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- Storytellers for Good Launching this Weekend
Maybe it’s cliche for Northern California, but in addition to getting closer to safely practicing the handstands that have alluded me, a recent yoga teacher training introduced me to individuals doing notable work in media, medicine, and tattoo design (but of course). One of them was former broadcast reporter Cara Jones, who is launching a [...]
- Alternative Film Showcase Opens at Roxie
After sadly missing The Disposable Film Festival’s first bike-in movie screening, the promise of a full three days of programming seems like a perfect way to kick off the weekend before South by Southwest Film. The festival, which premieres annually in SF before heading to Brussels, Beijing and other host cities and is art directed [...]
- Ignite Bay Area >> Watch it Live
If you’re not among the technologists, writers, engineers, designers, bicycle mechanics, urban astronomers, and violin instructors to take part in the Bay Area celebration of Global Ignite Week on Tuesday night, you can join via Livestream, follow the presentations via @IgniteBayArea and access them later on the newly launched IgniteShow.com.
This week, 15 local talks will [...]
- !Women Art Revolution at Clips & Conversation
On Tuesday Bay Area Women in Film and Media and Intersection for the Arts will be partnering at the latter’s Valencia Street space to screen The Heretics and !Women Art Revolution as part of programming for the Clips & Conversation series. Both projects are in post-production and focus on the feminist art movement since the [...]
- Global Lives Project Premier at Yerba Buena
I’m unabashedly excited about the international premier of the Global Lives Project tonight at the Yerba Buena Center. After watching some of the early footage from the library of human life experience’s “day in the life” shoots, seeing the completed videos records of ten people from around the world who represent the diversity of the [...]
- Gyllenhaal Promoting Independent Docs on PBS
As though I needed another reason to wonk out on documentaries, Maggie Gyllenhaal assuming hosting duties on the PBS series Independent Lens is enough to make the months between Sundance and South By Southwest likable. Twenty-seven independent films being broadcast this season include dramas, comic shorts, and experimental pieces shot in locations as diverse as [...]
- Eve Ensler’s “Emotional Creature” at The Commonwealth Club
The awkwardness of claiming the last seat upon coming into a crowded auditorium late was very much worth it to see playwright/activist Eve Ensler’s discussion tonight about her latest work at The Commonwealth Club (and, for the sake of full disclosure, I may have read a monologue or two on the college theater stage).
Following this [...]
- “Bhutto” Documentary is Can’t Miss
For the past two years I’ve been lending out (or pushing) the late Pakistani prime minster Benazir Bhutto’s autobiography “Daughter of Destiny” to every bibliophile friend who will take it. No matter your politics, it’s a fantastic reflection of a complex political life whose elements included nuclear arms, young children, and presidential imprisonment.
The new documentary [...]
- In Conversation with Skimble’s Maria Ly
In advance of the most recent Skimble iPhone app update, company co-founder Maria Ly talked with Women 2.0 and VidSF about creating the activity tracking platform. She certainly didn’t sit down for the In Conversation series interview at Mission Cliffs, but she did discuss transitioning from a Fortune 500 company to selecting activities for personal [...]
- SFFS Film Arts Forum Tonight
One of the best things about the Film Society’s programming–besides the price–is the quality of the presenters on both the filmmaking and festival programming sides. Tonight’s “Thinking Outside the Doc Box” panel at Mezzanine will include discussion about whether character-driven documentaries are the only fund-worthy kind (Richard Saiz, senior programming manager at the Independent Television [...]
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