Discussions with Filmmakers Series
Join us for a viewing of Holding Out followed by a discussion with documentary creator Rebecca Gourevitch. Winner of the Workers Unite! Film Festival (2017) for Best Documentary Short, Holding Out shines a light on the eviction crisis reaching epic proportions in San Francisco, while the city’s tenants must navigate changing landscapes and communities. Holding Out questions the relationship between developers and City Hall, exposing what is at stake, and who stands to lose, in San Francisco’s quest to assert its role as the tech capital of the world.
Rebecca Gourevitch is a Project Archivist with UC Merced. Rebecca holds a BA in Sociology and an MA in Social Documentation, both from UC Santa Cruz. Rebecca also holds an MA in Photographic Preservation & Collections Management from the University of Rochester. From 2011 – 2014, she worked as a tenant organizer with the San Francisco Tenants Union and helped form Eviction Free San Francisco, a mutual aid working group. In 2015, Rebecca was a Human Rights Center Fellow at UC Berkeley working in collaboration with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s storytelling campaign. The following year she completed the documentary film entitled Holding Out (2016).
Event Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Event Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Event Length: 60 Min (including film screening)
Event Location: Zoom ( A link will be provided upon registration)
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