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News & Blogs
SFFS Announces Winners of Spring 2011 SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grants
Aug 15, 2011The 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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August 4, 2011
Minott Tracks ‘Illness’ to Guam
Michael Fox
Aug 3, 2011Berry Minott's work-in-progress travels to Guam seeking a cure, puzzling over scientific mystery.
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Minott Tracks ‘Illness’ to Guam
Michael Fox
Aug 3, 2011Berry Minott's work-in-progress travels to Guam seeking a cure, puzzling over scientific mystery.
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Minott Tracks ‘Illness’ to Guam
Michael Fox
Aug 3, 2011Berry Minott's work-in-progress travels to Guam seeking a cure, puzzling over scientific mystery.
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August 4, 2011
Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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Yoav Potash Takes 'Crime's' Case to Larger Audience
Judy Stone
Aug 1, 2011Deborah Peagler's case in 'Crime After Crime' gets its time in court and on screen, with moving results.
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April 19, 2011
SFIFF: 'Hot Coffee'
Apr 22, 2011Susan Saladoff appears in person with 'Hot Coffee,' a documentary which uses the famous McDonald's spilled-coffee lawsuit as a jumping off point to talk about the decaying civil justice system in the U.S.; Saladoff joins Yoav Potash, Katie Galloway, Kelly Duane de la Vega and professor Bill Nichols for a discussion on the social justice documentary form on Monday, April 25. More on the film and salon at fest11.sffs.org.
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april 22 2011
Looking for the Moral with Bill Nichols
Michael Fox
Apr 20, 2011Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.
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Looking for the Moral with Bill Nichols
Michael Fox
Apr 20, 2011Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.
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Looking for the Moral with Bill Nichols
Michael Fox
Apr 20, 2011Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.
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April 14, 2011
Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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Film Globally, Screen Locally
Michael Fox
Apr 13, 2011Local filmmakers reflect on the opportunities presented by screenings at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
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News & Blogs
SFFS/KRF Announce Fall 2010 Grant Recipients
Dec 6, 2010Press 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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Festivals
SFIFF53: Golden Gate Awards and Juried Prizes/Grants Announced
Susan Gerhard
May 5, 2010Cash prizes totaling nearly $300,000 for filmmakers highlighted the San Francisco International Film Festival s Golden Gate Awards Wednesday night.
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Reviews
New Social Issue Dramas from Rainin Grant-Winners
Michael Fox
Nov 24, 2009The scoop on the projects of the inaugural class for the SFFS/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants, which support lively, intelligent social-issue narrative films.
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Reviews
Social Justice and the S.F. Jewish Film Festival
Michael Fox
Jul 22, 2009The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival arrives with an expansive program spotlighting the Jewish tradition of social justice and human rights.
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News & Blogs
Social Justice Filmmaking Grants Announced
Susan Gerhard
Jan 28, 2009Grants totaling $3 million for narrative feature films made in the Bay Area will be distributed by the SFFS and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.
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News & Blogs
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
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