San Francisco filmmakers Jan Millsapps and Jim Campbell’s films probe their fantasies and personal traumas. Millsapps’ Maternal Life (1989) “examines the natural ambivalence many women (the filmmaker included) feel toward the ‘motherhood’ issue, chronicling events in women’s lives – both real and unreal – that represent decisions to avoid motherhood and then, eventually, to confront it.” (J.M.) Plus MIllsapps’ Folly Beach Journal (1982). Campbell’s Letter to a Suicide (1985) is “addressed to my older brother who took his life at 31, thirteen years after having been diagnosed with schizophrenia. The film seeks to deal with some of the issues that come up when a major mental problem occurs within the family.” (J.C.)