December 2006 – CYMC is nearing completion of our special film project in collaboration with Imperial Silence Productions documenting the silencing of 1980’s lowrider car culture in San Francisco’s Mission District as well as the current state of sideshows and Bay Area scraper culture.

With the help of Kenyata Dibiase and Debra Koffler during the summer session, CYMC youth interns Ruben Palomares, Elliott McGregor, Bobby Gutter, and Justin Pasene captured some of the most significant voices on the original Mission District lowrider scene, like Roberto Hernandez, Valerie Tulier, Felipe Velez, Sandy Cuadra and Mitchell Salazar.

The film shows how history repeats itself with Bay Area car culture, where lowriders in the 80’s and scrapers now face the same challenges of racism, discrimination, and struggling as a community to keep their culture alive and strong. CYMC hopes to release the final cut of the film by February 2007. Heads Up!