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Festival Kick-Off Screening: TINY – A STORY ABOUT LIVING SMALL

By SFGFF ⋅ April 11, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

When: May 22, 2013 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Where: Annie Alley (next to SPUR Urban Center), Annie Street, San Francisco,CA 94105, USA

TINY – A STORY ABOUT LIVING SMALL Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller, USA, 2013, 62 mins tiny-themovie.com Can 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 [...]

SFGFF co-presents at CAAMFest: THE LAND OF HOPE

By SFGFF ⋅ March 15, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

When: March 21, 2013 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Where: Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley,CA 94704, USA

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 [...]

SFGFF co-presents at CAAMFest: THE LAND OF HOPE

By SFGFF ⋅ March 15, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

When: March 16, 2013 @ 9:40 PM – 11:30 PM

Where: Sundance Kabuki Cinemas , 1881 Post Street, San Francisco,CA 94115, USA

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 [...]

Free Earth Day screening: A FIERCE GREEN FIRE

By SFGFF ⋅ February 23, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

When: April 24, 2013 @ 5:15 PM – 7:45 PM

Where: Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco,CA 94102, USA

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 [...]

Free Earth Day Screening: THE ISLAND PRESIDENT

By SFGFF ⋅ February 23, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

When: April 23, 2013 @ 5:45 PM – 7:30 PM

Where: Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco,CA 94102, USA

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 [...]

SFGFF presents: PEOPLE OF A FEATHER

By SFGFF ⋅ January 27, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

When: April 4, 2013 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Where: Goldman Theater, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley,CA 94704, USA

Film screening and conversation with artist Jeffrey Long Featuring 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 [...]

SFGFF Special Screening & Mixer: CHASING ICE

By SFGFF ⋅ January 23, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

When: February 14, 2013 @ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Where: Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 9th Street, San Francisco,CA 94103, USA

*** 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 [...]

Free Screening SOUL FOOD JUNKIES

By SFGFF ⋅ January 7, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

When: January 15, 2013 @ 5:45 PM – 6:00 PM

Where: Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco,CA 94102, USA

Join us for the first ITVS Community Cinema screening of 2013 with a free screening of SOUL FOOD JUNKIES. Filmmaker Byron Hurt explores the upsides and downsides of soul food, a quintessential American cuisine. SOUL FOOD JUNKIES explores the history and social significance of soul food to black cultural identity and its effect on African [...]

Free Screening: SPLIT ESTATE

By SFGFF ⋅ December 21, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

When: February 27, 2013 @ 5:45 PM – 7:30 PM

Where: Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco,CA 94102, USA

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 [...]

SFGFF co-presents: SOLAR MAMAS

By SFGFF ⋅ November 1, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

When: November 13, 2012 @ 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Where: Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, 100 Larkin St, San Francisco,CA 94102, USA

Celebrate the last ITVS Community Cinema screening of the year with a free screening of SOLAR MAMAS, an inspiring film about women in the most challenging of circumstances upturning the status quo and using education to transform their lives and communities. Join us after the screening for a free Wine Reception hosted by SF Environment [...]