Barbara Kopple’s Academy Awardwinning *Harlan County USA* unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrackwith legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and… Read more »
Shelter: a Squatumentary With universally skyrocketing property values, rent and home-ownership have become unaffordable at best and impossible at worst. Thus, people all over the world continue a long tradition of circumventing the expensive price tag and reclaiming this basic human right by squatting. *Shelter: a Squatumentary* is a documentary film that explores the squatting… Read more »
C RED BLUE J is an experimental documentary feature that uses the director Christopher Sollars’ family including: his sister Jennifer who works for the Bush Administration, Fred his Born Again father, and Karen his Lesbian mother, to illustrate the complications of division during the 2004 Presidential election. During the Fall of 2004, Sollars, an artist… Read more »
Recipient of the Frameline 30 Audience Award for Best Documentary and of a 2005 Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund grant, The Believers is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, gender, and religion. Built around the world’s first transgender gospel choir, the film portrays the choir’s dilemma – how to reconcile their… Read more »
San Francisco pop band BLAMMOS looks to bring the local independent music community together by exploring and showcasing music videos by other bands, artists and filmmakers, teaming up with the Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival to present the 2nd Annual Bay Area Indie Music Video Festival. The event will be hosted by BLAMMOS, and… Read more »
Next open screening will be on the july 17th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This time all movies are going to be related to music in a simple or odd way. No worries, just submit and come play with us. Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anyway WE WILL BE SHOWCASING WORKS BY: Bleached and Static http://www.bleachedandstatic.com… Read more »
The Kearneys talk back to Spielberg’s characters David Larsen Rodney Koeneke Tonight’s program is inspired by the work of the katsudo benshi, the Japanese artist of cinematic narration during the silent movie era. Benshis were the actors, writers, and orators who accompanied films live in the theater to explain, voice and comment on the screen action. In… Read more »
THE MONASTERY is the award winning story about the 82-year-old bachelor Mr. Vig, who has never known love, and Sister Amvrosija, a young Russian nun, who – by chance or destiny – becomes part of his life. 50 years ago Mr. Vig bought Hesbjerg Castle, with the dream of turning it into a monastery. Now,… Read more »
Set in San Francisco’s Mission district, Romántico is a documentary about Mexican musician Carmelo Muñiz Sánchez, who leaves San Francisco to return home to his beloved wife, daughters and ailing mother after years playing in taquerías and bars. But once Carmelo arrives home, he is confronted with the struggles and poverty wages that led to… Read more »