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    Voluntary Organ Donor Inspires Krawitz

    Michael Fox
    Jun 22, 2011

    Filmmaker Jan Krawitz explores the nature of altruism in a story about a woman seeking to donate an organ to a perfect stranger.

  • In Production

    Voluntary Organ Donor Inspires Krawitz

    Michael Fox
    Jun 22, 2011

    Filmmaker Jan Krawitz explores the nature of altruism in a story about a woman seeking to donate an organ to a perfect stranger.

  • June 23 2011

    Voluntary Organ Donor Inspires Krawitz

    Michael Fox
    Jun 22, 2011

    Filmmaker Jan Krawitz explores the nature of altruism in a story about a woman seeking to donate an organ to a perfect stranger.

  • June 23, 2011

    Voluntary Organ Donor Inspires Krawitz

    Michael Fox
    Jun 22, 2011

    Filmmaker Jan Krawitz explores the nature of altruism in a story about a woman seeking to donate an organ to a perfect stranger.

  • Home

    Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate

    Michael Fox
    Jun 19, 2011

    First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.

  • June 23 2011

    Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate

    Michael Fox
    Jun 19, 2011

    First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.

  • June 23, 2011

    Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate

    Michael Fox
    Jun 19, 2011

    First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.

  • Q & A

    Percifield Runs with Board of Supes Candidate

    Michael Fox
    Jun 19, 2011

    First-time doc-maker Dain Percifield offers notes on capturing the highs and lows of drag queen Anna Conda's 2010 run for S.F. Supervisor.

  • Festivals

    Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 28, 2011

    Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.

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    Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 28, 2011

    Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.

  • May 5, 2011

    Stone not Cold in Castro Conversation

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 28, 2011

    Oliver Stone reflects on his own heated past, and the world’s, as he accepts the Founder’s Directing Award onstage at the Castro Theatre during SFIFF54.

  • 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.

  • Reviews

    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.

  • Feb 3 2011

    Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba

    Michael Fox
    Feb 2, 2011

    Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.

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    Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba

    Michael Fox
    Feb 2, 2011

    Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.

  • In Production

    Schneider-Jarmel Clan Take ‘Balz’ to Cuba

    Michael Fox
    Feb 2, 2011

    Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider follow 'Speaking in Tongues' with a doc that talks baseball.

  • Feb 3 2011

    SF360 Live at Sundance: 285 Steps

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 28, 2011

    Reality bursts through daydreams; labors of love pay off in 2011's edition of the Sundance Film Festival.

  • Festivals

    SF360 Live at Sundance: 285 Steps

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 28, 2011

    Reality bursts through daydreams; labors of love pay off in 2011's edition of the Sundance Film Festival.

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    SF360 Live at Sundance: 285 Steps

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 28, 2011

    Reality bursts through daydreams; labors of love pay off in 2011's edition of the Sundance Film Festival.

  • January 31, 2011

    SF360 Live at Sundance: 285 Steps

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 28, 2011

    Reality bursts through daydreams; labors of love pay off in 2011's edition of the Sundance Film Festival.

  • 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.

  • Reviews

    On the Road Before 'The Recess Ends'

    Michael Fox
    Nov 10, 2009

    Shot in depressed burgs and 'burbs across the country, this documentary looks at the U.S. at its lowest economic ebb in generations.

  • Reviews

    Yes Men Take On the World

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 30, 2009

    The documentary chronicles several large-scale pranks devised in the hopes of fooling corporate/government event attendees and/or the media.

  • In Production

    Don't Criticize it: 'Holding On to Jah'

    Michael Fox
    Oct 28, 2009

    It’s hard to imagine a venue where the new documentary Holding On to Jah will sound better than it did at Mezzanine last Wednesday night.

  • Q & A

    Franny Armstrong's S.O.S. to the World

    Sean Uyehara
    Sep 19, 2009

    Franny Armstrong talks about the moral imperative of her films, the importance of Hopenhagen, and the unexpected magnitude of her success.

