Filmmaker shares passion to revive culture and arts in East Bay NBC Bay Area [Video]

There is a growing effort to revive culture, arts and economy in the East Bay.

Recent movies like Oakland native Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ and ‘Freaky Tales’, a movie about the Town, is doing just that. One female director said there is a “renaissance” and a renewed interest happening right now.

Born and raised in the East Bay, award-winning film maker Joslyn Rose Lyons is making the art she wants and calling the shots, “the greatest filmmakers, musicians, artists – that’s what they do best. They get out of their own way and they just make the art.”

Rose Lyons directed the Emmy-nominated Showtime sports documentary, ‘STAND’. Her latest independent film is called, ‘The Masquerade’.

“Masquerade, in some ways, is my love letter to time,” she said. “Looking at what it means to have dreams deferred, what it mean to have dreams destroyed, and what it meant to have dreams that …