Yoel Iskindir
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Yoel Iskindir shares about his upbringing in Marin County and what inspired him to pursue a film career.
My family escaped war and famine in East Africa in the 1980s, raising my sister and me to believe that, as first-generation Americans, we had a responsibility to reshape our future. But the world already had a story for people like us. Growing up, you didn’t see Black people on TV running for office. You saw mugshots. You saw athletes or entertainers, rarely scholars, leaders or storytellers. That absence motivated me to become a filmmaker: to amplify underrepresented voices and reclaim the narrative that shape how we see ourselves…