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The Last Season

The Last Season

By SF based filmmaker Sara Dosa
SF International Film Festival
April 25, Friday, 6:45pm @ Kabuki Cinema, San Francisco
April 27, Sunday, 12:30pm @ BAM/PFA Cinema, Berkeley
May 5, Monday, 3:30pm @ Kabuki  Cinema, San Francisco
Facebook: facebook.com/TheLastSeasonFilm
Twitter: @LastSeasonFilm
Tickets: http://bit.ly/1hu3iFo

Amid the bustling world of Central Oregon’s wild mushroom hunting camps, the lives of two former soldiers intersect. Roger, a 75 year-old sniper with the US Special Forces in Vietnam, and Kouy, a 46 year-old platoon leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Freedom Fighters who battled the Khmer Rouge, come together each fall to hunt the elusive matsutake mushroom, Continue reading →


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Walking in Memory of Reuben Paul Santos, Iraq War Veteran

Out Of The Darkness Community Walk
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Lake Merced, San Francisco

This month the Veterans Media Center of San Francisco pays tribute to the memory of Reuben Paul “Chip” Santos and to the courage of his parents Paula and Ruben. On Sunday, September 23, I participated in the Out of the Darkness Walk* at Lake Merced here in San Francisco. I went especially to support the Santos family who lost their dear son Reuben, an Iraq War Veteran, to suicide. Paula and Ruben speak publicly about their loss in an effort to create greater public awareness and response regarding Veteran suicide. Continue reading →