Author: Fara

  • 3rd i Presents: INTRO TO NONFICTION STORYTELLING WITH ALKA RAGHURAM

    Have a Story You Can’t Wait to Tell?

    The “Intro to Nonfiction Storytelling” class is a free, 2-hour introduction to shaping real life into a cinematic narrative. This workshop will help storytellers develop tools to transform personal experience or a topic they are passionate about into a story with structure. Participants will gain a sharpened story concept.

    Ready for the next steps beyond “Intro To Nonfiction Storytelling”?

    Check out Alka’s 4-Week Documentary Writing Intensive, an in-person development lab designed to help you transform raw material into narrative clarity. Over four focused weeks, you will move from idea to articulation — shaping a documentary concept with structure, voice, stakes, and ethical intention.

    Sundays, April 12 – May 3, 2026
    2-4pm
    Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
    More info and class registration: https://www.junoon.pictures/junoonlabs

    Alka Raghuram is an award-winning filmmaker and a multidisciplinary artist. She has made several fiction, experimental, and documentary films. She was awarded the L’Oreal Woman of Worth Filmmaker Award for her script The Conqueror at Tribeca All Access. Her script Ayna was a finalist at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Alka frequently collaborates with other artists to create narrative performances and installations. Some of her collaborations include “Yatra” with Kathak and Flamenco dancers Pandit Chitresh Das and Antonio Hidalgo Paz; “Agni” with choreographer Charlotte Moraga and musician Alam Khan, and a photo, video and art installation Inspired by Burqa Boxers at the Locarno Film Festival. She recently received Creative Work Fund for a multimedia project called “Invoking The River” about the river Yamuna’s mythological significance and its environmental degradation, in collaboration with Chitresh Das Institute of dance.

    WINNER – Locarno Film Festival, co-production market top prize: Grant Open Doors
  • OC: ARCHIVE FEVER2; SOVIET SILVER

    MARK BOSWELL’s LOST AND FOUND BUREAU + JOHN DAVIS’ LISTEN! SUN AND STARS + ALEX MILLER’s INCUBATE +

    Our second Archive Fever set serves as a ‘release’ of ultra-rare photo-chemical silver prints (here screened on film and video) from those legendary Soviet movie labs! Spotlit are two prodigal makers who in fact traveled to Tajikistan (!) to both restore and re-use the redoubtable 16mm archives that were left in limbo after the withdrawal of Soviet agency. These masters of re-mediation each returned with a satchel of odd educational propaganda items marginalized in the New Order, and we’ll enjoy the aesthetic rewards of these Cold War artifacts tonight! Mark Boswell world-premieres Lost and Found Bureau of Tajikistan, and John Davis marries mod-synth tracks to Listen! and Stories of the Solar System. Supporting is a truck-load of similarly exotic kino curiosities, both in archival and remixed versions: Thanks to Keith Sanborn, the West Coast debut of Esfir Shub‘s old-school Stalin ode With Heart Felt Sincerity (exc.), Alexander Miller‘s fest-fave Incubate, Stefan Rusu‘s wry JERES, and the graphic industrial-orgy that is the 1939 Glimpses of Soviet Science. A final title, D.I. Yashin Revival of Organisms is placed last on the bill for those who prefer the Life Sciences to be demonstrated in less mechanistic ways. Vodka shots and Moscow on 16mm! $12

  • 2026 PROXY SPRING SERIES

    We are thrilled to announce the 2026 PROXY Spring Series film festival of FREE outdoor cinema at the PROXY Outdoor Theater!
    We have an incredible selection of films for you celebrating personal growth and the wisdom of experience. From a ping pong hustler trying to conquer the world to a curious three-year-old discovering the world for the first time, from one father struggling to provide for his family to another reconnecting with a family he left behind, the characters in our selection of films undergo a search for meaning within themselves and the greater world. Join us for a film (or five!) under the stars to dive deep into the human experience, to laugh, cry, and celebrate the power of cinema that brings us closer together – to each other and to our very selves.
    The festival runs every Friday, from March 27th through April 24th. These FREE evening films begin at 7:30pm and 8:00pm.
    MAR 27 : Marty Supreme by Josh Safdie, 2025
    APR 03 : No Other Choice by Park Chan-wook, 2025
    APR 10 : Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier, 2025
    APR 17 : Little Amélie or the Character of Rain by Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han, 2025
    APR 24 : Arco by Ugo Bienvenu, 2025
    Please visit proxysf.net/events for more info!