NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Lecture 21
Friday, November 20, 6:30 pm; Saturday, November 21, 1:00 pm
Friday, November 20, 6:30 pm; Saturday, November 21, 1:00 pm
NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Sea Purple
Friday, November 20, 9:15 pm; Saturday November 21, 6:30 pm
Friday, November 20, 9:15 pm; Saturday November 21, 6:30 pm
NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Vincere
Sunday, November 22, 5:45 pm & 9:00 pm
Sunday, November 22, 5:45 pm & 9:00 pm
FILM ARTS FORUM
SFFS Film Arts Forum: Sundance Confidential
Monday, December 7, 7:30 pm (7:00 pm door)
Monday, December 7, 7:30 pm (7:00 pm door)
KINOTEK
Catherine Galasso: Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice
December 12–13, 8:00 pm
December 12–13, 8:00 pm
SF360 FILM+CLUB
Steven Severin: Music for Silents
Tuesday, January 12, doors 7:00 pm, show 8:00 pm
Tuesday, January 12, doors 7:00 pm, show 8:00 pm
Current Projects
Taksu Bali – Two Gamelan Journeys
Helen Prince
Helen Prince
The Hindu culture of Bali fascinates Westerners, with its reverence for art and performance as a part of everyday life. By playing its music, an American group, Gamelan Sekar Jaya, found a way to approach this culture, and to witness its unique response to terrorism. When their music teacher composes a piece and asks them to play it in Bali, despite SARS and further terrorist threats, an intrepid splinter group makes a most triumphant journey!
Taylor's Campaign
Richard Cohen
Richard Cohen
Taylor's Campaign explores the darkhorse race of Ron Taylor, a disabled truck driver and homeless person, to win a seat on the Santa Monica City Council. Richard Cohen Films produces and distributes documentaries about human dignity and pursuit of justice: Taylor's Campaign, the celebrated documentary on homelessness and poverty; Hurry Tomorrow a classic verité depicting involuntary psychiatric treatment; Deadly Force, a gripping investigation of police accountability in Los Angeles. Presently in preproduction: an autobiographical film exploring integration of children with disabilities into schools.
Telos
When a far-out architect launches a project to build the greenest building on earth, he never expected what awaited him. Telos follows a journey of Eugene Tsui, one of the most innovative green architects in the world today as he sets out to build his dream building. He chose Mt. Shasta, a mountain town in the Northern California, where the myth of town has long predicted that such a building already exists underneath the mountain.
Tents: Where Does Hope Live
Francesca Roveda, Eva Moss
Francesca Roveda, Eva Moss
An art and activist series of three short documentaries and one full-length documentary, that supports a year process in which people respond as communities to the crisis in Darfur, Sudan by creating tents that are both unique works of art and ongoing focal points for learning about, assisting and establishing relationships with the Sudanese people. They are not answers but points of entry for more concrete forms of Darfur advocacy.
They Closed Our Schools
Brian Grogan
Brian Grogan
In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its public schools, defying the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. From 1959–64 the schools remained closed for more than 2,000 children. They Closed Our Schools will examine the history of this vital, yet little known, chapter of the Civil Rights era and its relation to contemporary issues in public education.
Third Rock
David L. Brown
David L. Brown
Third Rock is a feature-length documentary-in-progress about a Mill Valley-based rock band composed of six young musicians between the ages of 11 and 12 years old. The film documents their musical and personal evolution since early 2007 when they were formed under the guidance of band director Derek Kudrow, who also taught most of them to play their instruments. The film profiles the talented and motivated young band at play, in rehearsal and in performance as they evolve and improve over three years, from the rehearsals for their first major performance—a benefit for a children's shelter in Ethiopia—in 2008.
The Third Root
Reed Rickert
Reed Rickert
Mexican guitarist, Camilo Nu, journeys through the timeless traditions of Mexican, Spanish and Moroccan music to uncover his roots. On this journey, Camilo encounters master musicians who share their passion and culture and perform exciting new roots fusion music infused by these different cultures. The Third Root—Morocco inspires profound appreciation of the interconnectedness that the human race shares through music and takes us on a journey which anyone can enjoy.
Tillie Olsen: A Heart in Action
Annie Hershey
Annie Hershey
At 92, Tillie remains a beloved writer/activist whose work is required reading in major universities and has been translated into 19 languages. This documentary offers Tillie's incredible story and her unwavering encouragement for all to present their own voice in the midst of difficulty.
Tongues of Heaven
Anita Wen-Shin Chang
Anita Wen-Shin Chang
Set on islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan, Tongues of Heaven explores the revitalization by young people of indigenous languages that are facing extinction. Conceived in part as a participatory community media project, the film’s larger concerns include the impact of language on identity and culture and the significance of marginalized languages in an increasingly homogenized world.
Traces of the Trade
Katrina Browne
Katrina Browne
Traces of the Trade is a documentary in which Katrina Browne and her relatives uncover their Rhode Island ancestors who were the largest slave-trading family in early America. On a journey to New England, Africa and Cuba they explore the full extent of Northern complicity in slavery, as well as the legacy of white Northern amnesia in the present day.
The Tribe
Tiffany Shlain
Tiffany Shlain
What can the most successful doll on the planet show us about being Jewish today? Narrated by Peter Coyote, the film mixes old school narration with a new school visual style. The Tribe weaves together archival footage, graphics, animation, Barbie dioramas and slam poetry to take audiences on an electric ride through the complex history of both the Barbie doll and the Jewish people from Biblical times to present day. By tracing Barbie's history, the film sheds light on what it means to be an American Jew in the 21st century.
Troop 214
George Csicsery
George Csicsery
A look at ethnic identity during the Cold War and its aftermath by examining dueling Hungarian youth movements. The Communists came to power in Hungary in 1948, banning scouting and establishing the Young Pioneers as an official compulsory youth movement. Hungarian scouts survived in secret.
The Trust
Tamara Perkins
Tamara Perkins
The Trust explores incarceration through the eyes of Chris Shurn, a young West Oakland native serving 3-years inside San Quentin. Chris experiences transformation through his involvement with a positive peer group called The Trust and once outside he struggles to maintain a healthy life. Interwoven with personal stories is expert testimony on the causes, consequences and multi-dimensional solutions to this “silent crisis”, which holds 1 in 31 Americans under the umbrella of corrections.
Two in a Billion: Raising Chinese Children
Leslie Hill
Leslie Hill
Since 1995 China has adopted out 5,000 children a year, mostly abandoned girls, to Western countries, primarily the USA. But how to raise internationally adopted children with an identity in both cultures to help them through issues sure to come? American parents are finding themselves on a road with no map. They form support groups, Chinese dance and language classes, celebrate holidays and even take return trips to Asia. It’s a sea change in adoption philosophy, but will it work? The award-winning filmmaker, herself a single parent with Chinese daughters, has been documenting this phenomenon for ten years in both the U.S. and China.
