Film & Media

Noemi Chavez (she/her) is a Film and Media student at UC Berkeley with deep roots in New York City theatre. She spent two years in the Performance Lab at the MCC Youth Theater Company and completed a two-year arts-focused internship at the 92nd Street Y as a Teen Producer, experiences that shaped her instincts as both an artist and a collaborator. Whether in front of the camera, behind it, or on stage, Noemi is drawn to storytelling in every form. Her passions include acting, photography, and directing.

Linda Williams taught courses on popular moving-image genres (pornography, melodrama, and “body genres” of all sorts). She has also taught courses on Oscar Micheaux and Spike Lee, Luis Bunuel and Pedro Almodovar, melodrama, film theory, selected “sex genres,” and The Wire. Her books include a psychoanalytic study of Surrealist cinema,...

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against the president Salvador Allende. In London, she was a co-founder of Artists for Democracy in...

V. Vale is a San Francisco cultural historian, writer, keyboard player and, as Vale Hamanaka, was a member of the initial configuration of Blue Cheer. In 1977 V. Vale founded as sole proprietor Search & Destroy, San Francisco’s first Punk Rock publication. In 1980, V. Vale launched as sole proprietor RE/SEARCH. V. Vale is most likely the longest lasting (and still active) Punk publisher. Although Vale...