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Filmmaker, Podcaster, and Speaker
art heals all wounds podcast
How do we change the world? One artist at a time.
welcome to the neighborhood documentary film
This remarkable story of legendary Berkeley social activist Mable “Mama” Howard and her daughter, renowned artist Mildred Howard, illuminates the power of civic engagement while incorporating broader issues of gentrification. This documentary threads together a multiplicity of Bay Area stories centered on social and economic justice and examines the fragile nature of change over two generations.
unearthing the dream documentary film
A small-town African American community, forced to accept second-class materials for its schools, refuses to accept a second-class education for its children, giving rise to Black schools that inspired and cultivated success and pride.
shelter in displacement short
In the earliest days of the pandemic, artist Victor Mavedzenge shares a vision of community that is inclusive, cutting through the intangible barrier between the housed and unhoused. Part of the COVIDeos collection from Filmsight.
bio
Pam Uzzell is a documentary filmmaker and podcaster living in Oakland, CA. She is the host of the podcast Art Heals All Wounds and the director of three independent documentaries, Some Call It Heaven (2007), Unearthing the Dream (2012), and Welcome to the Neighborhood (2018). Welcome to the Neighborhood, the story of how the Bay Area housing crisis has pushed out one of Berkeley’s most prominent artists, has been broadcast as part of KQED’s Truly CA series. Unearthing the Dream was broadcast on Arkansas Public Television as part of its Independent Producer Series. Pam’s latest short film, Shelter in Displacement, (2020) features the work of artist Victor Mavedzenge and was selected as part of the de Young Open. She is currently working on a video installation funded through a Berkeley Art Works Projects grant about a vision of community that crosses the intangible boundary between housed and unhoused residents.