Jen Gilomen (a.k.a. Jen G, like in kindergarten) is a filmmaker and D.P. whose heart and soul is in San Francisco, but who can often be found elsewhere, traveling and making films. By day she is Lead Developer of Strategic Initiatives at the Bay Area Video Coalition, working to develop innovative national initiatives for public media production, distribution, education, and collaboration. For two years she managed BAVCs Digital Storytelling Institute as producer, instructor, and advisor, helping over twenty California-based nonprofits to increase their technical capacity and harness media for social change. Her background is in film and video, web development, graphic design, media instruction, and communications. She has taught youth media programs, made countless Web sites for companies, nonprofits, and independent filmmakers, and produced nationally and internationally distributed films. Jens documentary In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Parents (director, 2005) won the Audience Award for Best Short at the 2005 Frameline Film Festival, went on to screen at festivals in most U.S. states and internationally, aired nationally on LinkTV in 2008, and is distributed by Frameline Distribution. Her other documentaries and short narrative works have screened in various festivals in over twenty countries. Her current projects include Ghosts of Appalachia (Co-Director and DP, HD, 56:40 for public broadcast), a documentary about coal mining in a small community in Eastern Kentucky; and a short experimental doc about 575 Castro, formerly Harvey Milks camera store and the epicenter of political organizing in Milks day (Co-Director, Cinematographer; Super8, 2008). In her spare time, Jen G acts as Cinematographer on documentary and narrative productions and takes pictures of everything she sees. http://forwardfilms.org | http://ghostsofappalachia.org