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  Wolos’s ‘Trattoria’ Serves Up Spicy Comedy

  Michael Fox
  Mar 9, 2011

  Jason Wolos builds a drama about family and food with a few key ingredients.

  
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  Wolos’s ‘Trattoria’ Serves Up Spicy Comedy

  Michael Fox
  Mar 9, 2011

  Jason Wolos builds a drama about family and food with a few key ingredients.

  
• March 10, 2011
  
  

  Wolos’s ‘Trattoria’ Serves Up Spicy Comedy

  Michael Fox
  Mar 9, 2011

  Jason Wolos builds a drama about family and food with a few key ingredients.

  
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  Wolos’s ‘Trattoria’ Serves Up Spicy Comedy

  Michael Fox
  Mar 9, 2011

  Jason Wolos builds a drama about family and food with a few key ingredients.

  
• In Production
  
  

  Wolos’s ‘Trattoria’ Serves Up Spicy Comedy

  Michael Fox
  Mar 9, 2011

  Jason Wolos builds a drama about family and food with a few key ingredients.

  
• March 10, 2011
  
  

  Wolos’s ‘Trattoria’ Serves Up Spicy Comedy

  Michael Fox
  Mar 9, 2011

  Jason Wolos builds a drama about family and food with a few key ingredients.

  
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  Essential SF: Gail Silva

  Michael Fox
  Nov 3, 2010

  Former Film Arts Foundation head Gail Silva continues to catalyze the film community. It would be a simple matter to collect testimonies to Gail Silva’s extraordinary impact and influence on the Bay Area film community—and beyond—from the countless artists and novices she has counseled, coached, prodded and pushed in the last 30-plus years and counting. But an extensive public appreciation already exists, you see, in the hundreds and hundreds of films, long and short, that prominently acknowledged her contribution in the end credits. The longtime executive director of Film Arts Foundation (of blessed memory) and creative and strategic consultant for a host of individual clients, Silva is deservedly included in the inaugural class of Essential SF honorees.

  
• November 3 2010
  
  

  Essential SF: Gail Silva

  Michael Fox
  Nov 3, 2010

  Former Film Arts Foundation head Gail Silva continues to catalyze the film community. It would be a simple matter to collect testimonies to Gail Silva’s extraordinary impact and influence on the Bay Area film community—and beyond—from the countless artists and novices she has counseled, coached, prodded and pushed in the last 30-plus years and counting. But an extensive public appreciation already exists, you see, in the hundreds and hundreds of films, long and short, that prominently acknowledged her contribution in the end credits. The longtime executive director of Film Arts Foundation (of blessed memory) and creative and strategic consultant for a host of individual clients, Silva is deservedly included in the inaugural class of Essential SF honorees.

  
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  Essential SF: Gail Silva

  Michael Fox
  Nov 3, 2010

  Former Film Arts Foundation head Gail Silva continues to catalyze the film community. It would be a simple matter to collect testimonies to Gail Silva’s extraordinary impact and influence on the Bay Area film community—and beyond—from the countless artists and novices she has counseled, coached, prodded and pushed in the last 30-plus years and counting. But an extensive public appreciation already exists, you see, in the hundreds and hundreds of films, long and short, that prominently acknowledged her contribution in the end credits. The longtime executive director of Film Arts Foundation (of blessed memory) and creative and strategic consultant for a host of individual clients, Silva is deservedly included in the inaugural class of Essential SF honorees.

  
• November 3 2010
  
  

  Essential SF: Gail Silva

  Michael Fox
  Nov 3, 2010

  Former Film Arts Foundation head Gail Silva continues to catalyze the film community. It would be a simple matter to collect testimonies to Gail Silva’s extraordinary impact and influence on the Bay Area film community—and beyond—from the countless artists and novices she has counseled, coached, prodded and pushed in the last 30-plus years and counting. But an extensive public appreciation already exists, you see, in the hundreds and hundreds of films, long and short, that prominently acknowledged her contribution in the end credits. The longtime executive director of Film Arts Foundation (of blessed memory) and creative and strategic consultant for a host of individual clients, Silva is deservedly included in the inaugural class of Essential SF honorees.

