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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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
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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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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'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
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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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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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 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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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 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
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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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
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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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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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
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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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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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
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: 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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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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Festivals
Sundance Blog: Midnight at the Egyptian
Hilary Hart
Jan 18, 2009Hilary Hart blogs her 14th year at Sundance, back on the midnight shift at the Egyptian Theatre.
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News & Blogs
Sundance Harvests an Eclectic Crop of Local Films
Michael Fox
Dec 11, 2008Bay Area filmmakers represented at Sundance.
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Q & A
Documenting the Lyme Epidemic
Michael Fox
Oct 9, 2008Andy Abrahams Wilson talks about Under Our Skin, his elegantly crafted film on the underreported epidemic of Lyme disease.
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Festivals
MVFF: Mulford and Cruz On Chile's Dark Past
Michael Fox
Oct 8, 2008Marilyn Mulford collaborated with Quique Cruz on the pensive, humanistic, and inspiring Archaeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi.
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Reviews
Curators at Bay Area Now 5
Sean Uyehara
Sep 11, 2008YBCA's triennial exhibition has developed a deserved reputation for presenting an energetic survey of current Bay Area artistic practice.
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Q & A
Rob Nilsson on Himself
Rob Nilsson
Aug 27, 2008SF360.org asked this veteran indie auteur for his thoughts, which he gamely and intelligently offers here.
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News & Blogs
Second Stage of Film Arts Foundation's Legacy of Advocacy
Michael Fox
Aug 20, 2008Film Arts Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed by 15 independent filmmakers in 1976, joins forces with SFFS.
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Q & A
Exhuming History with "The Judge and the General"
Susan Gerhard
Aug 11, 2008SF360.org asked Bay Area filmmaker Elizabeth Farnsworth about her film, which follows Judge Juan Guzmán as he investigates General Pinochet's crimes.
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In Production
Beard world and Swenson's Salton Sea
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2008The first of SF360.org's In Production columns looks at two works-in-progress: Laura Lukitsch's film about beards and Lise Swenson's Salton Sea pic.
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Q & A
"Girls Rock" with Arne Johnson & Shane King
Susan Gerhard
Mar 2, 2008Girls Rock watches a few select 8-18 -year-olds overcome the obstacles to claim their rightful place on Earth and wail away.
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Q & A
Amanda Micheli Going for La Corona
Sean Uyehara
Jan 23, 2008A reprinting of an interview with Amanda Micheli because her film, now playing Sundance, has just made the final cut for an Academy Award.
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Q & A
Nine Questions for Rob Nilsson
Dennis Harvey
Oct 5, 2007SF360.org caught up with the filmmaker, who has been extraordinarily prolific since abandoning celluloid for the lighter, cheaper, more flexible digital realm.
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Q & A
Amanda Micheli's Wonder Women
Sean Uyehara
Apr 2, 2007When Bay Area filmmaker Amanda Micheli approaches, you can see that she is an athlete. She's sure of herself.
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Festivals
Film Arts Foundation's 'Bay Area Film Festivals'
Michael Read
Feb 16, 2007Boasting dozens upon dozens of homegrown events anchored by the country's most visible festivals, San Francisco has evolved into the quintessential festival town.
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Q & A
2006, The Remix
Susan Gerhard
Dec 27, 2006SF360.org ended the year the way we started it--asking enormous favors from some of our favorite filmmakers: Caveh Zahedi, Sam Green, and Danny Plotnick.
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Festivals
SF to Sundance
Susan Gerhard
Dec 8, 2006At least three Bay Area-based filmmakers will be making the trek to Park City this year, Jon Else, Steven Okazaki, and Jay Rosenblatt.
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Reviews
Bay Area Filmmakers at SF International LGBT Film Festival
Susan Gerhard
Jun 23, 200616 filmmakers from the Bay Area find at least 15 minutes of fame in the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival this year.
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Q & A
The Outsiders
Susan Gerhard
Jun 14, 2006Sheerly Avni talks about his book, Cinema by the Bay, a rich, visual history of San Francisco Bay Area filmmaking.
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