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  Kelly, Pickert Interpret ‘Cherokee’ Words

  Michael Fox
  Oct 12, 2011

  A film on Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller bucks biopic formula and concentrates on a pivotal moment in the leader's life.

  
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  Kelly, Pickert Interpret ‘Cherokee’ Words

  Michael Fox
  Oct 12, 2011

  A film on Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller bucks biopic formula and concentrates on a pivotal moment in the leader's life.

  
• October 14, 2011
  
  

  Kelly, Pickert Interpret ‘Cherokee’ Words

  Michael Fox
  Oct 12, 2011

  A film on Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller bucks biopic formula and concentrates on a pivotal moment in the leader's life.

  
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  Iranian Teenage Love Sparks ‘Circumstance’

  Susan Gerhard
  Sep 10, 2011

  Director, producer speak of challenges, inspirations behind a story of the urban Iranian underground.

  
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  Iranian Teenage Love Sparks ‘Circumstance’

  Susan Gerhard
  Sep 10, 2011

  Director, producer speak of challenges, inspirations behind a story of the urban Iranian underground.

  
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  Iranian Teenage Love Sparks ‘Circumstance’

  Susan Gerhard
  Sep 10, 2011

  Director, producer speak of challenges, inspirations behind a story of the urban Iranian underground.

  
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  SFFS Announces Winners of Spring 2011 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants

  Aug 15, 2011

  The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation today announced the five winners and two honorable mentions of the fifth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants. The grants are awarded twice annually to filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community. Between 2009 and 2013 the SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants will award nearly $2.5 million, including a total of $788,000 already awarded in the first five grant rounds.
  
  Carlton Evans and Matthew Lessner (Ross), $50,000 for screenwriting; Aurora Guerrero (Mosquita y Mari), $88,000 for postproduction; Adam Keker (National Park), $35,000 for screenwriting; Timothy Kelly (The Cherokee Word for Water), $75,000 for production; Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of a Southern Wild), $55,000 for postproduction. Honorable Mentions went to: John Dilly (Rubbish), development and Ian Olds (The Western Habit), screenwriting. More at sffs.org.

  
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  Production Values: Debbie Brubaker

  Adrianne Anderson
  Apr 19, 2011

  A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.

  
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  Production Values: Debbie Brubaker

  Adrianne Anderson
  Apr 19, 2011

  A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.

  
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  Production Values: Debbie Brubaker

  Adrianne Anderson
  Apr 19, 2011

  A veteran producer talks about the art, craft and industry behind her work.

  
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  SFFS/KRF Announce Fall 2010 Grant Recipients

  Dec 6, 2010

  Press release: The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation today announced the five winners of the fourth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants: Debbie Brubaker, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Christopher Mason Johnson, Mike Ott and Morgan Wise. The grants are given twice annually to filmmakers for narrative feature films with social justice themes that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community. More at sffs.org.

  
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  SFFS and Kenneth Rainin Foundation Announce Fall 2010 Grant Finalists

  SFFS Press Release: "The San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced the ten finalists for the fourth round of SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants of up to a total of $225,000, to be given to one or more feature films that through plot, character, theme or setting significantly explore human and civil rights, discrimination, gender and sexual identity and other urgent social justice issues of our time." More at sffs.org