  • Reviews

    Kim Longinotto and Women Make Movies Film Festival

    Adam Hartzell
    Aug 27, 2009

    A mini-retrospective of the work of Kim Longinotto plays during the Women Make Movies Film Festival at the Roxie.

  • In Production

    Hess, Janos and the Volunteers of America

    Michael Fox
    Aug 25, 2009

    With in-process Volunteer Nation: Stories of Service, veteran producer-directors Ben Hess and Dan Janos are mobilizing the millennials.

  • In Production

    Pete Nicks Impatient in 'Waiting Room'

    Michael Fox
    Aug 18, 2009

    East Bay documentary producer Pete Nicks places interactive storytelling booths in hospital waiting rooms.

  • Q & A

    Swedish Muckrakers Enlist Local Help

    Michael Fox
    Aug 4, 2009

    Oakland attorney Richard Lee speaks on the legal case surrounding the Swedish filmmakers of the hot-button documentary Bananas!.

  • Reviews

    'Until the Light Takes Us'

    Dennis Harvey
    Jul 29, 2009

    Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell's documnetary, Until the Light Takes Us examines the dark intersection of local Norwegian history and Death Metal.

  • Reviews

    Whip-smart, Witty 'In the Loop'

    Dennis Harvey
    Jul 23, 2009

    Director Armando Iannucci's razor-sharp satire is about how the politics of spin can determine critical decisions on both sides of the Atlantic.

  • Reviews

    Social Justice and the S.F. Jewish Film Festival

    Michael Fox
    Jul 22, 2009

    The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival arrives with an expansive program spotlighting the Jewish tradition of social justice and human rights.

  • In Production

    Weissman's 'Heartbreak and Heroism'

    Michael Fox
    Jul 7, 2009

    David Weissman speaks on his new project, Heartbreak and Heroism, revisiting the early years of the AIDS outbreak in San Francisco.

  • In Production

    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.

  • Q & A

    Weimberg/Ryan on Conflict and Conscience

    Sura Wood
    Jun 7, 2009

    Berkeley-based filmmaking team Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan speak about social justice as a career and their film Soldiers of Conscience.

  • Documentary

    When the Personal is Political

    Fernanda Rossi
    Jun 2, 2009

    Ask the Documentary Doctor: Where does the filmmaker stop existing to give way to the reporter/activist/responsible citizen with camera in hand?

  • In Production

    Cyrus Omoomian's 'Democracy': From Iran to Chile

    Michael Fox
    May 26, 2009

    Iranian filmmaker Cyrus Omoomian documents post-Pinochet Chile in work-in-progress Pushing Towards Democracy.

  • Reviews

    SFIFF52 Blogs: Wilkerson's Proving Strong

    David Winks Gray
    May 2, 2009

    On May Day Eve, Travis Wilkerson performed Proving Ground, probably the first multimedia Leninist rant to have ever graced the Sundance Kabuki.

  • Reviews

    SFIFF52: Yun Suh's "City of Borders"

    David Winks Gray
    Apr 26, 2009

    City of Borders, the debut film by Bay Area filmmaker Yun Suh, follows several Palestinian characters seeking refuge at a gay bar. The film testifies to the intolerance that members of the LGBTQ community face in addition to all of the other walls, physical and social, separating people in the region.

  • In Production

    Kitchell on Another Hot Topic with Environmental Movement Doc

    Michael Fox
    Mar 24, 2009

    Mark Kitchell current project is an ambitious summation of the environmental movement, from the protests of the 1960s, the '70s focus on pollution, the Greenpeace campaigns and the global climate change.

  • Festivals

    Politics Get Personal in 'Project Kashmir'

    Jonathan Kiefer
    Mar 19, 2009

    Co-directors Senain Kheshgi and Geeta V. Patel, two American friends with family ties to opposite sides of the conflict, went to Kashmir together to see what they could learn–and what the rest of us could.

