My filmmaking career took a whole new turn when I arrived in Berkeley to finish my undergraduate degree. The course material was challenging; we watched films unlike any I’d ever seen before (and have seen since). The students were passionate, project manager types, who pushed me to my limits. In some ways, the messages I delivered with my work at Cal brought me back to my roots. It was a return to the poignant activism that pulled me into the craft of filmmaking in the first place.