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    Essential SF: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

    Michael Fox
    Nov 3, 2011

    With riveting characters, cascading revelations and momentous breakthroughs, Epstein and Friedman’s work paved the way for contemporary documentary practice.

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    Essential SF: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

    Michael Fox
    Nov 3, 2011

    With riveting characters, cascading revelations and momentous breakthroughs, Epstein and Friedman’s work paved the way for contemporary documentary practice.

  • November 3, 2011

    Essential SF: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

    Michael Fox
    Nov 3, 2011

    With riveting characters, cascading revelations and momentous breakthroughs, Epstein and Friedman’s work paved the way for contemporary documentary practice.

  • News & Blogs

    SFFS Announces Winners of Documentary Film Fund Awards

    Sep 21, 2011

    Press release: The San Francisco Film Society today announced the three winners of the inaugural SFFS Documentary Film Fund grants. The Fund was created to support the postproduction of singular feature-length nonfiction film work that is distinguished by compelling stories, intriguing characters and an innovative visual approach. Each year from 2011 to 2013, a total of $100,000 will be disbursed to further new work by documentary filmmakers nationwide. Winners are: Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, An American Promise, $25,000; Priya Desai and Ann Kim, Match +, $25,000; Zachary Heinzerling, Cutie & the Boxe, $50,000. For more information go to: sffs.org/filmmaker-services.

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    Identifying Your Documentary’s Signature Style

    Karen Everett
    Sep 20, 2011

    Developing a style that sets your film apart is key to capturing audience attention in nonfiction.

  • september 22 2011

    Identifying Your Documentary’s Signature Style

    Karen Everett
    Sep 20, 2011

    Developing a style that sets your film apart is key to capturing audience attention in nonfiction.

  • Story Structure

    Identifying Your Documentary’s Signature Style

    Karen Everett
    Sep 20, 2011

    Developing a style that sets your film apart is key to capturing audience attention in nonfiction.

  • News & Blogs

    San Francisco Film Society Announces New $300,000 Documentary Film Fund

    Apr 22, 2011

    Press Release: The San Francisco Film Society announced the new SFFS Documentary Film Fund, which over the next three years will disburse a series of annual grants totaling $300,000 to support feature-length documentaries in postproduction. The SFFS Documentary Film Fund is created to support singular nonfiction film work that is distinguished by compelling stories, intriguing characters and an innovative visual approach. The first grant cycle application period opens June 17; the first winners will be announced September 30. More at sffs.org.

  • april 22 2011

    SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins

    Matt Sussman
    Apr 21, 2011

    As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.

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    SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins

    Matt Sussman
    Apr 21, 2011

    As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.

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    SFIFF54 Finds Life Among the Ruins

    Matt Sussman
    Apr 21, 2011

    As the San Francisco International Film Festival opens, key films consider the value of place.

  • March 22, 2011

    First Person Rural: The New Nonfiction

    Mar 26, 2011

    Lisandro Alonso’s 2001 ‘La Libertad’ is the first film in Pacific Film Archive’s First Person Rural: The New Nonfiction series, which presents works that utilize documentary filmmaking techniques in fictional storytelling. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.

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    Nonfiction's Future Lies in Optimism

    Karen Everett
    Mar 15, 2011

    A new crop of filmmakers are building audiences by showing nonfiction doesn’t have to be depressing to reveal hard truths.

  • March 17, 2011

    Nonfiction's Future Lies in Optimism

    Karen Everett
    Mar 15, 2011

    A new crop of filmmakers are building audiences by showing nonfiction doesn’t have to be depressing to reveal hard truths.

  • Story Structure

    Nonfiction's Future Lies in Optimism

    Karen Everett
    Mar 15, 2011

    A new crop of filmmakers are building audiences by showing nonfiction doesn’t have to be depressing to reveal hard truths.

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    Patrick Marks Takes a Green Eye to Noir

    Adam Hartzell
    Jan 17, 2011

    Notable Noir City enthusiast Patrick Marks, owner of the Green Arcade, offers thoughts on the genre as well as festival's 2011 selections.

