Neil Kendricks joins San Diego Filmmakers for an evening on making meaningful films.

Kendricks is a San Diego-based filmmaker, artist, photographer, educator, writer, and the Film Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. He earned a Master’s in Television, Film, and New Media from San Diego State University in 2006. He has written extensively about comics since the early 1990s and has taught an upper-division English course on comics and the graphic narrative at San Diego State University.

His short films such as 2002′s Loop have screened at numerous international film festivals including the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, the 2002 Havana Film Festival, and a special short-film screening at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival’s American Pavilion. The Michigan-born artist’s photography has also been exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Art, the African-American Museum of Fine Arts, and London’s Royal College of Art.