A documentary crew said it filmed a scene in San Francisco on Wednesday saying their cars were broken into and thieves stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment.

The incident happened in broad daylight at the end of Lombard Street.

Eli Steele and Terrell Allen, the two independent filmmakers, told NBC Bay Area that they tried calling 911 to report the robbery. But they have been separated several times.

“We were parked behind this red truck,” Steele said.

Just after 11 a.m., Steele and his crew left his rental SUV for just 10 minutes to film a scene. When they returned, they found his car’s window had been smashed and his camera equipment stolen.

“We lost $30,000. So it’s a great achievement,” he said.

Minutes later, Allen said he saw people trying to break into another car.

“I run over there and say, ‘Hey, what are you doing?’ Stop it, stop it!’” Allen said. “Pulls a gun on me. Of course I’ll stop. They have moved three cars down. They didn’t walk a block. They didn’t move on, they didn’t go. They literally knocked out three cars.”

NBC Bay Area reached out to the San Francisco Police Department for comment Wednesday but received no response. However, police told the San Francisco Standard that they have the filmmaker’s police reports.

No arrests have been made and investigations are ongoing.

There is more about this from Emma Goss in the video above.

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The three-part documentary series explores the US water crisis and will feature a number of prominent thought leaders and scientists including Michael S. Regan, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency; US Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey; Erik D. Olson, senior strategist at the Natural Resources Defense Council; and more

First episode available from April 21st

As issues of access to safe drinking water make headlines in the United States, ABC Owned Television Stations is partnering with ABC News and National Geographic to produce a three-part documentary series entitled “Our America: Trouble on Tap.” The first episode will air April 21 — in time for Earth Day on April 22 — on ouramericaabc.com and April 22 on Hulu. The trailer is available Here Now.

“Our America: Trouble on Tap” is a three-part documentary series — produced by Tracy J. Wholf, coordinating producer of the climate division at ABC News, and Justin Allen, executive producer at ABC Owned Television Stations — that explores pollution, climate change and aging infrastructure, which is gradually becoming an opportunity for more and more communities in undermine the United States’ access to free and potable drinking water. Over the past few decades, the safe and available drinking water that many Americans have taken for granted is now under threat. ABC Owned Television Stations and its data journalism division, whose data was used to show the severity of the contamination across the United States and the communities it affected, will work with ABC News and National Geographic to take viewers across America to witness this development to investigate crisis and offer solutions along the way.

“Our America: Trouble on Tap” is a powerful and thoughtful examination of the growing problems surrounding Americans’ access to safe drinking water. The series brings together the talent and expertise of the amazing teams at ABC Owned Television Stations, National Geographic and ABC News with national and local experts and leaders to ask what we can do to solve these problems and protect people’s health to protect across the country. I’m incredibly proud of the work these teams have done to bring this informative and timely topic to light,” said Debra OConnell, President, Disney Entertainment, Networks.

“Problems surrounding access to clean water vary across the country,” added Chad Matthews, president of ABC Owned Television Stations. “Our data journalism team examines information specific to local markets and works to tell stories that provide viewers with better context and understanding of how water – or lack of water – can affect them. We focus on specific problems, possible solutions, and tell the stories of those who experience it firsthand.”

The documentary series will consist of three hour-long episodes:

