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Opportunities: International Film Festival Summit
Dec 4, 2011
International Film Festival Summit (December 4–6, 2011), held in Austin, Texas, is the largest international organization representing the film festival industry. The IFFS mission is to promote and strengthen the global film festival industry through education, networking, dissemination of information, and the cultivation of high standards. This year's featured topics include Anatomy of a Festival: South by Southwest, Programming: The Fine Art of Film Selection, Marketing Strategies: Integrating Social Media and Technology, The Festival Mission, Sponsorship Strategy, Box Office Technology Solutions, among others. Notable speakers include Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset), as well as SFFS' very own Steve Jenkins, Sarah Cathers, and Linda Butler. DEADLINE: Register by September 25, 2011 to receive discounted rate. WEBSITE: filmfestivalsummit.com/iffshome.html.
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Essential SF: Joshua Grannell
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 1, 2011
Since its first event in 1998, Midnight Mass has become an SF institution, and Peaches Christ, well, she's its peerless warden and cult leader.
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Essential SF: Joshua Grannell
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 1, 2011
Since its first event in 1998, Midnight Mass has become an SF institution, and Peaches Christ, well, she's its peerless warden and cult leader.
November 3, 2011

Essential SF: Joshua Grannell
Johnny Ray Huston
Nov 1, 2011
Since its first event in 1998, Midnight Mass has become an SF institution, and Peaches Christ, well, she's its peerless warden and cult leader.
News & Blogs

Wired: "At Popcorn Hackathon, Coders Team With Filmmakers to Supercharge Web Video"
Oct 20, 2011
"Filmmakers and coders hunkered down for two days of creative collaboration here during a first-of-its-kind hackathon that explored the future of web video — specifically Popcorn.js, Mozilla’s HTML5 media toolkit designed to amp up interactivity" reports Angela Watercutter. More at wired.com.
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Opportunities: Center for Asian American Media Fellowship Program
Oct 17, 2011
Furthering CAAM's work to nurture Asian American media professionals and advance the field of Asian American media, the second annual CAAM Fellowship Program will connect young, talented individuals with leading professionals in the field. ELIGIBILITY: Participating fellows will have access to the leading Asian American talent in film, television and digital media. Each fellowship will be individually tailored to best fit the needs of the fellows and advisers. Fellowships will range from fully integrated collaborations to regular feedback on current projects to an ongoing dialogue about professional development. AWARDS: The CAAM Fellowship Program Retreat will allow the mentor-mentee pairs to spend two full days together in a quiet and peaceful environment where they can focus on the mentees' career, whether it is a script being developed or an acting career that needs some guidance. DEADLINE: October 17, 2011. WEBSITE: caamedia.org/filmmaker-resources/fellowship/caam-fellowship-program-2011/.
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Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011
Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.
October 14, 2011

Arab Spring Arrives in a Festival-Packed Fall
Susan Gerhard
Oct 10, 2011
Arab 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, 2011
Arab Film Festival Executive Director Michel Shehadeh speaks to building an all-encompassing international space.
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Funding: TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund
Oct 10, 2011
The TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund supports innovative film and video artists who are living or working in Mexico, Central and South America and working independently in their efforts to reach a larger audience. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must be animation, documentary and/or hybrid feature-length films with an intended length of at least 70 minutes. Submissions must be in production or post-production and must not have aired on any form of television, been screened publicly or have been distributed in theaters or via the internet. Projects may be in any language or dialect. Applicants must be over 18 years old. Student films and stand-alone short films are not eligible for submission. $25 entry fee. AWARDS: Last year, the Fund administered $10,000 grants to four selected films. In addition to funding, each grantee will receive a U.S. based advisor and guidance from the Tribeca Film Institute. DEADLINE: October 10, 2011. WEBSITE: tribecafilminstitute.org/filmmakers/latin_fund/.
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Goldmacher IDs Perps Behind Financial Crisis
Michael Fox
Oct 3, 2011
An East Bay filmmaker takes another look at U.S. financial woes with 'Heist,' which world premieres at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
October 6, 2011

Goldmacher IDs Perps Behind Financial Crisis
Michael Fox
Oct 3, 2011
An East Bay filmmaker takes another look at U.S. financial woes with 'Heist,' which world premieres at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
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Goldmacher IDs Perps Behind Financial Crisis
Michael Fox
Oct 3, 2011
An East Bay filmmaker takes another look at U.S. financial woes with 'Heist,' which world premieres at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
News & Blogs

Below the Line: "SPY Delivers Visual Effects, DI and Stereo Conversion for Coppola's 'Twixt' "
Sep 22, 2011
"San Francisco-based visual effects and post house SPY, a FotoKem company, recently contributed hundreds of visual effects shots, the digital intermediate and 3D conversion services for Francis Ford Coppola’s latest feature film, Twixt," reports Below the Line. More at btlnews.com.
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Iranian Teenage Love Sparks ‘Circumstance’
Susan Gerhard
Sep 10, 2011
Director, producer speak of challenges, inspirations behind a story of the urban Iranian underground.
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Iranian Teenage Love Sparks ‘Circumstance’
Susan Gerhard
Sep 10, 2011
Director, producer speak of challenges, inspirations behind a story of the urban Iranian underground.
September 15, 2011

Iranian Teenage Love Sparks ‘Circumstance’
Susan Gerhard
Sep 10, 2011
Director, producer speak of challenges, inspirations behind a story of the urban Iranian underground.
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Stigma, Satisfaction Drive Indian 'Match' Game
Michael Fox
Sep 6, 2011
Priya Giri Desai documents matchmaking efforts for HIV-positives in India.
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Stigma, Satisfaction Drive Indian 'Match' Game
Michael Fox
Sep 6, 2011
Priya Giri Desai documents matchmaking efforts for HIV-positives in India.
September 8 2011

Stigma, Satisfaction Drive Indian 'Match' Game
Michael Fox
Sep 6, 2011
Priya Giri Desai documents matchmaking efforts for HIV-positives in India.
August 30, 2011

