Documentary filmmaker Steven Okazaki is among the 2009 inductees to the SF State Alumni Hall of Fame. The Academy Award winner was honored at a campus ceremony May 22.

Many immigrant families worked and lived behind the scenes at historic Bay Meadows in San Mateo, recently demolished to make way for luxury housing and high-end commercial space. The story of one of these families, during Bay Meadows’ final season, is told in a new documentary by Cinema alumna Tricia Creason-Valencia.