  • In Production

    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

  • Popular

    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

  • News & Blogs

    Remembering Ave Montague

    Tim Etheridge
    Jan 31, 2009

    On January 24 the San Francisco film and arts community lost Ave Montague, who was well known for her hard work, creativity and passion for the arts.

  • Q & A

    Wendy Levy on the Politics of Participation

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 12, 2009

    Levy offers thoughts on the program she's presenting at Sundance and what's being called the "New Documentary Movement."

  • Reviews

    'Che: The Roadshow' reclaims a legend

    Michael Fox
    Jan 8, 2009

    Steven Soderbergh's fascinating portrait of legendary revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is willfully disinterested in the conventions of mainstream movies.

  • 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."

  • In Production

    Elizabeth Pepin's 'Wasted!'

    Michael Fox
    Jan 6, 2009

    If you've been waiting for a punk-rock doc about sewage and wastewater treatment–admit it–it's in the pipeline and heading your way by year's end.

  • Reviews

    Debra Chasnoff's 'Straightlaced'

    Judy Stone
    Jan 5, 2009

    50 California students talk about their problems with gender in the new documentary Straightlaced–How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up.

  • Reviews

    Soviet-Critical 'Cargo 200' at YBCA

    Matt Sussman
    Nov 11, 2008

    The controversial Cargo 200, a take-down of the Soviet era, makes its U.S. theatrical debut at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

  • Festivals

    Sean Uyehara On the S.F. International Animation Festival

    Michael Guillen
    Nov 10, 2008

    If, in the ol' days, they were called "'toons," these days, some heavy-duty words are required to express the strength and breadth of contemporary animation.

  • Reviews

    'Secrecy' Up For Debate

    Robert Avila
    Oct 22, 2008

    Robb Moss and Peter Galison's deliberative, atmospheric and engrossing documentary, Secrecy, puts democratic transparency to the test.

  • Q & A

    A Talk With Arab Film Festival's Executive Director

    Michael Fox
    Oct 13, 2008

    We sat down with Michel Shehadeh, who joined the festival earlier this year, for a wide-ranging interview on Arab film.

  • Festivals

    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.

  • In Production

    Straight and Not So Narrow 'Crooked Beauty' In Production

    Michael Fox
    Oct 1, 2008

    In 'Crooked Beauty,' mental health is re-imagined and redefined.

  • Q & A

    Stephen Olsson and Link TV

    Michael Fox
    Aug 17, 2008

    SF360.org talks to the senior director of original programming at Link TV, which provides an antidote to the standard television news mix.

  • In Production

    Saluting the Ultimate Whistleblower

    Michael Fox
    Aug 6, 2008

    SF360.org looks at the making of a documentary about the controversial leak of the Pentagon papers.

  • Reviews

    Saluting the Ultimate Whistleblower

    Michael Fox
    Aug 6, 2008

    SF360.org looks at the making of a documentary about the controversial leak of the Pentagon papers.

  • Reviews

    Not About Royalty

    Michael Fox
    Aug 6, 2008

    Empress Hotel looks at residents of a hotel turned homeless people's residence through San Francisco's Access to Housing program.

  • Reviews

    'CSNY: Deja Vu'

    Dennis Harvey
    Jul 16, 2008

    Those attracted to the new film CSNY: Deja Vu simply expecting an opportunity to recall the old days might be in for a surprise.

  • Q & A

    Ruby Yang on 'A Double Life'

    Michael Guillen
    Jun 23, 2008

    SF360 caught up with Ruby Yang during a recent Bay Area visit to discuss her "latest and most lyrical film yet," A Double Life.

  • Festivals

    Frameline's 32nd SFLGBT Festival Program

    Susan Gerhard
    May 20, 2008

    The historic Castro Theatre, its marquee recently revamped for the Milk biopic shoot, hosted Frameline's announcement of its 2008 festival.

