Alexandra Lacey
Director/Producer
Alexandra has worked for over 20 years as an independent filmmaker, producer and director in the Bay Area. In her capacity as producer, she has worked with a diverse array of clients from many different fields, helping them craft visual stories that allow them to effectively reach their audiences.
Her creative work emphasizes memory, the profound role of place in the human experience, and the power of oral history to connect the personal with the political. Weaving individual stories together to create a more complex understanding of history, Alexandra’s films have screened and been recognized at numerous festivals worldwide and she is currently in the final stages of post-production with her documentary, Fiji Memory, Colonial Time. Her interest in anti-displacement work led her to the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, where she contributes as a video producer and oral history coordinator.
In addition, Alexandra is a passionate educator. She has worked as an instructor and a guest speaker at numerous institutions. She taught for many years at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco at the crossroads of media studies and architecture and is currently at City College of San Francisco and De Anza Community College, teaching directing and video production.
Kathleen Dargis
Editor/Producer
Kathleen has over 22 years of experience (and counting!) working on a diverse selection of creative projects ranging from broadcast television to multimedia performances. Her personal interest is working on documentaries, non-profit profiles and educational content with mission-driven themes and character-driven portraits which are short in form, though certainly never short on character!
She has co-produced and edited independent documentary shorts which have screened at numerous international film festivals and has worked with UCSF, 3rd i Films, Citizen Film, Junoon Pictures, ShadowLight Productions, History Channel, Stanford Health Care and various projects for Stanford University.
Kathleen has volunteered at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, CA, a non-profit art center for adults with disabilities. Her involvement at Creative Growth Art Center supports her personal interest in creative collaboration and her commitment in expanding media arts to a wider range of media makers.
Tamsin Orion
Producer/Director/Cinematographer
Working as an independent creative for over 20 years, Tamsin has a wide-ranging knowledge of what it takes to turn real human stories into compelling film. She has produced short and long-format documentaries on a variety of social issue and arts topics, as well as commissioned ethnographic, educational, promotional, and marketing programs.
She is the final stages of post-production on the feature length film Forever [Izzy] Young, which brings a vital character of the 1960s folk music revival to screen. She holds a master’s degree in Documentary Filmmaking from Stanford University, and her films have screened at film festivals worldwide, won a variety of awards, and are in international distribution.
Tamsin has co-taught various aspects of filmmaking at Stanford University, City College of San Francisco, Olympic Valley Screenwriters Workshop, and JAM (Junction Arts & Media). Tamsin has volunteered as a screener at the SF International Film Festival as well as WRIF (White River International Film Festival).
Before becoming a filmmaker, Tamsin earned a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Vassar College, directed programs at homeless shelters, and was a commercial salmon fisher in Alaska.