• The first episode, “Life with Forever Chemicals” premiere April 21, takes a look at per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance contamination in North Carolina. This episode takes viewers to Cape Fear, North Carolina, often referred to as ground zero for PFAS water pollution, or water contaminated by toxic “forever” chemicals. For decades, more than 250,000 people’s drinking water supply was contaminated after a chemical company dumped toxic PFAS into the Cape Fear River. Years after the contamination first became public knowledge, the region continues to grapple with ongoing health problems, multiple lawsuits and the construction of costly water treatment plants as it grapples with decades of chronic exposure.
• The second episode, “Chicago’s $8 Billion Water Problem”Premiered in July and examine lead pipes and water infrastructure in Chicago. More than 30 years after the federal government banned lead in plumbing, lead-based plumbing still carries water to millions of homes across America, including Chicago, which has one of the highest concentrations of lead plumbing in the country. With an estimated 400,000 lead pipes serving Chicago-area residents with water, “this is an $8 billion problem,” according to Chicago Water Commissioner Andrea Cheng. This episode examines the key water infrastructure issues to see if bills like Senator Cory Booker’s Water Infrastructure Funding Act and others will help ease some of the financial burden on communities and really help solve the many problems faced by… affecting residents, often in communities that are predominantly Black, Latino and Indigenous.
• The third episode, “Drilling in California’s Water Crisis”Premiered in August and focus on the impact of the drought in California. As of late November 2022, the US Drought Monitor showed that nearly 85% of California was experiencing severe drought conditions or more. While current drought conditions have changed due to recent winter 2023 rainfall, California continues to experience statewide water emergencies as resources continue to vary based on current conditions. This episode takes viewers to Orosi, California to check in with a family whose water supply is due to expire by the state in four months. What happens to the water they use for drinking, cooking and bathing? California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Water Resilience and Storage Plan Under Review; and the process of subsidence, the gradual subsidence or subsidence of an area of ​​land, is also studied, including the process in relation to water and the effects it can have on land.

The series will premiere April 22 linearly across eight ABC networks: ABC7/WABC-TV New York, ABC7/KABC-TV Los Angeles, ABC7/WLS-TV Chicago, 6abc/WPVI-TV Philadelphia, ABC7/KGO-TV San Francisco, ABC13/KTRK-TV Houston, ABC11/WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham and ABC30/KFSN-TV Fresno. It will be available on 24/7 streaming platforms, 32 connected TV apps on streaming platforms Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Roku and April 22nd on Hulu.

ABC Owned Television Stations, which collectively reach 23% of all US television homes, are committed to producing high-impact content that represents diverse issues and voices in communities and newsrooms across the country. “Our America: Trouble on tap” will aim to educate audiences about the complex challenges facing citizens and legislators alike when it comes to accessing safe drinking water in the United States. The series will feature scientists, government officials and activists, and amplify the voices of a range of individuals and families directly affected by these water issues.

To view the trailer for “Our America: Trouble on tap,” Visit ouramericaabc.com.

For more information on ABC Owned Television Stations streaming channels, visit: ABC7/WABC-TV New York, ABC7/KABC-TV Los Angeles, ABC7/WLS-TV Chicago, 6ABC/WPVI-TV Philadelphia, ABC7/KGO- TV San Francisco, ABC13/KTRK-TV Houston, ABC11/WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham, and ABC30/KFSN-TV Fresno.

About ABC-owned TV stations

ABC’s eight proprietary channels are cross-platform leaders in local news and information. Collectively the No. 1 in all US television, reaching 23% of homes and more than 34 million total viewers and 62 million digital visitors per month, with a record 2.2 billion minutes streamed, the eight channels consist of WABC-TV New York, KABC-TV Los Angeles, WLS-TV Chicago, WPVI-TV Philadelphia, KGO-TV San Francisco, KTRK-TV Houston, WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham and KFSN-TV Fresno. WABC-New York has been #1 in the country for 19 years.

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The ‘Bad Axe’ documentary continues to earn awards as it makes the rounds at film festivals around the country.

Filmmaker David Siev’s chronicle of his hometown during the COVID-19 pandemic made its debut in March at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas, where it won special jury and audience awards.

Making its Michigan debut at the Freep Film Festival in late April, ‘Bad Axe’ won the festival’s Audience Choice Award. It also earned the Grand Jury Prize at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival earlier this month, and last week Siev took home the Special Jury Honorable Mention Award at the Center for Asian American Media CAAMFest in San Francisco.

The film was also recently screened at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival and the Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride, Colorado.

Siev’s film is described in promotional materials as a “real-time portrait of 2020 (that) unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Cambodian Killing Fields.”

In early April, IFC Films acquired worldwide rights to “Bad Axe.” IFC Films distributes mainly independent films under its name, select foreign films and documentaries under its Sundance Selects label and genre films under its IFC Midnight label. It’s an offshoot of the Independent Film Channel, owned by AMC Networks.

The film is expected to debut in theaters and on video-on-demand services later this year.

