Bay Meadows' last days: a family's story
Posted Mon, 06/29/2009 - 9:03am by Matt Itelson
Many immigrant families worked and lived behind the scenes at historic Bay Meadows in San Mateo, recently demolished to make way for luxury housing and high-end commercial space. The story of one of these families, during Bay Meadows’ final season, is told in a new documentary by Cinema alumna Tricia Creason-Valencia.
“Also Ran” tells the story of the Muñoz-Martinez family, undocumented immigrants, in their “Also Ran” is featured at the exhibition “Journeys” at Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara through July 19.
An award-winning filmmaker, Creason-Valencia (M.F.A., ’02) is one of three recipients of the 2009 Arts Council Silicon Valley Artists Fellowship Awards. Creason-Valencia and her SF State classmates Meadow Holmes and Amy Happ founded Flacafilms, a production company that has made films exploring women’s issues, religion and adoption.
