Dan Goldes

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Dan Goldes

Biography

Dan Goldes is a documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco, CA. Dan's first film, "ub2", about language related to HIV, was an official selection of 40 U.S. and international film festivals, while his second, "Equal Justice Under Law", about the U.S. Supreme Court's marriage equality decision, played at 20 festivals around the world. "Arrested (Again)", a short documentary about nonviolent civil disobedience activist Karen Topakian, premiering at the San Francisco Green Film Festival in April 2017. It has screened at 55 festivals around the world to date. Dan's most recent short documentary, "Keeper of the Creek", about one man's work to protect an under-appreciated urban waterway, premiered in 2018 and has screened in Kuala Lumpur, Poland, and the U.S. Dan is in post-production on "5 Blocks", a long-form documentary about a San Francisco neighborhood undergoing its most dramatic change in 50 years. Dan is a graduate of the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking and has served on the screening committees of the San Francisco Green Film Festival and the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. He is in the residency program at San Francisco's Ninth Street Independent Film Center.

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