One of the film’s executive producers is Jeff Tremaine, a director, screenwriter and producer best known for co-creating the MTV reality stunt show “Jackass” with Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville.

According to the film’s website, Siev, a graduate of the University of Michigan, left Bad Ax for Los Angeles and landed a home at Tremaine’s production company, Gorilla Flicks, where he spent several years “finessing the art of guerrilla filmmaking.”

“Bad Axe” made its hometown debut on May 1 before a packed house at the Bad Ax Theatre, where it was met with an overwhelmingly positive response.

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SAN JOSE (KPIX) – The sports world reacts to the comparison of the NFL design process to the slavery of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the six-part Netflix documentary about his life, “Colin in Black & White.”

The former star athlete said potential conscripts will be stabbed, stabbed and examined during the NFL Combine and “no boundary will be respected, no dignity will be left intact”. The episode then shows a group of black rookie football players moving from a training field to an auction block.

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Lorenzo Neal, who played 16 seasons in the NFL and went through the Combine, said Kaepernick used poor wording.

“If you’re talking about a combine, combine Tom Brady, arguably the greatest quarterback of all time, he’s been through it – there were no exceptions,” said Neal. “You judge who you are. They want to make sure they are getting the goods they are getting because they are preparing to pay you a handsome salary. But isn’t that the case when you’re interviewing for a job? “

Neal said that when people talk about slavery, many actually “have no idea what it is like to be beaten, whipped or mutilated”.

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“I think if Colin makes that statement and then tries to go back to a place in a league that you feel is treating you like a slave, he just has to be careful using that type of language” said Neal.

Dr. Shaun Fletcher, assistant professor of public relations and sports communications for the state of San Jose, used to work on the other side of combine harvesters.

He worked for the operational side of a college football team and attended combines. He said there is a process of the pre-design process that cameras are not allowed to capture, but he said he still wouldn’t compare it to slavery.

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“Hands are stretched to see how wide their hands are, they are moved and pulled in unusual positions,” Fletcher said. “The combine ended when it ended, not in incapacitation (sic) and death. It didn’t end with the lines breaking up. For many it ended in generational wealth. I am sure that many players would tell you in the end, because I have spoken to many of them myself, that they would do it again. “

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(CBS local) – Forest fires have been and remain one of the greatest problems plaguing the United States of America and the world. As recently as this month, thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes after a rapidly spreading fire hit Sacramento and Northern California. The story of the forest fires and the problems they cause our world is the subject of a new CBSN Films documentary by twice Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker, titled Bring Your Own Brigade.

The film is a two-hour documentary that will premiere in limited numbers on Friday, August 6th, and will be screened on August 20th on Paramount +. CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith spoke to Walker about being in California to share about the forest fires, what she has learned from the experience and future of American forests.

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“It’s been an amazing journey to make this film. I’ve made a lot of documentaries, but this one was about where I moved to. I moved to California and the hills were on fire. I come from England and thought about the last great fire in 1666, ”said Walker. “I thought we solved the fire and I come to California and thought why is the hill burning and what are we doing wrong. I have accompanied individual firefighters and local residents through these fatal incidents and it has been quite a long journey. In some places it was terrifying, moving and incredibly impressive. The film has many different chapters and the characters in the film are incredibly stunning. “

“Bring Your Own Brigade” celebrated its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2021 and shows you what a wild fire season in California looks like. It also shows what the personal toll of these natural disasters looks like.

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“I really wanted to understand what it means to lose your home,” said Walker. “I couldn’t believe the decision that people would stay and defend their own home. I am a chicken. If there’s a fire, you can hear me having a panic attack in the film. I was scared, even if the fire was a bit far away. I was really impressed with the firefighters and first responders and the residents who chose and stayed to fight. “

Walker said the film’s biggest challenge is addressing all of the different levels of the fire problem in this country and around the world. The filmmaker hopes that viewers can learn more about the history of the forest fires, why they continue to be such a problem, and the physical and emotional toll they are taking on people around the world.

