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  IXFF Indie Erotic Film Festival

  Sep 22, 2011

  Peaches Christ and Dr. Carol Queen host the Sixth Annual Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Festival Short Film Competition this Thursday, boasting a Barbary Coast-themed party featuring food, drinks and an array of appropriately sexed-up performers and a curated screening of sexy short films from this year. Each event costs $10, more info castrotheatre.com.

  
• September 20, 2011
  
  

  IXFF Indie Erotic Film Festival

  Sep 22, 2011

  Peaches Christ and Dr. Carol Queen host the Sixth Annual Good Vibrations Indie Erotic Film Festival Short Film Competition this Thursday, boasting a Barbary Coast-themed party featuring food, drinks and an array of appropriately sexed-up performers and a curated screening of sexy short films from this year. Each event costs $10, more info castrotheatre.com.

  
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  Dues and Taxes Paid, Kornbluth Brothers Shoot for Glory

  Michael Fox
  Jun 29, 2011

  Jakob Kornbluth hopes to turn another of brother Josh’s monologues, ‘Love & Taxes,’ into celluloid gold.

  
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  Dues and Taxes Paid, Kornbluth Brothers Shoot for Glory

  Michael Fox
  Jun 29, 2011

  Jakob Kornbluth hopes to turn another of brother Josh’s monologues, ‘Love & Taxes,’ into celluloid gold.

  
• June 30, 2011
  
  

  Dues and Taxes Paid, Kornbluth Brothers Shoot for Glory

  Michael Fox
  Jun 29, 2011

  Jakob Kornbluth hopes to turn another of brother Josh’s monologues, ‘Love & Taxes,’ into celluloid gold.

  
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  Topp Twins Agitate, Yodel, Entertain

  Adam Hartzell
  May 23, 2011

  Leanne Pooley's Topp Twins documentary views world politics through the prism of two eccentric lesbian performers from New Zealand.

  
• May 26, 2011
  
  

  Topp Twins Agitate, Yodel, Entertain

  Adam Hartzell
  May 23, 2011

  Leanne Pooley's Topp Twins documentary views world politics through the prism of two eccentric lesbian performers from New Zealand.

  
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  Topp Twins Agitate, Yodel, Entertain

  Adam Hartzell
  May 23, 2011

  Leanne Pooley's Topp Twins documentary views world politics through the prism of two eccentric lesbian performers from New Zealand.

  
• May 3, 2011
  
  

  SFIFF54 Closing Night

  May 5, 2011

  Castro Theatre hosts the final evening of SFIFF54, which features Mathieu Amalric’s ‘On Tour,’ a film that tells the story of a has-been French TV producer who stages his comeback with burlesque performers. A party follows at The Factory. More at fest11.sffs.org.

  
• 03.31.11
  
  

  SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events

  Susan Gerhard
  Mar 29, 2011

  SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.

  
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  SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events

  Susan Gerhard
  Mar 29, 2011

  SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.

  
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  SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events

  Susan Gerhard
  Mar 29, 2011

  SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  SFIFF s Porchlight On For Guests

  Michael Fox
  Apr 24, 2010

  Ch‚ Sandoval of Chile, Kaspar Astrup Schroder of Denmark, Pedro Gonzal‚z-Rubio of Mexico, John Herschend and Claudia Gonson don t have much in common except stories to tell.

  
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  SFIFF52: Light and Saraf's 'Empress Hotel'

  David Winks Gray
  Apr 13, 2009

  Local filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf's latest film Empress Hotel delves into the lives of the residents at the titular building, a Tenderloin housing facility for the recently homeless. The film makes visible an area many city dwellers may only experience in the fringe of their consciousness and provides insight into the lives of the residents within.

  
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  Epps Unearths Buried Alcatraz History

  Michael Fox
  Feb 23, 2009

  The Black Rock focuses on the African American prisoners and guards who lived on the island when it was a federal penitentiary.

  
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  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.

  
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  S.F. International Arts Festival

  Robert Avila
  May 23, 2008

  In addition to bringing a host of worldwide performers to the Bay Area for the first time, the San Francisco International Arts Festival (May 2-June 8), now in its fifth year, has become an indispensable showcase for collaborative work by leading Bay Area artists and their peers across all manner of geographical, cultural and disciplinary borders. The more than 40 performances in this year’s lineup, taking place at 14 separate venues across the city and in Berkeley, span the worlds of dance, music, opera, theater, visual arts and multidisciplinary work. The following four highlights are all hybrid productions with strong film and/or video components.

  
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  Four Performers on Getting "Fired!"

  Susan Gerhard
  May 19, 2006

  Four stories from familiar performers who once found themselves in the "formerly employed by" category, taken from Fired!, which plays Docfest 2006.