Sawan Images

Those of you who didn’t make it to Slingshot Hip Hop in Berkeley last Friday night missed a great indie film.  I know I regretted not being able to make it.  However, after the film, in Oakland hosted by Eastside Arts Alliance, a concert was put on that featured the group DAM (here’s their Myspace), [...]

The historic Castro theatre was the site of opening night for the Arab Film Festival. Youssef and Armida entrusted me to take additional pictures of this event. The amount of people and flashes felt very “red carpet.” Here are just a handful of candid portraits from that night.