CLAIRE’S CRUNCH CAKE

A beloved 88 year old local baker, a former public television broadcaster, social justice activist, and the first Black mayor of San Mateo, reflects on her life and works in this creative documentary film.

Concept Synopsis

Claire's Crunch Cake is a short profile documentary film about 88-year-old baker, Claire Mack. Mack was one of the very first woman of color to enter the world of local television and broadcasting in the 70s. She worked at KCSM and KGO, hosting multiple talk and interview shows on major public affairs shows. Later she ran for office and became the first African American woman to be appointment the Mayor of San Mateo for three consecutive terms .Mack is a multi-talented personality- a poet/writer, a lifelong activist and now a businesswoman, who churns out crunch cakes from her kitchen bakery in San Mateo. Claire has fought against a lot of odds, championed social and racial equity in her community and now in her eighties still continues to fight for local issues.

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Meet the Filmmaker

Deepa Nair's work spans across documentary film, video, dance and text. Her video work explores the relationship between body, memory, movement, and affect. She is especially interested in ritualistic and ethnic dance and theatrical forms as sites of sacred connectivity and heightened affect.

Her experimental screen dance work, Navarasa, the Awakening, was part of International Video Exhibit at Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland in 2020. Her short dance documentary, The Nangiarkoothu Artist (2022) was the official selection at multiple film festivals in US and Canada.

Deepa holds an MPhil in English Literature from the University of Delhi, India and an MA in Cinema Studies from San Francisco State University. She was an Associate Professor of English Literature in New Delhi, India.She currently teaches Film Studies and Documentary Film Production at Chabot College.

Deepa is a member of Brown Girl Doc Mafia, BIPOC Doc Editors, A-Doc and Bichitra Collective .