Let's Get Street Smart Ep. 5 Yoga & Mindfulness
ABOUT THIS FILM
Yoga and mindfulness have improved the lives of countless people. How might we extend these practices for wellbeing of unhoused youth?
ABOUT THE FILM
SERIES
The measure of a city is determined by how we treat our most vulnerable neighbors. Embarrassed, frustrated and determined,
San Franciscans redefine their city by taking on the homelessness crisis with the trademarks of the SF culture: innovation and activism.
Along the way, they also redefine what we mean by getting “street smart”.
LetsGetStreetSmart.com
ABOUT LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES
With comprehensive youth service programs located throughout
San Francisco, Larkin
Street Youth Services provides homeless youth between the ages of 12 and 24 with the help they need to get off the streets. Through a holistic, wraparound approach, we offer young people access to housing, education, employment and health services to help them rebuild their lives.
larkinstreetyouth.org
ABOUT
UCSF OSHER CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE SERVICES
At the UCSF
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, we offer a dynamic approach to health, healing and prevention by modern medicine, healthy lifestyle practices, and established healing approaches from around the globe. Our mission is to meet the need for a new model of care and daily living that promotes the healing and well-being of the whole person - mind, body and spirit - through
Exceptional Care,
Communication,
Collaboration and
Personal Sustainability.
www.osher.ucsf.edu
ABOUT
FOREST FEIN
As the director of the Larkin Street Youth Mindfulness
Program,
Forest has developed a unique program of meditation and yoga that supports both the physical and mental health of Larkin Street’s clients.
Having discovered the power of meditation in
1999, he has personal experience of its transformative effects. Through this program that he designed and now teaches, his students are given the opportunity to learn and develop skills that will support them as they step towards moving out of homelessness.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Micro-Documentaries is a Bay Area-based film production company that creates short, cinematic, thought provoking films that shed light on complex modern issues and inspire their audiences to engage. Founded in 2009, Micro-Documentaries has created thousands of short films that helped advance the humanitarian missions social and environmental pioneers in more than 30 countries. Purposeful businesses and nonprofits like the
Bono’s [
RED], eBay’s
Social Innovation team and the
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital count on Micro-Documentaries to engage their audiences in a way that is authentic, affordable and actionable.
www.micro-documentaries.com
FILM CREDITS
MASHA KARPOUKHINA DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JD LAFLEUR DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
ERIC FOINQUINOS &
ALEX TURANOV
MUSIC MASHA KARPOUKHINA
EDITOR JD LAFLEUR EDITOR CLAIRE RATINON CREATIVE PRODUCER PREETI MANKAR
DEB SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTIONS KIRAN GOLDMAN JULIN DIRECTOR OF
FIELD &
POST PRODUCTION JACQUELINE COLAVOLPE PRODUCTION MANAGER AUORA AHSAN PRODUCTION MANAGER TODD SCHULTE GRAPHIC DESIGN ANDREW TOLVE CONTENT STRATEGY YULU PR DISTRIBUTION BETH WICKERSON
WEB DEVELOPMENT AUORA AHSAN MEDIA MANAGEMENT SUSAN NELSON, ALICIA ANDERSON & ALEXANDER BESHER BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
PAMELA SIMPSON ACCOUNTING THERESA GONZALES ACCOUNTING CAROLE-LYNN
GLASS FINANCE, HR & OPERATIONS ANDRE KARPOV CUNNINGHAM PLACE MURAL DESIGN ANDRE KARPOV, JUBAL STEDMAN & CAREY LAMPRECHT MURAL PAINTING
2006
DIRECTED BY NATASHA DEGANELLO GIRAUDIE
SPECIAL THANKS TO SEATREK & 25TH AND CLEMENT PRODUCE MARKET STILL PHOTOGRAPHY BY
MIKE SHORT