Fay Darmawi is a film festival producer, community development banker, and urban planner using all forms of storytelling and media to achieve social justice. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the SF Urban Film Fest, a film festival focused on civic engagement inspired by great storytelling which just completed its 7th season in February 2021, as a virtual film festival. Her 25 years of experience as a leader in affordable housing finance, as well as five years of screenwriting training, informs her community storytelling work.
Fay wants everyone to understand how we’re impacted by urban planning in ways large and small that effect the quality as well as the duration of our lives. Everything we see all around us from the practicalities of how we live, work, and commute to issues of social justice is “by design.” People make choices about how we live together. Once you have that awareness, what are you going to do about it? How are you going to change an unjust world now that you’re conscious of it?
If you want to see a better world, she believes it’s up to us to work together with other folks in your community and most importantly outside your community. Yes individual actions count, but you will be more effective if you work in coalitions and for the service of those who have been most harmed.
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- Instagram: @faywami, @sfurbanfilmfest
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