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2013 Call for Entries: Final Extended DeadlineJan 18 (all-day)
Final Extended Film Submission deadline for the 3rd San Francisco Green Film Festival, to take place May 30-June 5, 2013.
Full information at sfgreenfilmfest.org/call-for-entries/
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Feb14Thu
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SFGFF Special Screening & Mixer: CHASING ICE @ Ninth Street Independent Film Center6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
*** SOLD OUT ***GIVE SOME LOVE TO THE PLANET!
Treat yourself and the planet to an extraordinary Valentine’s Day event!
Join us for an evening of film and friends with a special screening of the multi-award winning (and Oscar nominated) CHASING ICE.
Be the first to hear exciting announcements about the upcoming festival in May!
Enjoy tasty hors d’oeuvres courtesy of Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, ‘Cutting Edge’ wine from Cole Hardware, plus a Valentine’s Day cocktail. Check out ICE – an installation art – and photography in the lobby by local artist Carter Brooks!
Thursday, February 14th
6:00pm Mix & Mingle
7:00pm Film ScreeningNinth Street Independent Film Center
145 9th Street (between Natoma/Minna)
San Francisco, CA 94103*** SOLD OUT ***
General $15
Senior/Student $14
Includes light refreshments and film screening. Space is limited!CHASING ICE is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of climate change. Using time-lapse cameras, his videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. www.chasingice.com >>
Winner: SXSW Film Festival, HotDocs Documentary Festival, MountainFilm in Telluride
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Silverdocs Documentary Festival
“Stunning…Timely…A solitary quest with global implications.” ~ The New York Times, ‘Critics’ Pick’
“If there was ever a film that needed to be on the big screen, this is it!” ~ David Courier, Sundance senior programmer
THANK YOU EVENT SPONSORS!
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Feb27Wed
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Free Screening: SPLIT ESTATE @ Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch5:45 PM – 7:30 PM
SPLIT ESTATE
This compelling Emmy Award winning documentary shows the dirty side of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas, an energy source the industry touts as a clean alternative to fossil fuels.Imagine discovering that you don’t own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine having little recourse, other than accepting an unregulated industry in your backyard. SPLIT ESTATE maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health.
Red Rock Pictures, 2009, 76 minutes
www.splitestate.comFebruary 27 at 5:45 PM
Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch
100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Free admission.This event is co-presented by the San Francisco Green Film Festival, Stegner Environmental Center and Green Stacks Program of the San Francisco Public Library
A discussion on fracking in California will follow the screening. Find out the latest up-to-the minute information on what is happening in this State and how you can get involved.
Will Rostov, Staff Attorney, EarthjusticeWill has been a staff attorney in Earthjustice’s California office since April 2008. Following graduation from Oberlin College, he worked for the National Wildlife Federation, the Pesticide Action Network and Greenpeace. After leaving Greenpeace, Will struggled to find the right niche and then took the well-trodden path to law school. He graduated cum laude from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1996.
After three years at a boutique litigation firm that specialized in antitrust and class actions, Will returned to his environmental roots and spent five years working on environmental justice issues and challenging large industrial polluters as a staff attorney at Communities for a Better Environment. He then became senior attorney at the Center for Food Safety, litigating cutting-edge genetically engineered crop cases.
At Earthjustice, Will focuses on state law and regional approaches to energy and global warming issues. Recent Cases: Challenging Unregulated Fracking in California >>
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Mar16Sat
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SFGFF co-presents at CAAMFest: THE LAND OF HOPE @ Sundance Kabuki Cinemas9:40 PM – 11:30 PM
Join us at this year’s stellar CAAMFest (March 14 – 24) for the SF Premiere of THE LAND OF HOPE.An earthquake and nuclear crisis forces two Japanese families to decide what is worth sacrificing in the name of safety. Alternately naturalistic and surreal, director Kibou no Kuni’s first feature is inspired by the 2011 Tohoku-Fukushima disaster and shows how love and loyalty can put people on opposite sides of the evacuation border.
March 16, 9:40 PM
Sundance Kabuki CinemasMarch 21, 7:00 PM
Pacific Film Archive Theater, Berkeley
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Mar20Wed
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SFGFF Annual Benefit Reception6:00 PM – 8:00 PMPlease join us for ourAnnual Benefit Cocktail Receptionas we celebrate the leadership and vision of “Rebels with a Cause”with Bay Area filmmakers Nancy Kelly and Kenji Yamamotoand pioneering environmentalist Huey Johnson
Wednesday, March 206:00 until 8:00 pmFor further information, please contact rsvp@sfgreenfilmfest.org or (415) 742-1394All funds raised at the event will benefit the 3rd San Francisco Green Film Festival, May 30 – June 5, 2013.Rebels with a Cause is a new film documenting the compelling and epic story of those who fought to save the Marin County coast and will premiere at the Festival in May.Special thanks to our event sponsors:Blue Heron CateringBi Rite Market // Frey Vineyards
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Mar21Thu
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SFGFF co-presents at CAAMFest: THE LAND OF HOPE @ Pacific Film Archive Theater7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Join us at this year’s stellar CAAMFest (March 14 – 24) for the SF Premiere of THE LAND OF HOPE.An earthquake and nuclear crisis forces two Japanese families to decide what is worth sacrificing in the name of safety. Alternately naturalistic and surreal, director Kibou no Kuni’s first feature is inspired by the 2011 Tohoku-Fukushima disaster and shows how love and loyalty can put people on opposite sides of the evacuation border.
