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Welcome to SF360
Nov 15, 2011SF360.org represents a nearly six-year experiment in philanthropically funded film journalism, covering films and filmmaking in the Bay Area and beyond. Published by the San Francisco Film Society, the website debuted February 27, 2006 and was created in a unique collaboration between SFFS and Indiewire, with Susan Gerhard as editor. While SF360.org is no longer publishing feature stories, the SF360 Archive remains the most comprehensive collection of articles about the Bay Area film community, with more than 1,000 feature stories and reviews as well as Indie Toolkit's informative columns about the basics of creating a film and delivering it to audiences. Articles by some of the Bay Area’s most notable voices will remain at your fingertips for the foreseeable future.
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November 15, 2011
Welcome to SF360
Nov 15, 2011SF360.org represents a nearly six-year experiment in philanthropically funded film journalism, covering films and filmmaking in the Bay Area and beyond. Published by the San Francisco Film Society, the website debuted February 27, 2006 and was created in a unique collaboration between SFFS and Indiewire, with Susan Gerhard as editor. While SF360.org is no longer publishing feature stories, the SF360 Archive remains the most comprehensive collection of articles about the Bay Area film community, with more than 1,000 feature stories and reviews as well as Indie Toolkit's informative columns about the basics of creating a film and delivering it to audiences. Articles by some of the Bay Area’s most notable voices will remain at your fingertips for the foreseeable future.
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Events
Essential SF: Nov. 6
Nov 6, 2011Essential SF shines a light on the Bay Area’s legendary, idiosyncratic and multifaceted contributions to the filmmaking world at SF Film Society | New People Cinema, 7:00 pm. An outgrowth of SF360.org’s Essential SF column, the event this year also pays tribute to the half-decade-plus SF360.org project.
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Essential SF: Nov. 6
Nov 6, 2011Essential SF shines a light on the Bay Area’s legendary, idiosyncratic and multifaceted contributions to the filmmaking world at SF Film Society | New People Cinema, 7:00 pm. An outgrowth of SF360.org’s Essential SF column, the event this year also pays tribute to the half-decade-plus SF360.org project.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Nov. 6
Nov 6, 2011Essential SF shines a light on the Bay Area’s legendary, idiosyncratic and multifaceted contributions to the filmmaking world at SF Film Society | New People Cinema, 7:00 pm. An outgrowth of SF360.org’s Essential SF column, the event this year also pays tribute to the half-decade-plus SF360.org project.
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Essential SF: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Michael Fox
Nov 3, 2011With riveting characters, cascading revelations and momentous breakthroughs, Epstein and Friedman’s work paved the way for contemporary documentary practice.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Michael Fox
Nov 3, 2011With riveting characters, cascading revelations and momentous breakthroughs, Epstein and Friedman’s work paved the way for contemporary documentary practice.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
Michael Fox
Nov 3, 2011With riveting characters, cascading revelations and momentous breakthroughs, Epstein and Friedman’s work paved the way for contemporary documentary practice.
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Essential SF: Susan Gerhard
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 2, 2011Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Susan Gerhard
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 2, 2011Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Susan Gerhard
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 2, 2011Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
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Essential SF: Karen Larsen
Michael Fox
Oct 31, 2011Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Karen Larsen
Michael Fox
Oct 31, 2011Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Karen Larsen
Michael Fox
Oct 31, 2011Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.
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Essential SF: Karen Larsen
Michael Fox
Oct 31, 2011Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Karen Larsen
Michael Fox
Oct 31, 2011Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Karen Larsen
Michael Fox
Oct 31, 2011Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.
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Joshua Moore, on Location
Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011Filmmaker and programmer Moore talks process, offers perspective on his debut feature and Cinema by the Bay opener, ‘I Think It’s Raining.’
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October 28, 2011
Joshua Moore, on Location
Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011Filmmaker and programmer Moore talks process, offers perspective on his debut feature and Cinema by the Bay opener, ‘I Think It’s Raining.’
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Q & A
Joshua Moore, on Location
Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2011Filmmaker and programmer Moore talks process, offers perspective on his debut feature and Cinema by the Bay opener, ‘I Think It’s Raining.’
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Essential SF: Canyon Cinema
Michael Fox
Oct 26, 2011For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Canyon Cinema
Michael Fox
Oct 26, 2011For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Canyon Cinema
Michael Fox
Oct 26, 2011For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.
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October 28, 2011
Essential SF: Canyon Cinema
Michael Fox
Oct 26, 2011For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.
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Home
Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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October 28, 2011
Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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Reviews
Under the Spell of French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 25, 2011Love permeates SFFS's francophone film series.
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News & Blogs
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Announces New Executive Director
Oct 24, 2011Press release: The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival announced its new Executive Director: Lexi Leban, who begins working with the festival November 7, 2011. A longtime member of the Bay Area film community, Lexi has worked in all aspects of film, from production to distribution. She’s also worked with numerous film festivals, including the Mill Valley Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Global Social Change Film Festival in Bali. Lexi is currently Academic Director of the Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program at the Art Institute of California, where she built the department from its inception. Her most recent feature documentary, Girl Trouble, which follows young girls in San Francisco’s juvenile justice system, aired on PBS’s acclaimed series Independent Lens in January of 2006, and won Best Bay Area Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. More at sfjff.org.
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Signs of the Times
Adam Hartzell
Oct 24, 2011Director Mina T. Son talks about the creation of ‘Making Noise in Silence,’ screening the United Nations Association Film Festival this week.
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October 28, 2011
Signs of the Times
Adam Hartzell
Oct 24, 2011Director Mina T. Son talks about the creation of ‘Making Noise in Silence,’ screening the United Nations Association Film Festival this week.
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Q & A
Signs of the Times
Adam Hartzell
Oct 24, 2011Director Mina T. Son talks about the creation of ‘Making Noise in Silence,’ screening the United Nations Association Film Festival this week.
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Festivals
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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October 20, 2011
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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News & Blogs
San Francisco Chronicle: 'Online publication sf360.org closing down"
Oct 19, 2011"The launch of SF360.org, an online publication devoted to covering the entire Bay Area film community, was one of San Francisco Film Society Executive Director Graham Leggat's first initiatives when he took over the organization," writes Pam Grady. "...in November, a victim of financial realities and organizational changes in the wake of Leggat's recent death, SF360.org will cease publication." More at SFGate.
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Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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October 20, 2011
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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Home
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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October 20, 2011
Essential SF: Irving Saraf and Allie Light
Michael Fox
Oct 19, 2011Saraf and Light's work is marked by an unwavering appreciation for underdogs and outsiders.
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First Person
Clean White Lines Demos DIY Ethos
Jessica Sapick
Oct 18, 2011Can three film school grads from San Francisco break out without the help of Hollywood or New York connections?
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Clean White Lines Demos DIY Ethos
Jessica Sapick
Oct 18, 2011Can three film school grads from San Francisco break out without the help of Hollywood or New York connections?
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October 20, 2011
Clean White Lines Demos DIY Ethos
Jessica Sapick
Oct 18, 2011Can three film school grads from San Francisco break out without the help of Hollywood or New York connections?
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Home
Where Are their Stories?
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 17, 2011The best is yet come for Mexican wunderkind Nicolás Pereda, whose elliptical narratives allow room meditation and imagination on the part of a viewer.
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October 20, 2011
Where Are their Stories?
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 17, 2011The best is yet come for Mexican wunderkind Nicolás Pereda, whose elliptical narratives allow room meditation and imagination on the part of a viewer.
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Reviews
Where Are their Stories?
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 17, 2011The best is yet come for Mexican wunderkind Nicolás Pereda, whose elliptical narratives allow room meditation and imagination on the part of a viewer.
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Kelly, Pickert Interpret ‘Cherokee’ Words
Michael Fox
Oct 12, 2011A film on Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller bucks biopic formula and concentrates on a pivotal moment in the leader's life.
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In Production
Kelly, Pickert Interpret ‘Cherokee’ Words
Michael Fox
Oct 12, 2011A film on Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller bucks biopic formula and concentrates on a pivotal moment in the leader's life.
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October 14, 2011
Kelly, Pickert Interpret ‘Cherokee’ Words
Michael Fox
Oct 12, 2011A film on Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller bucks biopic formula and concentrates on a pivotal moment in the leader's life.
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Funding
GOT Low Budgets, High Production Values?
Adrianne Anderson
Oct 11, 2011San Rafael’s Indigo Films makes fascinating crime fare for cable on a DIY-sized budget.
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GOT Low Budgets, High Production Values?
Adrianne Anderson
Oct 11, 2011San Rafael’s Indigo Films makes fascinating crime fare for cable on a DIY-sized budget.
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October 14, 2011
GOT Low Budgets, High Production Values?
Adrianne Anderson
Oct 11, 2011San Rafael’s Indigo Films makes fascinating crime fare for cable on a DIY-sized budget.
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Home
Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.
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October 14, 2011
Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.
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Q & A
Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.
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Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.
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October 14, 2011
Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.
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Q & A
Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.
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‘New Environmentalists’ Salutes Gutsy Grassroots Guerillas
Michael Fox
Oct 7, 2011Goldman Prize-winning environmentalists' work highlighted in short-form pieces by Parrinello, Antonelli and Dusenbery.
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In Production
‘New Environmentalists’ Salutes Gutsy Grassroots Guerillas
Michael Fox
Oct 7, 2011Goldman Prize-winning environmentalists' work highlighted in short-form pieces by Parrinello, Antonelli and Dusenbery.
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October 14, 2011
‘New Environmentalists’ Salutes Gutsy Grassroots Guerillas
Michael Fox
Oct 7, 2011Goldman Prize-winning environmentalists' work highlighted in short-form pieces by Parrinello, Antonelli and Dusenbery.
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Festivals
Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home
Dennis Harvey
Oct 6, 2011Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.
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Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home
Dennis Harvey
Oct 6, 2011Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.
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October 6, 2011
Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home
Dennis Harvey
Oct 6, 2011Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.
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Home
Graham Leggat and the Art of Engagement
Peter Coyote
Oct 5, 2011In the illusory world of what we call ‘real life’, our beloved friend Graham pursued his practice of keeping his attention fixed firmly on 'the screen.'
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In Depth
Graham Leggat and the Art of Engagement
Peter Coyote
Oct 5, 2011In the illusory world of what we call ‘real life’, our beloved friend Graham pursued his practice of keeping his attention fixed firmly on 'the screen.'
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October 6, 2011
Graham Leggat and the Art of Engagement
Peter Coyote
Oct 5, 2011In the illusory world of what we call ‘real life’, our beloved friend Graham pursued his practice of keeping his attention fixed firmly on 'the screen.'
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Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2011Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.
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In Production
Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2011Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.
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September 29 2011
Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2011Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.
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Guy Maddin: Ann Savage and the Osmonds
Johnny Ray Huston
Sep 23, 2011Guy Maddin talks about movies, writing, himself—and the allure of the Osmonds, re-published on the occasion of Fandor's Maddin blogathon.
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Q & A
Guy Maddin: Ann Savage and the Osmonds
Johnny Ray Huston
Sep 23, 2011Guy Maddin talks about movies, writing, himself—and the allure of the Osmonds, re-published on the occasion of Fandor's Maddin blogathon.
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Weimberg, Ryan Pick Berkeley ‘Brain’
Michael Fox
Sep 21, 2011Two Berkeley filmmakers tap vitality of 84-year-old neuroscientist Dr. Marian Diamond.
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In Production
Weimberg, Ryan Pick Berkeley ‘Brain’
Michael Fox
Sep 21, 2011Two Berkeley filmmakers tap vitality of 84-year-old neuroscientist Dr. Marian Diamond.
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september 22 2011
Weimberg, Ryan Pick Berkeley ‘Brain’
Michael Fox
Sep 21, 2011Two Berkeley filmmakers tap vitality of 84-year-old neuroscientist Dr. Marian Diamond.
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Weimberg, Ryan Pick Berkeley ‘Brain’
Michael Fox
Sep 21, 2011Two Berkeley filmmakers tap vitality of 84-year-old neuroscientist Dr. Marian Diamond.
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In Production
Weimberg, Ryan Pick Berkeley ‘Brain’
Michael Fox
Sep 21, 2011Two Berkeley filmmakers tap vitality of 84-year-old neuroscientist Dr. Marian Diamond.
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september 22 2011
Weimberg, Ryan Pick Berkeley ‘Brain’
Michael Fox
Sep 21, 2011Two Berkeley filmmakers tap vitality of 84-year-old neuroscientist Dr. Marian Diamond.
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Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots
Michael Read
Sep 16, 2011With 'Connected,' Tiffany Shlain weaves hope into a high risk story.
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January 27, 2011
Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots
Michael Read
Sep 16, 2011With 'Connected,' Tiffany Shlain weaves hope into a high risk story.
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January 31, 2011
Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots
Michael Read
Sep 16, 2011With 'Connected,' Tiffany Shlain weaves hope into a high risk story.
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Q & A
Tiffany Shlain Connects the Dots
Michael Read
Sep 16, 2011With 'Connected,' Tiffany Shlain weaves hope into a high risk story.
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September 13 2011
Trashed: Two Films About Garbage
Sep 15, 2011As a complement to this year's Bay Area Now program, YBCA screens two films about waste and the way it impacts our lives. 'Scrappers,' showing Thursday, tells the story of two scavengers eking out a living salvaging trash from Chicago's dumpsters and 'Waste Land,' playing Sunday, follows artist Vik Muniz to Brazil where he connects with pickers at the world's largest garbage dump. More info: ybca.org.
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Festivals
Mill Valley Announces Titles in 34th
Jackson Scarlett
Sep 14, 2011North Bay world, independent showcase ready to screen wide range of films in early October.
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Mill Valley Announces Titles in 34th
Jackson Scarlett
Sep 14, 2011North Bay world, independent showcase ready to screen wide range of films in early October.
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September 15, 2011
Mill Valley Announces Titles in 34th
Jackson Scarlett
Sep 14, 2011North Bay world, independent showcase ready to screen wide range of films in early October.
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September 13 2011
Cine+Mas San Francisco Latino Film Festival 2011
Sep 13, 2011The Cine+Mas 2011 San Francisco Latino Film Festival kicks off this Wednesday with a screening of 'Being: Cafe´ Tacvba' at Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema and screens through next week at venues throughout the Bay Area. The festival offers a number of new works by Latino directors based locally and internationally. More info and kickoff RSVP at sflatinofilmfestival.com.
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Kuchar, Belson Bid Adieu
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2011San Francisco loses two of its cinema icons, pioneering 'camp humorist' George Kuchar and seminal experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson. George Kuchar, the beloved San Francisco filmmaker, teacher, mentor and friend, died Tuesday night, September 6, at the age of 69. He passed away at Coming Home Hospice in the Castro, where he resided for the last month. Kuchar had been diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago, but the sad news was not conveyed beyond a circle of close friends until recently. Kuchar and his twin brother, Mike, began making movies in their teens in their Bronx neighborhood in the late ’50s. Inspired by the florid emotions of Hollywood melodramas, they made 8mm narratives that were funny...
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September 8 2011
Kuchar, Belson Bid Adieu
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2011San Francisco loses two of its cinema icons, pioneering 'camp humorist' George Kuchar and seminal experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson. George Kuchar, the beloved San Francisco filmmaker, teacher, mentor and friend, died Tuesday night, September 6, at the age of 69. He passed away at Coming Home Hospice in the Castro, where he resided for the last month. Kuchar had been diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago, but the sad news was not conveyed beyond a circle of close friends until recently. Kuchar and his twin brother, Mike, began making movies in their teens in their Bronx neighborhood in the late ’50s. Inspired by the florid emotions of Hollywood melodramas, they made 8mm narratives that were funny...
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Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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September 8 2011
Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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September 8 2011
Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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Stigma, Satisfaction Drive Indian 'Match' Game
Michael Fox
Sep 6, 2011Priya Giri Desai documents matchmaking efforts for HIV-positives in India.
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In Production
Stigma, Satisfaction Drive Indian 'Match' Game
Michael Fox
Sep 6, 2011Priya Giri Desai documents matchmaking efforts for HIV-positives in India.
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September 8 2011
Stigma, Satisfaction Drive Indian 'Match' Game
Michael Fox
Sep 6, 2011Priya Giri Desai documents matchmaking efforts for HIV-positives in India.
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Jean-Luc Godard Sets Course for Adventure
Robert Avila
Sep 1, 2011The first feature to play SFFS | New People Cinema, Godard's ‘Film Socialisme’ is both poetic rumination and urgent intervention.
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Reviews
Jean-Luc Godard Sets Course for Adventure
Robert Avila
Sep 1, 2011The first feature to play SFFS | New People Cinema, Godard's ‘Film Socialisme’ is both poetic rumination and urgent intervention.
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September 1, 2011
Jean-Luc Godard Sets Course for Adventure
Robert Avila
Sep 1, 2011The first feature to play SFFS | New People Cinema, Godard's ‘Film Socialisme’ is both poetic rumination and urgent intervention.
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Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
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News & Blogs
Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
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September 1, 2011
Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
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Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
Susan Gerhard
Aug 26, 2011Leggat’s eventful six-year tenure with the San Francisco Film Society changed an institution as well as the filmmaking landscape in the Bay Area and beyond.
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In Depth
Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
Susan Gerhard
Aug 26, 2011Leggat’s eventful six-year tenure with the San Francisco Film Society changed an institution as well as the filmmaking landscape in the Bay Area and beyond.
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September 1, 2011
Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
Susan Gerhard
Aug 26, 2011Leggat’s eventful six-year tenure with the San Francisco Film Society changed an institution as well as the filmmaking landscape in the Bay Area and beyond.
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Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
Susan Gerhard
Aug 26, 2011Leggat’s eventful six-year tenure with the San Francisco Film Society changed an institution as well as the filmmaking landscape in the Bay Area and beyond.
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In Depth
Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
Susan Gerhard
Aug 26, 2011Leggat’s eventful six-year tenure with the San Francisco Film Society changed an institution as well as the filmmaking landscape in the Bay Area and beyond.
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September 1, 2011
Graham Leggat and a Film Society Transformed
Susan Gerhard
Aug 26, 2011Leggat’s eventful six-year tenure with the San Francisco Film Society changed an institution as well as the filmmaking landscape in the Bay Area and beyond.
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Graham Leggat, 1960-2011
Susan Gerhard
Aug 25, 2011Graham Leggat (b. March 12, 1960), executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, died at his San Francisco home on August 25, 2011, after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 51.
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News & Blogs
Graham Leggat, 1960-2011
Susan Gerhard
Aug 25, 2011Graham Leggat (b. March 12, 1960), executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, died at his San Francisco home on August 25, 2011, after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 51.
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September 1, 2011
Graham Leggat, 1960-2011
Susan Gerhard
Aug 25, 2011Graham Leggat (b. March 12, 1960), executive director of the San Francisco Film Society, died at his San Francisco home on August 25, 2011, after an 18-month battle with cancer. He was 51.
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August 25, 2011
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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August 25, 2011
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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Reviews
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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August 25, 2011
ITVS Celebrates 20th Tuned to Multi-Platform World
Michael Fox
Aug 24, 2011Powerfully positioned San Francisco-based champion of independent docs and dramas for television begins to navigate its third decade.
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ITVS Celebrates 20th Tuned to Multi-Platform World
Michael Fox
Aug 24, 2011Powerfully positioned San Francisco-based champion of independent docs and dramas for television begins to navigate its third decade.
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ITVS Celebrates 20th Tuned to Multi-Platform World
Michael Fox
Aug 24, 2011Powerfully positioned San Francisco-based champion of independent docs and dramas for television begins to navigate its third decade.
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August 25, 2011
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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November 24, 2010
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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Reviews
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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August 25, 2011
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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Home
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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November 24, 2010
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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Reviews
Essential SF: Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stephanie Rosenbaum
Aug 23, 2011Lynn Hershman Leeson catalogues revolutions past and pushes the art and technology envelope well into the future.
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August 25, 2011
Susannah Greason Robbins on Growing the City’s Film Industry
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 22, 2011The San Francisco’s Film Commission's executive director offers notes on new incentives for production in the city.
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Home
Susannah Greason Robbins on Growing the City’s Film Industry
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 22, 2011The San Francisco’s Film Commission's executive director offers notes on new incentives for production in the city.
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Q & A
Susannah Greason Robbins on Growing the City’s Film Industry
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 22, 2011The San Francisco’s Film Commission's executive director offers notes on new incentives for production in the city.
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August 25, 2011
San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gates
SF360 Staff
Aug 20, 2011The Golden Gate Bridge remains in heavy rotation in sci-fi, action genres.
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San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gates
SF360 Staff
Aug 20, 2011The Golden Gate Bridge remains in heavy rotation in sci-fi, action genres.
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News & Blogs
San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gates
SF360 Staff
Aug 20, 2011The Golden Gate Bridge remains in heavy rotation in sci-fi, action genres.
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August 25, 2011
San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gates
SF360 Staff
Aug 20, 2011The Golden Gate Bridge remains in heavy rotation in sci-fi, action genres.
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Home
San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gates
SF360 Staff
Aug 20, 2011The Golden Gate Bridge remains in heavy rotation in sci-fi, action genres.
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News & Blogs
San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gates
SF360 Staff
Aug 20, 2011The Golden Gate Bridge remains in heavy rotation in sci-fi, action genres.
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Home
'Vigilante, Vigilante' Opens Can of Worms
Michael Fox
Aug 18, 2011Filmmakers find themselves outside the 'buffer' zone as film about graffiti-abaters hits local screens, and streets. Editor's note: Vigilante, Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, a Bay Area-made film on graffiti "abatement," opened with a clamor last weekend at the Roxie, as San Francisco's Department of Public Works made an issue of cleaning up the film's street-art advertising campaign. The filmmakers responded that they've asked that their materials not be posted illegally, but that hasn't stopped DPW requesting them to cease and desist attracting audiences via wheatpaste. What follows is sf360.org's interview...
