Dear Karen and the other tenants in the former Saul Zaentz Media Center building,
As president of ASIFA-San Francisco, the Bay Area's Animation Association, I am glad to lend our name in your fight to preserve reasonable rents and to keep the building haven for film professionals. We are running this brief news item in our April newsletter that is mailed to our 300 members and read in an e-mail edition by several thousand friends of animation.
ANIMATORS CAN FORGET ABOUT THIS BUILDING AS A PLACE FOR REASONABLE RENTS IN BERKELEY. Longtime ASIFA-SF member Karen Folger Jacobs has been renting an office at the Saul Zaentz Media Center (part of Fantasy Records) for 18 years and had reasonable rent. She says that now that Saul Zaentz has sold the building, rents are going up, doubling in some cases.
As this newsletter was about to go to press I received a press release saying that 40 leading independent filmmakers have asked the mayor of Berkeley to intervene in this matter.
Please keep us informed of future developments.
Karl Cohen
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