Fay Darmawi

Fay Damawi is an urban planner, filmmaker, and curator leveraging the power of storytelling to achieve social justice in cities. She is the founder and executive director of the SF Urban Film Fest, a platform for films about diverse communities around the world, fighting to stay and thrive, and the debates about how urban policies support or undermine that. The SF Urban Film Fest interdisciplinary core team members of filmmakers, thinkers, urban planners, and designers were artists in residence at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for 2 years engaging with the community through storytelling and cultural co-production during the darkest days of the pandemic. She is also the executive producer of a new documentary film “SA AMIN:OUR PLACE” in collaboration with SOMA Pilipinas Cultural Heritage District that tells the story of the Filipino American community successfully creating a cultural hub while struggling against the trauma of urban renewal, gentrification and displacement

Fay earned a masters degree in city planning from M.I.T. and bachelors degree from the University of Pennsylvania, but her love of cities comes from her childhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. She is currently based in San Francisco, California and is the proud mother of young adult twin sons.