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News & Blogs
'Vigilante, Vigilante' Opens Can of Worms
Michael Fox
Aug 18, 2011Filmmakers find themselves outside the 'buffer' zone as film about graffiti-abaters hits local screens, and streets. Editor's note: Vigilante, Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, a Bay Area-made film on graffiti "abatement," opened with a clamor last weekend at the Roxie, as San Francisco's Department of Public Works made an issue of cleaning up the film's street-art advertising campaign. The filmmakers responded that they've asked that their materials not be posted illegally, but that hasn't stopped DPW requesting them to cease and desist attracting audiences via wheatpaste. What follows is sf360.org's interview...
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Home
'Vigilante, Vigilante' Opens Can of Worms
Michael Fox
Aug 18, 2011Filmmakers find themselves outside the 'buffer' zone as film about graffiti-abaters hits local screens, and streets. Editor's note: Vigilante, Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, a Bay Area-made film on graffiti "abatement," opened with a clamor last weekend at the Roxie, as San Francisco's Department of Public Works made an issue of cleaning up the film's street-art advertising campaign. The filmmakers responded that they've asked that their materials not be posted illegally, but that hasn't stopped DPW requesting them to cease and desist attracting audiences via wheatpaste. What follows is sf360.org's interview...
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News & Blogs
'Vigilante, Vigilante' Opens Can of Worms
Michael Fox
Aug 18, 2011Filmmakers find themselves outside the 'buffer' zone as film about graffiti-abaters hits local screens, and streets. Editor's note: Vigilante, Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, a Bay Area-made film on graffiti "abatement," opened with a clamor last weekend at the Roxie, as San Francisco's Department of Public Works made an issue of cleaning up the film's street-art advertising campaign. The filmmakers responded that they've asked that their materials not be posted illegally, but that hasn't stopped DPW requesting them to cease and desist attracting audiences via wheatpaste. What follows is sf360.org's interview...
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News & Blogs
SFFS Announces Winners of Spring 2011 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants
Aug 15, 2011The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation today announced the five winners and two honorable mentions of the fifth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants. The grants are awarded twice annually to filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community. Between 2009 and 2013 the SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants will award nearly $2.5 million, including a total of $788,000 already awarded in the first five grant rounds.
Carlton Evans and Matthew Lessner (Ross), $50,000 for screenwriting; Aurora Guerrero (Mosquita y Mari), $88,000 for postproduction; Adam Keker (National Park), $35,000 for screenwriting; Timothy Kelly (The Cherokee Word for Water), $75,000 for production; Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of a Southern Wild), $55,000 for postproduction. Honorable Mentions went to: John Dilly (Rubbish), development and Ian Olds (The Western Habit), screenwriting. More at sffs.org.
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August 18, 2011
Teens Tackle Production at SFFS Young Filmmakers Camp
Kim Nunley
Aug 12, 2011The second year of the Film Society's movie-making summer camp puts youth on location.
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Teens Tackle Production at SFFS Young Filmmakers Camp
Kim Nunley
Aug 12, 2011The second year of the Film Society's movie-making summer camp puts youth on location.
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News & Blogs
Teens Tackle Production at SFFS Young Filmmakers Camp
Kim Nunley
Aug 12, 2011The second year of the Film Society's movie-making summer camp puts youth on location.
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August 11, 2011
Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
Max Goldberg
Aug 11, 2011Pacific Film Archive serves a full course of films by Marcel Pagnol.
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Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
Max Goldberg
Aug 11, 2011Pacific Film Archive serves a full course of films by Marcel Pagnol.
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Reviews
Pagnol's Foodie Oeuvre Appreciated in East Bay
Max Goldberg
Aug 11, 2011Pacific Film Archive serves a full course of films by Marcel Pagnol.
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August 11, 2011
Field Shoots ‘MLK in Palestine’ on the Fly
Michael Fox
Aug 10, 2011Connie Field makes a radical shift to verité filmmaking, accompanied by an equally momentous switch in fundraising strategy with her latest project.
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Home
Field Shoots ‘MLK in Palestine’ on the Fly
Michael Fox
Aug 10, 2011Connie Field makes a radical shift to verité filmmaking, accompanied by an equally momentous switch in fundraising strategy with her latest project.
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In Production
Field Shoots ‘MLK in Palestine’ on the Fly
Michael Fox
Aug 10, 2011Connie Field makes a radical shift to verité filmmaking, accompanied by an equally momentous switch in fundraising strategy with her latest project.
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August 11, 2011
'Between Two Worlds' Places Politics of Speech in Spotlight
B. Ruby Rich
Aug 5, 2011Filmmakers take personal approach to Jewish cultural debates.
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'Between Two Worlds' Places Politics of Speech in Spotlight
B. Ruby Rich
Aug 5, 2011Filmmakers take personal approach to Jewish cultural debates.
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In Depth
'Between Two Worlds' Places Politics of Speech in Spotlight
B. Ruby Rich
Aug 5, 2011Filmmakers take personal approach to Jewish cultural debates.
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August 4, 2011
Minott Tracks ‘Illness’ to Guam
Michael Fox
Aug 3, 2011Berry Minott's work-in-progress travels to Guam seeking a cure, puzzling over scientific mystery.
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Home
Minott Tracks ‘Illness’ to Guam
Michael Fox
Aug 3, 2011Berry Minott's work-in-progress travels to Guam seeking a cure, puzzling over scientific mystery.
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In Production
Minott Tracks ‘Illness’ to Guam
Michael Fox
Aug 3, 2011Berry Minott's work-in-progress travels to Guam seeking a cure, puzzling over scientific mystery.
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August 4, 2011
In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 2, 2011Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
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Home
In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 2, 2011Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
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Reviews
In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 2, 2011Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
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August 4, 2011
In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 2, 2011Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
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Home
In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 2, 2011Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
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Reviews
In Theaters: 'Life in a Day,' 'The Tree,' 'Cameraman'
Jackson Scarlett
Aug 2, 2011Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
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August 4, 2011
Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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Q & A
Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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July 26, 2011
SFJFF Opens in Berkeley
Aug 1, 2011The 31st San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, world's largest showcase of Jewish films, continues this week, opening at Berkeley's Roda Theatre on Saturday with a screening of historical drama 'Sarah's Key' starring Kristin Scott Thomas. The festival screens at a number of Bay Area venues. More info at sfjff.org.
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August 4, 2011
Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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Home
Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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Q & A
Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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Home
Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2011The best of the Bay Area's historical docs transform our understanding of previous eras, and, consequently, our own.
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In Depth
Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2011The best of the Bay Area's historical docs transform our understanding of previous eras, and, consequently, our own.
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July 28, 2011
Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2011The best of the Bay Area's historical docs transform our understanding of previous eras, and, consequently, our own.
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Home
Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2011The best of the Bay Area's historical docs transform our understanding of previous eras, and, consequently, our own.
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In Depth
Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2011The best of the Bay Area's historical docs transform our understanding of previous eras, and, consequently, our own.
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July 28, 2011
Essential SF: ‘Freedom On My Mind,’ ‘The Good War’
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2011The best of the Bay Area's historical docs transform our understanding of previous eras, and, consequently, our own.
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Home
Notes on Leveraging the Big Bash Climax
Karen Everett
Jul 27, 2011The planned "reversal" gives documentary filmmakers a means to build drama from otherwise anti-climactic moments.
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July 28, 2011
Notes on Leveraging the Big Bash Climax
Karen Everett
Jul 27, 2011The planned "reversal" gives documentary filmmakers a means to build drama from otherwise anti-climactic moments.
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Story Structure
Notes on Leveraging the Big Bash Climax
Karen Everett
Jul 27, 2011The planned "reversal" gives documentary filmmakers a means to build drama from otherwise anti-climactic moments.
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Festivals
Voices Converge at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2011SFJFF covers broad geographic, political terrain.
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Home
Voices Converge at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2011SFJFF covers broad geographic, political terrain.
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July 28, 2011
Voices Converge at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2011SFJFF covers broad geographic, political terrain.
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July 19, 2011
Last Showing: 'Harold and Maude'
Jul 22, 2011SF institution The Red Vic Movie House celebrates both its anniversary and its closure with screenings of house favorite 'Harold and Maude'—perhaps the quintessential quirky romantic comedy. Those who haven't seen 'Harold and Maude' since its release will delight to revisit its many Bay Area locations and Cat Stevens soundtrack. Red Vic promises a "special birthday treat" for Monday's attendees. More info redvicmoviehouse.com
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July 19, 2011
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Jul 21, 2011The 31st San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the world's largest showcase of Jewish film, opens at the Castro Theatre on Thursday with Israeli drama 'Mabul' (The Flood, nominated for six of Israel's 'Oscars'), and runs through August 8 at a number of Bay Area venues. An Opening Night bash follows at the Swedish American Hall. More info sfjff.org.
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Essential SF: ‘North Beach,’ ‘Medicine For Melancholy’
Michael Fox
Jul 20, 2011Two Bay Area location-based features that speak to the moment are poised to stand the test of time.
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In Depth
Essential SF: ‘North Beach,’ ‘Medicine For Melancholy’
Michael Fox
Jul 20, 2011Two Bay Area location-based features that speak to the moment are poised to stand the test of time.
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July 21, 2011
Essential SF: ‘North Beach,’ ‘Medicine For Melancholy’
Michael Fox
Jul 20, 2011Two Bay Area location-based features that speak to the moment are poised to stand the test of time.
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Home
Essential SF: ‘North Beach,’ ‘Medicine For Melancholy’
Michael Fox
Jul 20, 2011Two Bay Area location-based features that speak to the moment are poised to stand the test of time.
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In Depth
Essential SF: ‘North Beach,’ ‘Medicine For Melancholy’
Michael Fox
Jul 20, 2011Two Bay Area location-based features that speak to the moment are poised to stand the test of time.
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July 21, 2011
Essential SF: ‘North Beach,’ ‘Medicine For Melancholy’
Michael Fox
Jul 20, 2011Two Bay Area location-based features that speak to the moment are poised to stand the test of time.
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Home
Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
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July 21, 2011
Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
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Screenwriting
Avoiding Turbulence Leads to Plot Trouble
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 19, 2011Note to screenwriters: Don’t defeat the promise of your story by pulling your punches.
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Home
Rapaport Brings Depth to Tribe Called Quest Doc
Adam Hartzell
Jul 15, 2011Actor’s first documentary outing pays tribute to Quest’s influence.
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July 21, 2011
Rapaport Brings Depth to Tribe Called Quest Doc
Adam Hartzell
Jul 15, 2011Actor’s first documentary outing pays tribute to Quest’s influence.
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Q & A
Rapaport Brings Depth to Tribe Called Quest Doc
Adam Hartzell
Jul 15, 2011Actor’s first documentary outing pays tribute to Quest’s influence.
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Home
Rapaport Brings Depth to Tribe Called Quest Doc
Adam Hartzell
Jul 15, 2011Actor’s first documentary outing pays tribute to Quest’s influence.
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July 21, 2011
Rapaport Brings Depth to Tribe Called Quest Doc
Adam Hartzell
Jul 15, 2011Actor’s first documentary outing pays tribute to Quest’s influence.
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Q & A
Rapaport Brings Depth to Tribe Called Quest Doc
Adam Hartzell
Jul 15, 2011Actor’s first documentary outing pays tribute to Quest’s influence.
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Home
Essential SF: 'Holy Ghost People,' 'Samsara'
Michael Fox
Jul 13, 2011SF filmmakers Peter Adair and Ellen Bruno created classics on religious intensity.
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In Depth
Essential SF: 'Holy Ghost People,' 'Samsara'
Michael Fox
Jul 13, 2011SF filmmakers Peter Adair and Ellen Bruno created classics on religious intensity.
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July 14, 2011
Essential SF: 'Holy Ghost People,' 'Samsara'
Michael Fox
Jul 13, 2011SF filmmakers Peter Adair and Ellen Bruno created classics on religious intensity.
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Home
Torres Story Gains Focus
Kim Nunley
Jul 11, 2011Chusy Jardine has set out to tell the Andres Torres ADHD-to-World Series glory story in a feature-length documentary.
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July 14, 2011
Torres Story Gains Focus
Kim Nunley
Jul 11, 2011Chusy Jardine has set out to tell the Andres Torres ADHD-to-World Series glory story in a feature-length documentary.
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Q & A
Torres Story Gains Focus
Kim Nunley
Jul 11, 2011Chusy Jardine has set out to tell the Andres Torres ADHD-to-World Series glory story in a feature-length documentary.
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Home
Essential SF: ‘Off the Charts,’ ‘Double Dare’
Michael Fox
Jul 7, 2011Surprising characters, narratives emerge in Jamie Meltzer and Amanda Micheli’s portraits of unlikely artists.
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In Depth
Essential SF: ‘Off the Charts,’ ‘Double Dare’
Michael Fox
Jul 7, 2011Surprising characters, narratives emerge in Jamie Meltzer and Amanda Micheli’s portraits of unlikely artists.
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July 7, 2011
Essential SF: ‘Off the Charts,’ ‘Double Dare’
Michael Fox
Jul 7, 2011Surprising characters, narratives emerge in Jamie Meltzer and Amanda Micheli’s portraits of unlikely artists.
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Home
Essential SF: ‘Off the Charts,’ ‘Double Dare’
Michael Fox
Jul 7, 2011Surprising characters, narratives emerge in Jamie Meltzer and Amanda Micheli’s portraits of unlikely artists.
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In Depth
Essential SF: ‘Off the Charts,’ ‘Double Dare’
Michael Fox
Jul 7, 2011Surprising characters, narratives emerge in Jamie Meltzer and Amanda Micheli’s portraits of unlikely artists.
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July 7, 2011
Essential SF: ‘Off the Charts,’ ‘Double Dare’
Michael Fox
Jul 7, 2011Surprising characters, narratives emerge in Jamie Meltzer and Amanda Micheli’s portraits of unlikely artists.
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Home
Roko Belic Charts Path to ‘Happy’
Susan Gerhard
Jul 6, 2011A former Bay Area filmmaker travels the world in search of the secrets of contentment.
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July 7, 2011
Roko Belic Charts Path to ‘Happy’
Susan Gerhard
Jul 6, 2011A former Bay Area filmmaker travels the world in search of the secrets of contentment.
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Q & A
Roko Belic Charts Path to ‘Happy’
Susan Gerhard
Jul 6, 2011A former Bay Area filmmaker travels the world in search of the secrets of contentment.
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Home
SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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June 23 2011
SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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June 23, 2011
SF Film Society Signs Lease on New Theatrical Home
Jun 23, 2011SFFS to offer daily, year-round programming, classes and events in dedicated state-of-the-art theater for the first time in its 54-year history. The San Francisco Film Society and New People today announced significant news for Bay Area filmgoers: the signing of a lease that brings the Film Society’s exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events to one primary theater on a daily, year-round basis, beginning in September. The San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema opens its doors in September in the state-of-the art...
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Home
A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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June 23 2011
A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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June 23, 2011
A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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Q & A
A City’s Smutty History, Embraced
Julia Barbosa
Jun 21, 2011Stabile film at Frameline, Tribeca and, soon, YBCA, looks at San Francisco’s sex-film history.
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Home
Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2011YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.
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Reviews
Vintage Kinski Uncorked at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2011YBCA digs a delightfully disturbing live Kinski document from the archives.
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Festivals
Frameline35 Opens, Features Wildly Diverse Program
Dennis Harvey
Jun 16, 2011The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival delivers internationally as well as locally made films of every identity and genre stripe.
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Home
Frameline35 Opens, Features Wildly Diverse Program
Dennis Harvey
Jun 16, 2011The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival delivers internationally as well as locally made films of every identity and genre stripe.
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June 16, 2011
Frameline35 Opens, Features Wildly Diverse Program
Dennis Harvey
Jun 16, 2011The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival delivers internationally as well as locally made films of every identity and genre stripe.
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Home
Dutch Director's Obsession Leads to Bay Area
Michael Fox
Jun 15, 2011One film was not enough to quench Frans Weisz’s fascination with Nazi-era artist Charlotte Salomon.
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In Production
Dutch Director's Obsession Leads to Bay Area
Michael Fox
Jun 15, 2011One film was not enough to quench Frans Weisz’s fascination with Nazi-era artist Charlotte Salomon.
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June 16, 2011
Dutch Director's Obsession Leads to Bay Area
Michael Fox
Jun 15, 2011One film was not enough to quench Frans Weisz’s fascination with Nazi-era artist Charlotte Salomon.
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Home
We Want Answers
Karen Everett
Jun 14, 2011Asking the right questions is an art; a consultant speaks on how to conduct documentary interviews that will help structure your film.
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June 16, 2011
We Want Answers
Karen Everett
Jun 14, 2011Asking the right questions is an art; a consultant speaks on how to conduct documentary interviews that will help structure your film.
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Story Structure
We Want Answers
Karen Everett
Jun 14, 2011Asking the right questions is an art; a consultant speaks on how to conduct documentary interviews that will help structure your film.
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Home
Lewis Rides Herd on Lusty ‘Longhorns’
Michael Fox
Jun 13, 2011An SF Chronicle editor speaks about his third feature, a Texas-set sex comedy making its debut at Frameline35.
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June 16, 2011
Lewis Rides Herd on Lusty ‘Longhorns’
Michael Fox
Jun 13, 2011An SF Chronicle editor speaks about his third feature, a Texas-set sex comedy making its debut at Frameline35.
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Q & A
Lewis Rides Herd on Lusty ‘Longhorns’
Michael Fox
Jun 13, 2011An SF Chronicle editor speaks about his third feature, a Texas-set sex comedy making its debut at Frameline35.
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June 7, 2011
‘The Hush’
Jun 11, 2011The Historic Bal Theatre brings us a screening of Bay Area filmmaker Vincent Cortez’s latest feature, ‘The Hush,’ a 2011 Oakland International Film Festival selection and LA Festival honorable mention. The film is a locally shot supernatural film noir piece that has a hitman looking for redemption. More at mitchellstreetpictures.com.
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June 9, 2011
‘The Hush’
Jun 11, 2011The Historic Bal Theatre brings us a screening of Bay Area filmmaker Vincent Cortez’s latest feature, ‘The Hush,’ a 2011 Oakland International Film Festival selection and LA Festival honorable mention. The film is a locally shot supernatural film noir piece that has a hitman looking for redemption. More at mitchellstreetpictures.com.
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Celebrating a Reel Education
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 9, 2011San 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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June 9, 2011
Celebrating a Reel Education
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 9, 2011San 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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News & Blogs
Celebrating a Reel Education
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 9, 2011San 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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Home
Richardson Wraps Circus ‘Net’
Michael Fox
Jun 7, 2011A filmmaker finds the rigors of circus life match the rigors of growing up in poverty in Brazil.
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In Production
Richardson Wraps Circus ‘Net’
Michael Fox
Jun 7, 2011A filmmaker finds the rigors of circus life match the rigors of growing up in poverty in Brazil.
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June 9, 2011
Richardson Wraps Circus ‘Net’
Michael Fox
Jun 7, 2011A filmmaker finds the rigors of circus life match the rigors of growing up in poverty in Brazil.
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First Person
Production Values: Michael Whalen
Adrianne Anderson
Jun 6, 2011Whalen speaks from experience on the importance of story and drama in nonfiction filmmaking.
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Home
Production Values: Michael Whalen
Adrianne Anderson
Jun 6, 2011Whalen speaks from experience on the importance of story and drama in nonfiction filmmaking.
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June 9, 2011
Production Values: Michael Whalen
Adrianne Anderson
Jun 6, 2011Whalen speaks from experience on the importance of story and drama in nonfiction filmmaking.
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Festivals
Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round
Dennis Harvey
Jun 2, 2011The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.
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Home
Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round
Dennis Harvey
Jun 2, 2011The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.
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June 2, 2011
Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round
Dennis Harvey
Jun 2, 2011The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.
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June 9, 2011
Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round
Dennis Harvey
Jun 2, 2011The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.
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Home
‘Kiss the Cook’ Sparks Weidlinger’s Appetite
Michael Fox
Jun 1, 2011Tom Weidlinger creates a cooking show that offers surprises for the slow-foodie.
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In Production
‘Kiss the Cook’ Sparks Weidlinger’s Appetite
Michael Fox
Jun 1, 2011Tom Weidlinger creates a cooking show that offers surprises for the slow-foodie.
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June 2, 2011
‘Kiss the Cook’ Sparks Weidlinger’s Appetite
Michael Fox
Jun 1, 2011Tom Weidlinger creates a cooking show that offers surprises for the slow-foodie.
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Home
‘Kiss the Cook’ Sparks Weidlinger’s Appetite
Michael Fox
Jun 1, 2011Tom Weidlinger creates a cooking show that offers surprises for the slow-foodie.
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In Production
‘Kiss the Cook’ Sparks Weidlinger’s Appetite
Michael Fox
Jun 1, 2011Tom Weidlinger creates a cooking show that offers surprises for the slow-foodie.
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June 2, 2011
‘Kiss the Cook’ Sparks Weidlinger’s Appetite
Michael Fox
Jun 1, 2011Tom Weidlinger creates a cooking show that offers surprises for the slow-foodie.
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Home
New Era Takes Hold at the Roxie
Michael Guillén
May 31, 2011The Roxie's new leaders offer notes on their unique vision for the rep house.
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June 2, 2011
New Era Takes Hold at the Roxie
Michael Guillén
May 31, 2011The Roxie's new leaders offer notes on their unique vision for the rep house.
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Q & A
New Era Takes Hold at the Roxie
Michael Guillén
May 31, 2011The Roxie's new leaders offer notes on their unique vision for the rep house.
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Festivals
Frameline Announces Titles in 2011 Festival
Susan Gerhard/Michael Fox
May 25, 2011Margaret Cho, transgender cinema are highlights of 2011 LGBT festival.
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Frameline Announces Titles in 2011 Festival
Susan Gerhard/Michael Fox
May 25, 2011Margaret Cho, transgender cinema are highlights of 2011 LGBT festival.
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May 26, 2011
Frameline Announces Titles in 2011 Festival
Susan Gerhard/Michael Fox
May 25, 2011Margaret Cho, transgender cinema are highlights of 2011 LGBT festival.
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Home
Topp Twins Agitate, Yodel, Entertain
Adam Hartzell
May 23, 2011Leanne Pooley's Topp Twins documentary views world politics through the prism of two eccentric lesbian performers from New Zealand.
