Author: Fara
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Left Eye Cinema: Blue Collar
oin the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America for a screening of Blue Collar, the 1978 directorial debut from Paul Schrader, with a discussion after.Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto star as a trio of “hard workin’, fucked over” auto factory workers. Finding themselves in dire financial straits, they wager it all on a plot to break out of their Sisyphean lives—by robbing their own union. Schrader takes this cynical premise for a heist movie and spins it into an examination of alienation, union busting, corruption, and the relation between racism and capitalism. -
We Make Movies
The Los Angeles-based film collective, We Make Movies is bringing its signature Writers Workshop to the San
Francisco film community. The nine-year old LA film collective, which has executive produced dozens of films in Los Angeles and Canada and collaborated on hundreds more, is excited to be partnering with the esteemed Artists Television Access for this workshop, and hope to cultivate an ongoing partnership that will allow them to serve the
independent filmmakers of San Francisco on a regular basis. “This is about more than just giving artists the tools and community to improve and complete their projects, but to promote and maintain a sustainable, supportive community,” says Chad Kukahiko, the Chief of Operations of We Make Movies, “This is about making the movies that you want to see.”The October 21st workshop will feature scripts by San Francisco writers being read by San Francisco actors and getting feedback by their local artists. We Make Movies is excited for this new expansion to the Bay Area, and is thrilled to be hosted by the by Artists’ Television Access, which has been faithfully serving the San Francisco film
community for nearly thirty-five years.To participate or attend the workshop, please RSVP by October 17th for the October 21st workshop. Here’s the link http://wemakemovies.org/ATA
About We Make Movies:
Founded in 2009, We Make Movies (WMM) is a free Los Angeles-based community of independent filmmakers, writers, and actors dedicated to empowering creative professionals and providing the resources and connections to
help them get their movies made. In Los Angeles, WMM members meet weekly to participate in readings of new
work, rehearsal workshops, works-in-progress feedback nights, and one-off workshops such as “How to Pitch Your Film” with industry professionals. In addition, WMM is the first community funded production company awarding
thousands of dollars to filmmakers through their Rolling Production Fund challenges. WMM has directly funded 28 films, co-produced over 30 films, and had hundreds of series, pilots, shorts and features come through the pipeline, as well as their first 1/2 hour comedy pilot, OFF THE GRID. entirely developed, written, cast and crewed from members in the community. In addition, WMM is Associate Producers on over 60 films per year. More than 100 shorts, six full-length features, and an official weekly WMM Sketch Show (filmed at YouTubeStudios LA) have
been produced after being developed through WMM workshops. A considerable amount of these films have accrued accolades in several film festivals around the world and have also found distribution on various VOD platforms. -
Other Cinema: PSYCHO-GEO3; MARGINS OF THE MAP
GRETA SNIDER’s 3-D + L.CAPLAN + A.COPPOLA +
The second half of our Focus on Locusdouble-header features two world premieres—exquisite expanded cinema/retinal rivalry pieces by the Mission’s own Greta Snider, plus a timely revival of her epochal 16mmdiary Portland, train-hopping with Ivy McClelland and Iggy Scam! Lana Caplanbreaks away from her SLO college gig to unspool a NorCal debut, Patches of Snow in July (Hawaii volcano), as well as her earlier Maelstroms (Mexico border). In his farewell appearence, long-lost ally Alex Coppola flies in from Philly to not only open the show, but close it as well, with his world-class World Music vinyl selections, set to an absolutely sublime sampler of mid-20C personal travelogues—Glimpses of the Global South, glorious Kodachrome shot in four sites, moving east around the planet—Hong Kong, Tahiti, the Andes, and the Amazon. As to marginal spaces in the US interior: Brea Weinreb debuts Framing History, a collective S8 remediation of home movies from Japanese internees in the Amache, Colorado camp. PLUS: Matt McCormick’s cautionary America Nutria, on a Southern mammal now munching on Coastrhizomes!