Film Screenings: Albany Bulb and Saving Midtown.

The local filmmaker series continues!

This time, we’ve paired two short documentary films that seemed to complement each other quite well. They depict stories about gentrification on both sides of the Bay: the Bulb in Albany, and the Western Addition neighborhood in San Francisco.

All We Did Was Live: Voices of the Albany Bulb (20 mins)

Directed by Andrew Schrader and Travis Schirmer

This film follows several residents of the Albany Bulb community after they are forcibly removed from their encampments by the city, but the harassment doesn’t stop there…

Saving Midtown (13 mins)

Produced and Directed by Marianne Maeckelbergh and Brandon Jourdan

This is the story of the Midtown rent strike, the largest rent strike in San Francisco since 1978.

Doors open at 7, screening at 7:30. The films will be shown in sequence, with Q&A afterwards.  $5 donation appreciated, but no one turned away! Free popcorn and snacks, as always.

~ Sponsored by Liberated Lens ~