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May 26, 2011
Topp Twins Agitate, Yodel, Entertain
Adam Hartzell
May 23, 2011Leanne Pooley's Topp Twins documentary views world politics through the prism of two eccentric lesbian performers from New Zealand.
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Q & A
Topp Twins Agitate, Yodel, Entertain
Adam Hartzell
May 23, 2011Leanne Pooley's Topp Twins documentary views world politics through the prism of two eccentric lesbian performers from New Zealand.
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Home
On Kickstarting a Campaign to Bring Back the Parkway
Kim Nunley
May 20, 2011A local fan of a local cinema has big dreams for his favorite, now-defunct East Bay movie-theater.
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May 26, 2011
On Kickstarting a Campaign to Bring Back the Parkway
Kim Nunley
May 20, 2011A local fan of a local cinema has big dreams for his favorite, now-defunct East Bay movie-theater.
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Q & A
On Kickstarting a Campaign to Bring Back the Parkway
Kim Nunley
May 20, 2011A local fan of a local cinema has big dreams for his favorite, now-defunct East Bay movie-theater.
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Home
Antonelli Contrasts Africa’s ‘Killing Seasons’
Michael Fox
May 18, 2011John Antonelli finds good news, bad news and plenty of drama in African environmental stories.
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May 19, 2011
Antonelli Contrasts Africa’s ‘Killing Seasons’
Michael Fox
May 18, 2011John Antonelli finds good news, bad news and plenty of drama in African environmental stories.
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Home
New Approaches Embolden Doc Genre
Karen Everett
May 17, 2011Nonfiction filmmakers are re-engaging audiences with an entrepreneurial spirit and a focus on creative narrative strategy.
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May 19, 2011
New Approaches Embolden Doc Genre
Karen Everett
May 17, 2011Nonfiction filmmakers are re-engaging audiences with an entrepreneurial spirit and a focus on creative narrative strategy.
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Story Structure
New Approaches Embolden Doc Genre
Karen Everett
May 17, 2011Nonfiction filmmakers are re-engaging audiences with an entrepreneurial spirit and a focus on creative narrative strategy.
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Home
Lost Legends Haunt Roxie's Latest Noir Series
Matt Sussman
May 13, 2011The devil is in the details of I Wake Up Screaming, the Roxie's annual two-week spring celebration of noir's shadiest titles.
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May 19, 2011
Lost Legends Haunt Roxie's Latest Noir Series
Matt Sussman
May 13, 2011The devil is in the details of I Wake Up Screaming, the Roxie's annual two-week spring celebration of noir's shadiest titles.
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Reviews
Lost Legends Haunt Roxie's Latest Noir Series
Matt Sussman
May 13, 2011The devil is in the details of I Wake Up Screaming, the Roxie's annual two-week spring celebration of noir's shadiest titles.
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Gifts My Mother Gave Me
Michael Guillen
May 8, 2011Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
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May 12, 2011
Gifts My Mother Gave Me
Michael Guillen
May 8, 2011Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
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Q & A
Gifts My Mother Gave Me
Michael Guillen
May 8, 2011Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
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Gifts My Mother Gave Me
Michael Guillen
May 8, 2011Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
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May 12, 2011
Gifts My Mother Gave Me
Michael Guillen
May 8, 2011Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
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Q & A
Gifts My Mother Gave Me
Michael Guillen
May 8, 2011Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
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May 3, 2011
‘These Amazing Shadows’
May 6, 2011Opening weekend of ‘These Amazing Shadows,’ a docu on American movies, features Q&As with its Bay Area filmmakers, as well as other local figures, including SF Chron critic Mick LaSalle, SF Public Defender (and filmmaker) Jeff Adachi and cinematographer Frazer Bradshaw. More at theseamazingshadows.com.
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SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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May 5, 2011
SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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May 5, 2011
SFIFF54 Golden Gate Award Winners Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2011Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
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SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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May 5, 2011
SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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Reviews
SFIFF Brings in Burlesque as Closer
Stephanie Rosenbaum
May 4, 2011Cabaret New Burlesque gets the French art-house treatment with ‘On Tour.’
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Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
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In Production
Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
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May 5, 2011
Frank Pierson, 'These Amazing Shadows' Offer Inspiration
Michael Fox
May 3, 2011Screenwriter Frank Pierson talks production at SFIFF54; Bay Area-made 'These Amazing Shadows' screens after the Festival closes.
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Festivals
Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
Robert Avila
May 2, 2011Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
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Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
Robert Avila
May 2, 2011Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
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May 5, 2011
Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
Robert Avila
May 2, 2011Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
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April 28, 2011
SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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Festivals
SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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Festivals
Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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May 5, 2011
Film Society Awards Night Shines Light on ’70s, City
Susan Gerhard
Apr 29, 2011Beginnings, endings and the dazzling cinema in between honored in SFFS's annual awards show.
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April 28, 2011
Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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In Production
Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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April 28, 2011
Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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In Production
Bay Area Doc-makers of SFIFF54 Map Future
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2011The region's nonfiction filmmakers consider next steps after their SFIFF debuts.
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April 26, 2011
SFIFF: ‘Better This World’
Apr 26, 2011Bay Area directors are high profile in the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival; catch them in person this week. Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega appear Tuesday with Bradley Crowder, a principal of ‘Better This World,’ a documentary that traces the paths of activists deemed the "Texas Two." The film plays at Pacific Film Archive on April 26 and Sundance Kubaki Cinemas on April 29. More at fest11.sffs.org.
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April 28, 2011
SFIFF54's 'Beginners' Brings Surprises
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2011Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor lit up the Castro on San Francisco International's opening night.
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Festivals
SFIFF54's 'Beginners' Brings Surprises
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2011Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor lit up the Castro on San Francisco International's opening night.
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SFIFF54's 'Beginners' Brings Surprises
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2011Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor lit up the Castro on San Francisco International's opening night.
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april 22 2011
Production Values: Debbie Brubaker
Adrianne Anderson
Apr 19, 2011A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.
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First Person
Production Values: Debbie Brubaker
Adrianne Anderson
Apr 19, 2011A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.
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Production Values: Debbie Brubaker
Adrianne Anderson
Apr 19, 2011A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.
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april 22 2011
Production Values: Debbie Brubaker
Adrianne Anderson
Apr 19, 2011A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.
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First Person
Production Values: Debbie Brubaker
Adrianne Anderson
Apr 19, 2011A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.
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Home
Production Values: Debbie Brubaker
Adrianne Anderson
Apr 19, 2011A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.
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April 12, 2011
‘Henry’s Crime’
Apr 15, 2011Keanu Reeves, James Caan and Vera Farmiga star in Malcolm Venvile’s ‘Henry’s Crime,’ which opens at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco, Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley and other Bay Area theaters. The film was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival. More at landmarktheatres.com.
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April 14, 2011
'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
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'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
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Q & A
'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
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April 14, 2011
'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
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Home
'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
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Q & A
'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
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April 14, 2011
Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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In Production
Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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April 14, 2011
Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Home
Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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In Production
Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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April 14, 2011
The Art of the Steal
George Rush
Apr 12, 2011Whether in the foreground or background of your narrative feature, pieces of art require copyright consideration.
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The Art of the Steal
George Rush
Apr 12, 2011Whether in the foreground or background of your narrative feature, pieces of art require copyright consideration.
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The Art of the Steal
George Rush
Apr 12, 2011Whether in the foreground or background of your narrative feature, pieces of art require copyright consideration.
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April 14, 2011
Journalist-Activist Chakarova Exposes ‘Price of Sex’
Michael Fox
Apr 11, 2011Mimi Chakarova gains a new perspective on journalism as well as international crime in investigating 'The Price of Sex.'
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Journalist-Activist Chakarova Exposes ‘Price of Sex’
Michael Fox
Apr 11, 2011Mimi Chakarova gains a new perspective on journalism as well as international crime in investigating 'The Price of Sex.'
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Reviews
Journalist-Activist Chakarova Exposes ‘Price of Sex’
Michael Fox
Apr 11, 2011Mimi Chakarova gains a new perspective on journalism as well as international crime in investigating 'The Price of Sex.'
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April 14, 2011
Getting Behind 'Bill Cunningham'
Susan Gerhard
Apr 8, 2011Richard Press and Philip Gefter pay tribute to a worker's devotion in making 'Bill Cunningham New York.'
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Getting Behind 'Bill Cunningham'
Susan Gerhard
Apr 8, 2011Richard Press and Philip Gefter pay tribute to a worker's devotion in making 'Bill Cunningham New York.'
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Q & A
Getting Behind 'Bill Cunningham'
Susan Gerhard
Apr 8, 2011Richard Press and Philip Gefter pay tribute to a worker's devotion in making 'Bill Cunningham New York.'
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April 5, 2011
An Evening with Les Blank
Apr 7, 2011Award-winning Bay Area director Les Blank introduces his 1969 short film, ‘The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins,’ and his 1979 project, ‘Always for Pleasure,’ which play at Red Vic Movie House. Viewers receive rice and beans made with Les’ special recipe. More at redvicmoviehouse.com.
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April 7, 2011
Juelich Rides ‘Neon’ Roller Coaster
Michael Fox
Apr 6, 2011Jennifer Juelich uses California carnivals as atmosphere for her DIY drama.
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Juelich Rides ‘Neon’ Roller Coaster
Michael Fox
Apr 6, 2011Jennifer Juelich uses California carnivals as atmosphere for her DIY drama.
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In Production
Juelich Rides ‘Neon’ Roller Coaster
Michael Fox
Apr 6, 2011Jennifer Juelich uses California carnivals as atmosphere for her DIY drama.
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03.31.11
SFMOMA's Muybridge Experiments with Time, Space
Max Goldberg
Mar 31, 2011SFMOMA's Eadweard Muybridge exhibit is essential viewing for Bay Area film lovers. More than 150 years after Eadweard Muybridge set up shop on Montgomery Street, San Francisco Museum Modern Art is featuring a splendid retrospective of the photographer’s work just a few blocks away. A tireless self-promoter with chutzpah enough to adapt “Helios” as a nom de plume early in his career (this after already having left “Muggeridge” behind in England), Muybridge would surely have been pleased by this showcase. From A Trip Down Market Street
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SFMOMA's Muybridge Experiments with Time, Space
Max Goldberg
Mar 31, 2011SFMOMA's Eadweard Muybridge exhibit is essential viewing for Bay Area film lovers. More than 150 years after Eadweard Muybridge set up shop on Montgomery Street, San Francisco Museum Modern Art is featuring a splendid retrospective of the photographer’s work just a few blocks away. A tireless self-promoter with chutzpah enough to adapt “Helios” as a nom de plume early in his career (this after already having left “Muggeridge” behind in England), Muybridge would surely have been pleased by this showcase. From A Trip Down Market Street
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03.31.11
Good’s ‘Vigilante’ Tags Graffiti Showdown
Michael Fox
Mar 30, 2011A nonfiction tagging doc takes a novel approach, looking at those who erase graffiti as opposed to those who make it.
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Good’s ‘Vigilante’ Tags Graffiti Showdown
Michael Fox
Mar 30, 2011A nonfiction tagging doc takes a novel approach, looking at those who erase graffiti as opposed to those who make it.
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In Production
Good’s ‘Vigilante’ Tags Graffiti Showdown
Michael Fox
Mar 30, 2011A nonfiction tagging doc takes a novel approach, looking at those who erase graffiti as opposed to those who make it.
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03.31.11
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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Festivals
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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03.31.11
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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Festivals
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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Jay Rosenblatt Talks ‘Darkness’
Max Goldberg
Mar 24, 2011Rosenblatt’s meditative essay on the difficult subject of suicide finds its way to HBO. Narrative films may occasionally conjure the shock of a suicide—last year’s The Father of My Children is a fine example—but it’s the nature of character dramas to keep pace with the living rather than meditate in the shadow of loss. In his most recent lyrical essay-film, The Darkness of Day, local filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt creates such a meditative space, intertwining different stories and perspectives of suicide: near and far, first-person and third, male and female, young and old, anonymous and notable. Rosenblatt cues the multiple narratives to a poetic stream of found...
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March 24, 2011
Jay Rosenblatt Talks ‘Darkness’
Max Goldberg
Mar 24, 2011Rosenblatt’s meditative essay on the difficult subject of suicide finds its way to HBO. Narrative films may occasionally conjure the shock of a suicide—last year’s The Father of My Children is a fine example—but it’s the nature of character dramas to keep pace with the living rather than meditate in the shadow of loss. In his most recent lyrical essay-film, The Darkness of Day, local filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt creates such a meditative space, intertwining different stories and perspectives of suicide: near and far, first-person and third, male and female, young and old, anonymous and notable. Rosenblatt cues the multiple narratives to a poetic stream of found...
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Merk Mixes ‘Cocktails’ for Television
Michael Fox
Mar 23, 2011Ron Merk sends a San Francisco-set series into the ring.
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In Production
Merk Mixes ‘Cocktails’ for Television
Michael Fox
Mar 23, 2011Ron Merk sends a San Francisco-set series into the ring.
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March 24, 2011
Merk Mixes ‘Cocktails’ for Television
Michael Fox
Mar 23, 2011Ron Merk sends a San Francisco-set series into the ring.
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Kiarostami’s Enigmatic ‘Copy’ Fascinates
Dennis Harvey
Mar 18, 2011Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’ is a puzzling provocation that gets better with multiple viewings.
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March 24, 2011
Kiarostami’s Enigmatic ‘Copy’ Fascinates
Dennis Harvey
Mar 18, 2011Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’ is a puzzling provocation that gets better with multiple viewings.
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Kiarostami’s Enigmatic ‘Copy’ Fascinates
Dennis Harvey
Mar 18, 2011Kiarostami’s ‘Certified Copy’ is a puzzling provocation that gets better with multiple viewings.
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Seely Treks Long Distances for Shorts
Michael Fox
Mar 16, 2011Long story short: A filmmaker finds the right length for his South American health doc.
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In Production
Seely Treks Long Distances for Shorts
Michael Fox
Mar 16, 2011Long story short: A filmmaker finds the right length for his South American health doc.
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March 17, 2011
Seely Treks Long Distances for Shorts
Michael Fox
Mar 16, 2011Long story short: A filmmaker finds the right length for his South American health doc.
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Nonfiction's Future Lies in Optimism
Karen Everett
Mar 15, 2011A new crop of filmmakers are building audiences by showing nonfiction doesn’t have to be depressing to reveal hard truths.
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March 17, 2011
Nonfiction's Future Lies in Optimism
Karen Everett
Mar 15, 2011A new crop of filmmakers are building audiences by showing nonfiction doesn’t have to be depressing to reveal hard truths.
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Nonfiction's Future Lies in Optimism
Karen Everett
Mar 15, 2011A new crop of filmmakers are building audiences by showing nonfiction doesn’t have to be depressing to reveal hard truths.
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SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...
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March 10, 2011
SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011At nearly 30, SF Int’l Asian American Film Festival fulfills a multifacted programming mission. The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival stretches across the Bay Area, from San Francisco to Berkeley to San Jose March 10–20, bringing “Stories to Light” as the Center for Asian American Media's new tagline says. Indeed, both the stories and their potential audiences would be left in the dark without the solid efforts of new festival steward Misashi Niwano and Christine Kwon (festival director and managing director, respectively). In a city privileged with a vast...
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Wolos’s ‘Trattoria’ Serves Up Spicy Comedy
Michael Fox
Mar 9, 2011Jason Wolos builds a drama about family and food with a few key ingredients.
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In Production
Wolos’s ‘Trattoria’ Serves Up Spicy Comedy
Michael Fox
Mar 9, 2011Jason Wolos builds a drama about family and food with a few key ingredients.
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March 10, 2011
Wolos’s ‘Trattoria’ Serves Up Spicy Comedy
Michael Fox
Mar 9, 2011Jason Wolos builds a drama about family and food with a few key ingredients.
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SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.
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March 10, 2011
SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.
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Q & A
SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.
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News & Blogs
SFIFF54 Announces Documentaries in Golden Gate Awards, Films in New Directors Competition
Mar 4, 2011Press release: The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21 - May 5) today announced its documentaries in competition for the Golden Gate Awards and films in competition for the New Directors Prize. The International will award close to $100,000 in total prizes this year. Sixty thousand dollars will be awarded to winners in three categories: investigative documentary feature ($25,000), documentary feature ($20,000) and Bay Area documentary feature ($15,000). The New Directors Prize of $15,000 is given to a narrative first feature that exhibits a unique artistic sensibility and deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible. Seventeen countries contributed to the production of the 11 films in this year's competition. Click through for titles or visit sffs.org.
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Festivals
Hope Springs Eternal at Green Film Festival
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2011An environmental film festival with exceptional flair enters the San Francisco scene.
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Hope Springs Eternal at Green Film Festival
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2011An environmental film festival with exceptional flair enters the San Francisco scene.
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March 3, 2011
Hope Springs Eternal at Green Film Festival
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2011An environmental film festival with exceptional flair enters the San Francisco scene.
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Festivals
Hope Springs Eternal at Green Film Festival
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2011An environmental film festival with exceptional flair enters the San Francisco scene.
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Home
Hope Springs Eternal at Green Film Festival
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2011An environmental film festival with exceptional flair enters the San Francisco scene.
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March 3, 2011
Hope Springs Eternal at Green Film Festival
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2011An environmental film festival with exceptional flair enters the San Francisco scene.
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Home
Ehrlich Clicks with Icelandic ‘Mouse’
Michael Fox
Mar 2, 2011After her own Assange story broke big, a Bay Area filmmaker followed another lead...to Iceland.
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In Production
Ehrlich Clicks with Icelandic ‘Mouse’
Michael Fox
Mar 2, 2011After her own Assange story broke big, a Bay Area filmmaker followed another lead...to Iceland.
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March 3, 2011
Ehrlich Clicks with Icelandic ‘Mouse’
Michael Fox
Mar 2, 2011After her own Assange story broke big, a Bay Area filmmaker followed another lead...to Iceland.
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News & Blogs
LA Times: "Oscars: 'Inside Job' Wins for Documentary Feature"
Feb 27, 2011LA Times Blogs: "Inside Job” won the Oscar for documentary feature at the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday night. “Inside Job” is an exploration of the causes and corollaries of the 2008 financial crisis. The award goes to Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs." More at latimesblogs.latimes.com. And from SF360.org: Bay Area-based Ferguson's speech began with a statement of fact, "After financial fraud not a single financial executive has gone to jail," before thanking his colleagues.
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February 24, 2011
Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen
Sean Uyehara
Feb 23, 2011Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.
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Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen
Sean Uyehara
Feb 23, 2011Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.
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Q & A
Nakadate’s Fever Dreams Heat the Screen
Sean Uyehara
Feb 23, 2011Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.
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February 24, 2011
'We Were Here' Wrings Hope from the AIDS Crisis
Dennis Harvey
Feb 22, 2011Weissman and Weber's 'We Were Here' pulls a surprising degree of hope and inspiration out of the AIDS tragedy.
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'We Were Here' Wrings Hope from the AIDS Crisis
Dennis Harvey
Feb 22, 2011Weissman and Weber's 'We Were Here' pulls a surprising degree of hope and inspiration out of the AIDS tragedy.
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Reviews
'We Were Here' Wrings Hope from the AIDS Crisis
Dennis Harvey
Feb 22, 2011Weissman and Weber's 'We Were Here' pulls a surprising degree of hope and inspiration out of the AIDS tragedy.
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February 24, 2011
Mitchell Block Brings Oscar Attention to Vets
Jessica Sapick
Feb 21, 2011Producer and teacher Mitchell Block talks about the making of great films, including the Oscar-nominated 'Poster Girl.'
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Mitchell Block Brings Oscar Attention to Vets
Jessica Sapick
Feb 21, 2011Producer and teacher Mitchell Block talks about the making of great films, including the Oscar-nominated 'Poster Girl.'
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Q & A
Mitchell Block Brings Oscar Attention to Vets
Jessica Sapick
Feb 21, 2011Producer and teacher Mitchell Block talks about the making of great films, including the Oscar-nominated 'Poster Girl.'
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February 17, 2011
Noise Pop 2011's Film Series Rawks
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2011Noise Pop brings the noise as well as great filmmaking to its annual music-and-movie event.
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Festivals
Noise Pop 2011's Film Series Rawks
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2011Noise Pop brings the noise as well as great filmmaking to its annual music-and-movie event.
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Home
Noise Pop 2011's Film Series Rawks
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2011Noise Pop brings the noise as well as great filmmaking to its annual music-and-movie event.
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February 10, 2011
Scary Cow Stampede Continues Apace
Michael Fox
Feb 9, 2011Scary Cow matches makers with crews, and, every quarter, finds audiences for both.
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Scary Cow Stampede Continues Apace
Michael Fox
Feb 9, 2011Scary Cow matches makers with crews, and, every quarter, finds audiences for both.
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In Production
Scary Cow Stampede Continues Apace
Michael Fox
Feb 9, 2011Scary Cow matches makers with crews, and, every quarter, finds audiences for both.
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February 10, 2011
Mostly British Looks Beyond Speechifying Kings
Michael Fox
Feb 7, 2011Australian films comprise fully a third of the Mostly British Film Festival lineup.
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Festivals
Mostly British Looks Beyond Speechifying Kings
Michael Fox
Feb 7, 2011Australian films comprise fully a third of the Mostly British Film Festival lineup.
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Home
Mostly British Looks Beyond Speechifying Kings
Michael Fox
Feb 7, 2011Australian films comprise fully a third of the Mostly British Film Festival lineup.
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February 10, 2011
SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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Reviews
SFFS Screen Returns with New Suleiman
Max Goldberg
Feb 4, 2011Elia Suleiman’s 'The Time That Remains' recalls his parents’ Nazareth.
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Feb 3 2011
Eclectic Expectations Met at SF Indiefest
Matt Sussman
Feb 3, 2011SF Indiefest brings drama, doc, fact, fiction and physique into its annual showcase.
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Festivals
Eclectic Expectations Met at SF Indiefest
Matt Sussman
Feb 3, 2011SF Indiefest brings drama, doc, fact, fiction and physique into its annual showcase.