  • Festivals

    "Standard Operating Procedure" and the Stories We Tell

    Staff
    May 9, 2008

    Joan Didion famously said, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." We've internalized the American narrative of Abu Ghraib and accepted its implications.

  • Q & A

    'Shampoo.' Rinse. Repeat.

    Judy Stone
    May 4, 2008

    Warren Beatty on the sexual and political message of Shampoo and a new film in the works about romantic revolutionary journalist John Reed.

  • Q & A

    SFIFF51: California Newsreel at 40

    Erika Young
    Apr 21, 2008

    Founded in 1968, San Francisco-based Newsreel is the oldest nonprofit, social-issue documentary film center in the U.S.

  • Q & A

    SFIFF51: Craig Baldwin Shoots the Moon, and the Desert

    Michael Fox
    Apr 18, 2008

    The Mission filmmaker has slaved in the underground for some three decades, a guide and shaman for other artists working on the fringes.

  • Festivals

    "Palestine: Interior/Exterior"

    Robert Avila
    Apr 9, 2008

    Two films at the Arab Film Festival's program Palestine: Interior/Exterior map physical, personal and ideological terrain.

  • Reviews

    Danny Glover, "Honeydripper," and Us

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 27, 2008

    In Honeydripper it will no doubt be pleasure to see Danny Glover play a familiar character: The good man trying to gain a leg-up when fortune has rained on his hopes.

  • Q & A

    L.Q. Jones Talks Dogs and Cult Movies

    Miriam Wolf
    Feb 24, 2008

    The list of talking dog movies is long and storied, but one stands head and forelocks above the others: A Boy and His Dog.

  • Q & A

    Eran Kolirin and "The Band's Visit"

    Judy Stone
    Feb 12, 2008

    Underneath The Band's Visit's poignant humor, the film subtly reflects the director's attempt to comprehend Israel's pull between the Middle East and the West.

  • 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

    Reviews: "Walk Hard"; "Charlie Wilson's War"

    Dennis Harvey
    Dec 18, 2007

    Judd Apatow has come to so dominate American comedy that I often find myself thinking, "If only this movie had been written by Apatow..."

  • Reviews

    "Holly," an Unseasonably Sobering Drama

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 28, 2007

    U.S.-Cambodian co-production Holly might easily have gone straight to DVD, which would be a pity because it's well worth rushing to the theatre for.

  • Q & A

    Connie Field, from Berkeley to Johannesburg

    Robert Avila
    Nov 5, 2007

    The filmmaker talks about her recent projects, including Salud!, which looks at Cuba's world-class health system.

  • Q & A

    Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Culture" war

    Michael Fox
    Sep 20, 2007

    Lynn Hershman Leeson discusses her new project, ÔStrange Culture'.

  • Reviews

    "Revolution Summer"

    Michael Fox
    Aug 30, 2007

    Miles Matthew Montalbano's evocative and empathetic portrait of Bush-era dissatisfaction among the post-collegiate set.

  • 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

    Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky on "Manufactured Landscapes"

    Glen Helfand
    Jul 16, 2007

    Manufactured Landscapes, the film, extends photographer Edward Burtynsky's vision into a new medium, the documentary, and engages a dialog about global capitalism's impact on Earth.

  • Reviews

    "SiCKO"-time

    Susan Gerhard
    Jun 28, 2007

    Sicko's story of the mismanagement of U.S. healthcare takes Michael Moore from the U.S. to Canada to Europe, and most notably, to Cuba.

  • 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.

  • Festivals

    Picturing Politics at SFIFF50

    Robert Avila
    May 1, 2007

    A shot in Wonders Are Many makes visual reference to Guernica as shorthand for art's charge to speak for the voiceless.

  • Q & A

    Paul Verhoeven and His "Black Book"

    Howard Feinstein/indieWIRE
    Apr 13, 2007

    Verhoeven's career can be divided between the character-driven movies he made in Holland and the slick genre films he directed in Hollywood after 1985.

