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  DocFest 2011

  Oct 14, 2011

  SF Indiefest offshoot DocFest kicks off its 10th edition this Friday with a screening of 'Dirty Pictures,' a film about underground ecstasy legend Dr. Alexander Shulgin. Featuring the wildest and wooliest independent docs emerging this year, the fest also boast a number of well-loved parties and one ’80s New Wave sing-along. More info at sfindie.virb.com.

  
• October 11, 2011
  
  

  DocFest 2011

  Oct 14, 2011

  SF Indiefest offshoot DocFest kicks off its 10th edition this Friday with a screening of 'Dirty Pictures,' a film about underground ecstasy legend Dr. Alexander Shulgin. Featuring the wildest and wooliest independent docs emerging this year, the fest also boast a number of well-loved parties and one ’80s New Wave sing-along. More info at sfindie.virb.com.

  
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  Changes You Can Believe In at SF DocFest

  Robert Avila
  Oct 13, 2011

  Nonfiction films offer view to revolutions. DocFest has a well-earned reputation for knocking the stuffiness out of a pretty sober word. The 10-year-old festival founded by IndieFest’s Jeff Ross has taken pride in equating “documentary” with the unconventional and idiosyncratic—fare that celebrates the offbeat, the weird, the wondrous. I’m thinking of wiener-dog races, yes, but that’s just the tip of the beast. This year’s festival (October 14–27), which opens at the Roxie with a profile of the creator of MDMA (Etienne Sauret’s Dirty Pictures) and ends with a look at a comic-book super-author (With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story), provides another...

  
• October 14, 2011
  
  

  Changes You Can Believe In at SF DocFest

  Robert Avila
  Oct 13, 2011

  Nonfiction films offer view to revolutions. DocFest has a well-earned reputation for knocking the stuffiness out of a pretty sober word. The 10-year-old festival founded by IndieFest’s Jeff Ross has taken pride in equating “documentary” with the unconventional and idiosyncratic—fare that celebrates the offbeat, the weird, the wondrous. I’m thinking of wiener-dog races, yes, but that’s just the tip of the beast. This year’s festival (October 14–27), which opens at the Roxie with a profile of the creator of MDMA (Etienne Sauret’s Dirty Pictures) and ends with a look at a comic-book super-author (With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story), provides another...

  
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  SF Docfest

  Oct 19, 2010

  SF Docfest continues through October 28 with its reliable blend of eccentricity and outrage. Films screening during week two include 'Trampoline' and 'Vanishing of the Bees.' More at sfindie.com.

  
• October 19, 2010
  
  

  SF Docfest

  Oct 19, 2010

  SF Docfest continues through October 28 with its reliable blend of eccentricity and outrage. Films screening during week two include 'Trampoline' and 'Vanishing of the Bees.' More at sfindie.com.

  
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  SF Docfest Still Stranger than Fiction

  Matt Sussman
  Oct 15, 2010

  A critic offers not-to-be-missed entries in the ninth annual SF Docfest.

  
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  SF Docfest Still Stranger than Fiction

  Matt Sussman
  Oct 15, 2010

  A critic offers not-to-be-missed entries in the ninth annual SF Docfest.

  
• October 21, 2010
  
  

  SF Docfest Still Stranger than Fiction

  Matt Sussman
  Oct 15, 2010

  A critic offers not-to-be-missed entries in the ninth annual SF Docfest.

  
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  Savoring Fishbone in its Third Insane Decade

  Susan Gerhard
  Oct 8, 2010

  A film about the legendary band Fishbone brings California's past 25 years into close relief.

  
• October 14, 2010
  
  

  Savoring Fishbone in its Third Insane Decade

  Susan Gerhard
  Oct 8, 2010

  A 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, 2010

  A film about the legendary band Fishbone brings California's past 25 years into close relief.

  
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  SF Indiefest at Twelve

  Matt Sussman
  Feb 4, 2010

  It 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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  Parker and di Napoli on Parody and High Art

  Adam Hartzell
  Nov 1, 2009

  Bay 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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  What's up, DocFest?

  Robert Avila
  Oct 14, 2009

  Fans of the San Francisco festival, now in its eighth year, have developed a well-honed appreciation for the eccentric.

  
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  Carnival of Nonfiction Filmmaking

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 16, 2008

  The extreme, the strange, the silly and surreal all have big seats at the SF DocFest table.

  
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  7th SF DocFest Program

  Susan Gerhard
  Sep 25, 2008

  The seventh San Francisco International Documentary Film Festival has the potential to be every bit as raucous as the other festivals under the organization's umbrella.

  
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  'Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer'

  Dennis Harvey
  Sep 23, 2008

  Whether you dig jazz or not, O'Day's charisma and story make this movie riveting.

  
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  Noise Pop Film Festival

  Dennis Harvey
  Feb 26, 2008

  In addition to practically every extant band you’d want to see, an art exhibit, and comedy shows, there are movies at Noise Pop.

  
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  SF Docfest Report

  Robert Avila
  Sep 27, 2007

  Reality, generally considered over-rated by the moving-going public, is the unapologetic core of SF DocFest.

  
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  Four Performers on Getting "Fired!"

  Susan Gerhard
  May 19, 2006

  Four stories from familiar performers who once found themselves in the "formerly employed by" category, taken from Fired!, which plays Docfest 2006.

  
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  Docfest: Not to Be Believed?

  Susan Gerhard
  May 11, 2006

  Docfest founder Jeff Ross explains the S.F. Indie empire's definition of reality filmmaking.