Exhibition | Fiscal Sponsorship | Resources


PAST EXHIBITIONS

Highlighted film titles link to SFIFF pages that contain film synopses, credits, print sources, running times and countries of origin.

Another Man’s Garden
Sofia, a young girl in Mozambique who is studying to be a doctor, finds that her professor wants more from her than hard work.
SFFS Exhibition: 2007 Youth Ed
Attendance: 72
 
The Boys of Baraka
Mavis Jackson tells her Black male Baltimore high school audience that they have three options by the time they reach age 18: “An orange jumpsuit and bracelets, a black suit in a brown box or a black cap and gown.”
SFFS Exhibition: 2005 SFIFF
Attendance: 1012
Youth Ed Attendance: 871
Website: www.pbs.org/pov/pov2006/boysofbaraka/

The Class
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 Youth Ed
Attendance: 300
Website: www.sonyclassics.com/theclass/
 
Freedom Writers
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
SFFS Exhibition: 2007 Youth Ed
Attendance: 124
Website: www.freedomwriters.com/
 
Half Nelson
An idealistic Brooklyn junior high school teacher, battling institutional apathy and a crippling drug addiction, strikes up an unlikely relationship with one of his students in this low-key, naturalistic look at friendship and inner-city life.
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 SFIFF
Attendance: 719
Website: www.halfnelsonthefilm.com/
 
Heart of the Game
The politics of race, class and gender land center court in Ward Serrill’s entertaining documentary about the Birkenstock-shod coach of a high school girls basketball team in Seattle.
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 SFIFF
Attendance: 318
Youth Ed Attendance: 101
Website: www.heartofthegame.org/web/home.htm
 
Son of a Lion
This sensitively and beautifully shot debut film follows its appealing nonprofessional cast through the harsh, lovely terrain of remote northwestern Pakistan, in a story of a boy who would rather go to school than make firearms with his father.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 655
Website: http://www.sonofalion.com/

Speaking in Tongues
Veteran documentarians Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider tangle with the debate over bilingual education by following the diverse stories of four San Francisco public schoolchildren enrolled in Chinese and Spanish language-immersion programs.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 866
Website: http://www.speakingintonguesfilm.info

The Third Monday in October
Fall 2004. Bush and Kerry may be busy debating Iraq and the economy, but for 11 presidential hopefuls from three states, junk food and bathroom stalls are the issues of import in the elections for middle school student government.
SFFS Exhibition: 2007 SFIFF
Attendance: 359
Youth Ed Attendance: 952
Website: thirdmondayinoctober.com/
Co-presenter: League of Young Voters

The World According to Sesame Street
The film follows productions in Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa and examines how producers from New York's Sesame Workshop take the iconic American television show and localize it with indigenous songs, puppets and curricula while facing cultural, political and production challenges.
SFFS Exhibition: 2007 Youth Ed
Attendance: 100
Website: www.pbs.org/independentlens/worldaccordingtosesamestreet/


FISCAL SPONSORSHIP

HIghlighted film titles link to sffs.org "Current Projects" pages, alphabetically listing SFFS fiscally sponsored films, containing synopses and website links where available. Below each title is the filmmaker's name.

Conversations with Clowns
Dalia Vidor

Default: The Student Loan Documentary
Aurora  Meneghello

Educational Hip-Hop Video Collection
Howard Egger-Bovet

Everybody Loves Oil
Louis  Hohenstein

Immersion
Richard Levien

Julia Robison and Solving Hilbert’s Tenth Problem
George Csicsery

Lost Treasure Hunt
Matthew G Davis

Moms Living Clean
Sheila Ganz

Progressive Pupil
Robin J. Hayes

San Quentin Media Project
Tamara Perkins

They Closed Our Schools
Brian Grogan

Tillie Olsen - A Heart in Action
Annie Hershey

Troop 214
George Csicsery

The Trust
Tamara  Perkins


RESOURCES

The following list of resources offers interested audience members more information and ways to become involved in Education.

Brookline Center

California Institute of Earth Art & Architecture

Climate Change Education Organization

Clown Conservatory at San Francisco School of Circus Arts

Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Argriculture

Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network

Girls INC.

House Committee of Education and Labor

Mission Cultural Center San Francisco

Museum of Children's Art (Oakland)

Museum of Tolerance

National Consumer Law Center

National Italian Honor Society

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

University of California Anthropology Museum