  • Reviews

    Loach's Palme d'Or Winner

    Robert Avila
    Apr 5, 2007

    A Western occupying power faces opposition from the locals and responds with brutal military suppression, spurring a countrywide resistance movement reaching down to the grassroots.

  • Reviews

    The Countercultures of "Commune"

    Robert Avila
    Feb 22, 2007

    The cinematic image of the Ô60s commune is normally as two-dimensional as the screen it's projected on, and rarely very kind.

  • Q & A

    Rory Kennedy and 'The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib'

    Michael Fox
    Feb 19, 2007

    Filmmaker Rory Kennedy talks about her process and approach with making her new chilling documentary Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.

  • Reviews

    "Iraq in Fragments, "The Lives of Others"

    Max Goldberg
    Feb 13, 2007

    James Longley's Fragments stands out amongst the crowded field of Iraqumentaries, while Others pulls back the Iron Curtain to powerful effect.

  • Q & A

    Von Donnersmarck's Oscar-nominated "The Lives of Others"

    Miljenko Skoknic
    Feb 12, 2007

    Von Donnersmarck talks about his Lola-winning and Oscar-nominated debut during a visit to San Francisco.

  • Reviews

    Lynn Hershman Leeson and "Strange Culture"

    Susan Gerhard
    Jan 22, 2007

    Inteview with the artist and filmmaker on her work and her latest movie, presented at Sundance.

  • Q & A

    Mark Becker's Mission-Inspired "Romantico"

    indieWIRE
    Jan 15, 2007

    Hailed as one of the best films of 2005 without distribution, Becker's doc hits theaters nearly two years after it debuted at Sundance.

  • Reviews

    A Chilean Top Four

    Miljenko Skoknic
    Jan 12, 2007

    Miljenko Skoknic's list of favorites in Chilean Cinema.

  • Reviews

    "Absolute Wilson"; "Army of Shadows"

    Robert Avila
    Jan 9, 2007

    A documentary provides an in-depth description of Robert Wilson's life and art. Melville's spy story on a Resistance cell in Nazi-occupied French challenges our idea of heroism.

  • Festivals

    SF to Sundance

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 8, 2006

    At least three Bay Area-based filmmakers will be making the trek to Park City this year, Jon Else, Steven Okazaki, and Jay Rosenblatt.

  • Reviews

    "Radical Closure" at the PFA

    Robert Avila
    Dec 7, 2006

    This series of cinematic responses to war, curated by Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari, opens up possibilities for re-imagining the dehumanized landscape of violence.

  • Q & A

    Adrian Belic Goes 'Beyond the Call'

    Justin Juul
    Nov 27, 2006

    The filmmaker talks about tagging along with three renegade activists on their self-funded humanitarian excursions to war zones and disaster sites.

  • Reviews

    Stand Up, Be Counted: Grassroots Docs Warn of Electronic Voting

    Jonny Leahan
    Oct 27, 2006

    With the midterm elections less than two weeks away, a crop of documentaries are collectively trying to get a message across that has largely been passed over by the mainstream media.

  • Q & A

    Amy Berg's "Deliver Us From Evil"

    indieWIRE
    Oct 23, 2006

    Segueing from network television news to documentary features, Amy Berg makes her debut with a shocking, powerful film about pedophile priest Oliver Grady.

  • Reviews

    The "remake," re-made

    Michael Fox
    Sep 26, 2006

    Why do updates of Jerry Lewis flicks get more slack from critics than Zailian's "All the King's Men" and Demme's "The Manchurian Candidate?"

  • Q & A

    Ian Inaba on Stolen and Influenced Elections

    Susan Gerhard
    Sep 25, 2006

    The real voter fraud is orchestrated under the radar, says the director of American Blackout.