  • January 20, 2011

    Patrick Marks Takes a Green Eye to Noir

    Adam Hartzell
    Jan 17, 2011

    Notable Noir City enthusiast Patrick Marks, owner of the Green Arcade, offers thoughts on the genre as well as festival's 2011 selections.

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    Patrick Marks Takes a Green Eye to Noir

    Adam Hartzell
    Jan 17, 2011

    Notable Noir City enthusiast Patrick Marks, owner of the Green Arcade, offers thoughts on the genre as well as festival's 2011 selections.

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    Retro Ethics Fuel 'The Social Network'

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 1, 2010

    Friends, enemies, Facebook: 'The Social Network' dramatizes the making of a Web phenomenon.

  • October 7, 2010

    Retro Ethics Fuel 'The Social Network'

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 1, 2010

    Friends, enemies, Facebook: 'The Social Network' dramatizes the making of a Web phenomenon.

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    Retro Ethics Fuel 'The Social Network'

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 1, 2010

    Friends, enemies, Facebook: 'The Social Network' dramatizes the making of a Web phenomenon.

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    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.

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    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

    Independent Inuit Films at YBCA

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 8, 2010

    Inuit peoples—the indigenous cultures rooted in Arctic regions from Alaska to Greenland—have an honored place in film history, dating to Flaherty's Nanook of the North.

  • Reviews

    The Greatest Finds of My Generation

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 26, 2010

    The harsh glare of the spotlight that brought Howl mixed reviews from critics on opening night of Sundance had melted into a warm glow by Saturday.

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    Sam Green's Utopian Experiment

    Michael Fox
    Mar 18, 2009

    Sam Green talks about his latest project, an experimental documentary where the stories tease out, in more of an emotional way, ideas about hope and imagination of the future

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    Sam Green's Utopian Experiment

    Michael Fox
    Mar 18, 2009

    Sam Green talks about his latest project, an experimental documentary where the stories tease out, in more of an emotional way, ideas about hope and imagination of the future

  • Reviews

    Autobio-Animation and the Horrors of War

    Dennis Harvey
    Jan 6, 2009

    Waltz with Bashir is another animated feature that embraces a more grown-up story and audience than anything in the long history of "cartoons."

  • Festivals

    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.

  • Festivals

    Cinemania at the SF International

    Susan Gerhard
    May 5, 2008

    The Jules Feiffer quote at the bottom of festival superfan Sue Jean Halvorsen's email reads, "Movies are better than real life."

  • Reviews

    Review: "Taxi to the Dark Side"

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 5, 2008

    Praise any god you like for Alex Gibney, who has quietly risen from stellar PBS series to a run of exceptional theatrical-release docs.

  • Reviews

    The Short Films of Big Ugly Review

    Susan Gerhard
    Nov 16, 2007

    The List: We take the opportunity to link you to four short films from the Big Ugly Review, an online publication that includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more.

  • Reviews

    A Sean Penn Top 10

    Susan Gerhard
    Sep 28, 2007

    Let SF360 count the ways Penn can take on the President, the paparazzi, and the possibilities for peace in our time.

  • Reviews

    "Crossing the Line" and "Death at a Funeral"

    Dennis Harvey and Kristi Mitsuda
    Aug 14, 2007

    One film takes us from the American South to the Korean North, another to Frank Oz's last gasp.

  • Q & A

    Michael Winterbottom's "A Mighty Heart"

    SF360.org
    Jun 18, 2007

    The prolific British director, known for a large and eclectic body of work, has done something very unusual in the past half decade.

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    Grace Lee on the Zombie in You and Me

    Miljenko Skoknic
    Mar 23, 2007

    Director Grace Lee talks about the personal horror movie genre in American Zombie and the ethical dilemmas documentary filmmakers face.

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    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

    Zack Bazzi, War Correspondent

    Susan Gerhard
    Jun 28, 2006

    In The War Tapes, Deborah Scranton exposes war as an industry - for those who fight it and for those who don't.

  • Festivals

    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.

  • Festivals

    The Revolution Will Be Digitized?

    Susan Gerhard
    Apr 28, 2006

    The revolution will not be televised, but it may be digitized, run through Final Cut Pro, and projected on the screen near you.


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