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  • PROXY FALL FILM FEST 2025

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    We are thrilled to announce the 2025 PROXY Fall Film Festival of FREE outdoor cinema at the PROXY Outdoor Theater!
    It is hard to believe that with this Fall’s Festival, we are entering our 10th year of screening free films at PROXY! In that first year in 2015, our festival was a scrappy experiment in activating public space: projecting films from the back of a box-truck onto the outdoor movie screen we had crowdfunded for just a few months prior. Under the tagline of LET’S WATCH MOVIES OUTSIDE TOGETHER, we began our now decade-long effort to encourage togetherness through shared experiences.
    This Fall’s Festival, we intentionally chose a wide range of films — the crowd-pleasing rock documentary BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN that reveals the hard work, creative drive and mastery of craft it takes to become rock legends (and which also features scenes from late-60’s San Francisco!); NICKEL BOYS, a richly beautiful film narrating the lives of two black teenagers who land in a reform school in the segregated South; EVERY LITTLE THING, a documentary about an incredible LA woman who has dedicated her life to hummingbird rescue; LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS, an adults-oriented animated love-adventure thriller; and, finally, our family-friendly Halloween pick, WICKED. We hope that you, your friends, partners and loved ones can make it out this Fall for a film or two (or even five)! See you there!
    The festival runs on Fridays and one Saturday, from September 26th through October 25th. These FREE evening films begin 7:30 PM (with Wicked beginning 6:45 PM on Oct 25th).
    SEP 26 : Becoming Led Zeppelin by Bernard MacMahon, 2025
    OCT 03 : Nickel Boys by RaMell Ross, 2024
    OCT 10 : Every Little Thing by Sally Aitken, 2025
    OCT 17 : Lesbian Space Princess by Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese, 2025
    OCT 25 : Wicked by Jon M. Chu, 2024
    For more information, please visit PROXYsf.net
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  • Workshop: 16mm Hand Processing

    Learn to process your film and skip the lab fees. We will go over will the basics of black and white 16mm film processing including exposure testing, tank loading, processing and drying.

    Fee: $40

    for Enrollment please contact fara@atasite.org

  • OC: PALESTINE ACTION

    BANSKY: WALLED OFF + NO OTHER LAND

    Not one, but two long-form arguments for Palestinian autonomy, because our righteous anger and the urgent need for action against genocide in our time–in real time!–demands extraordinary measures. The first piece affords an entrance into legendary prankster Banksy‘s art hotel near the West Bank barrier, housing a semi-secret museum that displays artifacts from creative resistance struggles against 70+ years of Zionist occupation. Vin Arfuso‘s feature, in its NorCal premiere, comes from a collaboration between Palestinian-American musician Anwar Hadid, Pink Floyd‘s Roger Waters, and the grandson of South African founding father Nelson Mandela. A slightly extended intermission accommodates easy entry for patrons choosing only the second on the bill, the Oscar-winning (though effectively suppressed) No Other Land, hardly seen in SF despite wide-spread protests against the egregious political censorship. This powerful doc from a Palestinian-Israeli directorial collective shows the destruction of the West Bank village of Masafer Yatta, and the alliance which develops between an activist and a journalist from the respective nationalities. Doors at 6:45 for the 7:15 Walled Off, tho additional arrivals are welcome during the 8:45-9PM break. $10 for either or both