  • Reviews

    Another Other Cinema, Now on DVD

    Johnny Ray Huston
    Sep 20, 2006

    Craig Baldwin and Noel Lawrence bring their brand of smart, quirky, avant-garde and political programming into the home.

  • Q & A

    Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre on Border Life

    Susan Gerhard
    Sep 18, 2006

    The Maquilapolis filmmakers talk about empowering their subjectsÑwomen factory workers in Tijuana.

  • News & Blogs

    Voting Protection-Related Sites

    Susan Gerhard
    Sep 15, 2006

    The List: American Blackout director Ian Inaba names the top four Web sites.

  • Reviews

    Peter Whitehead's '60s

    Max Goldberg
    Sep 14, 2006

    The provocative documentary filmmaker is recalled with a retrospective at Yerba Buena Center For the Arts.

  • News & Blogs

    Current TV and the Audience as Auteur

    Justin Juul
    Aug 29, 2006

    Al Gore's fledgling S.F.--based cable and satellite channel, Current TV, generates cutting-edge content democratically, with a third of the programming created by viewers.

  • Q & A

    Laura Poitras" "My Country, My Country"

    indieWIRE
    Aug 28, 2006

    Director Laura Poitras’ traveled to Iraq for her latest film, “My Country, My Country.”

  • Q & A

    A Documentary on Peru's Terror War

    Susan Gerhard
    Jul 25, 2006

    A conversation with Pamela Yates, director of State of Fear, on Peru's 20-year war on terror, which bears an unsettling resemblance to U.S. current events.

  • Festivals

    Overview of the S.F. Jewish Film Festival

    Michael Fox
    Jul 20, 2006

    The sudden climate change in the Middle East has had a tone-altering effect on the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, where the war will be Topic A.

  • Q & A

    Mat Whitecross and the Rough "Road to Guantanamo"

    Susan Gerhard
    Jun 26, 2006

    Mat Whitecross talks about his documentary The Road to Guantanamo, which takes a look at the inhumanity of U.S. "detainment" camps in Cuba.

  • Reviews

    "An Inconvenient Truth" Strikes a Nerve

    Jonny Leahan
    Jun 2, 2006

    Al Gore's documentary keeps the viewer thoroughly engaged while offering what may be the most comprehensive explanation of global warming for the layperson that exists.

  • 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.

  • Reviews

    Masharawi Finds Palestinians In States of Suspended Animation

    Robert Avila
    Apr 20, 2006

    Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi's Waiting intricately and ingeniously intertwines irony, humor, and pathos.

  • Q & A

    Happiness Is...Finding a Film Club? Adam Werbach Riffs

    Susan Gerhard
    Apr 10, 2006

    George Bush Senior's thousand points of light may never have materialized, but Adam Werbach believes that millions of pixels can truly accomplish something.

  • Q & A

    Public Defender Jeff Adachi Adds Filmmaker to Resume

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 13, 2006

    Jeff Adachi, San Francisco public defender, adds filmmaker to the resume.

  • Q & A

    The Roxie, Resurrected

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 10, 2006

    The List: In the aftermath of the Roxie resurrection, the five top-grossing films that screened there over the past two decades.

  • News & Blogs

    Garrett Scott, Filmmaker, 1968-2006

    Christopher D. Cook
    Mar 8, 2006

    A tribute to the life and work of the late documentary maker Garrett Scott.

  • Festivals

    Human Rights Watch Film Festival: More Than "Watching"

    Robert Avila
    Mar 2, 2006

    HRW's series of films chosen for aesthetic value and human rights content continues to grow as it stays true to its roots.

  • Reviews

    Leacock-Pennebaker Tribute at SF State's Documentary Film Institute

    Susan Gerhard
    Feb 27, 2006

    With a Leacock-Pennebaker tribute, SF State's Documentary Film Institute proves there's no reason to "revive" cinema verite; it never died.

  • In Production

    Delicious 'All About Evil' In Production

    Michael Fox goes behind the scenes on Peaches Christs' slice-'em-up.


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