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  • Sistah Sinema – A Queer Women of Color Valentine’s

    SistahShistah Sinema: Sistah Sinema is a monthly event showcasing Queer Women of Color Cinema. Each showing will be followed by a moderated discussion section. Sistah Sinema was created to showcase the nuances of Queer Women of Color culture. Our goal is for the movies/films serve as a vehicle to foster honest dialogue on struggles and opportunities unique to Queer Women of Color. While discussion will focus on Queer Women of Color.
    Program:
    Sisters in the Life (23 mins) – First Love: A thirty-something black lesbian reflects on falling for her best friend in junior high. Set in the seventies and nineties, this is a delightful tale of love and friendship. Yvonne Welbon incorporates recreated flash-backs and real reminiscences, mixes media and styles, and throws in an original tune that embodies the essence of young love.

    A Luv Tale (45 mins) – Directed by Sidra Smith, this audience favorite features MC Lyte, Tichina Arnold (Martin), and Gina Ravera (Showgirls). Photographer Taylor James (Gina Ravera of Soul Food, Kiss the Girls, and Showgirls) woos fashion magazine editor Candice over wine and candlelight, but too much stress and a rocky 12-year relationship with her boss/boyfriend are holding Candice back. Meanwhile, Taylor’s meddling best friend Aklia (played by rap star MC Lyte) tries to discourage her relationship with the older Montgomery.

  • Boom The Sound of Eviction

    boomJoin the San Francisco Region of the Inlandboatmen’s Union-ILWU for a film screening of “Boom The Sound of Eviction”: Learn about the late 90’s tech boom and how it relates to today’s wave of evictions and displacement of working class communities.

    After the film, hear from community members, tenants, homeowners and union members who are fighting back against eviction, foreclosure and displacement.

    https://www.facebook.com/events/401910503276603

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    In 2001 former Inlandboatmen’s Union member Mark Liiv, along with Whispered Media Collective, created “Boom, The Sound of Eviction”. The film chronicles the late 90’s technology boom and bust and the effect it had on San Francisco residents and neighborhoods. We will screen this film and afterwords hear about the connections between the last tech boom and the one we are experiencing now.

    We will then hear from community members who are currently being displaced and what they are doing to fight back. We will touch on how evictions, foreclosure, high cost of living/rents and job loss all contribute to the displacement of working class communities in San Francisco and the larger Bay Area and what we can do to fight back together to preserve our homes, communities and the city we love.

  • OpenScreening

    openscreeningATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission for contributing artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm

    Not a filmmaker? Come and hang out with us anyway. Enjoy the atmosphere, the art, the movies, the people, the refreshments

    Submissions: Label all tapes w/ name, contact, title and length. Mail to: Openscreening, 992 Valencia, SF, 94110 1-2 week advance submissions strongly recommended. If not. . . it is all good. Max length: 15 min. Formats: DVD, miniDV/DVcam, VHS, beta, 8mm and 16mm All genres.

    More Info: contact  
    Programming@atasite.org