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Fall 2012 Artist in Residence: Anna Boden
September 25–October 9

The Film Society’s Artist in Residence program brings a filmmaker to San Francisco for a two-week residency, which features programming in each of the Film Society’s core areas—education, exhibition and filmmaker services—including a public screening, visits to Bay Area high school and college classrooms and opportunities to connect with local filmmakers. Visiting artists are selected based on their filmmaking experience, compelling body of work and desire to share their knowledge with emerging filmmakers and film students.

Filmmaker Anna Boden will present her film Sugar, network with local filmmakers and visit Bay Area high school and college classrooms.



The Artist-in-Residence program is made possible by a grant from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.		   Anna Boden has made three feature films in collaboration with her filmmaking partner Ryan Fleck.  Their first feature, Half Nelson, which Anna co-wrote and produced, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. Half Nelson lead actors Ryan Gosling and Shareeka Epps both earned Independent Spirit Awards for their portrayals, and Ryan Gosling also received Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nominations. Half Nelson was honored with Gotham Awards for Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor (for Shareeka Epps), and Best Film.
 
Anna went on to co-write and direct her next two features with Ryan.  Sugar, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, received a Gotham Award nomination for Best Ensemble Cast; an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Screenplay; and an American Film Institute (AFI) Award as one of the year’s 10 most outstanding achievements in film.  Their most recent film, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, based on the young adult novel by Ned Vizzini, was released by Focus Features in 2010.
 
Anna and Ryan have also collaborated on several documentaries, including Have You Seen This Man? (2002) and Young Rebels (2005); and on the short film Gowanus, Brooklyn (2004), which was a forerunner to Half Nelson.

Previous Artists in Residence
Federico Veiroj (Fall 2011)
Ido Haar (Winter 2011)
Oday Rasheed (Spring 2012)


Working with First-Time Actors
Join filmmaker Anna Boden (Half Nelson, Sugar)for a moderated discussion on casting and working with first-time actors. Read more...
Friday, September 28, 1:30–3:30 pm

FilmHouse
1426 Fillmore Street, Suite 300 (O'Farrell/Eddy)
Sugar
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (USA, 2008)
The story of a Dominican baseball player struggling to make it to the major leagues and pull his family out of poverty may sound like a typical rags-to-riches tale, but Sugar offers a much different take than the average baseball movie. Read more...
Thursday, October 4, 6:30 pm
New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
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