'Love Exposure'
Sep 2, 2011
Center for Asian American Media and the Roxie team up to present Sion Sono's madcap masterpiece 'Love Exposure' for a limited run starting Friday. This nearly four-hour long absurdist experiment in maximalism trumps even the director's previous effort 'Suicide Club.' It's succeeded in Sono's bizarre oeuvre by 'Cold Fish,' which opens mid-month. More info at roxie.com.
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Jean-Luc Godard Sets Course for Adventure
Robert Avila
Sep 1, 2011
The first feature to play SFFS | New People Cinema, Godard's ‘Film Socialisme’ is both poetic rumination and urgent intervention.
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Jean-Luc Godard Sets Course for Adventure
Robert Avila
Sep 1, 2011
The first feature to play SFFS | New People Cinema, Godard's ‘Film Socialisme’ is both poetic rumination and urgent intervention.
September 1, 2011

Jean-Luc Godard Sets Course for Adventure
Robert Avila
Sep 1, 2011
The 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, 2011
When 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: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011
When 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.
September 1, 2011

Graham Leggat: Filmmakers, Writers, Fans Remember
Susan Gerhard
Aug 30, 2011
When 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.
August 4, 2011

Cinematographer Cardiff's Eye Prized in 'Cameraman' Doc
Dennis Harvey
Jul 29, 2011
'Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff' is a lovely portrait of an innovator and consummate craftsman.
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Cinematographer Cardiff's Eye Prized in 'Cameraman' Doc
Dennis Harvey
Jul 29, 2011
'Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff' is a lovely portrait of an innovator and consummate craftsman.
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Cinematographer Cardiff's Eye Prized in 'Cameraman' Doc
Dennis Harvey
Jul 29, 2011
'Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff' is a lovely portrait of an innovator and consummate craftsman.
July 19, 2011

Marius Watz: Automatic Writing
Jul 22, 2011
SFFS presents the work of pioneering software artist Marius Watz, who uses digital processes and authored algorithms to “automatically” produce numerous types of media including video, still imagery and sculpture through semi-autonomous software systems, as part of its KinoTek series. Look for sci-fi writer/theorist Bruce Sterling's essay on Watz in Thursday's SF360.org. Events: An exhibition in Super Frog Gallery at New People opens July 22; Artist Talk, July 26; Master Class, July 27. More at sffs.org.
July 5, 2011

'The Big Uneasy'
Jul 10, 2011
Playing at Roxie, new Katrina doc 'The Big Uneasy,' questions the levees' failure in New Orleans and uncovers impending dangers in the city's future. Director and comedian Harry Shearer is scheduled to appear at both evening screenings on July 10. More at roxie.com.
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Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011
Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
July 7, 2011

Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011
Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
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Graham Leggat Steps Down as Executive Director of San Francisco Film Society
Jul 5, 2011
Film Society’s leader for more than five years resigns due to health issues.
News & Blogs

Ninth Street Announces Incubator Participants
Jul 1, 2011
Press release: The Ninth Street Independent Film Center announced today five new participants for the Center's Media Arts Incubator Program for 2011-2012. "This is a great group of participants," says Skye Christensen, Executive Director of the Ninth Street Independent Film Center. "Each brings a very dynamic project to the Program, and we're really looking forward to what they'll accomplish during their time here." Ninth Street’s Media Arts Incubator Program is designed to nurture socially relevant independent media projects at Ninth Street Independent Film Center. The Incubator Program supports independent filmmakers, start-up film festivals and small media nonprofits through access to workspace and shared resources, such as cross-promotional opportunities, co-productions, affordable meeting or exhibition space and community connections with established media arts partners (Center for Asian American Media, Frameline, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, and others). Participants are: Rachel Caplan (CEO) and Daniela Rible (Deputy Director) of the annual SF Green Film Festival; Jennifer Tipton and Cary McQueen Morrow, the directors of Art with Impact, which is a platform for the creation of new media on critical social issues; David Evan Harris, Executive Director of the Global Lives Project, a media arts nonprofit that seeks to collaboratively build a video library of human life experience; Scarlett Shepard is Executive Director of the SF Women’s Film Festival; and J.R. Flemming, director and producer of Guarding Dogs, which is a documentary film with a crowd-sourcing model currently in production that makes the case for adopting a dog instead breeding/buying.
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Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011
It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
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Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011
It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
June 30, 2011

Critic's Notebook: Frameline at 35 Still Finds Youth a Focus
Matt Sussman
Jun 25, 2011
It gets better: Frameline35 offers a strong selection of work about youth.
June 21, 2011

Cult of the Kuchars: '8mm Films'
Jun 23, 2011
PFA's retrospective of experimental touchstones George and Mike Kuchar continues with a screening of rare 8mm shorts and both brothers in conversation with pioneering media theorist Gene Youngblood at 7:00 pm. Program runs through June 26. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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Celebrating a Reel Education
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 9, 2011
San Francisco Film Society commemorates 20 years of education programs in 2011. Since 1991, the San Francisco Film Society has been educating youth in film, but it’s not all elementary, or middle, or high school-oriented: What began as a K–12 Schools at the Festival program that brought students and international cinema together has, 20 years later, grown into year-round educational programming that serves not just under-18s, but lifelong learners, professional and novice filmmakers and university students.
June 9, 2011

Celebrating a Reel Education
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 9, 2011
San Francisco Film Society commemorates 20 years of education programs in 2011. Since 1991, the San Francisco Film Society has been educating youth in film, but it’s not all elementary, or middle, or high school-oriented: What began as a K–12 Schools at the Festival program that brought students and international cinema together has, 20 years later, grown into year-round educational programming that serves not just under-18s, but lifelong learners, professional and novice filmmakers and university students.
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Celebrating a Reel Education
Jennifer Preissel
Jun 9, 2011
San Francisco Film Society commemorates 20 years of education programs in 2011. Since 1991, the San Francisco Film Society has been educating youth in film, but it’s not all elementary, or middle, or high school-oriented: What began as a K–12 Schools at the Festival program that brought students and international cinema together has, 20 years later, grown into year-round educational programming that serves not just under-18s, but lifelong learners, professional and novice filmmakers and university students.
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Elizabeth Taylor Tribute Maps Unusual Star Path
Dennis Harvey
May 26, 2011
The Castro's Elizabeth Taylor retrospective brings the actress back to her most devoted fans. The first and last time I attended the now-defunct Taos Film Festival, it gave a tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (who lived in the area), allowing me to spend an hour sitting about ten feet from one of the most famous movie stars ever. Arriving by wheelchair with a little dog on her lap, she was petite and attractive, though infirmity had taken its own toll on her figure. She was also funny, candid, unpretentious, occasionally ribald, passionately serious about her causes (especially AIDS research and education), and a little dotty—occasionally she'd drift off on some strange...
May 26, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor Tribute Maps Unusual Star Path
Dennis Harvey
May 26, 2011
The Castro's Elizabeth Taylor retrospective brings the actress back to her most devoted fans. The first and last time I attended the now-defunct Taos Film Festival, it gave a tribute to Elizabeth Taylor (who lived in the area), allowing me to spend an hour sitting about ten feet from one of the most famous movie stars ever. Arriving by wheelchair with a little dog on her lap, she was petite and attractive, though infirmity had taken its own toll on her figure. She was also funny, candid, unpretentious, occasionally ribald, passionately serious about her causes (especially AIDS research and education), and a little dotty—occasionally she'd drift off on some strange...
Festivals

Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
Robert Avila
May 2, 2011
Matthew 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, 2011
Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
May 5, 2011

Unrestrained at SFIFF54, Barney Offers Live Insight
Robert Avila
May 2, 2011
Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
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New People Entertainment Launches Online Channel
Apr 25, 2011
Press release: New People Entertainment, a film division of New People, Inc. that focuses on the licensing and distribution of Japanese films and media, has announced the beta launch of its own exclusive web channel where audiences will be able to stream a variety of the company’s films and content. More at newpeoplechannel.com.
April 19, 2011

SFIFF: ‘Miss Representation’
Apr 22, 2011
‘Miss Representation,’ former San Francisco Mayoral First Lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom's documentary examining the impact of media on the self-image of female teenagers, screens Friday, with the filmmaker herself in town. More at fest11.sffs.org.
April 19, 2011

ATA Film & Video Festival
Apr 20, 2011
Roxie Theater hosts Playback: ATA Film & Video Festival 2006-2010, a one-day event that showcases a selection of short films from the experimental media arts gallery. More at roxie.com.
april 22 2011

Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011
Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
Festivals

Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011
Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011
Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
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Swimming in the Deep End of San Francisco International Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Apr 15, 2011
Films in the 54th SFIFF immerse viewers in distant times, unique places.
April 14, 2011

'Sleeping Ember' Reignites
Matt Sussman
Apr 14, 2011
A 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, 2011
A 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, 2011
A grad student brings a rare screening of silent classic 'Braza Dormida' to the PFA, with live jazz accompaniment.
March 22, 2011

Disposable Film Festival
Mar 24, 2011
Created in 2007 by Eric Slatkin and Carlton Evans to celebrate possibilities of media we might consider "throwaway" (devices like cell phones and pocket cameras), the Disposable Film Festival has grown into a popular one-day event and year-round traveling showcase. This year, it debuts at the Castro Theatre. More at castrotheatre.com.
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Filmmakers Bring Stories to New Platforms
Erica Marcus
Mar 22, 2011
The Media that Matters Conference showcased innovative formats and powerful storytelling.
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Filmmakers Bring Stories to New Platforms
Erica Marcus
Mar 22, 2011
The Media that Matters Conference showcased innovative formats and powerful storytelling.
March 24, 2011

Filmmakers Bring Stories to New Platforms
Erica Marcus
Mar 22, 2011
The Media that Matters Conference showcased innovative formats and powerful storytelling.
First Person

Filmmakers Bring Stories to New Platforms
Erica Marcus
Mar 22, 2011
The Media that Matters Conference showcased innovative formats and powerful storytelling.
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Filmmakers Bring Stories to New Platforms
Erica Marcus
Mar 22, 2011
The Media that Matters Conference showcased innovative formats and powerful storytelling.
March 24, 2011

Filmmakers Bring Stories to New Platforms
Erica Marcus
Mar 22, 2011
The Media that Matters Conference showcased innovative formats and powerful storytelling.
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SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011
'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
March 17, 2011

SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011
'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
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SFIAAFF'S Closer Goh Nakamura Talks Music, Movies
Adam Hartzell
Mar 14, 2011
'Surrogate Valentine's' Goh Nakamura offers his fans some sugar as his starring role closes SFIAAFF 2011.
March 8, 2011

SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Mar 11, 2011
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival begins March 10 and runs for 11 days, celebrating Opening Night at the Castro Theatre with Andy De Emmony’s 2009 ‘West Is West,’ the sequel to the successful 1999 ‘East Is East.’ About 120 films will play at a variety of venues around San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose. More at festival.asianamericanmedia.org.
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SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011
At 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...
March 10, 2011

SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011
At 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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SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011
At 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...
March 10, 2011

SFIAAFF Brings 'Light,' Captures Attention
Adam Hartzell
Mar 10, 2011
At 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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SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011
Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.
March 10, 2011

SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011
Masashi 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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SFIAFF Director Primed for Debut
Michael Fox
Mar 7, 2011
Masashi Niwano, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's new director, speaks about bringing new worlds to this world cinema event.
February 15, 2011

Cinema Across Media: The 1920s
Feb 19, 2011
Pacific Film Archive and UC Berkeley’s Department of Film and Media present Cinema Across Media: The 1920s, a conference to investigate silent film’s embodiment of new artistic fields like design, architecture, painting, vaudeville and music that occurred in the ’20s. More on screenings, which begin February 19, and the conference February 24–26 at bampfa.berkeley.edu/silentconference.
February 17, 2011

Noise Pop 2011's Film Series Rawks
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2011
Noise Pop brings the noise as well as great filmmaking to its annual music-and-movie event.
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Noise Pop 2011's Film Series Rawks
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2011
Noise Pop brings the noise as well as great filmmaking to its annual music-and-movie event.
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Noise Pop 2011's Film Series Rawks
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2011
Noise Pop brings the noise as well as great filmmaking to its annual music-and-movie event.
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Variety: "Roadside, Participant on 'Circumstance'"
Feb 15, 2011
Variety: "Marking another acquisition partnership coming out of the Sundance Film Festival, Roadside Attractions will team with Participant Media," handling U.S. theatrical distribution rights of writer and director Maryam Keshavarz's Iranian drama 'Circumstance.' More at variety.com.
Feb 3 2011

Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba
Michael Fox
Feb 2, 2011
Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.
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Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba
Michael Fox
Feb 2, 2011
Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.
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Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba
Michael Fox
Feb 2, 2011
Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.
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Red Lantern Meetup Reels in Film Fans
Adam Hartzell
Jan 24, 2011
The Red Lantern Meetup group brings Asian film fans together.
January 27, 2011

Red Lantern Meetup Reels in Film Fans
Adam Hartzell
Jan 24, 2011
The Red Lantern Meetup group brings Asian film fans together.
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Red Lantern Meetup Reels in Film Fans
Adam Hartzell
Jan 24, 2011
The Red Lantern Meetup group brings Asian film fans together.
January 18, 2011

'Beauty and the Beast' with Lecture
Jan 19, 2011
Pacific Film Archive Theater and UC Berkeley’s Department of Film and Media present Jean Cocteau’s 1946 ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ A lecture by Professor Russell Merritt follows. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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BAVC Wins MacArthur Grant
Jan 19, 2011
SF Chronicle: "It was creative projects like 'The Revolutionary Optimists'," writes Benny Evangelista, "that helped the nonprofit San Francisco organization, which advocates social change through the integration fo storytelling with the latest media technologies, win a $1 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation." More at sfgate.com.
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Ford Foundation: $50 Million Fund Launched for Next Generation of Documentary Filmmakers
Jan 19, 2011
Press release: "...The new initiative, called JustFilms, will invest $10 million a year over the next five years to support and expand the community of filmmakers and mediamakers around the world focused on creating documentaries with passion and purpose, but who often lack funding to realize their visions or reach audiences." More at fordfoundation.org.
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SFFS Presents Fever Dreams: Laurel Nakadate
Jan 19, 2011
Press release: The San Francisco Film Society will present Fever Dreams: Laurel Nakadate, a multiplatform presentation of the work of American multimedia artist Laurel Nakadate, February 23–March 2. Fever Dreams kicks off KinoTek 2011–12, an eclectic series of programs dedicated to cross-platform and emergent media, supported by a two-year, $80,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. More at sffs.org.
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Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011
SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
January 6, 2010

Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011
SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
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Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011
SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
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Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011
SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
January 6, 2010

Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011
SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
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Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011
SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
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.
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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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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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.
December 2, 2010

De Michiel and Constantinou Offer Food for Thought
Michael Fox
Dec 1, 2010
Filmmakers 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, 2010
Filmmakers 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, 2010
Filmmakers 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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Charles Ferguson Solves ‘Inside Job’
Michael Fox
Oct 18, 2010
Charles Ferguson offers intel on the world financial crisis with 'Inside Job.'
October 21, 2010

Charles Ferguson Solves ‘Inside Job’
Michael Fox
Oct 18, 2010
Charles Ferguson offers intel on the world financial crisis with 'Inside Job.'
Q & A

Charles Ferguson Solves ‘Inside Job’
Michael Fox
Oct 18, 2010
Charles Ferguson offers intel on the world financial crisis with 'Inside Job.'
Home

Phil Spector, the Spectacle, Viewed in New Doc
Dennis Harvey
Sep 10, 2010
A look at Phil Spector brings back memories, if not that loving feeling.
Reviews

Phil Spector, the Spectacle, Viewed in New Doc
Dennis Harvey
Sep 10, 2010
A look at Phil Spector brings back memories, if not that loving feeling.
September 7, 2010

'Portrait of Jason' Redux
Sep 8, 2010
Local digital media artist Tim Roseborough presents a feature-length video in homage to Shirley Clarke's 1967 documentary, 'Portrait of Jason,' one last time at Scenius Gallery on 18th Street.
August 26 ,2010

Getting Perspective on your Story
Fernanda Rossi
Aug 24, 2010
Who's to say if it's a story problem or an audience problem?
Documentary

Getting Perspective on your Story
Fernanda Rossi
Aug 24, 2010
Who's to say if it's a story problem or an audience problem?
Home

Getting Perspective on your Story
Fernanda Rossi
Aug 24, 2010
Who's to say if it's a story problem or an audience problem?
08-05-2010

Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Sara Dosa
Aug 4, 2010
The looming prospect of a two-tiered internet may compromise the ability of independent filmmakers to fund, exhibit and distribute their films.
Home

Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Sara Dosa
Aug 4, 2010
The looming prospect of a two-tiered internet may compromise the ability of independent filmmakers to fund, exhibit and distribute their films.
In Depth

Media Pulse: The Closed Net Threat
Sara Dosa
Aug 4, 2010
The looming prospect of a two-tiered internet may compromise the ability of independent filmmakers to fund, exhibit and distribute their films.
Home

Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the Sixties,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground'
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2010
Three Bay Area documentaries correct the historical record.
In Depth

Essential SF: 'Berkeley in the Sixties,' 'Brother Outsider,' 'Weather Underground'
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2010
Three Bay Area documentaries correct the historical record.
Home

Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
Michael Fox
Jul 23, 2010
Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.
In Depth

Essential SF: 'Times of Harvey Milk,' 'Crumb,' 'Cockettes'
Michael Fox
Jul 23, 2010
Three films document essential chunks of San Francisco's tragic and mythic past, told in empathetic but non-hagiographic testimony.
07-21-2010

A Need to Think Outside the Box (Office)
Jon Reiss
Jul 20, 2010
The maker of Bomb It offers hard-won advice on the marketing of film in the 2010s.
First Person

A Need to Think Outside the Box (Office)
Jon Reiss
Jul 20, 2010
The maker of Bomb It offers hard-won advice on the marketing of film in the 2010s.
Home

A Need to Think Outside the Box (Office)
Jon Reiss
Jul 20, 2010
The maker of Bomb It offers hard-won advice on the marketing of film in the 2010s.
Home

Media Pulse: A Crude Interpretation of the Law
Jennifer Preissel
Jul 1, 2010
Jennifer Preissel examines the film and the court case that could redefine a journalist’s protection under First Amendment rights.
In Depth

Media Pulse: A Crude Interpretation of the Law
Jennifer Preissel
Jul 1, 2010
Jennifer Preissel examines the film and the court case that could redefine a journalist’s protection under First Amendment rights.
Documentary

The Story Beyond the Story
Fernanda Rossi
Jun 11, 2010
Screens are getting smaller. From the cineplex to TV to the computer or iPhone screen, surfaces have shrunk but creativity and resourcefulness have expanded.
Reviews

Conner Forever Moving Forward
Dennis Harvey
May 10, 2010
Bruce 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.
Q & A

Behind the Music with 'Simonal'
Julia Barbosa
May 3, 2010
The documentary Simonal: No One Knows How Tough it Was explores the polemic surrounding a man considered by many to be the greatest singer in Brazilian history.
Q & A

New York-set Charlie Barker's Big S.F. Break
Michael Fox
May 2, 2010
Along with selfless sacrifices and random luck, low-budget independent films often depend on the timely intervention of an angel.
Festivals

SFIFF53 Reports: California Dreamin' at Film Society Awards Night
Susan Gerhard
Apr 30, 2010
San 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.
Reviews

Link TV's ViewChange Launch
Jane Riccobono
Apr 2, 2010
ViewChange.org, a digital-media hub on global development, offers news about microeconomics and innovative web technology that enables users to contribute to the causes they re learning about.
Festivals

San Francisco International Film Festival's 53rd Edition
Susan Gerhard
Mar 30, 2010
Director of Programming Rachel Rosen and programmers Rod Armstrong, Audrey Chang and Sean Uyehara shared thoughts on 177 films from 46 countries.
Festivals

SF International Asian American Film Festival's Archival Tour
Adam Hartzell
Mar 19, 2010
A theme that emerged in this year s SFIAFF was the importance of archives in the film world.
Q & A

'Lesh Sabreen?' On Red Vic Screen
Robert Avila
Mar 15, 2010
Muayad 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.
Festivals

28th SF Int'l Asian American Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Mar 10, 2010
The 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.
Q & A

'Village' a New Look at New Orleans
Judy Stone
Mar 10, 2010
S. 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.
In Production

Cohen and Lipman's Recovering Friend in Forest
Michael Fox
Feb 23, 2010
Injured in a crash on the Golden Gate Bridge, Dr. Grace Dammann spent 45 days in a coma and 13 months in the hospital.
Reviews

Freak Flag Flying at YBCA
Dennis Harvey
Feb 17, 2010
YBCA 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.
Q & A

Ehrlich, Goldsmith on Pentagon Papers
Michael Fox
Feb 14, 2010
The 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.
Reviews

Pacific Film Archive's Young Filmmakers on Big Screen
Jane Riccobono
Feb 3, 2010
In the YouTube-Facebook-viral video era, it's hard to remember the time when youth-made media was rare.
Q & A

Stephen Talbot's World Music
Ryan Prendiville
Jan 24, 2010
Stephen Talbot left PBS s Frontline World to create and develop original media properties, including a globe-trotting TV series about world music.
Reviews

It's 'Playtime' with Jacques Tati in New Series
Dennis Harvey
Jan 13, 2010
You could make a case for Tati as the last great silent comedian even if he didn't begin making features until two decades into the sound era.
Reviews

Citizen Critics' New Outlets, Challenges in 2009
Adam Hartzell
Jan 2, 2010
The silver lining to a decade that saw traditional critics in conventional media dwindle? The explosion of socially networked citizen critics.
In Production

Legal Eagle Eye Kristine Enea Zooms 'Off the Grid'
Michael Fox
Dec 8, 2009
Kristine Enea's documentary shows The EcoCenter, a San Francisco environmental educational facility that treats and recycles wastewater and generates its own solar power.
Festivals

SFFS's Debut Cinema by the Bay
Robert Avila
Oct 22, 2009
A new, four-day showcase of local filmmaking doubles as a forum for the region's influence as subject and setting for filmmakers beyond the bay.
In Production

Anne, Anne, Anne: McGuire Comes Alive
Michael Fox
Oct 20, 2009
Anne McGuire finds the beauty in the strange, and the strangeness in the beautiful. That's not perversity, people; that's poetry.
Story Structure

Organizing your bins effectively
Karen Everett
Sep 22, 2009
The Edit Room: Learning how to organize saves you time and money in the editing process; a walk-through just how to do it.
Festivals

Toronto International Film Festival 2009
B. Ruby Rich
Sep 19, 2009
The Toronto International Film Festival has always allowed a generosity of pursuits to co-exist, rewarding the adventurous and satiating the lazy, all without judgment.
First Person

E-news You Can Use
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2009
The rapid adoption of e-newsletters by documentary filmmakers is the latest example of resourcefulness and efficiency among contemporary independents.
In Production

Hess, Janos and the Volunteers of America
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2009
With in-process Volunteer Nation: Stories of Service, veteran producer-directors Ben Hess and Dan Janos are mobilizing the millennials.
Q & A

Seiji Horibuchi on VIZ Cinema
Michael Fox
Aug 8, 2009
Seiji Horibuchi, founder and chairman of VIZ Media, speaks about VIZ Cinema, a built-from-scratch venue located in the New People building in Japantown.
Q & A

Britta Sjogren and "Women's Film"
Max Goldberg
Jul 16, 2009
Sjogren 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.
Festivals

SF Silent Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
Jul 9, 2009
Douglas Fairbanks in The Gaucho is one of the many highlights on screen during the three-day San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Reviews

'A Wake for Analog'
Jonathan Kiefer
May 21, 2009
A Wake for Analog honors analog experimental films like Patrolling the Ether, Bassline Baseline and Zuse Strip.
Festivals

Local Makers Line Up Next Shot after SFIFF
Michael Fox
May 4, 2009
The 2009 SFIFF has been a launching pad for the numerous Bay Area filmmaker
Reviews

SFIFF52 Blogs: Wilkerson's Proving Strong
David Winks Gray
May 2, 2009
On May Day Eve, Travis Wilkerson performed Proving Ground, probably the first multimedia Leninist rant to have ever graced the Sundance Kabuki.
Reviews

SFIFF52: Yun Suh's "City of Borders"
David Winks Gray
Apr 26, 2009
City of Borders, the debut film by Bay Area filmmaker Yun Suh, follows several Palestinian characters seeking refuge at a gay bar. The film testifies to the intolerance that members of the LGBTQ community face in addition to all of the other walls, physical and social, separating people in the region.
Festivals

SFIFF52: Wisdom of the Underages
Jonathan Kiefer
Apr 16, 2009
Where would cinema be without good, old-fashioned youthfulness? Hence: Youth Bring the Truth, a showcase for promising pre-adult media-makers including several local teenagers from this year's San Francisco International Film Festival.
Reviews

Walsh sets off on Rainer's parade
Michael Fox
Apr 9, 2009
Bringing 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.
Reviews

William Kentridge at SFMOMA
Robert Avila
Mar 25, 2009
The 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
Festivals

Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF
Matt Sussman
Mar 20, 2009
This year, the festival feels like it has truly arrived as an internationally recognized platform for cross-Pacific cinematic exchange, in this disparate cross-section of films from home, abroad and places in between.
Festivals

Connecting Here and There at the 27th SFIAAFF
Matt Sussman
Mar 20, 2009
This year, the festival feels like it has truly arrived as an internationally recognized platform for cross-Pacific cinematic exchange, in this disparate cross-section of films from home, abroad and places in between.
Festivals

Politics Get Personal in 'Project Kashmir'
Jonathan Kiefer
Mar 19, 2009
Co-directors Senain Kheshgi and Geeta V. Patel, two American friends with family ties to opposite sides of the conflict, went to Kashmir together to see what they could learn–and what the rest of us could.
Festivals

Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a Cinema of Disaster
Matt Sussman
Mar 11, 2009
The retrospective offers fascinating, if not always exemplary, viewing of what could be called a cinema of disaster: characters face the worst, or are living in its aftermath, and like the audience, they are provided with no easy answers.
Q & A

The Buzz on H.P. Mendoza's 'Fruit Fly'
Sura Wood
Mar 9, 2009
H.P. Mendoza talks about being a filmmaker in the Bay Area and the opening of his last musical, where he is both director and composer of the film 19 original songs.
Reviews

Gangster Life Verite in 'Gomorrah'
Dennis Harvey
Feb 27, 2009
Like the strictest kind of verite doc, Gomorrah simply presents activity, without "introducing" characters or spelling out their circumstances or motivations.
Reviews

Warhol's Screen Tests Get Dean & Britta Treatment
Dennis Harvey
Feb 2, 2009
13 Most BeautifulÉSongs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests offers a cherry-picking of the famous Warhol reels accompanied by live original-soundtracking.
Reviews

Sundance '09: Award-Winners, Bloggers, and More
Susan Gerhard
Jan 26, 2009
Susie Gerhard gives an overview of a festival moving back to the basics of art-making.
Q & A

Wendy Levy on the Politics of Participation
Susan Gerhard
Jan 12, 2009
Levy offers thoughts on the program she's presenting at Sundance and what's being called the "New Documentary Movement."
Q & A

Pamela Harris, GFEM, and Filmmaker Funding
Michael Fox
Dec 22, 2008
Oakland's Pamela Harris and Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media are connecting media makers with financial resources.
Reviews

Season's Gleanings, a Holiday Preview
Dennis Harvey
Dec 15, 2008
Dennis Harvey reviews some of 2008's year-end sobering dramas.
Q & A

New at Frameline: K.C. Price
Michael Fox
Dec 8, 2008
Frameline's new executive director discusses his non-profit background and graduate school pipe dream of being a novelist.
Festivals

Sean Uyehara On the S.F. International Animation Festival
Michael Guillen
Nov 10, 2008
If, in the ol' days, they were called "'toons," these days, some heavy-duty words are required to express the strength and breadth of contemporary animation.
Reviews

'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.
In Production

Educational 'Split' Helps Troubled Children of Divorce
Michael Fox
Sep 2, 2008
There is little question that so-called educational films with specific social-welfare goals don’t get much respect as examples of craft or art.
Q & A

Stephen Olsson and Link TV
Michael Fox
Aug 17, 2008
SF360.org talks to the senior director of original programming at Link TV, which provides an antidote to the standard television news mix.
Q & A

Muayad Alayan, Christian Bruno
Robert Avila
Jul 29, 2008
Muayad Alayan, a 24-year-old filmmaker from the only remaining Arab neighborhood in West Jerusalem, speaks about the making of Lesh Sabreen?.
Digital

What's Fair is not Foul
Hannah Eaves
Jul 24, 2008
The Sixth Screen: The first installment of a new, monthly column by filmmaker and journalist Hannah Eaves looks at just how "fair use" is being utilized.
Festivals

Critic's Notebook: Frameline32
Dennis Harvey
Jun 24, 2008
Critic Dennis Harvey reviews select films screened at the 32nd San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.
Q & A

Ruby Yang on 'A Double Life'
Michael Guillen
Jun 23, 2008
SF360 caught up with Ruby Yang during a recent Bay Area visit to discuss her "latest and most lyrical film yet," A Double Life.
Reviews

Jimmy Stewart at 100
Dennis Harvey
May 22, 2008
For all his lasting wholesome appeal, Stewart was an oddity: Gangly, stammering, Pennsylvania-drawling and not particularly attractive by 1930s studio standards.
Reviews

Review: 'The Living End,' remixed and remastered
Dennis Harvey
May 13, 2008
Gregg Araki's "irresponsible" movie was the first to respond to the AIDS crisis with ACT UP-style radical rage rather than lamentation or case-pleading.
Festivals

In Other Words: States of Cinema, Music and Mind
Eve O'Neill
May 8, 2008
"There are no movies without music," Kevin Kelly asserted last Saturday in his State of Cinema address.
Q & A

SFIFF51: On the Breeding Behind "Evolution: The Musical!"
Robert Avila
Apr 22, 2008
Think of it as The Sound of Music meets Quest for Fire, or Jesus Christ Superstar rocks Land of the Lost.
Q & A

SFIFF51: Craig Baldwin Shoots the Moon, and the Desert
Michael Fox
Apr 18, 2008
The Mission filmmaker has slaved in the underground for some three decades, a guide and shaman for other artists working on the fringes.
Festivals

SFIAAFF's winners
Susan Gerhard
Mar 21, 2008
Two top winners at the SFIAAFF focused on breakadancing, an art form taken up with vengeance by Asians, with Koran teams a particularly dominant force.
Q & A

SFIAAFF's Taro Goto, Moving On
Sean Uyehara
Mar 19, 2008
Outgoing SFIAAFF's Associate Director reflects on what made him happy during his last year of work.
Festivals

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Mar 18, 2008
SFIAAFF has grown from a niche event to a major international festival - with more than enough voices to justify its unwieldy moniker.
Festivals

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Max Goldberg
Mar 18, 2008
SFIAAFF has grown from a niche event to a major international festival - with more than enough voices to justify its unwieldy moniker.
Q & A

Q&A: Brillante Mendoza
Sean Uyehara
Mar 18, 2008
Filipino Director Brillante Mendoza discusses his aesthetic: a basic approach that resists facade and pretense and desires to depict to things as they really are.
Festivals

The San Francisco Irish Film Festival
Eve O'Neill
Mar 4, 2008
San Francisco Irish Film Festival begins this Wednesday at the Roxie with a slate of narratives and documentaries imbued with Ireland's particularly unique sense of time and place
Festivals

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.
Q & A

"Teeth" Actor Has a Sundance Flashback
Jason Guerrasio
Jan 21, 2008
Mitchell Lichtenstein's directorial debut has made Jess Weixler the newest "it girl" on the indie scene.
News & Blogs

SF-Based Distributor Viz Pictures
Erika Young
Jan 9, 2008
The live-action film division of Viz Media has just marked its second year of bringing a broader range of Japanese film to the growing audience for Japanese pop culture.
Reviews

Phil Chambliss, Arkansas Auteur
Dennis Harvey
Nov 15, 2007
Meet Phil Chambliss, a 54-year-old, recently retired gravel pit nightwatchman who makes what might be termed cinematic folk art.
Festivals

The 32nd American Indian Film Festival
Eve O'Neill
Nov 1, 2007
This festival is home to an array of talent that promotes Indians in roles other than that of Indians, in movies other than westerns.
Festivals

Mill Valley Film Festival 30
Dennis Harvey
Oct 15, 2007
Mill Valley retains its genuinely alterna-vibe and local (rather than professional outta-towner) audience after 30 years.
Festivals

Mill Valley Film Festival at 30
Dennis Harvey
Oct 4, 2007
The Mill Valley Film Festival turns 30 years young this year, sporting none of the girth and wobbly ankles suffered by other way-out-west fests that began life in 1978.
Reviews

"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Dennis Harvey
Oct 2, 2007
Slow your rhythms down to this film's idiosyncratic tempo, and you'll get a striking, authentic-feeling epic that's often rivetingly tense.
Q & A

Irina Leimbacher and Konrad Steiner on "kino21"
Max Goldberg
Aug 13, 2007
The co-programmers discuss their newest endeavor, though those already from the Bay Area will be familiar with their work at S.F. Cinematheque.
News & Blogs

Laura Albert, The Real J.T. Leroy, Charged With Fraud
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
Jun 26, 2007
The story of literary sensation and media darling J.T. Leroy, a persona created by Laura Albert, took another dramatic turn Friday in New York.
News & Blogs

Movies and Martinis, A Movement
Susan Gerhard
Jun 15, 2007
For some movies, Sprite and popcorn aren't enough. You need gin and vodka and a room of unruly bodies shouting when they're not supposed to,
Reviews

Reviews: "Brand Upon the Brain!", "Golden Door"
Matt Sussman
Jun 12, 2007
Brand is no short supply of Guy Maddin's usual firecrackers: apostrophe, hyperbole, and of course, catastrophe.
Q & A

"Once" Again -- A Date With Carney, Hansard, and Irglova
Michael Guillen
Jun 1, 2007
Walking in to interview John Carney and actors/musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, the frenetic edge to their on-the-road exhaustion is apparent.
Reviews

Fred Astaire, "Also Dances..."
Dennis Harvey
May 31, 2007
SFMOMA offers plenty of chances to appreciate Astaire's feather-light charm this month in Also Dances: The Films of Fred Astaire.
Reviews

Reviews: "Bamako" and "Angel-A"
Robert Avila
May 29, 2007
A masterful stroke by writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako; Luc Besson returns to American theaters after a nearly decade-long absence.
Reviews

"Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait"
Susan Gerhard
May 17, 2007
Not even widely released yet in the States, Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon's "ZidaneÉ" has already been considered a portrait of the century.
News & Blogs

Food, Funding
Susan Gerhard
Feb 7, 2007
"Not eating your friends after they have died is a relatively new invention."
Reviews

'Seraphim Falls': Myth in the Western Canon
Dennis Harvey
Feb 6, 2007
The new western isn't really about violence, it's about Myth, in a symbolic, sort of Old Testament-meets-Sergio Leone way.
Reviews

"Absolute Wilson"; "Army of Shadows"
Robert Avila
Jan 9, 2007
A documentary provides an in-depth description of Robert Wilson's life and art. Melville's spy story on a Resistance cell in Nazi-occupied French challenges our idea of heroism.
Reviews

James Broughton, and a DVD Eden
Robert Avila
Dec 20, 2006
The product of a true cinematic innovator and gloriously individual poet, Broughton's film work remains much too idiosyncratic to be deconstructed,
Q & A

A Word From Our Sponsored Films
Max Goldberg
Nov 28, 2006
Collector and archivist Rick Prelinger puts on a show at the Other Cinema to celebrate his new book, A Field Guide to Sponsored Films.
Q & A

InDplay and The New Art of Film Distribution
Justin Juul
Nov 20, 2006
The Redwood City-based startup InDplay is like an online dating service for the film industry.
News & Blogs

Case Studies in Indie Distribution at Digimart
Sean Uyehara
Nov 8, 2006
The resounding refrain at Digimart 2006 was that the traditional model of independent film and video distribution was dying.
Reviews

Stand Up, Be Counted: Grassroots Docs Warn of Electronic Voting
Jonny Leahan
Oct 27, 2006
With the midterm elections less than two weeks away, a crop of documentaries are collectively trying to get a message across that has largely been passed over by the mainstream media.
News & Blogs

Netflix 101, a Dispatch from IFP's Filmmaker Conference
Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE
Sep 22, 2006
A panel discussion yields insights into the presentÑand futureÑof indie distribution.
Festivals

Global Lens 2006
Michael Fox
Sep 21, 2006
The annual series of films from countries with less developed or out-of-favor national cinemas has several winners.
Q & A

Opening "Red Doors" in Asian American Family
Susan Gerhard
Sep 19, 2006
Filmmaker Georgia Lee discusses her narrative feature with family member Frances Chang.
News & Blogs

Indie Distributors Strategize for Fall 2006 Releases
Steven Rosen
Sep 8, 2006
Distributors of independent films reveal their strategies and assessment of the market heading into the all-important fall season.
Q & A

Naut Humon, Recombinant Media Labs Explore Limits of Sight, Sound
Johnny Ray Huston
Aug 22, 2006
Through Asphodel Records and RML, Humon pursues his fascination with sound's spatial properties.
News & Blogs

Morpho Power at SIGGRAPH
Sean Uyehara
Aug 16, 2006
The Association for Computing Machinery Ôs 2006 conference and exhibition offered animation, new media art exhibits and the latest techniques in interactivity.
Q & A

Stephen Parr In the Home-Movie Archives
Michael Fox
Aug 7, 2006
The San Francisco Media Archive director talks about the weirdness and normality revealed on Home Movie Day.
Q & A

Adrian Belic and Just Think Youth Media Educators
Susan Gerhard
Jul 26, 2006
Belic helped a group of youths learn about documentary filmmaking in a program designed to offer media skills to under-served Bay Area high schoolers.
Reviews

Celebrating "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"
Dennis Harvey
Jul 6, 2006
The beloved cult classic will screen in conjunction with a live cast reunion at Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass series.
Q & A

Matthew Barney, "Drawing Restraint"
Glen Helfand
Jun 19, 2006
Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Barney talks to SF360 about his film and gallery project.
News & Blogs

Zero Hour
Carrie Lozano
Jun 6, 2006
Carrie Lozano talks about her inspiration to make Reporter Zero, a documentary on Chronicle reporter Randy Shilts, who documented the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
Reviews

"An Inconvenient Truth" Strikes a Nerve
Jonny Leahan
Jun 2, 2006
Al Gore's documentary keeps the viewer thoroughly engaged while offering what may be the most comprehensive explanation of global warming for the layperson that exists.
Festivals

Creative Offerings at the Icelandic Film Festival
Dennis Harvey
May 21, 2006
The third annual Icelandic Film Festival offers just two features and one short, but it's all very, very good.
Q & A

Choose Your Words
Robert Avila
Apr 27, 2006
Memorize these words that supposedly can bring you under government scrutiny when said over the phone, or written in a text message or email.
Reviews

'Hot Fuzz' a Cheeky Riposte to H-wood
Dennis Harvey
Apr 17, 2006
This English comedy, the second feature made by the guys behind that genius horror spoof, 'Shaun of the Dead,' satirizes fake cinematic testosterone.
Q & A

Happiness Is...Finding a Film Club? Adam Werbach Riffs
Susan Gerhard
Apr 10, 2006
George Bush Senior's thousand points of light may never have materialized, but Adam Werbach believes that millions of pixels can truly accomplish something.
Festivals

Noise Pop: The Movie
Dennis Harvey
Mar 30, 2006
Audio and visual collide when Noise Pop hits the silver screen at the Noise Pop Film Festival.
Reviews

Tehran Contemporary Art Exhibit On Tour
Robert Avila
Mar 23, 2006
The documentary Persian Garden chronicles the grandest art exhibition in Iran since the 1979 Revolution.
First Person

Chuck Stephens on the Set of "Citizen Dog"
Chuck Stephens
Mar 22, 2006
Chuck Stephens shares his thoughts, existential and otherwise, on the Bangkok set of Citizen Dog.
Q & A

Filmmaker Ham Tran Rights an Historical Wrong
Thomas Logoreci
Mar 21, 2006

Vietnamese American filmmaker Ham Tran rights an historical wrong in his debut feature film on the Vietnam War.
Q & A

Cambodian Americans Exiled in New Film, Sentenced Home
Susan Gerhard
Mar 20, 2006

A conversation with the filmmakers and one star of "Sentenced Home," about three Cambodian Americans in the process of being exiled.
Festivals

Future Stars of SFIAAFF
Jennifer Young
Mar 17, 2006

The List: Taro Goto posits who will go on to superstardom from the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
Festivals

Transnational Tales at This Year's SFIAAFF
Johnny Ray Huston
Mar 16, 2006
Transnational tales stand out at the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
Festivals

Shigeta's Presence at the SFIAAFF
Chi-Hui Yang
Mar 15, 2006
Six degrees of James Shigeta: an actor ahead of his time sustains a presence in American and Asian American cinema.
Festivals

A Talk with SFIAAFF Directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto
Susan Gerhard
Mar 14, 2006
Asian America everywhere: A talk with San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto.
Festivals

A Talk with SFIAAFF Directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto
Susan Gerhard
Mar 14, 2006
Asian America everywhere: A talk with San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto.
Q & A

Public Defender Jeff Adachi Adds Filmmaker to Resume
Susan Gerhard
Mar 13, 2006
Jeff Adachi, San Francisco public defender, adds filmmaker to the resume.
Deadlines

Funding: Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program

The Oppenheimer Cine Rental New Filmmaker Equipment Grant Program supports new filmmakers in producing their first serious film project. The grant awards the use of Grant Program Arriflex 16SR2 camera package to senior and graduate thesis students and to independent filmmakers for a scheduled period of time. ELIGIBILITY: Students, media arts center members and unaffiliated independents are encouraged to apply. Proposed projects may be of any noncommercial nature: dramatic, narrative, documentary, experimental, etc. (Commercial projects, music videos and PSAs will not be considered.) DEADLINE: Ongoing. WEBSITE: oppenheimercinerental.com/grant.html.