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  Celebrating a Reel Education

  Jennifer Preissel
  Jun 9, 2011

  San Francisco Film Society commemorates 20 years of education programs in 2011. Since 1991, the San Francisco Film Society has been educating youth in film, but it’s not all elementary, or middle, or high school-oriented: What began as a K–12 Schools at the Festival program that brought students and international cinema together has, 20 years later, grown into year-round educational programming that serves not just under-18s, but lifelong learners, professional and novice filmmakers and university students.

  
• June 9, 2011
  
  

  Celebrating a Reel Education

  Jennifer Preissel
  Jun 9, 2011

  San Francisco Film Society commemorates 20 years of education programs in 2011. Since 1991, the San Francisco Film Society has been educating youth in film, but it’s not all elementary, or middle, or high school-oriented: What began as a K–12 Schools at the Festival program that brought students and international cinema together has, 20 years later, grown into year-round educational programming that serves not just under-18s, but lifelong learners, professional and novice filmmakers and university students.

  
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  Celebrating a Reel Education

  Jennifer Preissel
  Jun 9, 2011

  San Francisco Film Society commemorates 20 years of education programs in 2011. Since 1991, the San Francisco Film Society has been educating youth in film, but it’s not all elementary, or middle, or high school-oriented: What began as a K–12 Schools at the Festival program that brought students and international cinema together has, 20 years later, grown into year-round educational programming that serves not just under-18s, but lifelong learners, professional and novice filmmakers and university students.

  
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  Media Pulse: A Crude Interpretation of the Law

  Jennifer Preissel
  Jul 1, 2010

  Jennifer Preissel examines the film and the court case that could redefine a journalist’s protection under First Amendment rights.

  
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  Media Pulse: A Crude Interpretation of the Law

  Jennifer Preissel
  Jul 1, 2010

  Jennifer Preissel examines the film and the court case that could redefine a journalist’s protection under First Amendment rights.

  
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  Richard Levien, from 'Immersion' to 'La Migra'

  Jennifer Preissel
  Jun 29, 2009

  New Zealand transplant Richard Levien, a longstanding fixture of the San Francisco indie film community, breaks out of the editing room with Immersion.

  
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  SFIFF52 Blogs: Cataloguing California

  Jennifer Preissel
  May 4, 2009

  California Company Town, blends the sights and sounds of the state's economically depressed towns, industrial wastelands and failed utopian communities.

  
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  The Doctor and the Documentarian Behind "The English Surgeon"

  Jennifer Preissel
  May 19, 2008

  When The English Surgeon had its U.S. premiere at the SFIFF this month, Geoffrey Smith and Henry Marsh received a standing ovation.

  
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  SFIFF51: Katherin McInnis Cues the Carnival Music

  Jennifer Preissel
  Apr 28, 2008

  The longtime Bay Area resident, who recently relocated to Brooklyn, screens Woodward's Gardens in the shorts program "In A Lonely Place: New Experimental Cinema."

  
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  SFIFF51: Eddie Muller's Muses

  Jennifer Preissel
  Apr 26, 2008

  A self-described "cultural archeologist," the noir expert's debut short, The Grand Inquisitor, pays homage to the Dashiell Hammett-style detective story.