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Home
Eclectic Expectations Met at SF Indiefest
Matt Sussman
Feb 3, 2011SF Indiefest brings drama, doc, fact, fiction and physique into its annual showcase.
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Feb 3 2011
Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba
Michael Fox
Feb 2, 2011Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.
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Home
Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba
Michael Fox
Feb 2, 2011Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.
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In Production
Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba
Michael Fox
Feb 2, 2011Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.
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Feb 3 2011
How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part Two
Karen Everett
Feb 1, 2011An expert offers advice on solving the issues rough-cut screenings raise.
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How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part Two
Karen Everett
Feb 1, 2011An expert offers advice on solving the issues rough-cut screenings raise.
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Story Structure
How to Fix Your Documentary's Structural Problems, Part Two
Karen Everett
Feb 1, 2011An expert offers advice on solving the issues rough-cut screenings raise.
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January 27, 2011
SF360 Live at Sundance: Strange and Charmed Visions
SFFS Staff
Jan 25, 2011Sean Uyehara: "If you wanted, you could say that Calvin Lee Reeder channels the love child of Dario Argento and Maya Deren..."
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January 31, 2011
SF360 Live at Sundance: Strange and Charmed Visions
SFFS Staff
Jan 25, 2011Sean Uyehara: "If you wanted, you could say that Calvin Lee Reeder channels the love child of Dario Argento and Maya Deren..."
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News & Blogs
SF360 Live at Sundance: Strange and Charmed Visions
SFFS Staff
Jan 25, 2011Sean Uyehara: "If you wanted, you could say that Calvin Lee Reeder channels the love child of Dario Argento and Maya Deren..."
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Home
Red Lantern Meetup Reels in Film Fans
Adam Hartzell
Jan 24, 2011The Red Lantern Meetup group brings Asian film fans together.
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January 27, 2011
Red Lantern Meetup Reels in Film Fans
Adam Hartzell
Jan 24, 2011The Red Lantern Meetup group brings Asian film fans together.
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Q & A
Red Lantern Meetup Reels in Film Fans
Adam Hartzell
Jan 24, 2011The Red Lantern Meetup group brings Asian film fans together.
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Home
Red Lantern Meetup Reels in Film Fans
Adam Hartzell
Jan 24, 2011The Red Lantern Meetup group brings Asian film fans together.
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January 27, 2011
Red Lantern Meetup Reels in Film Fans
Adam Hartzell
Jan 24, 2011The Red Lantern Meetup group brings Asian film fans together.
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Q & A
Red Lantern Meetup Reels in Film Fans
Adam Hartzell
Jan 24, 2011The Red Lantern Meetup group brings Asian film fans together.
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Home
Temporary Insanity Takes Hold at Noir City
Max Goldberg
Jan 21, 2011Noir City 9's "madness" theme means a few more gothic titles and a fresh context to appreciate noir’s signature motifs.
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January 27, 2011
Temporary Insanity Takes Hold at Noir City
Max Goldberg
Jan 21, 2011Noir City 9's "madness" theme means a few more gothic titles and a fresh context to appreciate noir’s signature motifs.
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Reviews
Temporary Insanity Takes Hold at Noir City
Max Goldberg
Jan 21, 2011Noir City 9's "madness" theme means a few more gothic titles and a fresh context to appreciate noir’s signature motifs.
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Home
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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In Production
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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January 20, 2011
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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January 31, 2011
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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Home
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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In Production
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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January 20, 2011
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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January 31, 2011
Bay Area Doc Makers Breathe Deep Before Sundance Debuts
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2011Filmmakers make plans, stay calm, hone their messages for Park City audiences in days before festival opens.
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Home
Alexander Excavates Educational Film Treasures
Michael Fox
Jan 18, 2011Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.
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January 20, 2011
Alexander Excavates Educational Film Treasures
Michael Fox
Jan 18, 2011Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.
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Q & A
Alexander Excavates Educational Film Treasures
Michael Fox
Jan 18, 2011Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.
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Home
Patrick Marks Takes a Green Eye to Noir
Adam Hartzell
Jan 17, 2011Notable Noir City enthusiast Patrick Marks, owner of the Green Arcade, offers thoughts on the genre as well as festival's 2011 selections.
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January 20, 2011
Patrick Marks Takes a Green Eye to Noir
Adam Hartzell
Jan 17, 2011Notable Noir City enthusiast Patrick Marks, owner of the Green Arcade, offers thoughts on the genre as well as festival's 2011 selections.
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Q & A
Patrick Marks Takes a Green Eye to Noir
Adam Hartzell
Jan 17, 2011Notable Noir City enthusiast Patrick Marks, owner of the Green Arcade, offers thoughts on the genre as well as festival's 2011 selections.
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Home
'Somewhere' Seizes on Discontent
Dennis Harvey
Jan 14, 2011Sofia Coppola's 'Somewhere' nails the spiritual erosion of constant, effortless indulgence.
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January 20, 2011
'Somewhere' Seizes on Discontent
Dennis Harvey
Jan 14, 2011Sofia Coppola's 'Somewhere' nails the spiritual erosion of constant, effortless indulgence.
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Reviews
'Somewhere' Seizes on Discontent
Dennis Harvey
Jan 14, 2011Sofia Coppola's 'Somewhere' nails the spiritual erosion of constant, effortless indulgence.
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Home
Nanstad Tracks Down 'Sisters' Act
Michael Fox
Jan 12, 2011Rachel Nanstad finds a unique American story in the Reed Sisters' musical act.
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In Production
Nanstad Tracks Down 'Sisters' Act
Michael Fox
Jan 12, 2011Rachel Nanstad finds a unique American story in the Reed Sisters' musical act.
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January 13, 2011
Nanstad Tracks Down 'Sisters' Act
Michael Fox
Jan 12, 2011Rachel Nanstad finds a unique American story in the Reed Sisters' musical act.
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Home
VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience
Adam Hartzell
Jan 10, 2011An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.
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January 13, 2011
VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience
Adam Hartzell
Jan 10, 2011An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.
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Q & A
VCinema Podcast Finds Its Audience
Adam Hartzell
Jan 10, 2011An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.
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Home
Politics, Sacrifice Define 'Bhutto,' Director
Michael Fox
Jan 5, 2011Director Duane Baughman's day job in direct mail/political consulting brought him unbelievable access to Benazir Bhutto.
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In Production
Politics, Sacrifice Define 'Bhutto,' Director
Michael Fox
Jan 5, 2011Director Duane Baughman's day job in direct mail/political consulting brought him unbelievable access to Benazir Bhutto.
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January 6, 2010
Politics, Sacrifice Define 'Bhutto,' Director
Michael Fox
Jan 5, 2011Director Duane Baughman's day job in direct mail/political consulting brought him unbelievable access to Benazir Bhutto.
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Home
Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
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January 6, 2010
Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
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Q & A
Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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Home
Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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January 6, 2010
Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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Reviews
Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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Home
Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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January 6, 2010
Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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Reviews
Film 2010: Moments, Trends, Docs and the Best of the Bay Area
Susan Gerhard
Dec 24, 2010The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
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December 23, 2010
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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Home
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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Reviews
Film 2010: Top Tens
Susan Gerhard
Dec 23, 2010Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
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December 23, 2010
Film 2010: YouTube, WeTube
Susan Gerhard
Dec 22, 2010Is this what we talk about when we talk about YouTube?
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: YouTube, WeTube
Susan Gerhard
Dec 22, 2010Is this what we talk about when we talk about YouTube?
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Home
Film 2010: YouTube, WeTube
Susan Gerhard
Dec 22, 2010Is this what we talk about when we talk about YouTube?
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Reviews
Film 2010: YouTube, WeTube
Susan Gerhard
Dec 22, 2010Is this what we talk about when we talk about YouTube?
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December 23, 2010
Film 2010: We’re Not Here to Make Friends
Hannah Eaves
Dec 21, 2010'The Social Network' debate offered a moral for all of us: If you don't like this digital revolution, build one of your own.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: We’re Not Here to Make Friends
Hannah Eaves
Dec 21, 2010'The Social Network' debate offered a moral for all of us: If you don't like this digital revolution, build one of your own.
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Digital
Film 2010: We’re Not Here to Make Friends
Hannah Eaves
Dec 21, 2010'The Social Network' debate offered a moral for all of us: If you don't like this digital revolution, build one of your own.
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Home
Film 2010: We’re Not Here to Make Friends
Hannah Eaves
Dec 21, 2010'The Social Network' debate offered a moral for all of us: If you don't like this digital revolution, build one of your own.
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December 23, 2010
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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Home
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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In Depth
Film 2010: Think Globally, View Locally
Adam Hartzell
Dec 20, 2010Why one local cineaste has made a resolution to support his local theater, the Bridge.
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December 23, 2010
Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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Home
Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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In Production
Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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December 23, 2010
Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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Home
Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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In Production
Film 2010: The Year in Quotes
Michael Fox
Dec 17, 2010Outspoken and rarely understated, Bay Area filmmakers took center stage in 2010.
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December 14, 2010
'Ghost Bird' with Scott Crocker in Person
Dec 16, 2010Bay Area filmmaker Scott Crocker joins the hunt for the extinct Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and captures a bizarre story about myth, nature and economics in the process. Crocker appears in person at the Smith Rafael Film Center and Roxie Theater this week. More at roxie.com and cafilm.org.
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December 16, 2010
John Waters, New Leadership Renew Roxie
Robert Avila
Dec 15, 2010Waters’ live Christmas show at the Roxie raised money for San Francisco’s oldest continuously operating theater as it moves full-steam into its second century.
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John Waters, New Leadership Renew Roxie
Robert Avila
Dec 15, 2010Waters’ live Christmas show at the Roxie raised money for San Francisco’s oldest continuously operating theater as it moves full-steam into its second century.
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News & Blogs
John Waters, New Leadership Renew Roxie
Robert Avila
Dec 15, 2010Waters’ live Christmas show at the Roxie raised money for San Francisco’s oldest continuously operating theater as it moves full-steam into its second century.
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December 16, 2010
Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards
Susan Gerhard
Dec 14, 2010San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
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December 28, 2010
Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards
Susan Gerhard
Dec 14, 2010San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
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Home
Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards
Susan Gerhard
Dec 14, 2010San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
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News & Blogs
Film 2010: 'Social Network' Tops S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards
Susan Gerhard
Dec 14, 2010San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
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December 16, 2010
'Ghost Bird' Returns to Roost
Susan Gerhard
Dec 13, 2010The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker may have disappeared for good, but a film about its possible rebirth persists against all odds.
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Home
'Ghost Bird' Returns to Roost
Susan Gerhard
Dec 13, 2010The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker may have disappeared for good, but a film about its possible rebirth persists against all odds.
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Q & A
'Ghost Bird' Returns to Roost
Susan Gerhard
Dec 13, 2010The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker may have disappeared for good, but a film about its possible rebirth persists against all odds.
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December 16, 2010
'Ghost Bird' Returns to Roost
Susan Gerhard
Dec 13, 2010The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker may have disappeared for good, but a film about its possible rebirth persists against all odds.
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Home
'Ghost Bird' Returns to Roost
Susan Gerhard
Dec 13, 2010The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker may have disappeared for good, but a film about its possible rebirth persists against all odds.
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Q & A
'Ghost Bird' Returns to Roost
Susan Gerhard
Dec 13, 2010The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker may have disappeared for good, but a film about its possible rebirth persists against all odds.
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December 7, 2010
'Remembering Playland' with Tom Wyrsch in Person
Dec 12, 2010Bay Area filmmaker Tom Wyrsch examines the history of San Francisco’s one-time seaside amusement park, Playland, whose origins dated back nearly a century before being torn down in 1972. Wyrsch appears in person at the Smith Rafael Film Center. More at cafilm.org.
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December 9, 2010
Stanford's MFA Doc Program Teaches Cardinal Rules, and How to Break Them
Sara Dosa
Dec 9, 2010A night with Stanford’s Doc Film MFAs offers insight into a storied program.
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Stanford's MFA Doc Program Teaches Cardinal Rules, and How to Break Them
Sara Dosa
Dec 9, 2010A night with Stanford’s Doc Film MFAs offers insight into a storied program.
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Reviews
Stanford's MFA Doc Program Teaches Cardinal Rules, and How to Break Them
Sara Dosa
Dec 9, 2010A night with Stanford’s Doc Film MFAs offers insight into a storied program.
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December 9, 2010
Lukitsch Pedals into the ‘Gap’
Michael Fox
Dec 8, 2010Laura Lukitsch's new project asks whether we can replace car culture with biking, public transportation and high-speed rail.
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Lukitsch Pedals into the ‘Gap’
Michael Fox
Dec 8, 2010Laura Lukitsch's new project asks whether we can replace car culture with biking, public transportation and high-speed rail.
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In Production
Lukitsch Pedals into the ‘Gap’
Michael Fox
Dec 8, 2010Laura Lukitsch's new project asks whether we can replace car culture with biking, public transportation and high-speed rail.
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December 9, 2010
Essential SF: Anne McGuire
Sean Uyehara
Dec 6, 2010San Francisco has not quite been the same since it began experiencing the cinema/performance antics of an uncontainable Anne McGuire.
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Home
Essential SF: Anne McGuire
Sean Uyehara
Dec 6, 2010San Francisco has not quite been the same since it began experiencing the cinema/performance antics of an uncontainable Anne McGuire.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Anne McGuire
Sean Uyehara
Dec 6, 2010San Francisco has not quite been the same since it began experiencing the cinema/performance antics of an uncontainable Anne McGuire.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Anne McGuire
Sean Uyehara
Dec 6, 2010San Francisco has not quite been the same since it began experiencing the cinema/performance antics of an uncontainable Anne McGuire.
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News & Blogs
SFFS/KRF Announce Fall 2010 Grant Recipients
Dec 6, 2010Press release: The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation today announced the five winners of the fourth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants: Debbie Brubaker, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Christopher Mason Johnson, Mike Ott and Morgan Wise. The grants are given twice annually to filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community. More at sffs.org.
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December 9, 2010
Essential SF: Anne McGuire
Sean Uyehara
Dec 6, 2010San Francisco has not quite been the same since it began experiencing the cinema/performance antics of an uncontainable Anne McGuire.
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Home
Essential SF: Anne McGuire
Sean Uyehara
Dec 6, 2010San Francisco has not quite been the same since it began experiencing the cinema/performance antics of an uncontainable Anne McGuire.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Anne McGuire
Sean Uyehara
Dec 6, 2010San Francisco has not quite been the same since it began experiencing the cinema/performance antics of an uncontainable Anne McGuire.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Anne McGuire
Sean Uyehara
Dec 6, 2010San Francisco has not quite been the same since it began experiencing the cinema/performance antics of an uncontainable Anne McGuire.
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December 2, 2010
'The Sound of Music' Offers Simpler Times, Strange Complications
Dennis Harvey
Dec 3, 2010'The Sound of Music' stretches its music empire into a new century with popular sing-alongs and a new home-entertainment release. When we look back at the 1960s, the phenomenon that was—and still somewhat is—The Sound of Music seems like an anomaly. But at the time it was more like the solid rock of reassuring constancy that masses clung to as waters of bewildering change rose all around them, a three-hour oasis of clean living and cheerful melody that wouldn't go away—no matter how many antiwar protesting, unisex...
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'The Sound of Music' Offers Simpler Times, Strange Complications
Dennis Harvey
Dec 3, 2010'The Sound of Music' stretches its music empire into a new century with popular sing-alongs and a new home-entertainment release. When we look back at the 1960s, the phenomenon that was—and still somewhat is—The Sound of Music seems like an anomaly. But at the time it was more like the solid rock of reassuring constancy that masses clung to as waters of bewildering change rose all around them, a three-hour oasis of clean living and cheerful melody that wouldn't go away—no matter how many antiwar protesting, unisex...
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December 2, 2010
Sundance Announces Films in Competition
Susan Gerhard
Dec 2, 2010Sundance announces its competition class of 2011, which includes Bay Area projects by Tiffany Shlain, Yoav Potash, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and David Weissman.
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Sundance Announces Films in Competition
Susan Gerhard
Dec 2, 2010Sundance announces its competition class of 2011, which includes Bay Area projects by Tiffany Shlain, Yoav Potash, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and David Weissman.
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January 31, 2011
Sundance Announces Films in Competition
Susan Gerhard
Dec 2, 2010Sundance announces its competition class of 2011, which includes Bay Area projects by Tiffany Shlain, Yoav Potash, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and David Weissman.
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News & Blogs
Sundance Announces Films in Competition
Susan Gerhard
Dec 2, 2010Sundance announces its competition class of 2011, which includes Bay Area projects by Tiffany Shlain, Yoav Potash, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and David Weissman.
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December 2, 2010
Sundance Announces Films in Competition
Susan Gerhard
Dec 2, 2010Sundance announces its competition class of 2011, which includes Bay Area projects by Tiffany Shlain, Yoav Potash, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and David Weissman.
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Sundance Announces Films in Competition
Susan Gerhard
Dec 2, 2010Sundance announces its competition class of 2011, which includes Bay Area projects by Tiffany Shlain, Yoav Potash, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and David Weissman.
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January 31, 2011
Sundance Announces Films in Competition
Susan Gerhard
Dec 2, 2010Sundance announces its competition class of 2011, which includes Bay Area projects by Tiffany Shlain, Yoav Potash, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and David Weissman.
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News & Blogs
Sundance Announces Films in Competition
Susan Gerhard
Dec 2, 2010Sundance announces its competition class of 2011, which includes Bay Area projects by Tiffany Shlain, Yoav Potash, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and David Weissman.
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November 30, 2010
Maya Rudolph in Conversation with Paul Lancour
Dec 1, 2010The former Saturday Night Live player was an essential element to some of the most memorable moments in the show’s recent history. In 2009 the actress displayed her versatility in the Sam Mendes-directed ‘Away We Go,’ costarring with John Krasinski. Maya Rudolph discusses her career as a comedienne with Bay Area broadcasting veteran Paul Lancour at Herbst Theater. More at cityarts.net.
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December 2, 2010
De Michiel and Constantinou Offer Food for Thought
Michael Fox
Dec 1, 2010Filmmakers with deep roots in Bay Area cinema enter the brave new world of Web broadcasting with a series on food education for children.
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De Michiel and Constantinou Offer Food for Thought
Michael Fox
Dec 1, 2010Filmmakers with deep roots in Bay Area cinema enter the brave new world of Web broadcasting with a series on food education for children.
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In Production
De Michiel and Constantinou Offer Food for Thought
Michael Fox
Dec 1, 2010Filmmakers with deep roots in Bay Area cinema enter the brave new world of Web broadcasting with a series on food education for children.
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News & Blogs
Criterioncast: Oscar Documentary Shortlist with Trailers
Nov 30, 2010Bay Area filmmaker Charles Ferguson's 'Inside Job' was among the 15 documentaries on the Academy Awards shortlist. Joshua Brunsting at Criterioncast offers the full roundup with trailers. More at criterioncast.com.
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December 2, 2010
Writing Screenplays Is not Painting by Numbers
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 30, 2010When structuring a screenplay, sometimes you need to leave the "advice" behind.
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Writing Screenplays Is not Painting by Numbers
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 30, 2010When structuring a screenplay, sometimes you need to leave the "advice" behind.
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Screenwriting
Writing Screenplays Is not Painting by Numbers
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 30, 2010When structuring a screenplay, sometimes you need to leave the "advice" behind.
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Funding
Going Guerrilla with Zombies
Holly Million
Nov 23, 2010Horror legend George Romero offers fundraising advice to first-timers: "Just make the movie. Don’t worry about the money."
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Going Guerrilla with Zombies
Holly Million
Nov 23, 2010Horror legend George Romero offers fundraising advice to first-timers: "Just make the movie. Don’t worry about the money."
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November 24, 2010
Going Guerrilla with Zombies
Holly Million
Nov 23, 2010Horror legend George Romero offers fundraising advice to first-timers: "Just make the movie. Don’t worry about the money."
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November 16, 2010
Nora Ephron in Conversation with Paul Lancour
Nov 22, 2010The mutli-talented Nora Ephron is credited to some of the most beloved romantic comedies of all time and recently won praise for last year’s ‘Julie and Julia.’ The journalist/screenwriter/director/author discusses life and her latest book, ‘I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections’ with Bay Area broadcasting veteran Paul Lancour. More at cityarts.net.
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Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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November 24, 2010
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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November 16, 2010
‘Kamui Gaiden’
Nov 19, 2010The story of 17th-century ninja who makes the dangerous decision to run from his own clan, ‘Kamui Gaiden’ is one of Japan’s most expensive movies in history and brings Sampei Shirato’s celebrated '70s comic to the big screen as part of The Red Lantern: Bay Area Asian Cinephiles film series. More at newpeopleworld.com.
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Home
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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November 24, 2010
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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Essential SF: Marlon Riggs
Dennis Harvey
Nov 15, 2010From 'Tongues Untied' to 'Black Is.....Black Ain't,' Marlon Riggs' art was a series of radical acts that were both overdue and ahead of their time. Two decades ago, in post-Reagan America, the arts were under fire—one lit by a very particular religious right match. Feeling the heat was the National Endowment for the Arts, a then 25-year-old institution already pretty pitifully funded by comparison with most other developed nations’ governmental arts support. But the small portion of NEA grants that helped avant-garde or otherwise edgy art—as opposed to, say, the local Gilbert & Sullivan society or annual craft fair—provided plenty of opportunities...
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Marlon Riggs
Dennis Harvey
Nov 15, 2010From 'Tongues Untied' to 'Black Is.....Black Ain't,' Marlon Riggs' art was a series of radical acts that were both overdue and ahead of their time. Two decades ago, in post-Reagan America, the arts were under fire—one lit by a very particular religious right match. Feeling the heat was the National Endowment for the Arts, a then 25-year-old institution already pretty pitifully funded by comparison with most other developed nations’ governmental arts support. But the small portion of NEA grants that helped avant-garde or otherwise edgy art—as opposed to, say, the local Gilbert & Sullivan society or annual craft fair—provided plenty of opportunities...
