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This San Francisco film director built a career without the help of Hollywood
H.P. Mendoza is living his filmmaking dream. As he began his career, the San Franciscan writer and director always envisioned “jumping around [the country] and working in artist communes or bohemian art spaces,” he told SFGATE over the phone. Mendoza is …