Artists' Television Access (ATA) is hosting an exclusive film screening to celebrate new work from the Digital Motion Picture Department of Cogswell College and the Film Department of City College of San Francisco.

The Directing Classes show at ATA will take place on 18 May, 2007 and will feature a film from young Kurdish film student and active Kurdish American Youth member, Apo Welatparez, entitled From the Diary of a Kurd. This film was among those selected for exclusive screening at the ATA event.

Welaparez's film is about a Kurdish immigrant who had thought he had reached his destiny in America only to find that things are not as ideal as they seem.

ATA is a media arts gallery that hosts a series of film and video screenings, exhibitions and performances by emerging and established artists.

The Directing Classes show at ATA will feature works by the following upcoming talents:

Eva Allred
Alexis Kandanes
Apo Welatparez
Benny Ortega III
Filomeno Fiel
Omar Wilson
Nicholas Hoffman
Patricia Ovando
Mark Breimhorst
Pamela Casper
Andre Ponce
Tiffany Okeefe
Jessica Wright
Avi Cohen
Michael Doucette
Bradley Cameron
Christina Fimbres
Jason Ferguson
Daniel Martinez
Kiersten Lane
Amadeus Demarzi

The event will take place at the following location:

Director Students Film Festival/Screening
at ATA(Artists' Television Access on 21st and Valencia)

992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 824-3890
ata@atasite.org