A Place to Call Home: An Inside Look at La Peña's Rotating Mural Project
Three generations of artists map the contours of their communities onto a rotating mural wall in the Latinx community center La Peña Cultural Center.
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Clara Perez MedinaDirector
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Clara Perez MedinaWriter
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Corey RaynorWriter
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Carlos PinoWriter
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Clara Perez MedinaDirector of Photography
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Corey RaynorProducer
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La Peña Cultural CenterProducer
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inez inok'tKey Cast
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Keena RomanoKey Cast
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Stephanie HooperKey Cast
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Thomás JonesKey Cast
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Cece CarpioKey Cast
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Angélica LópezKey Cast
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Lauryn MarshallKey Cast
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kahallaKey Cast
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Project Type:Documentary, Short
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Runtime:10 minutes 7 seconds
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Completion Date:May 13, 2024
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Production Budget:3,500 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Queer Women of Color International Film FestivalSan Francisco
United States
June 14, 2024
Clara is a queer/nonbinary Venezuelan documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Oakland, California who shines a loving light on transformative community work in the world. They blend their academic training in oral history and political economy with their cinematographic eye for the relationalities of care that make and unmake systems of domination. They are working towards their PhD in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley and have showcased their photographic and film work in community screenings and festivals around the Bay Area.
Currently they are working on a collaborative film project with Moms4Housing about the intergenerational lines of care that they have sustained in Oakland, before and after their famous 2019 occupation of a developer-owned house where they asserted that Housing is a Human Right!