  
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  Film Arts: How Cinema Was Born by the Bay

  Margarita Landazuri
  Oct 26, 2010

  With Eadweard Muybridge's motion experiments and Niles Essanay's early productions, the San Francisco Bay Area brought the silent film to life.

  
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  Film Arts: How Cinema Was Born by the Bay

  Margarita Landazuri
  Oct 26, 2010

  With Eadweard Muybridge's motion experiments and Niles Essanay's early productions, the San Francisco Bay Area brought the silent film to life.

  
• October 28, 2010
  
  

  Film Arts: How Cinema Was Born by the Bay

  Margarita Landazuri
  Oct 26, 2010

  With Eadweard Muybridge's motion experiments and Niles Essanay's early productions, the San Francisco Bay Area brought the silent film to life.

  
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  Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'

  Michael Fox
  Jul 23, 2010

  Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.

  
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  Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'

  Michael Fox
  Jul 23, 2010

  Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.

  
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  Reed's Promise of Prodigal Sons

  Michael Fox
  Mar 3, 2010

  If Kimberly Reed took a not particularly unique path into filmmaking, she certainly took an interesting road out of it.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Reed's Promise of Prodigal Sons

  Michael Fox
  Mar 3, 2010

  If Kimberly Reed took a not particularly unique path into filmmaking, she certainly took an interesting road out of it.

  
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  Daven Gee Docs on the New American Family

  Michael Fox
  Nov 17, 2009

  Two films from Oakland filmmakers, Dhana & Indra and Family 2469, illuminate the changing face of the country as the 21st Century unfolds.

  
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  SFFS's Debut Cinema by the Bay

  Robert Avila
  Oct 22, 2009

  A new, four-day showcase of local filmmaking doubles as a forum for the region's influence as subject and setting for filmmakers beyond the bay.

  
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  SFIFF52: Golden Gate Awards Uncorked, SFFS/KRF Grant Winner Announced

  Susan Gerhard
  May 7, 2009

  SFIFF handed out approximately $100,000 and announced the winner San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grant during its Golden Gate Awards.

  
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  SFIFF52: Yun Suh's "City of Borders"

  David Winks Gray
  Apr 26, 2009

  City of Borders, the debut film by Bay Area filmmaker Yun Suh, follows several Palestinian characters seeking refuge at a gay bar. The film testifies to the intolerance that members of the LGBTQ community face in addition to all of the other walls, physical and social, separating people in the region.

  
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  Social Justice Filmmaking Grants Announced

  Susan Gerhard
  Jan 28, 2009

  Grants totaling $3 million for narrative feature films made in the Bay Area will be distributed by the SFFS and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.

  
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  Second Stage of Film Arts Foundation's Legacy of Advocacy

  Michael Fox
  Aug 20, 2008

  Film Arts Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed by 15 independent filmmakers in 1976, joins forces with SFFS.

  
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  Gail Silva's Sundance Primer

  Susan Gerhard
  Jan 14, 2008

  As filmmakers, fans, and skiers get zipped up to head off to Parka City for the annual Sundance Festival this week, SF360.org checked in with Gail Silva.

  
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  Film Arts Foundation's 'Bay Area Film Festivals'

  Michael Read
  Feb 16, 2007

  Boasting dozens upon dozens of homegrown events anchored by the country's most visible festivals, San Francisco has evolved into the quintessential festival town.

  
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  Film Arts Foundation's 'Bay Area Film Festivals'

  Michael Read
  Feb 16, 2007

  Boasting dozens upon dozens of homegrown events anchored by the country's most visible festivals, San Francisco has evolved into the quintessential festival town.

  
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  Patsy Desmond, Survivor on Screen

  Susan Gerhard
  Jul 12, 2006

  Danielle Beverly, director of Learning to Swallow, offers some backstory on her filmmaking relationship with artist Patsy Desmond.

  
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  Filmmaker William Farley's Peripheral Vision

  Robert Avila
  May 16, 2006

  After 35 years of underground success, veteran indie filmmaker William Farley still hovers just off the shore of mainstream respectability.