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Essential SF: Marlon Riggs
Dennis Harvey
Nov 15, 2010From 'Tongues Untied' to 'Black Is.....Black Ain't,' Marlon Riggs' art was a series of radical acts that were both overdue and ahead of their time. Two decades ago, in post-Reagan America, the arts were under fire—one lit by a very particular religious right match. Feeling the heat was the National Endowment for the Arts, a then 25-year-old institution already pretty pitifully funded by comparison with most other developed nations’ governmental arts support. But the small portion of NEA grants that helped avant-garde or otherwise edgy art—as opposed to, say, the local Gilbert & Sullivan society or annual craft fair—provided plenty of opportunities...
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Marlon Riggs
Dennis Harvey
Nov 15, 2010From 'Tongues Untied' to 'Black Is.....Black Ain't,' Marlon Riggs' art was a series of radical acts that were both overdue and ahead of their time. Two decades ago, in post-Reagan America, the arts were under fire—one lit by a very particular religious right match. Feeling the heat was the National Endowment for the Arts, a then 25-year-old institution already pretty pitifully funded by comparison with most other developed nations’ governmental arts support. But the small portion of NEA grants that helped avant-garde or otherwise edgy art—as opposed to, say, the local Gilbert & Sullivan society or annual craft fair—provided plenty of opportunities...
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Manning’s ‘Al Capp’ Sketches Grandpa
Michael Fox
Nov 10, 2010Caitlin Manning takes a look at her cartoon-artist grandfather's life and legacy.
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In Production
Manning’s ‘Al Capp’ Sketches Grandpa
Michael Fox
Nov 10, 2010Caitlin Manning takes a look at her cartoon-artist grandfather's life and legacy.
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November 11, 2010
Manning’s ‘Al Capp’ Sketches Grandpa
Michael Fox
Nov 10, 2010Caitlin Manning takes a look at her cartoon-artist grandfather's life and legacy.
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Home
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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November 11, 2010
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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Home
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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November 11, 2010
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Les Blank
Michael Fox
Nov 6, 2010Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.
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November 4, 2010
Essential SF
Susan Gerhard, Editor
Nov 5, 2010SF360.org profiles the 2011 roster of Essential SF, an ongoing compendium of the film community’s vital figures and institutions.
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November 2, 2010
Cinema by the Bay/Essential SF
Nov 5, 2010Now in its second year, SFFS's Cinema by the Bay brings Bay Area films and filmmakers to Mission venues the Roxie Theater, the Lab and Southern Exposure. As part of the festivities, SF360 Presents Essential SF November 8, featuring a hard-core handful of the Bay Area's vital filmmakers and institutions. Look for more on the shows at sffs.org.
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November 4, 2010
Essential SF
Susan Gerhard, Editor
Nov 5, 2010SF360.org profiles the 2011 roster of Essential SF, an ongoing compendium of the film community’s vital figures and institutions.
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Festivals
The View from Here
Michael Fox
Nov 4, 2010San Francisco Film Society's Cinema by the Bay festival puts the focus on locals.
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The View from Here
Michael Fox
Nov 4, 2010San Francisco Film Society's Cinema by the Bay festival puts the focus on locals.
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November 4, 2010
The View from Here
Michael Fox
Nov 4, 2010San Francisco Film Society's Cinema by the Bay festival puts the focus on locals.
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Festivals
The View from Here
Michael Fox
Nov 4, 2010San Francisco Film Society's Cinema by the Bay festival puts the focus on locals.
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Home
The View from Here
Michael Fox
Nov 4, 2010San Francisco Film Society's Cinema by the Bay festival puts the focus on locals.
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November 4, 2010
The View from Here
Michael Fox
Nov 4, 2010San Francisco Film Society's Cinema by the Bay festival puts the focus on locals.
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Essential SF: Gail Silva
Michael Fox
Nov 3, 2010Former 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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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Gail Silva
Michael Fox
Nov 3, 2010Former 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, 2010Former 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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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Gail Silva
Michael Fox
Nov 3, 2010Former 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: Rick Prelinger
Dennis Harvey
Nov 2, 2010Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Rick Prelinger
Dennis Harvey
Nov 2, 2010Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.
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Essential SF: Rick Prelinger
Dennis Harvey
Nov 2, 2010Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.
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November 3 2010
Essential SF: Rick Prelinger
Dennis Harvey
Nov 2, 2010Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.
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Festivals
Marquee Names Light Up French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 28, 2010The latest finds from France's national cinema play in an SFFS showcase.
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Marquee Names Light Up French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 28, 2010The latest finds from France's national cinema play in an SFFS showcase.
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October 28, 2010
Marquee Names Light Up French Cinema Now
Dennis Harvey
Oct 28, 2010The latest finds from France's national cinema play in an SFFS showcase.
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News & Blogs
SF Chronicle: 'Rainin Foundation selects 10 finalists'
Oct 27, 2010"Ten Bay Area filmmakers got good news this month when the San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced that they had narrowed their choices to a short list of contenders competing for $225,000 in cash," writes Hugh Hart. "The awards will go toward funding projects that explore civil rights, discrimination, gender and sexual identity. Winners will be named in November." More at SFGate.
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Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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October 28, 2010
Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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Q & A
Mike Ott on the Guileless Filmmaking of 'Littlerock'
Jessica Sapick
Oct 25, 2010Mike Ott, now up for a Gotham Award, speaks on filmmaking process and his indie film 'Littlerock.'
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First Person
Pitchers Craft Hits at SFFS Film Arts Forum
Gianmaria Franchini
Oct 19, 2010At SFFS Film Arts Forum, experts offered live advice on how to pitch a film.
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Pitchers Craft Hits at SFFS Film Arts Forum
Gianmaria Franchini
Oct 19, 2010At SFFS Film Arts Forum, experts offered live advice on how to pitch a film.
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October 21, 2010
Pitchers Craft Hits at SFFS Film Arts Forum
Gianmaria Franchini
Oct 19, 2010At SFFS Film Arts Forum, experts offered live advice on how to pitch a film.
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Home
Charles Ferguson Solves ‘Inside Job’
Michael Fox
Oct 18, 2010Charles Ferguson offers intel on the world financial crisis with 'Inside Job.'
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October 21, 2010
Charles Ferguson Solves ‘Inside Job’
Michael Fox
Oct 18, 2010Charles Ferguson offers intel on the world financial crisis with 'Inside Job.'
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Q & A
Charles Ferguson Solves ‘Inside Job’
Michael Fox
Oct 18, 2010Charles Ferguson offers intel on the world financial crisis with 'Inside Job.'
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Festivals
'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival
Robert Avila
Oct 14, 2010Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.
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'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival
Robert Avila
Oct 14, 2010Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.
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October 14, 2010
'Masquerades' Opens Arab Film Festival
Robert Avila
Oct 14, 2010Appearances deceive in Lyès Salem’s 'Masquerades,' at the Arab Film Festival.
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Home
'Better This World' Takes a Look at Criminal Injustice
Michael Fox
Oct 13, 2010Two filmmakers examine the justice system in the U.S. post-Sept. 11.
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October 14, 2010
'Better This World' Takes a Look at Criminal Injustice
Michael Fox
Oct 13, 2010Two filmmakers examine the justice system in the U.S. post-Sept. 11.
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Home
Savoring Fishbone in its Third Insane Decade
Susan Gerhard
Oct 8, 2010A film about the legendary band Fishbone brings California's past 25 years into close relief.
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October 14, 2010
Savoring Fishbone in its Third Insane Decade
Susan Gerhard
Oct 8, 2010A film about the legendary band Fishbone brings California's past 25 years into close relief.
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Q & A
Savoring Fishbone in its Third Insane Decade
Susan Gerhard
Oct 8, 2010A film about the legendary band Fishbone brings California's past 25 years into close relief.
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Savoring Fishbone in its Third Insane Decade
Susan Gerhard
Oct 8, 2010A film about the legendary band Fishbone brings California's past 25 years into close relief.
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October 14, 2010
Savoring Fishbone in its Third Insane Decade
Susan Gerhard
Oct 8, 2010A film about the legendary band Fishbone brings California's past 25 years into close relief.
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Q & A
Savoring Fishbone in its Third Insane Decade
Susan Gerhard
Oct 8, 2010A film about the legendary band Fishbone brings California's past 25 years into close relief.
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October 5, 2010
Judd Apatow in Conversation with Dave Eggers
Oct 7, 2010The preeminent voice of mainstream American comedy struggled long and hard as a standup before successes '40 Year Old Virgin,' 'Knocked Up' and 'Funny People.' Writer, producer and director Judd Apatow sits down to discuss his life and work with Bay Area author and screenwriter Dave Eggers at the Herbst.
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Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'
Michael Fox
Oct 6, 2010The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.
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In Depth
Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'
Michael Fox
Oct 6, 2010The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.
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October 7, 2010
Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'
Michael Fox
Oct 6, 2010The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.
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Festivals
Mill Valley's 33rd Launches
Sura Wood
Oct 5, 2010Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.
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Mill Valley's 33rd Launches
Sura Wood
Oct 5, 2010Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.
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October 7, 2010
Mill Valley's 33rd Launches
Sura Wood
Oct 5, 2010Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.
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Festivals
Mill Valley's 33rd Launches
Sura Wood
Oct 5, 2010Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.
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Home
Mill Valley's 33rd Launches
Sura Wood
Oct 5, 2010Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.
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October 7, 2010
Mill Valley's 33rd Launches
Sura Wood
Oct 5, 2010Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.
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Home
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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October 7, 2010
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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Q & A
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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Home
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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October 7, 2010
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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Q & A
'Left in the Dark' Savors the Bay Area's Cinema Past, Present
Susan Gerhard
Oct 4, 2010Photo/essay book 'Left in the Dark' offers a way in—and out of—San Francisco cinema's rich, gritty, glamorous past.
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Home
Rwanda Moves Forward in New Documentary
Susan Gerhard
Sep 30, 2010The latest Deborah Scranton film takes another look at the Rwandan genocide.
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Q & A
Rwanda Moves Forward in New Documentary
Susan Gerhard
Sep 30, 2010The latest Deborah Scranton film takes another look at the Rwandan genocide.
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September 30, 2010
Rwanda Moves Forward in New Documentary
Susan Gerhard
Sep 30, 2010The latest Deborah Scranton film takes another look at the Rwandan genocide.
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September 21, 2010
Distro 2010: Distribution for Independent Filmmakers Today
Sep 29, 2010This Bay Area Video Coalition panel includes representatives from Microcinema International and Filmmakers Collaborative discussing the many emerging choices independent filmmakers have for releasing their films.
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september 29, 2010
Distro 2010: Distribution for Independent Filmmakers Today
Sep 29, 2010This Bay Area Video Coalition panel includes representatives from Microcinema International and Filmmakers Collaborative discussing the many emerging choices independent filmmakers have for releasing their films.
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Local Filmmakers Pour into Mill Valley
Michael Fox
Sep 29, 2010Bay Area filmmakers find a platform at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
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In Production
Local Filmmakers Pour into Mill Valley
Michael Fox
Sep 29, 2010Bay Area filmmakers find a platform at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
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September 30, 2010
Local Filmmakers Pour into Mill Valley
Michael Fox
Sep 29, 2010Bay Area filmmakers find a platform at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
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Home
Essential SF: 'Chan Is Missing,' 'Thousand Pieces of Gold,' 'Heat and Sunlight'
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2010San Francisco narrative filmmakers offer nuanced visions of their city.
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In Depth
Essential SF: 'Chan Is Missing,' 'Thousand Pieces of Gold,' 'Heat and Sunlight'
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2010San Francisco narrative filmmakers offer nuanced visions of their city.
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September 30, 2010
Essential SF: 'Chan Is Missing,' 'Thousand Pieces of Gold,' 'Heat and Sunlight'
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2010San Francisco narrative filmmakers offer nuanced visions of their city.
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September 21, 2010
NY/SF International Children's Film Festival
Sep 24, 2010San Francisco Film Society and the New York International Children's Film Festival offer three days of films for kids, teens and their families, from 'Turtle—the Incredible Journey' (pictured) to Santosh Sivan's Kashmir story, 'Tahaan,' to shorts and animated films, kicking off Friday, September 24, with a kid-friendly opening night party at the Punch Line Comedy Club.
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'Howl' Revisits Key Literary Chapter in SF History
Susan Gerhard
Sep 23, 2010Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman offer insight into the making of 'Howl,' a movie about a poem and a time.
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September 23, 2010
'Howl' Revisits Key Literary Chapter in SF History
Susan Gerhard
Sep 23, 2010Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman offer insight into the making of 'Howl,' a movie about a poem and a time.
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Home
Irving Glides from Parrots to Pelicans
Michael Fox
Sep 22, 2010Judy Irving goes from parrots to pelicans with her new documentary.
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September 23, 2010
Irving Glides from Parrots to Pelicans
Michael Fox
Sep 22, 2010Judy Irving goes from parrots to pelicans with her new documentary.
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Home
Altman Versus the World
Dennis Harvey
Sep 20, 2010A series at the Roxie mines the fault lines in Robert Altman's varied oeuvre.
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Reviews
Altman Versus the World
Dennis Harvey
Sep 20, 2010A series at the Roxie mines the fault lines in Robert Altman's varied oeuvre.
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September 23, 2010
Altman Versus the World
Dennis Harvey
Sep 20, 2010A series at the Roxie mines the fault lines in Robert Altman's varied oeuvre.
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Home
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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September 23, 2010
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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Home
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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September 23, 2010
Radical Light: 'Image Dissectors'
Rebecca Solnit
Sep 17, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the first of three excerpts from its monumental new book, 'Radical Light.'
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Home
Tushinski Brings San Francisco into 'Dirty Poole'
Michael Fox
Sep 15, 2010A filmmaker revisits '70s gay erotic life in the work of Wakefield Poole.
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In Production
Tushinski Brings San Francisco into 'Dirty Poole'
Michael Fox
Sep 15, 2010A filmmaker revisits '70s gay erotic life in the work of Wakefield Poole.
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September 16, 2010
Tushinski Brings San Francisco into 'Dirty Poole'
Michael Fox
Sep 15, 2010A filmmaker revisits '70s gay erotic life in the work of Wakefield Poole.
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News & Blogs
Canada.com: 'How Facebook Got Involved in Human Rights'
Sep 15, 2010A Bay Area filmmaker's trip to Africa cemented her "bond with Facebook and created a new way for human rights activists to spread the word--while promoting the social networking site's month-old streaming video channel," writes Alex Ben Block. More at Canada.com.
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Home
Tushinski Brings San Francisco into 'Dirty Poole'
Michael Fox
Sep 15, 2010A filmmaker revisits '70s gay erotic life in the work of Wakefield Poole.
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In Production
Tushinski Brings San Francisco into 'Dirty Poole'
Michael Fox
Sep 15, 2010A filmmaker revisits '70s gay erotic life in the work of Wakefield Poole.
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September 16, 2010
Tushinski Brings San Francisco into 'Dirty Poole'
Michael Fox
Sep 15, 2010A filmmaker revisits '70s gay erotic life in the work of Wakefield Poole.
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Digital
Online Film Contests: Friend or Foe?
Hannah Eaves
Sep 14, 2010Contemplating the pros and cons of entering online film contests.
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Online Film Contests: Friend or Foe?
Hannah Eaves
Sep 14, 2010Contemplating the pros and cons of entering online film contests.
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September 16, 2010
Online Film Contests: Friend or Foe?
Hannah Eaves
Sep 14, 2010Contemplating the pros and cons of entering online film contests.
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Home
Mallimson surveys 'Edge of the Wild' on San Bruno Mountain
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2010A filmmaker shows environmentalists who are changing the way we as Americans relate to nature.
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In Production
Mallimson surveys 'Edge of the Wild' on San Bruno Mountain
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2010A filmmaker shows environmentalists who are changing the way we as Americans relate to nature.
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September 9 2010
Mallimson surveys 'Edge of the Wild' on San Bruno Mountain
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2010A filmmaker shows environmentalists who are changing the way we as Americans relate to nature.
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Home
'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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Q & A
'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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September 9 2010
'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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Festivals
Telluride Unveils 37th Film Festival
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 3, 2010Surprising themes and high profile documentaries are among the highlights of the Telluride 2010 lineup.
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Telluride Unveils 37th Film Festival
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 3, 2010Surprising themes and high profile documentaries are among the highlights of the Telluride 2010 lineup.
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September 9 2010
Telluride Unveils 37th Film Festival
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 3, 2010Surprising themes and high profile documentaries are among the highlights of the Telluride 2010 lineup.
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Home
The Price of Fame
George Rush
Aug 31, 2010When filming a public figure, the rights to privacy as well as publicity need to be considered.
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Legal
The Price of Fame
George Rush
Aug 31, 2010When filming a public figure, the rights to privacy as well as publicity need to be considered.
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September 2, 2010
The Price of Fame
George Rush
Aug 31, 2010When filming a public figure, the rights to privacy as well as publicity need to be considered.
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Home
Bar-Lev on the True 'Tillman Story'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2010Amir Bar-Lev follows a family's continuing fight in 'The Tillman Story.'
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Q & A
Bar-Lev on the True 'Tillman Story'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2010Amir Bar-Lev follows a family's continuing fight in 'The Tillman Story.'
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September 2, 2010
Bar-Lev on the True 'Tillman Story'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2010Amir Bar-Lev follows a family's continuing fight in 'The Tillman Story.'
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Home
Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 27, 2010The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.
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Reviews
Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 27, 2010The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.
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September 2, 2010
Two Zimbalists and 'Two Escobars'
Susan Gerhard
Aug 27, 2010The stories of an assassinated soccer star and the nation's most notorious criminal merge in a portrait of '80s-'90s Colombia.
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August 26 ,2010
A Vampire Weekend at YBCA
Max Goldberg
Aug 26, 2010Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .
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A Vampire Weekend at YBCA
Max Goldberg
Aug 26, 2010Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .
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August 26 ,2010
Medina Stokes SF-set ‘Furnace’
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2010Dolissa Medina uncovers more ashes in a new, historical piece on San Francisco and its many great fires.
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Medina Stokes SF-set ‘Furnace’
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2010Dolissa Medina uncovers more ashes in a new, historical piece on San Francisco and its many great fires.
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In Production
Medina Stokes SF-set ‘Furnace’
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2010Dolissa Medina uncovers more ashes in a new, historical piece on San Francisco and its many great fires.
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August 17, 2010
'Everything Strange and New' Director in Person
Aug 22, 2010Bay Area filmmaker Frazer Bradshaw appears in person at the Smith Rafael Film Center to present and discuss a screening of 'Everything Strange and New,' a contemporary meditation on adulthood in our uncertain times.
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August 17, 2010
Junichi Suzuki's War Documentaries
Aug 17, 2010'Live with Honor, Die with Dignity' and 'Toyo's Camera,' two films by Bay Area filmmaker Junichi Suzuki that look at the war at home and abroad for Japanese Americans during WWII, play three final days August 17-19 at Viz Cinema.
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August 19 2010
Of Longing and Laforgue
Jenni Olson
Aug 17, 2010A filmmaker offers a script excerpt in appreciation of Jules Laforgue on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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First Person
Of Longing and Laforgue
Jenni Olson
Aug 17, 2010A filmmaker offers a script excerpt in appreciation of Jules Laforgue on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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Home
Of Longing and Laforgue
Jenni Olson
Aug 17, 2010A filmmaker offers a script excerpt in appreciation of Jules Laforgue on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
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08-12-10
Sausalito Film Festival Views New Horizons
Adam Hartzell
Aug 12, 2010Run, walk, bike, or bus to Sausalito for a festival filled with environmental (and other) surprises. The Sausalito Film Festival at Cavallo Point offers an impressive natural/urban backdrop to complement the worlds on view inside its theaters. Situated in the less-crowded film festival calendar space of August, it offers residents of the Bay Area ample room for their eyes to roam, with gorgeous vistas to greet those coming and going from its two restored theaters, the Mission Blue and Callippe. (Cavallo Point, a backdrop for the 22nd century in Star Trek: Enterprise, also provides a view of the San Francisco that will never get old.)
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Sausalito Film Festival Views New Horizons
Adam Hartzell
Aug 12, 2010Run, walk, bike, or bus to Sausalito for a festival filled with environmental (and other) surprises. The Sausalito Film Festival at Cavallo Point offers an impressive natural/urban backdrop to complement the worlds on view inside its theaters. Situated in the less-crowded film festival calendar space of August, it offers residents of the Bay Area ample room for their eyes to roam, with gorgeous vistas to greet those coming and going from its two restored theaters, the Mission Blue and Callippe. (Cavallo Point, a backdrop for the 22nd century in Star Trek: Enterprise, also provides a view of the San Francisco that will never get old.)
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08-05-2010
Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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Festivals
Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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Home
Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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08-05-2010
Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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Festivals
Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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Home
Looking to the Skies for Cinema
Gianmaria Franchini
Aug 5, 2010Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.
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08-05-2010
Subtext: Catching the Drift Beneath the Dialogue
Lisa Rosenberg
Aug 3, 2010Memorable lines of dialogue are like the tips of icebergs, floating above vast, submerged mountains of character history, and more.
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Subtext: Catching the Drift Beneath the Dialogue
Lisa Rosenberg
Aug 3, 2010Memorable lines of dialogue are like the tips of icebergs, floating above vast, submerged mountains of character history, and more.
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Screenwriting
Subtext: Catching the Drift Beneath the Dialogue
Lisa Rosenberg
Aug 3, 2010Memorable lines of dialogue are like the tips of icebergs, floating above vast, submerged mountains of character history, and more.
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News & Blogs
KTVU.com: 'Moneyball' Draws Extra Crowds, Revenue
Aug 2, 2010Shooting for Moneyball, with Brad Pitt playing the part of thrifty Oakland Athletic's owner Billy Beane, has drawn thousands of Bay Area residents for extra roles and provided a source of revenue for Oakland. More at KTVU.com.
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08-05-2010
'Winnebago Man' Hits the Road
Susan Gerhard
Aug 2, 2010Director Ben Steinbauer and Bay Area-based producer Malcolm Pullinger talk about anger, RVs, and "going viral" with their new film.