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“I didn’t just want to give people a horror movie experience because it’s really worse than a horror movie, because it’s just the worst thing to be in those hellish experiences,” said Walker. I wanted people to understand exactly what was going on in these incidents. The audience can put together what is true and what is really happening. I think we can and will live better with the reality of fire in our landscape in the future. “

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From Donna Domino

A Minnesota man was pulled over for expired vehicle registration. Another man was stopped in New York City on suspicion of selling loose cigarettes. A Missouri teenager was interviewed about jaywalking. A Baltimore man was arrested for carrying a knife.

All were black men who died in recent years following confrontations with police over minor crimes known as misdemeanors.

The most notorious incident was George Floyd, who died while being arrested for handing over a fake $ 20 bill in a Minneapolis grocery store. Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis man who kneeled by Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes after being handcuffed and lying face down, was recently convicted of murder.

In a recent virtual event, local and state law enforcement officials discussed a new documentary, titled “Racially Accused: America’s Crimes Problem,” which addresses these cases. Directed by Robert Greenwald and presented by the nonprofit Brave New Films, which is free to watch online, the film explores the devastating effects of the criminal justice system on minority communities.

Many cases of police violence that led to recent racial justice protests began with alleged low-level offense violations such as jaywalking, spitting, passing on fake bills, selling loose cigarettes, and a broken taillight.

Approximately 13 million Americans, mostly colored people, are charged annually with “idiot” offenses. They make up 80% of the country’s criminal cases, as the film showed.

“Offenses are the insidious first step in the racialization of crimes, petty crimes that can turn into police violence and death for blacks and browns,” said Paul Delano Butler, Georgetown University law professor who wrote “Chokehold,” in the film.

The police often treat petty, harmless behavior as a crime, noted Irene Joe, a law professor at the University of California at Davis. “Misdemeanors for trivial or fabricated things can have dire consequences for people, turning into years of incarceration or affecting a person’s ability to get hired,” she said.

Offenses are also a great source of income. The prison fees bring the city and county treasuries an estimated $ 80 billion annually. Traffic violations alone earn more than $ 6 billion a year. People are often caught between paying fines and being able to drive to work, and many cities rely on fines to keep their budgets, the film showed. The bail industry alone generates $ 2 billion in profits annually.

People have lost homes and jobs due to offenses related to suspended car licenses, and thousands jailed for offenses during the pandemic have died of COVID, the film reads.

Lisa James, who became a criminal justice activist after she was jailed for desperately feeding her children in a supermarket, said the offense derailed her life. “At the time I remembered, I thought, ‘I don’t know what they’re going to do, I don’t know what’s going to happen, but my kids are hungry. ‘And I just started feeding them stuff as we were walking through the store. “She was arrested by an undercover police officer.

“I remember coming home from prison thinking I could start my life over,” James recalled. “I didn’t know – I was so naive – that society had put in place a system that was absolutely against me and that made it from one level to the next in my life. I began to see the truth about how the system was designed to keep me from moving forward, to keep me from having my kids, to keep me from getting a job, to keep me from doing anything productive to do. “

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said the film showed how the judicial system can have catastrophic and long-term effects. “Most families and most parents are so concerned because these supposedly minor crimes become major events that can escalate in seconds and change your life forever,” she said.

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said misdemeanors could result in someone committing future crimes they would otherwise never have committed. “It introduces people to the criminal justice system in ways that can dramatically affect their life courses,” he said. “Millions of Americans experience this every year. This affects their ability to find work, secure shelter or avoid deportation. “

Boudin pointed to the broad power of the police force to arrest and arrest people for low-level crimes through near-uncontrolled discretion that is not fairly enforced. “It can lead to jail terms that turn a person’s life upside down and cause them to lose homes or custody of their children, often in ways that never make the news the way the devastating results of Daunte Wright did and George Floyd, often in ways that it is more damaging, more subtle ways that continue a system of oppression against the poorest in the country. “

Offenses are mainly enforced against color communities, Boudin said. “These are communities that are already struggling with limited access to education, housing, health care and employment, and access to government services,” he said. “So many misdemeanor crimes are related to poverty. Wealthy people can buy their way out of prison no matter how strong the evidence, while others languish behind bars simply because of their poverty. “

Watch “Racially Accused: America’s Crimes Problem” Visit https://misdemeanorfilm.org/.

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