Author: Jill Damatac in Conversation

Sunday, 9/14/2025
2:00 - 5:00
Koret Auditorium
Koret Lobby
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A
Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room B
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

Please note: Jose Antonio Vargas is unable to make the program. Jill Damatac's conversation partner is To Be Determined.

Author Jill Damatac will discuss her new book, Dirty Kitchen, in which she dissects the complex layers of migration and perception through food, colonial history, and her own stories of being undocumented in America.

The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A, wrapping up at 4:30 p.m., and then a meet-and-greet.

Jill Damatac is a writer and filmmaker born in the Philippines, raised in the US, and now a UK citizen, she lives in the SF Bay Area. Her film and photography work has been featured on the BBC, Time, and film festivals worldwide; her short documentary film Blood and Ink (Duo at Tinta), about the indigenous Filipino tattooist Apo Whang Od, was an official selection at the Academy Award–qualifying DOC NYC, winning best documentary at Ireland’s Kerry Film Festival. Jill holds an MSt in Creative Writing from Cambridge University and an MA in Documentary Film from the University of the Arts London.

Connect:

Jill Damatac - Website

Filipino American Interest

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This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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