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'Winnebago Man' Hits the Road
Susan Gerhard
Aug 2, 2010Director Ben Steinbauer and Bay Area-based producer Malcolm Pullinger talk about anger, RVs, and "going viral" with their new film.
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Q & A
'Winnebago Man' Hits the Road
Susan Gerhard
Aug 2, 2010Director Ben Steinbauer and Bay Area-based producer Malcolm Pullinger talk about anger, RVs, and "going viral" with their new film.
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Home
Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the Sixties,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground'
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2010Three Bay Area documentaries correct the historical record.
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In Depth
Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the Sixties,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground'
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2010Three Bay Area documentaries correct the historical record.
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Home
Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the Sixties,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground'
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2010Three Bay Area documentaries correct the historical record.
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In Depth
Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the Sixties,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground'
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2010Three Bay Area documentaries correct the historical record.
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Home
Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
Michael Fox
Jul 23, 2010Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.
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In Depth
Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
Michael Fox
Jul 23, 2010Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.
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Home
Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
Michael Fox
Jul 23, 2010Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.
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In Depth
Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
Michael Fox
Jul 23, 2010Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.
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Festivals
SF Jewish Film Festival Lights 30 Candles
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2010The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival finds fans beyond its identity-based target audience with a wide array of international films and topics.
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Home
SF Jewish Film Festival Lights 30 Candles
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2010The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival finds fans beyond its identity-based target audience with a wide array of international films and topics.
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07-21-2010
Reeling in the Years with the Red Vic
Michael Fox
Jul 19, 2010Look back in (anything but) anger: Members of the Red Vic Collective wax nostalgic on wild times, amazing meals and surprise visits from the theater's biggest fan, Danny Glover.
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Home
Reeling in the Years with the Red Vic
Michael Fox
Jul 19, 2010Look back in (anything but) anger: Members of the Red Vic Collective wax nostalgic on wild times, amazing meals and surprise visits from the theater's biggest fan, Danny Glover.
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Q & A
Reeling in the Years with the Red Vic
Michael Fox
Jul 19, 2010Look back in (anything but) anger: Members of the Red Vic Collective wax nostalgic on wild times, amazing meals and surprise visits from the theater's biggest fan, Danny Glover.
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Home
Koons Garcia Runs Fingers Through 'Soil'
Michael Fox
Jul 14, 2010Deborah Koons Garcia's latest film explores the mystery and complexities of one of the earth's most valuable resources.
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In Production
Koons Garcia Runs Fingers Through 'Soil'
Michael Fox
Jul 14, 2010Deborah Koons Garcia's latest film explores the mystery and complexities of one of the earth's most valuable resources.
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Home
Charlotte Buchen, Wheels Turning
Adam Hartzell
Jul 12, 2010Charlotte Buchen’s Bay Area Street Portraits take us on a ride with the everyday bicycling citizen of Berkeley and Oakland.
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Home
Charlotte Buchen, Wheels Turning
Adam Hartzell
Jul 12, 2010Charlotte Buchen’s Bay Area Street Portraits take us on a ride with the everyday bicycling citizen of Berkeley and Oakland.
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Home
Perkins Places 'Trust' in Convicts and Parolees
Michael Fox
Jul 7, 2010Tamara Perkins' The Trust is intended to provide a rare lens into the lives of incarcerated men and their families.
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In Production
Perkins Places 'Trust' in Convicts and Parolees
Michael Fox
Jul 7, 2010Tamara Perkins' The Trust is intended to provide a rare lens into the lives of incarcerated men and their families.
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Home
Crafting Motifs in Documentary Films
Karen Everett
Jul 6, 2010Choosing and implementing the right motif can help convey a narrative documentary's theme.
Now…what exactly is a motif? And why would you want to edit one into a documentary film?
During one of my recent group coaching calls, we addressed these questions. . . .
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Home
Media Pulse: A Crude Interpretation of the Law
Jennifer Preissel
Jul 1, 2010Jennifer Preissel examines the film and the court case that could redefine a journalist’s protection under First Amendment rights.
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In Depth
Media Pulse: A Crude Interpretation of the Law
Jennifer Preissel
Jul 1, 2010Jennifer Preissel examines the film and the court case that could redefine a journalist’s protection under First Amendment rights.
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Home
Guevara-Flanagan Soars with 'Wonder Woman'
Michael Fox
Jun 30, 2010East Bay filmmaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan muscles her way through her new documentary feature, The History of the Universe as Told by Wonder Woman.
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In Production
Guevara-Flanagan Soars with 'Wonder Woman'
Michael Fox
Jun 30, 2010East Bay filmmaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan muscles her way through her new documentary feature, The History of the Universe as Told by Wonder Woman.
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Q & A
Polk Street Lures Boswell's 'Stranger'
Michael Fox
Jun 23, 2010Scott Boswell’s marvelous debut feature, The Stranger In Us, plays out on Polk Street and in the Tenderloin, far from the oft-photographed glamour spots of San Francisco.
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Q & A
On the Road with 'Joan,' Stern and Sundberg Talk Big Picture
Michael Fox
Jun 14, 2010The makers of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work speak about their latest, as well as the state of documentary filmmaking.
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First Person
Fast-Track Filmmaking with the 48 Hour Film Project
Ryan Riddle
Jun 14, 2010Making a film called Stagecoach in the Sky as part of the 48 Hour Film Project requires planning, as well as a flying boat.
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News & Blogs
San Francisco Habitue John Waters Offers Role Models
Michael Fox
Jun 10, 2010With a new book, gallery exhibition, appearances on local radio and stages, John Waters is quickly becoming a Bay Area fixture, a welcome addition to the film and cultural landscape.
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In Production
Koppelman Maps International Cybercrime, Cuban Opera
Michael Fox
Jun 9, 2010Charles Koppelman's documentary in progress, Zero Day, exposes each of three threats to the Internet: cybercrime, cyberespionage and cyberwarfare.
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Q & A
Bowden Exposes San Francisco in Full Picture
Michael Fox
Jun 7, 2010San Francisco filmmaker Jon Bowden brings a second comic feature, The Full Picture, to screens.
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Reviews
Field's Anti-Apartheid Series Returns to Bay Area
Michael Fox
Jun 4, 2010By any measure, the long-awaited release of Have You Heard from Johannesburg? shapes up to be one of the major documentary events of 2010.
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Reviews
Field's Anti-Apartheid Series Returns to Bay Area
Michael Fox
Jun 4, 2010By any measure, the long-awaited release of Have You Heard from Johannesburg? shapes up to be one of the major documentary events of 2010.
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Story Structure
Thinking Like a Screenwriter for your Documentary
Karen Everett
May 31, 2010Moving past genre distinctions may help some filmmakers find the best dramatic arc and the most powerful truths.
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Reviews
Merchant-Ivory: A Look Back
Dennis Harvey
May 27, 2010A literary adaptation filled with first-class actors in sumptuous settings, City doesn't fall too far from the familiar Merchant-Ivory tree.
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Reviews
Merchant-Ivory: A Look Back
Dennis Harvey
May 27, 2010A literary adaptation filled with first-class actors in sumptuous settings, City doesn't fall too far from the familiar Merchant-Ivory tree.
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In Production
Omori, Hardy Conspire to Tattoo the World
Michael Fox
May 25, 2010Emiko Omori s upcoming documentary, Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World, a collaboration of sorts between the two artists, grew out of a friendship that dates to 1974.
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News & Blogs
Festivals from Cannes to Marfa, San Francisco Filmmakers Reporting
Emile Bokaer, Cynthia Mitchell
May 21, 2010Bay Area filmmakers report back from film festivals far (Cannes) and wide (Marfa).
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Reviews
Stevenson's Oddball Scandinavian Cinema
Dennis Harvey
May 21, 2010Former San Franciscan Jack Stevenson returns from Denmark to promote the U.S. publication of Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Q & A
Poitras's Unexpected Path to 'The Oath'
Jessica Sapick
May 16, 2010Laura Poitras speaks during SFIFF53 about the process of creating The Oath from the stories of Osama Bin Laden's former bodyguard and driver.
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In Production
Griffin and Jordan Getting Nails Done
Michael Fox
May 12, 2010Today s fun fact: San Francisco has more nail salons per capita than any city in the country.
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Festivals
Ideas that Last at the Disposable Film Festival
Adam Hartzell
May 11, 2010I sat down for a chat with Festival Director and cofounder Carlton Evans, Art Director Rebecca Bortman, and Jessica Meek, project coordinator for a fest sponsor.
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Funding
A Short Guide to Funding Short Narratives
Holly Million
May 11, 2010If you re making a short narrative, foundations give you no respect. Financiers turn a cold shoulder. Government grantors snort. And festivals slot your film Sunday at midnight.
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Reviews
Conner Forever Moving Forward
Dennis Harvey
May 10, 2010Bruce Conner, the sculptor, painter, photographer and filmmaker who loomed large in the Bay Area's shifting avant-garde currents for 50 years, resurfaces with Three Screen Ray.
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Reviews
Conner Forever Moving Forward
Dennis Harvey
May 10, 2010Bruce Conner, the sculptor, painter, photographer and filmmaker who loomed large in the Bay Area's shifting avant-garde currents for 50 years, resurfaces with Three Screen Ray.
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News & Blogs
SF Chronicle: 'S.F. Film Festival Bestows Prizes'
May 7, 2010Almost $300,000 was given out Wednesday night for awards and grants honoring documentary winners.
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Festivals
San Francisco International's Local Filmmakers Next Step
Michael Fox
May 6, 2010We caught up with several Bay Area makers, fresh off their high-energy screenings at SFIFF53 and primed to keep the momentum rolling.
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Festivals
San Francisco International's Local Filmmakers Next Step
Michael Fox
May 6, 2010We caught up with several Bay Area makers, fresh off their high-energy screenings at SFIFF53 and primed to keep the momentum rolling.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: Golden Gate Awards and Juried Prizes/Grants Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2010Cash prizes totaling nearly $300,000 for filmmakers highlighted the San Francisco International Film Festival s Golden Gate Awards Wednesday night.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: War Stories
Matt Sussman
May 5, 2010Films about our species enduring capacity to be inhumane toward its own are perennials at festivals, and will be so as long as wars are waged.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: James Schamus, Roger Ebert and the Writing Life
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2010Few would argue that a good movie often starts with a good story. Yet it has been the screenwriter s lot to be underappreciated.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: James Schamus, Roger Ebert and the Writing Life
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2010Few would argue that a good movie often starts with a good story. Yet it has been the screenwriter s lot to be underappreciated.
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In Depth
Dialogues: Gary Snyder on Art, Anarchy and the Environment
Robert Avila
May 3, 2010Poet, essayist, environmentalist, Buddhist, public intellectual and teacher Gary Snyder speaks on life and the making of 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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Q & A
Dialogues: Gary Snyder on Art, Anarchy and the Environment
Robert Avila
May 3, 2010Poet, essayist, environmentalist, Buddhist, public intellectual and teacher Gary Snyder speaks on life and the making of 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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Q & A
New York-set Charlie Barker's Big S.F. Break
Michael Fox
May 2, 2010Along with selfless sacrifices and random luck, low-budget independent films often depend on the timely intervention of an angel.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: Women's Worlds
Max Goldberg
May 1, 2010Don t let Hollywood crow about The Hurt Locker and the year of the woman until more filmmakers of the sort featured at this year s festival benefit.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: California Dreamin' at Film Society Awards Night
Susan Gerhard
Apr 30, 2010San Francisco itself took a lead role at Film Society Awards Night, the dinner and awards program benefiting the Film Society s year-round Youth Education initiative.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: 'At the Movies' with Roger Ebert
Dennis Harvey
Apr 30, 2010You know someone is well liked when they re used as the standard by which you fall short.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: The Art of Revival
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2010Through most of its history, the Festival has featured revivals of restored classics and little-known gems. This year s selections run an unusually wide gamut.
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Festivals
Local Filmmakers In SFIFF Spotlight
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2010Leland Orser saw his first movie at the Alexandria, and Joshua Grannell initially established himself as a S.F. character via his alter ego Peaches Christ.
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Festivals
Local Filmmakers In SFIFF Spotlight
Michael Fox
Apr 27, 2010Leland Orser saw his first movie at the Alexandria, and Joshua Grannell initially established himself as a S.F. character via his alter ego Peaches Christ.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: 'Utopia,' 'Morning'
SF360
Apr 27, 2010Live & Onstage thought globally and drafted locally with Sam Green and musician Dave Cerf s live Utopia in Four Movements, which never takes the exact same form.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: 'Utopia,' 'Morning'
SF360
Apr 27, 2010Live & Onstage thought globally and drafted locally with Sam Green and musician Dave Cerf s live Utopia in Four Movements, which never takes the exact same form.
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Q & A
Hernandez's Guilty Verdict
Michael Fox
Apr 26, 2010If there's a sure-fire crowd-pleaser in this year's San Francisco International Film Festival, it s Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith's Presumed Guilty.
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Legal
Do You Pass the Test?
George Rush
Apr 26, 2010You are awesome. Spectacular, incredible, interesting, accomplished and generally just way awesome. Everyone wants to hear every possible thing there is to know about you.
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Festivals
SFIFF s Porchlight On For Guests
Michael Fox
Apr 24, 2010Ch‚ Sandoval of Chile, Kaspar Astrup Schroder of Denmark, Pedro Gonzal‚z-Rubio of Mexico, John Herschend and Claudia Gonson don t have much in common except stories to tell.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: The Butcher Block; Opening Night
SF360
Apr 24, 2010To be from the Bay Area and called The Butcher Brothers might mean you get mixed up with purveyors of grass fed meats.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: The Butcher Block; Opening Night
SF360
Apr 24, 2010To be from the Bay Area and called The Butcher Brothers might mean you get mixed up with purveyors of grass fed meats.
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In Depth
Dialogues: Jim Harrison on Poetry, Documentary
Robert Avila
Apr 23, 2010Writer Jim Harrison offers thoughts about his relationship to Gary Snyder and his contributions to 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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Q & A
Dialogues: Jim Harrison on Poetry, Documentary
Robert Avila
Apr 23, 2010Writer Jim Harrison offers thoughts about his relationship to Gary Snyder and his contributions to 'The Practice of the Wild.'
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Reviews
The Roxie's New Leadership
Michael Fox
Apr 21, 2010The Statton era has begun. Kate and Chris Statton have officially assumed the positions of co-executive directors of the venerable Mission District cinema.
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Q & A
'Utopia' in San Francisco
Susan Gerhard
Apr 18, 2010I found Sam Green deep in preparation, but he found time to walk me through the greatest dreams and worst nightmares of the 20th century.
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Reviews
'It Came from Kuchar,' 'La Mission' in Theatres
sf360
Apr 16, 2010Bay Area-made and Mission-inspired, Peter Bratt's La Mission joins Jennifer Kroot's wild and woolly It Came from Kuchar in Bay Area theaters this week.
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Reviews
'It Came from Kuchar,' 'La Mission' in Theatres
sf360
Apr 16, 2010Bay Area-made and Mission-inspired, Peter Bratt's La Mission joins Jennifer Kroot's wild and woolly It Came from Kuchar in Bay Area theaters this week.
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Festivals
SFIFF53: Ephemeral Film and Music, Live & Onstage
Marc Capelle
Apr 14, 2010If you imagine the S.F. International Film Festival as an circus tent, with Opening and Closing nights the main supports, the other tent poles are interactive live experiences.
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In Production
Rajendra Serber's Confident Steps into Film
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2010From Michael Powell to Carlos Saura to Sally Potter, a stratum of directors has progressively reimagined the relationship between dance and film.
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Reviews
Can-Can Do: Silent Shooting at the Victoria
Jane Riccobono
Apr 13, 2010The Victoria Theater is shut up tight, with no sign of life. After a few raps on the door, a woman peeks out and leads me inside.
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Q & A
Christina Yao's solid Empire of Silver
Michael Fox
Apr 12, 2010First-time filmmaker Christina Yao is soft-spoken and exceedingly polite, but it s apparent that very little intimidates her.
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In Production
Living on Default line in Bakalian Doc
Michael Fox
Apr 6, 2010The new law reforming the Federal student loan program will save billions and help millions. But it won t make Serge Bakalian s debt expos‚ superfluous.
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In Production
Living on Default line in Bakalian Doc
Michael Fox
Apr 6, 2010The new law reforming the Federal student loan program will save billions and help millions. But it won t make Serge Bakalian s debt expos‚ superfluous.
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Story Structure
The Empathetic Storyteller
Karen Everett
Apr 6, 2010Beware of Save the Day My Way Syndrome. Now, learn from your mistakes.
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Q & A
Rosen's Insights into 53rd San Francisco International
Michael Fox
Apr 5, 2010With opening night approaching, Rachel Rosen talked about her L.A. Rolodex, the function of festivals in a broadband world and her favorites in the festival.
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Reviews
Streetfilms' Two-Wheeled Revolution
Adam Hartzell
Mar 31, 2010Pedestrians have always propelled cinema narratives, but the bicycle has rarely had a starring role.
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In Production
Nuclear Family Secrets in Silvia's Atomic Mom
Michael Fox
Mar 30, 2010One of the oldest points of contention in documentary is whether the camera s presence alters the subject s behavior.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Film Festival's 53rd Edition
Susan Gerhard
Mar 30, 2010Director of Programming Rachel Rosen and programmers Rod Armstrong, Audrey Chang and Sean Uyehara shared thoughts on 177 films from 46 countries.
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Reviews
Green by Design: Purebred Productions
Michael Behrens
Mar 28, 2010San Francisco has a variety of excellent soundstages, but one is trying to save the earth.
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Reviews
Green by Design: Purebred Productions
Michael Behrens
Mar 28, 2010San Francisco has a variety of excellent soundstages, but one is trying to save the earth.
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Digital
Sights and Sounds of South by Southwest
Hannah Eaves
Mar 24, 2010Tens of thousands of artists, aficionados and businesspeople flock to Austin for a festival that is part online conference, part film festival, and more than part music.
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In Production
Riffe's Raw Milk Germ
Michael Fox
Mar 23, 2010There's so much about this product called milk that we think we know everything about, declares Jed Riffe with his usual blend of enthusiasm and amazement.
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Screenwriting
Childhood's Richness on Film
Lisa Rosenberg
Mar 23, 2010When a child assumes center stage on film, the potential for both thematic richness and unexpected plot directions increases exponentially.
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Q & A
Karim Ahmad on ITVS's Forward-Thinking FUTURESTATES
Adam Hartzell
Mar 21, 2010Think of U.S. public television and science fiction or any type of fiction doesn't spring to mind. ITVS aims to change that perception with a series of mini-features.
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Festivals
SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour
Adam Hartzell
Mar 19, 2010A theme that emerged in this year s SFIAFF was the importance of archives in the film world.
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Q & A
'Lesh Sabreen?' On Red Vic Screen
Robert Avila
Mar 15, 2010Muayad Alayan, a 24-year-old filmmaker from the only remaining Arab neighborhood in West Jerusalem, was not even aware there was such a thing as Palestinian cinema until, as a teenager, he came to the Bay Area to visit his brother and sister.
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Q & A
'Lesh Sabreen?' On Red Vic Screen
Robert Avila
Mar 15, 2010Muayad Alayan, a 24-year-old filmmaker from the only remaining Arab neighborhood in West Jerusalem, was not even aware there was such a thing as Palestinian cinema until, as a teenager, he came to the Bay Area to visit his brother and sister.
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Festivals
28th SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Mar 10, 2010The Center for Asian American Media, formerly known as NAATA and founded to nurture Asian American filmmakers as well as counter ethnic stereotypes, has accomplished that and more.
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Q & A
'Village' a New Look at New Orleans
Judy Stone
Mar 10, 2010S. Leo Chiang knew what it was like to be an outsider in the U.S., so the rebellion of Vietnamese residents in New Orleans was an ideal subject.
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Reviews
West with 'Sweetgrass'
Dennis Harvey
Mar 9, 2010There will probably never be a theatrical release for James Benning's landscape movies. Amazingly, Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor have scored distribution and made a splash.
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Reviews
West with 'Sweetgrass'
Dennis Harvey
Mar 9, 2010There will probably never be a theatrical release for James Benning's landscape movies. Amazingly, Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor have scored distribution and made a splash.
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Reviews
Pixar's Latest Oscar High
Michael Fox
Mar 8, 2010Cementing its status as the preeminent animation company of the 00s, Pixar won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for the third time in seven years.
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Reviews
Pixar's Latest Oscar High
Michael Fox
Mar 8, 2010Cementing its status as the preeminent animation company of the 00s, Pixar won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for the third time in seven years.
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Q & A
Reed's Promise of Prodigal Sons
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2010If Kimberly Reed took a not particularly unique path into filmmaking, she certainly took an interesting road out of it.
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Q & A
Reed's Promise of Prodigal Sons
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2010If Kimberly Reed took a not particularly unique path into filmmaking, she certainly took an interesting road out of it.
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Funding
Do Ask, Do Tell
Holly Million
Mar 1, 2010I've asked people for all kinds of money for all kinds of reasons. Whether I'm asking for $1,000 or $100,000, I've found some key concepts rule.
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Q & A
Sid Ganis on Hollywood South and North
Michael Fox
Feb 28, 2010From his modest start as a staff writer at 20th Century Fox, Sid Ganis has built an uncommonly long and successful career in Hollywood.
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Q & A
Sid Ganis on Hollywood South and North
Michael Fox
Feb 28, 2010From his modest start as a staff writer at 20th Century Fox, Sid Ganis has built an uncommonly long and successful career in Hollywood.
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In Production
Cohen and Lipman's Recovering Friend in Forest
Michael Fox
Feb 23, 2010Injured in a crash on the Golden Gate Bridge, Dr. Grace Dammann spent 45 days in a coma and 13 months in the hospital.
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Festivals
Cinequest at 20
Dennis Harvey
Feb 21, 2010Wasn't it just yesterday that Cinequest was the scrappy upstart amongst Bay Area festivals? Apparently not: San Jose's annual cinematic blowout is entering its third decade.
