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  Essential SF: Karen Larsen

  Michael Fox
  Oct 31, 2011

  Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.

  
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  Essential SF: Karen Larsen

  Michael Fox
  Oct 31, 2011

  Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.

  
• November 3, 2011
  
  

  Essential SF: Karen Larsen

  Michael Fox
  Oct 31, 2011

  Universally warm sentiment is attached to the Bay Area's hardest working indie/art film publicist.

  
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  Signs of the Times

  Adam Hartzell
  Oct 24, 2011

  Director Mina T. Son talks about the creation of ‘Making Noise in Silence,’ screening the United Nations Association Film Festival this week.

  
• October 28, 2011
  
  

  Signs of the Times

  Adam Hartzell
  Oct 24, 2011

  Director Mina T. Son talks about the creation of ‘Making Noise in Silence,’ screening the United Nations Association Film Festival this week.

  
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  Signs of the Times

  Adam Hartzell
  Oct 24, 2011

  Director Mina T. Son talks about the creation of ‘Making Noise in Silence,’ screening the United Nations Association Film Festival this week.

  
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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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  'Peace Unveiled'

  Sep 27, 2011

  ITVS, Global Fund for Women, Spark and Women's Funding Network present a prescreening of issues doc 'Peace Unveiled,' part of a new PBS miniseries, 'Women, War & Peace,' launching this fall. Producer Abigail Disney and guests will be present for post-screening panel discussion. More info at pbs.org.

  
• September 27 2011
  
  

  'Peace Unveiled'

  Sep 27, 2011

  ITVS, Global Fund for Women, Spark and Women's Funding Network present a prescreening of issues doc 'Peace Unveiled,' part of a new PBS miniseries, 'Women, War & Peace,' launching this fall. Producer Abigail Disney and guests will be present for post-screening panel discussion. More info at pbs.org.

  
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  We Want Answers

  Karen Everett
  Jun 14, 2011

  Asking the right questions is an art; a consultant speaks on how to conduct documentary interviews that will help structure your film.

  
• June 16, 2011
  
  

  We Want Answers

  Karen Everett
  Jun 14, 2011

  Asking the right questions is an art; a consultant speaks on how to conduct documentary interviews that will help structure your film.

  
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  We Want Answers

  Karen Everett
  Jun 14, 2011

  Asking the right questions is an art; a consultant speaks on how to conduct documentary interviews that will help structure your film.

  
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  Seely Treks Long Distances for Shorts

  Michael Fox
  Mar 16, 2011

  Long story short: A filmmaker finds the right length for his South American health doc.

  
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  Seely Treks Long Distances for Shorts

  Michael Fox
  Mar 16, 2011

  Long story short: A filmmaker finds the right length for his South American health doc.

  
• March 17, 2011
  
  

  Seely Treks Long Distances for Shorts

  Michael Fox
  Mar 16, 2011

  Long story short: A filmmaker finds the right length for his South American health doc.

  
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  Seely Treks Long Distances for Shorts

  Michael Fox
  Mar 16, 2011

  Long story short: A filmmaker finds the right length for his South American health doc.

  
• In Production
  
  

  Seely Treks Long Distances for Shorts

  Michael Fox
  Mar 16, 2011

  Long story short: A filmmaker finds the right length for his South American health doc.

  
• March 17, 2011
  
  

  Seely Treks Long Distances for Shorts

  Michael Fox
  Mar 16, 2011

  Long story short: A filmmaker finds the right length for his South American health doc.

  
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  Essential SF: Les Blank

  Michael Fox
  Nov 6, 2010

  Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.

  
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  Essential SF: Les Blank

  Michael Fox
  Nov 6, 2010

  Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.

  
• November 11, 2010
  
  

  Essential SF: Les Blank

  Michael Fox
  Nov 6, 2010

  Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.

  
• November 3 2010
  
  

  Essential SF: Les Blank

  Michael Fox
  Nov 6, 2010

  Eat, dance, love: Les Blank brings nonfiction back to life in a long and storied career.

  
• September 14, 2010
  
  

  'The Parking Lot Movie'

  Sep 17, 2010

  There's no better better place to see 'The Parking Lot Movie,' about the physical-spiritual life of an attended lot, than in . . . a parking lot! ITVS offers this unique opportunity at the Good Hotel parking lot, Seventh and Minna, SF, at 7:00 pm, to celebrate the global Park(ing) Day (where metered spaces are turned into art worldwide) and to launch the ninth season of the Independent Lens series on PBS. Find out more at www.itvs.org.

  
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  A Short Guide to Funding Short Narratives

  Holly Million
  May 11, 2010

  If you re making a short narrative, foundations give you no respect. Financiers turn a cold shoulder. Government grantors snort. And festivals slot your film Sunday at midnight.

  
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  Do You Pass the Test?

  George Rush
  Apr 26, 2010

  You are awesome. Spectacular, incredible, interesting, accomplished and generally just way awesome. Everyone wants to hear every possible thing there is to know about you.

  
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  Karim Ahmad on ITVS's Forward-Thinking FUTURESTATES

  Adam Hartzell
  Mar 21, 2010

  Think of U.S. public television and science fiction or any type of fiction doesn't spring to mind. ITVS aims to change that perception with a series of mini-features.

  
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  Borshay Liem's Double Exposure of Korean Adoptions

  Michael Fox
  Mar 12, 2010

  Deann Borshay Liem's 1999 doc First Person Plural recounted her experience as an orphaned Korean adoptee raised in an East Bay suburb.

  
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  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.

  
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  Antonelli's 'Crossing Over' and Cooke's Soulful Genius

  Michael Fox
  Dec 1, 2009

  Marin County filmmaker John Antonelli talks about his documentary on influential late singer-songwriter Sam Cooke for PBS's "American Masters" series.

  
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  Ellen Schneider's Active Voice

  Michael Fox
  Aug 31, 2009

  Ellen Schneider speaks on the impact of social-issue documentaries and her San Francisco-based strategic communications company Active Voice.

  
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  Nutritious eating on the cheap for Potash film

  Michael Fox
  Jun 9, 2009

  Like most social-issue documentaries, Food Stamped sprang from an activist impulse for Shira and Yoav Potash.

  
• First Person
  
  

  Funder as Supplicant

  John R. Killacky
  Jan 20, 2009

  First-Person: A program officer at the San Francisco Foundation has a sobering experience making a documentary.

  
• 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
  
  

  "In Search of Mozart"

  Max Goldberg
  Sep 25, 2007

  "In Search of Mozart" is a comprehensive overview of the composer's generous genius and one of the finest examples of the PBS-style, talking heads-and-cutaways documentaries in recent memory.

  
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  Jon Else On Acts of Creation

  Michael Fox
  Apr 23, 2007

  Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic blends World War II history with composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars’ staging of a new opera on the subject.

  
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  "Seventeen" Might be Greatest Movie Ever About Teenagers: 17 Reasons Why

  Johnny Ray Huston
  Aug 17, 2006

  Jeff Kreines and Joel DeMott's legendary and obscure 1982 documentary set in Muncie, Indiana, highlights the PFA series "Screenagers: Documents from the Teenage Years."

  
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  Patsy Desmond, Survivor on Screen

  Susan Gerhard
  Jul 12, 2006

  Danielle Beverly, director of Learning to Swallow, offers some backstory on her filmmaking relationship with artist Patsy Desmond.