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  Essential SF: 'Holy Ghost People,' 'Samsara'

  Michael Fox
  Jul 13, 2011

  SF filmmakers Peter Adair and Ellen Bruno created classics on religious intensity.

  
• In Depth
  
  

  Essential SF: 'Holy Ghost People,' 'Samsara'

  Michael Fox
  Jul 13, 2011

  SF filmmakers Peter Adair and Ellen Bruno created classics on religious intensity.

  
• July 14, 2011
  
  

  Essential SF: 'Holy Ghost People,' 'Samsara'

  Michael Fox
  Jul 13, 2011

  SF filmmakers Peter Adair and Ellen Bruno created classics on religious intensity.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Frameline35 Opens, Features Wildly Diverse Program

  Dennis Harvey
  Jun 16, 2011

  The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival delivers internationally as well as locally made films of every identity and genre stripe.

  
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  Frameline35 Opens, Features Wildly Diverse Program

  Dennis Harvey
  Jun 16, 2011

  The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival delivers internationally as well as locally made films of every identity and genre stripe.

  
• June 16, 2011
  
  

  Frameline35 Opens, Features Wildly Diverse Program

  Dennis Harvey
  Jun 16, 2011

  The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival delivers internationally as well as locally made films of every identity and genre stripe.

  
• Home
  
  

  Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'

  Michael Fox
  Oct 6, 2010

  The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.

  
• In Depth
  
  

  Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'

  Michael Fox
  Oct 6, 2010

  The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.

  
• October 7, 2010
  
  

  Essential SF: 'Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter,' 'Paulina,' 'First Person Plural'

  Michael Fox
  Oct 6, 2010

  The Bay Area's best first-person documentaries take us through a lens, darkly.

  
• 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.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Unresolved Conflict in 'American Radical,' 'Promised Lands'

  Dennis Harvey
  Mar 25, 2010

  YBCA s month-long, six-part Human Rights and Film series closes with two documentaries on the Arab-Israeli conflict made 35 years apart.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Herzog's Unexpected 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done'

  Dennis Harvey
  Feb 19, 2010

  With its comfortable suburban setting, flashback structure and mystery-suspense framework, My Son, My Son is, by Herzogian standards, almost mainstream-conventional. I said almost.

  
• In Production
  
  

  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.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  New Social Issue Dramas from Rainin Grant-Winners

  Michael Fox
  Nov 24, 2009

  The scoop on the projects of the inaugural class for the SFFS/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants, which support lively, intelligent social-issue narrative films.

  
• Legal
  
  

  Casting: Names and Numbers

  George Rush
  Jan 16, 2009

  Avoiding Disaster: George Rush writes on the conundrum of not getting money for a project without a known cast, and not getting a cast without a bunch of money.