Upcoming events
A short work-in-progress documentary film sample: Sign My Name To Freedom
Join local filmmaker Bryan Gibel and members of the film team at the West Oakland Branch of the Oakland Public Library for a FREE work-in-progress documentary film sample of “Sign My Name to Freedom,” a feature documentary about iconic National Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin, her hidden life as a singer-songwriter, and her family’s experiences confronting Jim Crow-style segregation on the West Coast. The screening will be followed by a Q&A and discussion with Director Bryan Gibel, Outreach Producer Stephisha Ycoy-Walton, a West Oakland Librarian representative, and special guest Photographer Henry Raulston, who is celebrated for his incredible photographic documentation of the Black Panther Movement.
A short work-in-progress documentary film sample: Sign My Name To Freedom
Join local filmmaker Bryan Gibel and members of the film team at the West Oakland Branch of the Oakland Public Library for a FREE work-in-progress documentary film sample of “Sign My Name to Freedom,” a feature documentary about iconic National Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin, her hidden life as a singer-songwriter, and her family’s experiences confronting Jim Crow-style segregation on the West Coast. The screening will be followed by a Q&A and discussion with Director Bryan Gibel, Outreach Producer Stephisha Ycoy-Walton, a West Oakland Librarian representative, and special guest Photographer Henry Raulston, who is celebrated for his incredible photographic documentation of the Black Panther Movement.