Jennifer Hsu

Jennifer Hsu is currently the Festival Director for the San Diego Women Film Festival, and a video documentary-maker. She has an activist art media focus that pervades her work, and she works in the name of feminism, Arabism and the civil liberties movement. Her most recent video project, a collaboration with her partner, Jeremy Taylor, centers on Palestinian and Iraqi refugees living in Yarmouk, a refugee camp in Damascus, Syria. Jennifer has also worked extensively with Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival, TV show "UpFront with Reverend Jesse Jackson", and the University of Chicago Center for Urban School Improvement.

Sat Gwin

Her career in video/film production starts at Pasadena City College where she naturally gravitates towards the creative possibilities of non-linear editing. Edits environmental documentary "Up A Tree" (first place, PCC Film Festival in 1999). Bored with college life, Sat enlists in the Army in 2000, where she trains as a Broadcast Journalist. During a yearly two-week deployment, she co-anchors the morning news at Armed Forces Radio Network Europe, Frankfurt. After returning home, a short stint as a radio intern at KFLX, Flagstaff, leads to a position as an Account Executive. Sat is thrilled with writing and producing radio ads, but not too hip on bill collections. She arrives in San Diego in May of 2001 with a backpack and $40. Quickly tires of the "beach bum" lifestyle and seeks a new project/outlet. While browsing through the sandiego indymedia website, Sat discovers Alternate Focus. To date, she has edited or co-edited over ten shows for Alternate Focus using Final Cut Pro. Spends her days writing, editing or working on her sailboat (and home) "Arima," while evenings are spent serving Polynesian food and Mai Tai's at the Bali Hai restaurant in Shelter Island.

Aaron Seeley aaronseeley@alternatefocus.org

Twenty six year-old Aaron Seeley grew up in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah. Aaron attended UC-Santa Barbara, where as a Global Studies major he had the freedom to explore disciplines such as history, political science, economics, journalism, and film studies. After earning his B.A., Aaron moved to San Diego and joined the Alternate Focus team in 2003. Aaron contributes to the cause in various areas such as producing and acquiring shows, recruiting new volunteers, and expanding AF’s reach. With training from AF leaders, Aaron has developed video productions skills that have enabled him to start a business creating DVD’s for local musicians and to produce short documentaries for adoptive families that highlight their international adventures in parenthood (Aaron is the big brother of three adopted siblings…check out www.husemoller.com). In his spare time Aaron enjoys both disc and “real” golf and brewing his own beer.

Jeremy Taylor

As a long time San Diego resident, Jeremy Taylor has the permanent squint of a man who has lived too long under the decadent California sunshine. Recently he has taken shelter in front of the soft liquid crystal illumination provided by his computer monitor to assist Alternate Focus with our internet software systems. When Jeremy is not volunteering his time to Alternate Focus, he can be found buried in compliance reports for state and federal political campaigns or drinking darjeeling tea and penciling a sketchpad.

Chelsea Eiben

At the age of 20 Chelsea moved to San Diego from Thousand Oaks, California to attend SDSU and study television, film, and new media. At the time, she had produced commercials for school, interned at a TV Station (KADY in Oxnard, California) in addition to writing plays and producing one. In San Diego, she began studying Communications as the TV department became too impacted for transfers. After a semester studying communications in Singapore, her interest in politics deepened. She began with political cartoons for a school paper and reporting news on the school's radio station. She decided that her future should be in radio, though took a summer job working for the Democratic National Committee as a more available outlet for her political drive. The work for the DNC proved to be very rewarding, though short lived as the election marked the end of her job. Chelsea heard of Alternate Focus from a friend, and has since discovered the organization is an ideal match from her video editing talents and political drive.