ame Changers

In celebration of Women’s History Month and SJ2026, join us for a dynamic evening of art, film, music, and influential change makers who are leveling the playing field for women in sports. Presented in partnership with Mel Day and the Wall of Song Project, Positive Coaching Alliance, Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula, and Grassroots Baseball, producers of the film See Her Be Her.

Featured Panelists

Perry Barber, writer, musician, and professional baseball umpire 
Khali Blackman Newton, Director of Coalitions & Community Impact, Positive Coaching Alliance 
Ariel Castillo, Assistant Director, Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula

Featured Films and Artwork

See Her Be Her: Trailer by filmmaker and photographer Jean Fruth 
Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Film by Talia Grossman, artist and athlete 
Feeling Good: Film by Mel Day, artist and creator of the Wall of Song Project

San José Museum of Art: Film Art / Art Film
Friday, November 7th, 7-9pm

An evening of short films by artists and filmmakers from the avant-garde to the deeply personal.

Featuring:

Kathy Aoki
Mel Day
Michelle Boule
Robin Lasser
No Friends Club
Mitch Truong

Part painting, part performance, part film, Painting Cathedral Rock is a quiet meditation on the unstable edges of vision, cinematic spectacle, and subjectivity. A silhouetted figure washes, cleans, and paints the iconic view of Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona—a sacred Indigenous site and popular tourist destination. Ambiguous, shifting references emerge from the cinematic and spiritual to climate change and landscape painting—inviting a ritualistic, open-ended encounter and heightened looking beyond the squares of our current screens.

Directed, edited, and performed by Mel Day
Produced with the support of the Sedona Artist Residency, Sedona Arts Center/Sedona AIR Bay Area Group organized by Melissa Wyman.
Filmed at the Gretchen Warren Interfaith Chapel, Verde Valley School, Arizona. 
Video editing assistance: Justin Edwards; Cinematography and Sound: James Kelley for Shot by Ryan

2026

SUNDIAL FILM FESTIVAL, BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT AWARDMarch 21 at 7pm, 2026, Cascade Theatre, Redding, California
NEW YORK SHORTS AWARDS, Nominee
TORONTO ART FILM SPIRIT AWARDS, Nominee
LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL FILM SHORTS, Official Selection (March, 2026)
CAULDRON INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
Salt Lake City, Utah

DUMBO FILM FESTIVAL, Semi-finalist for Official Selection

2025

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART
Film Art / Art Film Fest
Nov. 7th, 2025