documentary that initially focuses on a San Francisco street performer and ends up looking at the pitfalls of documentary filmmaking itself.
Kristen Weiss Shame on UC
A political documentary about the Spring 2005 strike of the UC Berkeley service workers union.
Lawrence Chiu Parental Orientations
Centers around the relationship between queer-identified Asians and their parents.
Johnny Darko Sobre la Frontera, Debajo de la Mesa (Across the Frontier and Under the Table)
An intimate look at a day in the life of undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
Michael Campos-Quin Just Passing Through Night and Day
A documentary which is about both a changing urban landscape and the difficulties of documentary representation of the everyday.
John Mullen The Kids of Telegraph
A cinema verite look at the lives of young street people in Berkeley.
Connor Snedecor To Love Deformity
Documents the art and practice of bonsai and the people who practice it,
Osama Chaudhary Running for Our People
A documentary about a Native American ceremonial marathon in honor of United Farm Workers activist Cesar Chavez.
Sabrina Mutukisna Mugatu & Moral Filmmaking
A film which focuses both on the social and economic differences between schools in two widely disparate school districts, and on the ethical problems in documentary representation of social issues.
Adam Karm The Unthinkable
A portrait of 9/11 survivors.
Terry Patton / Danny Franklin Berkeley: Past Speech, Free Movement
A "community of people" sympthony that looks at the diverse and kinetic culture of Berkeley, past and present.
Eunsun Choi / Wan Hang Po A Day in San Francisco
An impressionistic documentary that traces the adventures and misadventures of three Korean students in San Francisco.
Leah Dashe / Derin Dobra Feed Your Brain
Alex Beckman/Chris Gibson Tourette's
A film that looks from both an insider's and outsider's perspective at
Tourette's syndrome.
Samantha Staley/Bianca Cano Far From Czar
A documentary which provides both a poetic profile of Andrew Romanoff, artist and Grand Nephew of Czar Nicholas II, and a meditation on the elusiveness of historical subjects and documentary attempts to capture them.
Tiff Mueller/Freesia Pearson A Life Constructed
A fond documentary portrait of an elderly wood worker.
Robert Lawson I
A personal meditation on the social and cultural aspects of iPod ownership.
Shuhei Akita City Lights
A highly poetic cinematic treatment of night views and lights in the Bay Area.
Gursimran Sandhu Fraternity Brothers
A mock ethnographic film about a particularly raucous UC Berkeley fraternity brother.
Sean Staub/Ben Hadden Future Past Remembered
A portrait of a stalwart UC Berkeley street musician John Fizer and his times.
Kerwin Kuo All of the Above
A mockumentary that attempts to explain the origins and meaning of the "Freedom Circle" in UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza.