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  San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Announces New Executive Director

  Oct 24, 2011

  Press 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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  ‘New Environmentalists’ Salutes Gutsy Grassroots Guerillas

  Michael Fox
  Oct 7, 2011

  Goldman Prize-winning environmentalists' work highlighted in short-form pieces by Parrinello, Antonelli and Dusenbery.

  
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  ‘New Environmentalists’ Salutes Gutsy Grassroots Guerillas

  Michael Fox
  Oct 7, 2011

  Goldman Prize-winning environmentalists' work highlighted in short-form pieces by Parrinello, Antonelli and Dusenbery.

  
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  ‘New Environmentalists’ Salutes Gutsy Grassroots Guerillas

  Michael Fox
  Oct 7, 2011

  Goldman Prize-winning environmentalists' work highlighted in short-form pieces by Parrinello, Antonelli and Dusenbery.

  
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  Mill Valley Film Festival

  Oct 6, 2011

  The 34th Mill Valley Film Festival continues at a number of locations, with a number of notable guests, including directors Gaston Kaboré and Luc Besson. See Dennis Harvey's extended preview on SF360 for the full story. More info and film schedule at mvff.com.

  
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  Mill Valley Film Festival

  Oct 6, 2011

  The 34th Mill Valley Film Festival continues at a number of locations, with a number of notable guests, including directors Gaston Kaboré and Luc Besson. See Dennis Harvey's extended preview on SF360 for the full story. More info and film schedule at mvff.com.

  
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  Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 6, 2011

  Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.

  
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  Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 6, 2011

  Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.

  
• October 6, 2011
  
  

  Mill Valley Brings Oscar Contenders Close to Home

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 6, 2011

  Mill Valley amps up the star wattage in its annual mix of local, international titles.

  
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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.

  
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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.

  
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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.

  
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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.

  
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  Mill Valley Announces Titles in 34th

  Jackson Scarlett
  Sep 14, 2011

  North Bay world, independent showcase ready to screen wide range of films in early October.

  
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  Mill Valley Announces Titles in 34th

  Jackson Scarlett
  Sep 14, 2011

  North Bay world, independent showcase ready to screen wide range of films in early October.

  
• September 15, 2011
  
  

  Mill Valley Announces Titles in 34th

  Jackson Scarlett
  Sep 14, 2011

  North Bay world, independent showcase ready to screen wide range of films in early October.

  
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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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  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.

  
• October 5, 2010
  
  

  Mill Valley Film Festival

  Oct 7, 2010

  "The annual Mill Valley Film Festival never forgets its target audience: well-educated filmgoers partial to mainstream art house crowd pleasers, American indies, topical documentaries, a sampling of tasty world cinema (especially from the African continent) and the latest crop of docs and features by homegrown Bay Area talent," writes Sura Wood in sf360.org this week. The festival kicks off October 7 with 'The King's Speech' and 'Conviction' and continues through October 17. (Photo: Taggart Siegel's 'Queen of the Sun')

  
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  Mill Valley's 33rd Launches

  Sura Wood
  Oct 5, 2010

  Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.

  
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  Mill Valley's 33rd Launches

  Sura Wood
  Oct 5, 2010

  Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.

  
• October 7, 2010
  
  

  Mill Valley's 33rd Launches

  Sura Wood
  Oct 5, 2010

  Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.

  
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  Mill Valley's 33rd Launches

  Sura Wood
  Oct 5, 2010

  Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.

  
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  Mill Valley's 33rd Launches

  Sura Wood
  Oct 5, 2010

  Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.

  
• October 7, 2010
  
  

  Mill Valley's 33rd Launches

  Sura Wood
  Oct 5, 2010

  Mill Valley brings an eclectic collection of indies and world cinema to audiences.

  
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  Local Filmmakers Pour into Mill Valley

  Michael Fox
  Sep 29, 2010

  Bay Area filmmakers find a platform at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

  
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  Local Filmmakers Pour into Mill Valley

  Michael Fox
  Sep 29, 2010

  Bay Area filmmakers find a platform at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

  
• September 30, 2010
  
  

  Local Filmmakers Pour into Mill Valley

  Michael Fox
  Sep 29, 2010

  Bay Area filmmakers find a platform at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

  
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  Local Filmmakers Pour into Mill Valley

  Michael Fox
  Sep 29, 2010

  Bay Area filmmakers find a platform at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

  
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  Local Filmmakers Pour into Mill Valley

  Michael Fox
  Sep 29, 2010

  Bay Area filmmakers find a platform at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

  
• September 30, 2010
  
  

  Local Filmmakers Pour into Mill Valley

  Michael Fox
  Sep 29, 2010

  Bay Area filmmakers find a platform at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

  
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  Words from Sundance Staffers: Elizabeth Duran

  Hilary Hart
  Jan 28, 2010

  Hilary Hart, who annually holds down the late-night shift at the Egyptian at Sundance, offers interviews with fellow workers at the festival.

  
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  Bay Area Narrative Filmmakers Thriving in Doc Capital

  Michael Fox
  Dec 23, 2009

  Michael Fox shows independent filmmakers who are thriving in the Bay Area.

  
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  'Sorry, Thanks' Lavishes Love on the Mission

  Michael Fox
  Oct 24, 2009

  From the steep slope of 22nd Street down to La Taqueria, from the Attic to Boogaloos, this droll feature showcases the Mission to glowing advantage.

  
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  Live from Mill Valley: Woody Harrelson and Uma Thurman

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 19, 2009

  At their respective festival tributes, the actors gave entertaining and revealing onstage interviews.

  
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  Live from Mill Valley: Woody Harrelson and Uma Thurman

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 19, 2009

  At their respective festival tributes, the actors gave entertaining and revealing onstage interviews.

  
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  Mill Valley Film Festival's 32nd

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 9, 2009

  The program offers a surprisingly potent mainstream industry presence, with tributes to A-list types more frequently seen at the multiplex than at the art house.

  
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  Mill Valley Film Festival's 32nd

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 9, 2009

  The program offers a surprisingly potent mainstream industry presence, with tributes to A-list types more frequently seen at the multiplex than at the art house.

  
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  MVFF: Mulford and Cruz On Chile's Dark Past

  Michael Fox
  Oct 8, 2008

  Marilyn Mulford collaborated with Quique Cruz on the pensive, humanistic, and inspiring Archaeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi.

  
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  Mill Valley Film Festival's Maher Moment

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 2, 2008

  Religulous is a desperately awaited and already vehemently decried film by Bill Maher and director Larry Charles.

  
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  Mill Valley Film Festival's Maher Moment

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 2, 2008

  Religulous is a desperately awaited and already vehemently decried film by Bill Maher and director Larry Charles.

  
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  Mill Valley's 31st Program

  Susan Gerhard
  Sep 10, 2008

  This year's Mill Valley Film Festival shows healthy signs of life for the independent film business.

  
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  Q&A with "Holly" Filmmakers

  Jennifer Young
  Dec 5, 2007

  "I suddenly found myself surrounded by a group of 15 little [Cambodian] girls aggressively soliciting me for prostitution," Guy Jacobson told a MVFF audience.

  
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  Q&A with "Holly" Filmmakers

  Jennifer Young
  Dec 5, 2007

  "I suddenly found myself surrounded by a group of 15 little [Cambodian] girls aggressively soliciting me for prostitution," Guy Jacobson told a MVFF audience.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  Nine Questions for Rob Nilsson

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 5, 2007

  SF360.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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  Nine Questions for Rob Nilsson

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 5, 2007

  SF360.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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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  Mill Valley Film Festival 2006

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 5, 2006

  By the youth-rhetoric standards of another era, this is the last year we can trust the Mill Valley Film Festival. Next year, it turns 30.

  
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  Mill Valley Film Festival 2006

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 5, 2006

  By the youth-rhetoric standards of another era, this is the last year we can trust the Mill Valley Film Festival. Next year, it turns 30.

  
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  Mill Valley Film Festival 2006 Announcement

  Susan Gerhard
  Sep 13, 2006

  Tributes to Helen Mirren and Tim Robbins highlight the 29th annual edition .

  
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  Mill Valley Film Festival 2006 Announcement

  Susan Gerhard
  Sep 13, 2006

  Tributes to Helen Mirren and Tim Robbins highlight the 29th annual edition .