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Festivals
Cinequest at 20
Dennis Harvey
Feb 21, 2010Wasn't it just yesterday that Cinequest was the scrappy upstart amongst Bay Area festivals? Apparently not: San Jose's annual cinematic blowout is entering its third decade.
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Reviews
Freak Flag Flying at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2010YBCA has sustained a major place in S.F.'s cultural landscape without receiving the due it would have had its mission been narrower and more easily defined.
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Reviews
Freak Flag Flying at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2010YBCA has sustained a major place in S.F.'s cultural landscape without receiving the due it would have had its mission been narrower and more easily defined.
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Reviews
As Oscars Approach, Winners Still Up in the Air
Dennis Harvey
Feb 16, 2010Last month's nominations announcement was anticipated with unusual interest, largely because the Academy reverted to ten Best Picture nominees, a practice abandoned in 1943.
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Q & A
Ehrlich, Goldsmith on Pentagon Papers
Michael Fox
Feb 14, 2010The Oscar nomination for The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers is a validation of the doc's right-now relevance.
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Reviews
San Francisco Cinematheque's Spring Action
Max Goldberg
Feb 10, 2010The spring edition of the Cinematheque calendar is making the rounds, and my copy is dog-eared with wishful thinking. Grab your datebook for a rundown.
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In Production
Wendy Slick's 'Virtuoso' Turn
Michael Fox
Feb 9, 2010Olga Samaroff, the path-breaking 20th-century concert pianist, critic and teacher, was born Lucy Hickenlooper in San Antonio, Texas. That's right, she reinvented herself.
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Story Structure
Best Length for Documentary Films
Karen Everett
Feb 9, 2010How long should your documentary be? If your audience begins to glaze over or feel restless, you've lost the opportunity to leave them wanting more.
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Q & A
Scott MacDonald on Art in Cinema at SFMoMA
Max Goldberg
Feb 7, 2010The film historian looks back at Frank Stauffacher's seminal mid-century series, which hatched a Bay Area avant-garde.
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Q & A
Scott MacDonald on Art in Cinema at SFMoMA
Max Goldberg
Feb 7, 2010The film historian looks back at Frank Stauffacher's seminal mid-century series, which hatched a Bay Area avant-garde.
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Festivals
Mostly British and Very Entertaining
Dennis Harvey
Feb 4, 2010Tragically underrepresented in the Bay Area's densely packed world of globally oriented film festivals is the land(s) of our erstwhile colonial rulers!
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Festivals
Mostly British and Very Entertaining
Dennis Harvey
Feb 4, 2010Tragically underrepresented in the Bay Area's densely packed world of globally oriented film festivals is the land(s) of our erstwhile colonial rulers!
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Festivals
SF Indiefest at Twelve
Matt Sussman
Feb 4, 2010It s a strange time for independent film, with scaled-back specialty divisions and online self-distribution, but SF Indiefest remains a champion of the unsung and un-buzzable.
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Reviews
Pacific Film Archive's Young Filmmakers on Big Screen
Jane Riccobono
Feb 3, 2010In the YouTube-Facebook-viral video era, it's hard to remember the time when youth-made media was rare.
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Reviews
Pacific Film Archive's Young Filmmakers on Big Screen
Jane Riccobono
Feb 3, 2010In the YouTube-Facebook-viral video era, it's hard to remember the time when youth-made media was rare.
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Reviews
Bay Area's Strong Presence at 82nd Oscars
Susan Gerhard
Feb 3, 2010Films with Bay Area connections featured prominently in the 82nd Academy Award nominations announced yesterday.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Jon Ho
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Jennie-Marie Adler
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Ilya Tovbis
Hilary Hart
Jan 28, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Reviews
'Fish Tank's Essex truth
Dennis Harvey
Jan 28, 2010Writer-director Andrea Arnold created a stir with her first feature Red Road, but her new film is arguably an even stronger work.
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Festivals
Words from Sundance Staffers: Krissy Bailey
Hilary Hart
Jan 27, 2010Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.
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Reviews
The Greatest Finds of My Generation
Susan Gerhard
Jan 26, 2010The harsh glare of the spotlight that brought Howl mixed reviews from critics on opening night of Sundance had melted into a warm glow by Saturday.
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Reviews
The Greatest Finds of My Generation
Susan Gerhard
Jan 26, 2010The harsh glare of the spotlight that brought Howl mixed reviews from critics on opening night of Sundance had melted into a warm glow by Saturday.
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Q & A
Stephen Talbot's World Music
Ryan Prendiville
Jan 24, 2010Stephen Talbot left PBS s Frontline World to create and develop original media properties, including a globe-trotting TV series about world music.
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Q & A
Butchers Chop Shop at Sundance
Glen Helfand
Jan 21, 2010The Butcher Brothers The Violent Kind is a nightmare-with-bikers-in-the-woods fantasy shot in Petaluma and Cotati, and it fits their collaborative moniker.
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Q & A
Butchers Chop Shop at Sundance
Glen Helfand
Jan 21, 2010The Butcher Brothers The Violent Kind is a nightmare-with-bikers-in-the-woods fantasy shot in Petaluma and Cotati, and it fits their collaborative moniker.
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Festivals
Darkness Of Noir City On Castro Screen
Dennis Harvey
Jan 20, 2010In late January, many tune their radar to the snowy, showy glare of Sundance. With Noir City here, the stay-at-homes are the luckier ones.
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In Production
Joe Graham's Soulful 'Strapped'
Michael Fox
Jan 19, 2010"I wish gay cinema would die", Joe Graham declares. It s not queer movies the San Francisco filmmaker hates, but categories and pigeonholing.
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In Production
Connie Field's Magnum Opus on Anti-Apartheid Movement
Michael Fox
Jan 12, 2010By any measure, the long-awaited release of Have You Heard from Johannesburg? shapes up to be one of the major documentary events of 2010.
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Funding
Road-Tested Rules For Bang-up Fundraising Events
Holly Million
Jan 12, 2010Seems like every filmmaker I know is ready to party! Everyone s throwing fundraising events for their films. So many babes in the party-planning woods.
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Q & A
Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity
Judy Stone
Jan 8, 2010Jennifer Phang has experienced more than enough culture shocks in her life to empathize with the identity challenges of the characters in her debut feature.
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Q & A
Jennifer Phang On Half-Life and Identity
Judy Stone
Jan 8, 2010Jennifer Phang has experienced more than enough culture shocks in her life to empathize with the identity challenges of the characters in her debut feature.
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Q & A
Animal-Rescue Mine In Katrina's Emotional Aftermath
Michael Fox
Jan 7, 2010Geralyn Pezanoski s doc about the separation and occasional reunion of pets and owners in post-Katrina New Orleans beat the shelf-life odds.
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In Production
Nani Walker's 'Other Nature' At 15,000 Feet
Michael Fox
Jan 5, 2010Nani Sahra Walker went to Nepal for seven months, and returned with a one-hour documentary. OK, a rough cut. No big deal? Enlightenment guaranteed, indeed.
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In Production
Nani Walker's 'Other Nature' At 15,000 Feet
Michael Fox
Jan 5, 2010Nani Sahra Walker went to Nepal for seven months, and returned with a one-hour documentary. OK, a rough cut. No big deal? Enlightenment guaranteed, indeed.
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Q & A
George Csicsery's Hard Problems
Michael Fox
Jan 4, 2010With more than 25 documentaries to his credit, many on mathematicians and scientists, George Csicsery is arguably the most prolific filmmaker in the Bay Area.
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Q & A
George Csicsery's Hard Problems
Michael Fox
Jan 4, 2010With more than 25 documentaries to his credit, many on mathematicians and scientists, George Csicsery is arguably the most prolific filmmaker in the Bay Area.
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Reviews
Citizen Critics' New Outlets, Challenges in 2009
Adam Hartzell
Jan 2, 2010The silver lining to a decade that saw traditional critics in conventional media dwindle? The explosion of socially networked citizen critics.
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Reviews
Thoughts On the Aughts: Best/Worst Trends
Susan Gerard
Dec 31, 2009While the U.S. moved from rebuilding decimated skyscrapers to the rebuilding of an entire economy, film moved from the multiplex to the mailbox to the mobile.
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Reviews
Thoughts On the Aughts: Best/Worst Trends
Susan Gerard
Dec 31, 2009While the U.S. moved from rebuilding decimated skyscrapers to the rebuilding of an entire economy, film moved from the multiplex to the mailbox to the mobile.
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Story Structure
Best Practices For Naming Sequences
Karen Everett
Dec 30, 2009For handy access to your most valuable footage, here s a method of organizing sequences.
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Reviews
Top 10s of the 2000s
Susan Gerhard
Dec 30, 2009Not surprisingly, Bay Area critics, fans, exhibitors and filmmakers did not arrive at a consensus on the best films of the decade.
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Reviews
Top 10s of the 2000s
Susan Gerhard
Dec 30, 2009Not surprisingly, Bay Area critics, fans, exhibitors and filmmakers did not arrive at a consensus on the best films of the decade.
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Reviews
Top 10s of 2009: Insiders and Fans
Susan Gerhard
Dec 29, 2009It was a big year for 3D, but Bay Area critics and film-industry folk found many other dimensions in the cinema of 2009.
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Reviews
Top 10s of 2009: Insiders and Fans
Susan Gerhard
Dec 29, 2009It was a big year for 3D, but Bay Area critics and film-industry folk found many other dimensions in the cinema of 2009.
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Reviews
3D Reloaded: Where Does 3D Go From Here?
Sean Uyehara
Dec 27, 2009The release of Avatar puts a fitting capstone on a frenzied campaign by studios to reintroduce stereoscopic 3-D to audiences in 2009.
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Reviews
After Sept. 11, 2001, A Decade Found Its Way
B. Ruby Rich
Dec 23, 2009On Sept. 13, 2001, I stood in a Toronto park and spoke to Canadian television: Movies wouldn't be the same. I was wrong.
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In Production
Bay Area Narrative Filmmakers Thriving in Doc Capital
Michael Fox
Dec 23, 2009Michael Fox shows independent filmmakers who are thriving in the Bay Area.
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In Production
Bay Area Narrative Filmmakers Thriving in Doc Capital
Michael Fox
Dec 23, 2009Michael Fox shows independent filmmakers who are thriving in the Bay Area.
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Q & A
Filmmakers Stuff 'Bag!' With Self-Distribution Dreams
Michael Fox
Dec 15, 2009Filmmakers Justine Jacob And Alex da Silva release the documentary Ready, Set, Bag!, which follows competitive grocery baggers from across the country.
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Q & A
David Thomson Revisits 'Psycho's' Critical Moment
Michael Fox
Dec 14, 2009David Thomson's new book commemorates the golden anniversary of Hitchcock's "Psycho."
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Reviews
Holiday Film Preview, Part II
Dennis Harvey
Dec 11, 2009Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.
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Festivals
Wintering with the SF Silent Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Dec 9, 2009Highlights from the 2009 San Francisco Silent Film Festival winter event.
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In Production
Legal Eagle Eye Kristine Enea Zooms 'Off the Grid'
Michael Fox
Dec 8, 2009Kristine Enea's documentary shows The EcoCenter, a San Francisco environmental educational facility that treats and recycles wastewater and generates its own solar power.
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Digital
Coming Around to 'Convergence'
Hannah Eaves
Dec 7, 2009The 6th Screen: Hannah Eaves compiles some questions about "convergence", the increasingly popular practice of combining television and computer usage.
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Q & A
Catherine Galasso's 'Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice'
Michael Fox
Dec 7, 2009Catherine Galasso talks about her performance piece Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice, which features dance, theater and projected video.
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Reviews
Workin' It: 'La Danse" and "Everything Strange and New'
Michael Fox
Dec 4, 2009Frederick Wiseman documents the frantic routine of choreographers for the Paris Opera Ballet as Frazer Bradshaw gives a more familiar portrayal of workplace satisfaction.
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Story Structure
Sequence Names
Karen Everett
Dec 1, 2009The Edit Room: Karen Everett shares tips on how to track multiple versions of Final Cut Pro projects and sequences.
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In Production
Antonelli's 'Crossing Over' and Cooke's Soulful Genius
Michael Fox
Dec 1, 2009Marin County filmmaker John Antonelli talks about his documentary on influential late singer-songwriter Sam Cooke for PBS's "American Masters" series.
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Q & A
David Sherman and Wasteland Utopias
Michael Fox
Nov 30, 2009In town for the premiere of Wasteland Utopias, the artist, curator and administrative director of Canyon Cinema gives us the scoop on Wilhelm Reich and other shadowy figures.
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Reviews
Feast Your Eyes: A Holiday Film Preview
Dennis Harvey
Nov 25, 2009Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.
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Reviews
Feast Your Eyes: A Holiday Film Preview
Dennis Harvey
Nov 25, 2009Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.
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Reviews
New Social Issue Dramas from Rainin Grant-Winners
Michael Fox
Nov 24, 2009The scoop on the projects of the inaugural class for the SFFS/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants, which support lively, intelligent social-issue narrative films.
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Reviews
Daven Gee Docs on the New American Family
Michael Fox
Nov 17, 2009Two 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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Reviews
Daven Gee Docs on the New American Family
Michael Fox
Nov 17, 2009Two 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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Screenwriting
Carmen Madden on Watching People, Writing Characters
Lisa Rosenberg
Nov 16, 2009Writer/director Carmen Madden's writing reflects just how intimately she comes to see and know a screenplay's world and the characters that inhabit it.
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Reviews
On the Road Before 'The Recess Ends'
Michael Fox
Nov 10, 2009Shot in depressed burgs and 'burbs across the country, this documentary looks at the U.S. at its lowest economic ebb in generations.
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Funding
How to Entice and Reward Potential Donors
Holly Million
Nov 10, 2009Here are a few ways to both entice and reward your donors, as well as some tips for thanking them when all's said and done.
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Q & A
Russell Merritt at the SF International Animation Festival
Sura Wood
Nov 9, 2009A conversation on Walt Disney's Alice Comedies with a lively raconteur and Professor of Film Studies at UC Berkeley.
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Festivals
A Tour Through the 2009 Taiwan Film Days
Adam Hartzell
Nov 5, 2009For three days, the SFFS offers a chance to see contemporary Taiwanese cinema beyond the work of the usual Taiwanese film masters.
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In Production
Marissa Aroy Unearths Forgotten California history
Michael Fox
Nov 3, 2009Aroy's film excavates the history and contributions of Filipino farmworkers in the Golden State since the 1920s.
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Q & A
Parker and di Napoli on Parody and High Art
Adam Hartzell
Nov 1, 2009Bay Area locals Jonathan Parker and Catherine di Napoli discuss (Untitled), a hilarious romp through the world of conceptual art and atonal music.
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Q & A
Parker and di Napoli on Parody and High Art
Adam Hartzell
Nov 1, 2009Bay Area locals Jonathan Parker and Catherine di Napoli discuss (Untitled), a hilarious romp through the world of conceptual art and atonal music.
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In Production
Don't Criticize it: 'Holding On to Jah'
Michael Fox
Oct 28, 2009It’s hard to imagine a venue where the new documentary Holding On to Jah will sound better than it did at Mezzanine last Wednesday night.
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Q & A
Robert Mailer Anderson on Mendo Madness of 'Pig Hunt'
Dennis Harvey
Oct 26, 2009After ripping it up at various genre fests, the Bay Area indie horror flick settles in for a theatrical run at the Red Vic.
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Q & A
Robert Mailer Anderson on Mendo Madness of 'Pig Hunt'
Dennis Harvey
Oct 26, 2009After ripping it up at various genre fests, the Bay Area indie horror flick settles in for a theatrical run at the Red Vic.
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Q & A
'Sorry, Thanks' Lavishes Love on the Mission
Michael Fox
Oct 24, 2009From the steep slope of 22nd Street down to La Taqueria, from the Attic to Boogaloos, this droll feature showcases the Mission to glowing advantage.
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Q & A
'Sorry, Thanks' Lavishes Love on the Mission
Michael Fox
Oct 24, 2009From the steep slope of 22nd Street down to La Taqueria, from the Attic to Boogaloos, this droll feature showcases the Mission to glowing advantage.
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Reviews
Remembering Chick Strand
Max Goldberg
Oct 23, 2009Chick Strand, a crucial pioneer of West Coast experimental cinema, died July 11 at 78.
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Reviews
Remembering Chick Strand
Max Goldberg
Oct 23, 2009Chick Strand, a crucial pioneer of West Coast experimental cinema, died July 11 at 78.
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Festivals
SFFS's Debut Cinema by the Bay
Robert Avila
Oct 22, 2009A 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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In Production
Anne, Anne, Anne: McGuire Comes Alive
Michael Fox
Oct 20, 2009Anne McGuire finds the beauty in the strange, and the strangeness in the beautiful. That's not perversity, people; that's poetry.
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Festivals
Live from Mill Valley: Woody Harrelson and Uma Thurman
Dennis Harvey
Oct 19, 2009At their respective festival tributes, the actors gave entertaining and revealing onstage interviews.
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Q & A
Dave Eggers, Spike Jonze and 'Wild Things'
Michael Read
Oct 19, 2009Where the Wild Things Are is directed by Spike Jonze from a screenplay by Jonze and Bay Area–based writer Dave Eggers, based on the classic 1963 picture book by Maurice Sendak.
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Q & A
Dave Eggers, Spike Jonze and 'Wild Things'
Michael Read
Oct 19, 2009Where the Wild Things Are is directed by Spike Jonze from a screenplay by Jonze and Bay Area–based writer Dave Eggers, based on the classic 1963 picture book by Maurice Sendak.
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Festivals
What's up, DocFest?
Robert Avila
Oct 14, 2009Fans of the San Francisco festival, now in its eighth year, have developed a well-honed appreciation for the eccentric.
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In Production
Christopher Upham Back to 'Dakto,' Vietnam
Michael Fox
Oct 13, 2009The writer has had ample opportunity in the last 40 years to come to terms with his stint as an ambulance driver and medic.
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Screenwriting
The Importance of Supporting Characters
Lisa Rosenberg
Oct 13, 2009Beyond Words: The people who back up the main character are often key sources of revelation, unmasking aspects of personality, motivation and backstory.
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Q & A
Pamela Jean Smith Brings Home Movies to Big Screen
Max Goldberg
Oct 12, 2009Though often made for private reasons, home movies are treasure troves of culture ephemera and social history.
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Festivals
Mill Valley Film Festival's 32nd
Dennis Harvey
Oct 9, 2009The program offers a surprisingly potent mainstream industry presence, with tributes to A-list types more frequently seen at the multiplex than at the art house.
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First Person
A Fat Line Between Love and Hate
David Munro
Oct 6, 2009First Person: How can people respond in diametric and, at times, vitriolic opposition to the same film? Mine.
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Reviews
San Francisco Cinematheque Fall Program Underway
Max Goldberg
Oct 3, 2009A year after Jonathan Marlow took the helm as executive director, the organization is showing fresh signs of life.
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Reviews
San Francisco Cinematheque Fall Program Underway
Max Goldberg
Oct 3, 2009A year after Jonathan Marlow took the helm as executive director, the organization is showing fresh signs of life.
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In Production
Montalbano's "The Recondite Heart"
Michael Fox
Sep 29, 2009East Bay filmmaker Miles Montalbano is in preproduction on dark coming-of-age story The Recondite Heart, his followup to his lauded debut, Revolution Summer.
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Digital
TechCrunch 50: Clicker and AnyClip
Hannah Eaves
Sep 28, 2009AnyClip and Clicker are standouts at TechCrunch's annual conference, where startups a chance to pitch to expert judges and investors.
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Q & A
The Impact of Joe Berlinger's 'Crude'
Susan Gerhard
Sep 25, 2009Joe Berlinger speaks about the making of an environmental disaster in the Amazon, as seen in his new film, Crude.
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In Production
Simon and Gosling Play Strachwitz's Tunes
Michael Fox
Sep 23, 2009Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling's documentary-in-progress, tentatively titled No Mouse Music! The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records, pays tribute to an underappreciated artist.
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In Production
Simon and Gosling Play Strachwitz's Tunes
Michael Fox
Sep 23, 2009Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling's documentary-in-progress, tentatively titled No Mouse Music! The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records, pays tribute to an underappreciated artist.
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Story Structure
Organizing your bins effectively
Karen Everett
Sep 22, 2009The Edit Room: Learning how to organize saves you time and money in the editing process; a walk-through just how to do it.
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Q & A
Franny Armstrong's S.O.S. to the World
Sean Uyehara
Sep 19, 2009Franny Armstrong talks about the moral imperative of her films, the importance of Hopenhagen, and the unexpected magnitude of her success.
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Festivals
Toronto International Film Festival 2009
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 19, 2009The Toronto International Film Festival has always allowed a generosity of pursuits to co-exist, rewarding the adventurous and satiating the lazy, all without judgment.
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Q & A
Lucrecia Martel and "The Headless Woman"
Gail Spilsbury
Sep 18, 2009To viewers of Lucrecia Martel's earlier work, The Headless Woman is the crowning achievement; the filmmaker speaks about her vision of the world.
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Reviews
Columbia Pictures' noir lights at the Roxie
Dennis Harvey
Sep 17, 2009The Roxie's Best of Columbia Noir seroes features great films capitalizing on a simple formula: a girl, a guy and a gun.
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In Production
Telles charts 'Storm' of Mexican Revolution
Michael Fox
Sep 15, 2009Ray Telles's ambitious two-hour film, The Storm that Swept Mexico, with a budget north of $1.2 million, reaches out to the world.
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Funding
Writing a Kick-Ass Funding Proposal
Holly Million
Sep 14, 2009Fear-Free Fundraising: Notes on assembling the basic ingredients for a great foundation funding proposal.
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Q & A
Cory McAbee and 'Stingray Sam'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 13, 2009High-concept cabaret-act favorite in the Bay Area who sidelines as a filmmaker, Cory McAbee (The American Astronaut) speaks about his latest, Stingray Sam.
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Q & A
Cory McAbee and 'Stingray Sam'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 13, 2009High-concept cabaret-act favorite in the Bay Area who sidelines as a filmmaker, Cory McAbee (The American Astronaut) speaks about his latest, Stingray Sam.
