Mabel Valdiviezo

On Sunday, April 5, we had a local screening of our short “Soledad Is Gone Forever” at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival.   Isabel Allende, the world famous author attended the screening of “Isabel Allende,”an enlightening documentary about her life.  Brava Theatre was packed and filled with vibrant energy.  Isabel and I shared the stage after the screening and had  a wonderful Q&A.  She is brave, adventurous, generous and filled with inner female power.  I have been in a state of amusement and great inspiration ever since.

DIY Days in San Francisco was truly amazing. It was the most memorable experience I have had so far about
emerging forms of storytelling and the future of filmmaking. I feel like I just woke up in a new dimension where all realities converge!

I was intrigued by futurist and entrepreneur,  Jerry Paffendorf, and his enigmatic presentation about virtual worlds and gaming and their impact on storytelling. It’s great that someone out there who is not a filmmaker by trade, is indeed creating, recreating and repurposing stories that are immediately broadcast to the world. What does this mean for filmmakers used to working with traditional tools? Have we become obsolete already?

On the contrary, this leap in technology will allow us to free ourselves from the demands of production as we know it.  And stories will no longer be in the hands of the filmmaker’s creative team.

Lost Zombies created by Skot Leach show us the path to the future today. Lost Zombies is a community generated mock documentary where the audience becomes the creative force behind an evolving feature-length film. I am myself ready to experiment with Machinima and make my most low budget short film in Second Life.

To learn more about DIY Days San Francisco go to DIYDAYS.com