California Story Fund
California Story Fund projects funded Fall 2007:
Northern California
- California Croatian Stories Project
Slavonic Cultural Center
San Francisco
Project Director: John Daley
Documenting the history of Croatians in the San Francisco Bay Area - Chinese Whispers: Sierra Stories
The Arts Council of Placer County
Auburn
Project Director: Rene Yung
Remembering Chinese workers who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad - Field Disclosure: An Oral History
National Steinbeck Center
Salinas
Project Directors: Lori Wood and Deborah Silguero-Stahl
National Steinbeck Center to create documentary on the history of agriculture in the Salinas Valley from 1960 to 2000 - Hi Good and the Last Yahis
Butte County Historical Society
Oroville
Project Director: Lee Lynch
Teens to dramatize little-known incident in Yahi Indian history - Leap of Faith
Many Threads
San Francisco
Project Director: Lina Hoshina
A short documentary film about how Sebastopol teens took action against a hate crime in the wake of World War II - Up From the Understory
Center for the Study of Regional Change,
UC Davis
Project Director: Jonathan London
Local youth to document community efforts to revitalize communities in eastern Calaveras County - Wartime, Our Times
KALW-FM
San Francisco
Project Director: Matthew Martin
Teens and elders to tell stories of war
Southern California
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Chinatown Remembered:
An Oral History Project
Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Los Angeles
Project Director: William Gow
College students to document life in L.A.’s Chinatown during the 1930s and 1940s -
Eye for Eye:
The Punishment and Retribution Project
Cornerstone Theater
Los Angeles
Project Director: Laurie Woolery
Gathering and presenting stories of how the prison system affects individuals’ lives and communities -
Family Stories:
Sharing a Community’s Legacy
Pasadena Museum of History
Pasadena
Project Director: Ardis Willwerth
Museum to research and create an exhibit based on the stories of six families from different ethnic groups - Going for the Gold
Department of Contracts and Grants
University of Southern California
Los Angeles
Project Director: Michael Several
Documenting the creation of public art on Gold Line rail line in Los Angeles -
Las Grandes de East L.A. and Boyle Heights:
Women as Community Builders
California State University, Los Angeles
University Auxiliary Services
Los Angeles
Project Director: Dionne Espinoza
East Los Angeles high school students to document the lives of 10 notable women in the community - A Look at Work in Bixby Knolls
Historical Society of Long Beach
Long Beach
Project Director: Julie Bartolotto
Boys and Girls Club members to interview local Bixby Knolls residents about their work and then dramatize their stories -
Mi Musica, My Road to Life
Institute for Socio-Economic Justice
Brawley
Project Director: Eric Reyes
Telling the story of the political and musical evolution of Imperial Valley music groups -
Movement and Migration:
Our Family Journeys
Zimmer Children’s Museum
Los Angeles
Project Director: Shifra Teitelbaum
L.A. youth to gather and record their families’ stories of movement and migration for radio broadcast - Native American Voices from the Mojave Desert
Main Street Murals
Barstow
Project Director: David Brockhurst
Kids to learn about Native American history and culture of Mojave region; create murals illustrating Native American life -
Perspectives on the American Dream:
Views From Immigrant and Refugee Teens in the San Diego/Tijuana border Region
Media Arts Center
San Diego
Project Director: Ethan van Thillo
Youth to create short video documentary on their view of the American Dream -
Picturing Californian Ethnoburbs:
Documentary Photography by San Gabriel Valley Teens
Friends of the Chinese American Museum
Los Angeles
Project Director: Pauline Wong
High school students to use photography to document their diverse communities - Telling the Streets:
True Urban Legends
San Diego Public Library
San Diego
Project Director: Lynn Whitehouse
San Diego’s homeless youth to tell their urban legends -
This is the L.A. River
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles
Project Director: Paolo Davanzo
Youth to make documentary film about the L.A. River -
Vietnamese Indigenous Religion Finds a New Home in California
University of Southern California,
Center for Religion and Civic Culture
Los Angeles
Project Director: Janet Hoskins
Documenting a little-known religion from Vietnam -
When Will Punishment End?
Stories by Formerly Incarcerated Women
University Corporation Northridge
Project Director: Marta Lopez-Garza
Formerly incarcerated women reveal struggles of reentering society in video documentary