March 16, 9:40 PM
Sundance Kabuki CinemasMarch 21, 7:00 PM
Pacific Film Archive Theater, Berkeley
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Apr4Thu
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SFGFF presents: PEOPLE OF A FEATHER @ Goldman Theater, David Brower Center7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Film screening and conversation with artist Jeffrey LongFeaturing groundbreaking footage from seven winters in the Arctic, PEOPLE OF A FEATHER takes the audience through time into the world of Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present, and future is a unique cultural relationship with the eider duck. Recreations of traditional life are juxtaposed with modern life in Sanikiluaq, as both people and eiders face the challenges posed by changing sea ice and ocean currents disrupted by the massive hydroelectric dams powering eastern North America. The eyes of a remote subsistence culture challenge the world to find energy solutions that work with the seasons of our hydrological cycle. www.peopleofafeather.com
Presented in partnership with the David Brower Center and Earth Island Institute.
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General Admission $10
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Apr20Sat
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Earth Day SF @ Civic Center Plaza10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Join us and celebrate Earth Day 2013 in the heart of San Francisco, the “Greenest City in North America”This unique celebration packs a powerful day of green sustainability discussions, activism, workshops and solutions into one full day of fun and excitement for the whole family. Designed to support the Bay Area Community and beyond, Earth Day San Francisco focuses on acknowledging the local and planetary environmental challenges we all face, and inviting the public to integrate sustainable practices into their everyday lives. www.earthdaysf.org
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Apr23Tue
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Free Earth Day Screening: THE ISLAND PRESIDENT @ Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch5:45 PM – 7:30 PM
Bay Area filmmaker Jon Shenk spends a year with President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives as he confronts a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced – the literal survival of his country and everyone in it, due to the devastating impacts of climate change. Witness the first chapter of his global environmental fight, a fight which, following his forced resignation on February 7, 2012, has clearly only just begun…
Co-presented by SF Green Film Festival as part of the ITVS Community Cinemas series. More information: www.itvs.org/films/island-president
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Apr24Wed
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Free Earth Day screening: A FIERCE GREEN FIRE @ Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch5:15 PM – 7:45 PM
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: THE BATTLE FOR A LIVING PLANET is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubber tappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization, the film tells vivid stories about people fighting – and succeeding – against enormous odds.Directed and written by Mark Kitchell, and narrated by Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Ashley Judd, Van Jones and Isabel Allende. 114 minutes. www.afiercegreenfire.com
Discussion with director Mark Kitchell following screening.
This event is co-presented by the San Francisco Green Film Festival, Stegner Environmental Center and Green Stacks Program of the San Francisco Public Library.
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May7Tue
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2013 Program Launch Party @ Ninth Street Independent Film Center6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
The 3rd San Francisco Green Film Festival
May 30 – June 5, 2013
is just around the corner!PROGRAM LAUNCH PARTY
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
6:00-8:00pmNinth Street Independent Film Center
145 9th Street (at Minna/Natoma)
San Francisco, CA 94103**We strongly recommend getting tickets in advance. Space is limited and last year tickets sold out early. Don’t miss out!**
TICKETS >>
$5 Advance online
$10 Cash on doorJoin us at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center to celebrate the official launch of the festival. Be the first to pick up a festival program, see a sneak peek of some of our most inspiring films, hear about the great line-up of films and guests, and make new festival friends!
Transportation:
The Film Center is situated on 9th Street between Minna and Natoma, one block from Market Street MUNI lines and two blocks from Civic Center BART.
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May22Wed
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Festival Kick-Off Screening: TINY – A STORY ABOUT LIVING SMALL @ Annie Alley (next to SPUR Urban Center)7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
TINY – A STORY ABOUT LIVING SMALL
Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller, USA, 2013, 62 mins
tiny-themovie.comCan living small go big? Fresh off its premiere at SXSW 2013, TINY, a film about families living in homes smaller than a parking space and one couple’s attempts to build a similarly scaled house for themselves, will feel perfectly sized for a screening in the street-turned-pedestrian plaza atmosphere of Annie Alley. As a sneak peek of the 2013 San Francisco Green Film Festival kicking off a week later, TINY will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers.
Co-presented by the San Francisco Green Film Festival and SPUR and generously sponsored by the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District.
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