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In Production
Foraging for 'Swamp Cabbage'
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2009Miami-born Julia Kahn offers strange revelations about the South in the long-gestating, cliche-crunching documentary Swamp Cabbage.
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In Production
Foraging for 'Swamp Cabbage'
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2009Miami-born Julia Kahn offers strange revelations about the South in the long-gestating, cliche-crunching documentary Swamp Cabbage.
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In Production
War Vets as Stars in 'Common Sky'
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2009Five years ago, Common Sky director Kathy Carlson committed herself to the task of bridging the gulf between those who've fought in battle and the rest of us.
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First Person
E-news You Can Use
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2009The rapid adoption of e-newsletters by documentary filmmakers is the latest example of resourcefulness and efficiency among contemporary independents.
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First Person
E-news You Can Use
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2009The rapid adoption of e-newsletters by documentary filmmakers is the latest example of resourcefulness and efficiency among contemporary independents.
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In Production
Hess, Janos and the Volunteers of America
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2009With in-process Volunteer Nation: Stories of Service, veteran producer-directors Ben Hess and Dan Janos are mobilizing the millennials.
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Screenwriting
Understanding Backstory
Lisa Rosenberg
Aug 25, 2009Behind any narrative for the screen is the story that came before it—the life that shaped the central character, who arrives fully formed as your story opens
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Q & A
Bob Goldthwait, Fate and 'World's Greatest Dad'
Dennis Harvey
Aug 23, 2009Bay Area favorite Bob Goldthwait, whose pop culture moment seemed to expire in the mid '80s, returns with comedic vengeance via World's Greatest Dad.
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In Production
Pete Nicks Impatient in 'Waiting Room'
Michael Fox
Aug 18, 2009East Bay documentary producer Pete Nicks places interactive storytelling booths in hospital waiting rooms.
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In Production
Dina Ciraulo's 'Opal'
Michael Fox
Aug 11, 2009Dina Ciraulo's debut feature reconsiders the curious case of nature writer Opal Whiteley, who burst to prominence—and controversy— in the 1920s.
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Q & A
Seiji Horibuchi on VIZ Cinema
Michael Fox
Aug 8, 2009Seiji Horibuchi, founder and chairman of VIZ Media, speaks about VIZ Cinema, a built-from-scratch venue located in the New People building in Japantown.
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Q & A
Swedish Muckrakers Enlist Local Help
Michael Fox
Aug 4, 2009Oakland attorney Richard Lee speaks on the legal case surrounding the Swedish filmmakers of the hot-button documentary Bananas!.
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Q & A
How Scary Cow co-op is making indie filmmaking in SF a little less frightening
Elizabeth Rader
Aug 2, 2009Jager McConnell speaks about Scary Cow, a filmmakers' co-op that offers experience, people, money and equipment to aspiring filmmakers with ideas to burn.
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Q & A
How Scary Cow co-op is making indie filmmaking in SF a little less frightening
Elizabeth Rader
Aug 2, 2009Jager McConnell speaks about Scary Cow, a filmmakers' co-op that offers experience, people, money and equipment to aspiring filmmakers with ideas to burn.
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Reviews
'Lion's Den' and '24 City'
Susan Gerhard
Jul 31, 2009Veteran filmmakers Pablo Trapero and Jia Zhang-ke complicate their genres with Lion's Den and 24 City.
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Reviews
'Howl' is Poetry in Post
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2009Academy Award-winning documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman combine live-action period drama and animation in retelling of Ginsburg's Howl
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Digital
Free and Open: Video's Cambrian Explosion
Hannah Eaves
Jul 27, 2009The Sixth Screen: Veteran journalists and filmmakers alike are polishing up their resumes, contemplating the hospitality industry, and wondering: Who stole my career?
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Q & A
Shelley Diekman Reflects on Well-Spent life
Hilary Hart
Jul 27, 2009Newly-retired Pacific Film Archive publicist Shelley Diekman discusses her cinephile tastes, her past and her future.
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Q & A
Shelley Diekman Reflects on Well-Spent life
Hilary Hart
Jul 27, 2009Newly-retired Pacific Film Archive publicist Shelley Diekman discusses her cinephile tastes, her past and her future.
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Reviews
Social Justice and the S.F. Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2009The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival arrives with an expansive program spotlighting the Jewish tradition of social justice and human rights.
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Reviews
'Why Isn't Chris von Sneidern Famous?'
Michael Fox
Jul 21, 2009A revealing portrait of veteran local singer-songwriter-guitarist with a cult following investigates existential questions about fame with respect, empathy and self-reflection.
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Q & A
Berkeley-based writer Barry Gifford's wild screen-rides
Sura Wood
Jul 19, 2009A peripatetic childhood laid fertile ground for the heated imagination of Berkeley-based author Barry Gifford, who has written Wild at Heart and Lost Highway.
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Q & A
Britta Sjogren and "Women's Film"
Max Goldberg
Jul 16, 2009Sjogren threads her vexations with feminist film theory into a study of sound and voice in "women's film" touchstones like Letter from an Unknown Woman.
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In Production
J.P. Allen and the Landscape of Love
Michael Fox
Jul 14, 2009J.P. Allen and Janis DeLucia Allen's latest imagining, Sex and Imagining, is a two-character piece thick with dialogue and psychological undercurrents.
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Funding
Are Your "Friends" Worthless?
Holly Million
Jul 13, 2009Fear-Free Fundraising: Are Your "Friends" Worthless?
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Q & A
Anita Monga and the SF Silent Film Festival
Sura Wood
Jul 11, 2009During her tenure at the venerable Castro Theatre, film programmer Anita Monga made her mark shepherding the venue to international prominence.
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Festivals
SF Silent Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Jul 9, 2009Douglas Fairbanks in The Gaucho is one of the many highlights on screen during the three-day San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
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In Production
Weissman's 'Heartbreak and Heroism'
Michael Fox
Jul 7, 2009David Weissman speaks on his new project, Heartbreak and Heroism, revisiting the early years of the AIDS outbreak in San Francisco.
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Screenwriting
Beyond Words: Comedy That Sticks
Lisa Rosenberg
Jul 7, 2009What's the key to writing comedy that sticks with us, despite perhaps an overblown story line or how lost and low-down the characters seem at the time?
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Q & A
Kutner and Goldstein on 'The Snake'
Michael Fox
Jul 6, 2009Adam Goldstein and Eric Kutner discuss their debut, The Snake, an unapologetically impertinent, made-in-S.F, comedy that marks its creators as resourceful wiseguys.
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In Production
The horror, the horror: 'Tweaker With an Axe'
Michael Fox
Jul 1, 2009An interview with Flynn Witmeyer about his debut feature Tweaker With an Axe, and the desire to make genre films—horror or sci-fi or fantasy—that incorporate gay and lesbian characters.
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Story Structure
Story Structures that Funders Love
Karen Everett
Jun 29, 2009The Edit Room: I decided to set my New Doc Editing research team on a mission to find out what structural models are getting funded these days.
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Q & A
Richard Levien, from 'Immersion' to 'La Migra'
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 29, 2009New 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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Q & A
Richard Levien, from 'Immersion' to 'La Migra'
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 29, 2009New 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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Festivals
Frameline33: Icons and Unsung Heroes
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2009A festival full of drama finds no more emotional screening than the homophobia-in-sports double bill of Training Rules and Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics on Trial.
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In Production
Tejada-Flores on "Road" for a Change
Michael Fox
Jun 23, 2009When Rick Tejada-Flores decided to explore his family's checkered Bolivian past, he accepted that he had to be a character.
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Reviews
Frameline33: Youth in Revolt
Lynn Rapoport
Jun 22, 2009In this year's Frameline Fest, as so often in life, it's all about the one(s) that got away.
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Q & A
Cronenwett's 'Maggots and Men' at Frameline
Michael Fox
Jun 20, 2009A case could be made that Cary Cronenwett's Maggots and Men isn't just the most unique work in Frameline33, but of any festival all year.
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Q & A
Cronenwett's 'Maggots and Men' at Frameline
Michael Fox
Jun 20, 2009A case could be made that Cary Cronenwett's Maggots and Men isn't just the most unique work in Frameline33, but of any festival all year.
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Festivals
Frameline33: Something Old, Something New
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2009A dose of self-affirmation arrives with Frameline33 (or, if you prefer, the multiple-breath-intake-requiring San Francisco International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Film Festival.)
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In Production
'All About Evil'-doer Joshua Grannell in post
Michael Fox
Jun 17, 2009Blood-soaked, darkly comic All About Evil has writer-director Joshua Grannell and editor Rick LeCompte on an express-train schedule rare for an independent feature.
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Popular
'All About Evil'-doer Joshua Grannell in post
Michael Fox
Jun 17, 2009Blood-soaked, darkly comic All About Evil has writer-director Joshua Grannell and editor Rick LeCompte on an express-train schedule rare for an independent feature.
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Legal
Facing the Music (Rights)
George Rush
Jun 16, 2009Avoiding Disaster: Clearing music is one of those horrible, arduous, frustrating tasks that needs to be done in order to show or sell a film.
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Q & A
Tom Shepard's 'Whiz Kids' Blinding with Science
Michael Fox
Jun 14, 2009Tom Shepard revisits the overachieving, hyper-ambitious world of science-obsessed high school seniors in his new film, Whiz Kids.
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Reviews
Marco Ferreri's Anarchic Filmmaking
Dennis Harvey
Jun 12, 2009Wild man of Italian cinema, Marco Ferreri left many films in need of rediscovery (or simply discovery) since his death in 1997.
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In Production
Nutritious eating on the cheap for Potash film
Michael Fox
Jun 9, 2009Like most social-issue documentaries, Food Stamped sprang from an activist impulse for Shira and Yoav Potash.
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Funding
"Just Make Them Love It"
Holly Million
Jun 8, 2009Make them love it. Make? Oh, words of dread! How do you MAKE somebody love your film?
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Q & A
Weimberg/Ryan on Conflict and Conscience
Sura Wood
Jun 7, 2009Berkeley-based filmmaking team Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan speak about social justice as a career and their film Soldiers of Conscience.
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Festivals
Another Hole in the Head
Dennis Harvey
Jun 4, 2009At a film festival called Another Hole in the Head, dedicated to sci-fi, horror and fantasy, catastrophic carnage meets comedy more often than not.
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Q & A
Miller Brothers Touch Home at AT&T Park
Michael Fox
Jun 2, 2009The Miller brothers take their memoir-release to the local ballpark.
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Q & A
Lawrence Jordan: to Infinity and Beyond
Sean Uyehara
Jun 1, 2009Leading light of avant-garde cinema Lawrence Jordan speaks on the occasion of his Gallery Extraña show and his 75th birthday.
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In Production
Dinner and a Movie Discussion: Igor Sinyak
Michael Fox
May 24, 2009Michael Fox interviews Igor Sinyak, founder of Subtitles & Subtleties, about his dinner and a movie discussion forum.
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Reviews
'A Wake for Analog'
Jonathan Kiefer
May 21, 2009A Wake for Analog honors analog experimental films like Patrolling the Ether, Bassline Baseline and Zuse Strip.
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In Production
'In-World War:' Brant Smith's Directorial Debut
Michael Fox
May 20, 2009Michael Fox reviews Brant Smith's In-World War, a dark sci-fi comedy about a beta tester trapped in a futuristic war on terror.
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Screenwriting
The Hero, Deconstructed
Lisa Rosenberg
May 18, 2009Beyond Words: Linda Rosenberg explores the transformation of the contemporary film hero in Doubt and In Bruges.
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Festivals
Bruce Goldstein: From NY to SF to 'Con'
Judy Stone
May 17, 2009Bruce Goldstein recalls his adventures in film land as he prepares to host the Con Film Festival at the Film Forum in New York.
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In Production
Recession-Proof Theaters, to a Point
Michael Fox
May 14, 2009Arthouse theaters like The Roxie, Red Vic and The Balboa resist the economic downturn and adjust calendars to meet audience demands.
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In Production
Kaufman and Snitow: New Jewish Identity
Michael Fox
May 12, 2009Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow explore the customs and modernity of the next generation of Jews in their documentary Dis-Continuity.
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Reviews
Elliot Lavine: 'I Wake Up Dreaming'
Sura Wood
May 11, 2009Elliot Lavine, a Bay Area film scene fixture, returns to The Roxie to curate I Wake Up Dreaming: The Haunted World of the B Film Noir, a series of 28 lowdown and tawdry films.
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Reviews
Elliot Lavine: 'I Wake Up Dreaming'
Sura Wood
May 11, 2009Elliot Lavine, a Bay Area film scene fixture, returns to The Roxie to curate I Wake Up Dreaming: The Haunted World of the B Film Noir, a series of 28 lowdown and tawdry films.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Golden Gate Awards Uncorked, SFFS/KRF Grant Winner Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 7, 2009SFIFF 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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Festivals
SFIFF52: Golden Gate Awards Uncorked, SFFS/KRF Grant Winner Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 7, 2009SFIFF 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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Festivals
Local Makers Line Up Next Shot after SFIFF
Michael Fox
May 4, 2009The 2009 SFIFF has been a launching pad for the numerous Bay Area filmmaker
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Story Structure
Crafting an Elegant Essay Documentary
Karen Everett
May 4, 2009The Edit Room: How do you keep your audience engaged rather than putting them to sleep?
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Festivals
Local Makers Line Up Next Shot after SFIFF
Michael Fox
May 4, 2009The 2009 SFIFF has been a launching pad for the numerous Bay Area filmmaker
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Coppola & Lucas at the Castro
Dennis Harvey
May 3, 2009An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola & Friends honored Coppola with the Founder Directing Award and included a moderated discussion with editing/sound design genius Walter Murch, director Carroll Ballard, scenarist-turned-director Matthew Robbins, and George Lucas.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Movie-Scribe Meltdown
David Winks Gray
May 2, 2009SF360.org interviews film critics about the changing landscape of film criticism. A panel discussion and screening of For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism will take place on Sunday, May 3, at 6 p.m.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Five Reasons why SF Loves Coppola
Justin Juul
May 1, 2009The San Francisco Film Society awarded Francis Ford Coppola the Founder & Directing Award this week. Justin Juul offers us five reasons why San Francisco loves Coppola.
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Reviews
Film Society Awards: Ballard, Coppola, Redford and Toback
Susan Gerhard
May 1, 2009The San Francisco Film Society honored Francis Ford Coppola, Carroll Ballard, Robert Redford and James Toback. Coppola surprised the audience by turning over the Founder's Directing Award he received to longtime colleague Carroll Ballard.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Leone's 'Once Upon a Time in the West'
Dennis Harvey
Apr 30, 2009Once Upon a Time in the West is grand, cynical, lavish and above all huge, Sergio Leone's penchant for the iconically gargantuan (perhaps at the willing expense of relatable human detail) expressed in ultimate form.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Robert Redford Accepts Owens Award
Dennis Harvey
Apr 29, 2009Robert Redford braves the public and accepts the San Francisco International Film Festival's Peter J. Owens Award.
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Portillo's 'Al Más Allá'
David Winks Gray
Apr 29, 2009Lourdes Portillo's partly autobiographical documentary Al Más Allá draws a laugh from the San Francisco International Film Festival crowd.
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In Production
SFIFF52: 'The Professionals' Unites Filmmakers
Michael Fox
Apr 28, 2009The Professionals an ambitious array of panels, case studies and discussions, makes its debut as a forum for encouraging Bay Area moviemakers to engage with guests and colleagues.
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In Production
SFIFF52: 'The Professionals' Unites Filmmakers
Michael Fox
Apr 28, 2009The Professionals an ambitious array of panels, case studies and discussions, makes its debut as a forum for encouraging Bay Area moviemakers to engage with guests and colleagues.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Lourdes Portillo, Persistence of Vision Award Recipient
Robert Avila
Apr 27, 2009The San Francisco-based and internationally acclaimed documentarian Lourdes Portillo speaks about her work; she wins the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival Persistence of Vision Award.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Chris Felver's "Ferlinghetti" Captures an Icon
David Winks Gray
Apr 26, 2009Chris Felver traces the life of antiauthoritarian Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Books, from his days as a Navy serviceman in World War II through the landmark First Amendment trial in Ferlinghetti.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Yun Suh's "City of Borders"
David Winks Gray
Apr 26, 2009City 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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Reviews
SFIFF52: Jarmel and Schneider's "Speaking in Tongues"
Susan Gerhard
Apr 25, 2009Jarmel and Schneider's Speaking in Tongues follows the stories of four public school children studying Mandarin, Cantonese and Spanish along with their English.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Peter Bratt's "La Mission"
Susan Gerhard
Apr 23, 2009Peter Bratt's La Mission focuses on conflict within a family and a neighborhood, exploring what happens when a single father named Che learns a secret about his son that tests his love for his family and his community's love for him.
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In Production
SFIFF52: New Narrative Trend for Bay Area Cinema
Michael Fox
Apr 21, 2009Four independent narratives - La Mission, My Suicide, Everything Strange and New and (Untitled) - are adding to the Bay Area's repertoire, historically regarded as a breeding ground for documentary filmmakers.
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Legal
Risky (Film) Business - What (Not) to Do
George Rush
Apr 21, 2009Avoiding Disaster: George Rush advises on how to secure funding for your film and protect yourself along the way.
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In Production
SFIFF52: New Narrative Trend for Bay Area Cinema
Michael Fox
Apr 21, 2009Four independent narratives - La Mission, My Suicide, Everything Strange and New and (Untitled) - are adding to the Bay Area's repertoire, historically regarded as a breeding ground for documentary filmmakers.
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Reviews
SFIFF52: Jim Granato's "D tour"
Dan Cowles
Apr 19, 2009Local filmmaker Jim Granato, whose movie D tour follows the band Rogue Wave and its ailing drummer Pat Spurgeon, on tour and on dialysis, is competing for the San Francisco International Film Festival's Golden Gate Award in Documentary.
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In Production
Holtzman: Psychedelic Cambodian Rock in 'Dengue Fever'
Michael Fox
Apr 15, 2009Zac Holtzman scores The Lost World with Dengue Fever, creating a sound that has been described as a psychedelic version of vintage Cambodian rock'n'roll, fueled by Cambodian singer Chhom Nimol's vocal stylings and Ethan Holtzman's organ and accordion shadings.
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Q & A
SFIFF52: Light and Saraf's 'Empress Hotel'
David Winks Gray
Apr 13, 2009Local filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf's latest film Empress Hotel delves into the lives of the residents at the titular building, a Tenderloin housing facility for the recently homeless. The film makes visible an area many city dwellers may only experience in the fringe of their consciousness and provides insight into the lives of the residents within.
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Q & A
SFIFF52: Light and Saraf's 'Empress Hotel'
David Winks Gray
Apr 13, 2009Local filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf's latest film Empress Hotel delves into the lives of the residents at the titular building, a Tenderloin housing facility for the recently homeless. The film makes visible an area many city dwellers may only experience in the fringe of their consciousness and provides insight into the lives of the residents within.
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Reviews
Walsh sets off on Rainer's parade
Michael Fox
Apr 9, 2009Bringing Rainer's work to a larger audience: Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer, a feature-length documentary about the choreographer and experimental filmmaker.
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Screenwriting
Character, Stripped to the Bone
Lisa Rosenberg
Apr 7, 2009Chop Shop, and Frozen River, present challenges in the building of character: attention to details of behavior and shifts in the character's world signal a hero's journey both profound and deeply internal.
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Festivals
SFIFF52: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor and a 'New Muslim Cool'
Sura Wood
Apr 6, 2009Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's documentary, New Muslim Cool, focuses on Hamza Perez, a Catholic hip hop artist, who converted to Islam; whose life is now a crucible of disparate urban influences.
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Reviews
Beloved publicist Bill McLeod dies
Apr 4, 2009William W. (Bill) McLeod, 59, one of the Bay Area's most respected film publicists died at his home on March 29th, 2009.
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Reviews
Box set "Treasures" unearths buried avant-garde
Michael Fox
Apr 2, 2009National Film Preservation Foundation, Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986, is a splendid package of 26 films, drawn from New York and San Francisco.
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Festivals
SF International Film Festival Lineup
Susan Gerhard
Mar 31, 2009The two weeks of programs offers 151 films from 55 countries, awards and prices, and a wide array of San Francisco talent, from legendary names to the fledgling artists.
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Q & A
Michael Jacobs 'Audience of One' at the Roxie
Susan Gerhard
Mar 30, 2009Michael Jacobs talks about his documentary, which follows Pentecostal Pastor Richard Gazowsky engaged in the creation of an ambitious, multi-million dollar sci-fi-feature on God.
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Reviews
Back to Nature with Ben Rivers
Dennis Harvey
Mar 27, 2009Ben Rivers makes his Bay Area debut this week presenting in person two programs, both providing a slightly dislocative experience at once tranquil and sinister.
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Reviews
Back to Nature with Ben Rivers
Dennis Harvey
Mar 27, 2009Ben Rivers makes his Bay Area debut this week presenting in person two programs, both providing a slightly dislocative experience at once tranquil and sinister.
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Reviews
William Kentridge at SFMOMA
Robert Avila
Mar 25, 2009The films of William Kentridge make up a significant and absorbing part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art enthralling survey of recent work by the acclaimed South African artist
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Story Structure
How to Rate Your Doc's Story Potential
Karen Everett
Mar 24, 2009A mini-tutorial on story structure: in a character-driven documentary there are a few simple questions you have to answer in order to vet your story potential.
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In Production
Kitchell on Another Hot Topic with Environmental Movement Doc
Michael Fox
Mar 24, 2009Mark Kitchell current project is an ambitious summation of the environmental movement, from the protests of the 1960s, the '70s focus on pollution, the Greenpeace campaigns and the global climate change.
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Q & A
Livin' la Vida Arnold with Lyndall Grant
Justin Juul
Mar 23, 2009When a challenge turns into opportunity: the Bay Area professional tribute artist talks about how he managed to leverage his striking similarity to Arnold Schwarzenegger into a successful acting career.