Pam Uzzell has been working in film for over twenty years. After graduating from Brown University in 1988 with a degree in French Literature and Semiotics, Pam moved to the San Francisco Bay area and began working as a free-lance editor in picture and sound. She has worked on everything from large blockbusters such as Terminator 2 and Godfather III to local, independent films such as the academy award-winning documentary In the Shadow of the Stars. In 2006 she completed her MFA in Cinema at San Francisco State University, as well as her first documentary film Some Call It Heaven, a portrait of the small town of Smackover, Arkansas. She has been an instructor for the Academy of Art in San Francisco off and on since 1995 and has taught various other youth film programs. For several years she was head of the media committee of the Dharmata Foundation, a Buddhist spiritual group located in the San Francisco Bay Area. She recently received a grant from the Berkeley Film Foundation for her documentary Welcome to the Neighborhood. Welcome to the Neighborhood captures one neighborhood block in South Berkeley as it struggles to maintain stability as a community. It is currently in the earliest phase of production. Like Some Call It Heaven, Welcome to the Neighborhood strives to present an experience of a particular place, while exploring the universal themes of community and belonging.