conservation

USA Premiere: ALMA ~ Director’s Choice

By SFGFF ⋅ December 17, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Sun 03.04 // 5:00 PM SF Film Society Cinema, 1748 Post St. ALMA Patrick Rouxel France, 2011, 65 mins. Director’s Choice. USA Premiere. Buy Tickets Beautifully shot, alternately joyful and horrifying, Alma captures the ecological, and even spiritual, cost of meat, dairy, and leather production in the Amazon. Since 2003, Patrick Rouxel has dedicated his [...]

San Francisco Premiere: GREEN FIRE: ALDO LEOPOLD AND A LAND ETHIC FOR OUR TIME

By SFGFF ⋅ December 17, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Mon 03.05 // 5:00 PM SF Film Society Cinema, 1748 Post St. GREEN FIRE: ALDO LEOPOLD AND A LAND ETHIC FOR OUR TIME Ann and Steven Dunsky USA, 2011, 74 min. San Francisco Premiere. In Person: Ann and Steven Dunsky, filmmakers; Cella Mitchell, Wallace Stegner Environmental Librarian, San Francisco Public Library Buy Tickets Local filmmakers [...]

Centerpiece: THE CITY DARK

By SFGFF ⋅ November 29, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

CENTERPIECE SCREENING Sat 03.03 // 8:00 PM SF Film Society Cinema, 1748 Post St. THE CITY DARK Ian Cheney USA, 2011, 84 min. In Person: Ian Cheney Buy Tickets Filmmaker Ian Cheney ponders what the impact of a world without night would be. Having moved from Maine to New York City, Cheney discovers himself in [...]

SFGFF & San Francisco Public Library co-present: BUTTERFLIES & BULLDOZERS

By SFGFF ⋅ September 20, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

September 28 // 12:00-2:00pm // Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch // Can People and Endangered Species Live Together? SFGFF and the San Francisco Public Library present a film that deals with the dilemma of economic growth versus species preservation. Join us for a FREE lunchtime screening of BUTTERFLIES & BULLDOZERS and a [...]

SFGFF and WildAid co-present: THE WHALE

By SFGFF ⋅ September 15, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

September 22 // 7:00pm // Delancey Street Theater, 600 Embarcadero // “Funny and moving and unforgettable” ~ Ric O’Barry “Charming…a gorgeous and provocative film” ~ The Seattle Times Set on the rugged coast of Vancouver Island and narrated by Ryan Reynolds, THE WHALE describes what happens when Luna, a baby Orca, gets separated from his [...]

Free Screening: GREEN by Patrick Rouxel

By SFGFF ⋅ June 21, 2011 ⋅ One comment

June 29 // 6:15pm // San Francisco Public Library Main Branch // Here’s your opportunity to see 2011 festival film GREEN by Patrick Rouxel one more time. This multi-award winning film explores the devastating impacts of logging and the palm oil industry on Orang-utan habitat in Indonesia.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand to attend 1st SF Green Film Festival 3.5.11

By SFGFF ⋅ March 2, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Yann Arthus-Bertrand proudly presents his environmental documentary at the 1st San Francisco Green Film Festival HOME, the 1st full-length feature documentary film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand shown for free in over 130 countries and seen by more than 400 million viewers, will screen Saturday, March 5th 2011 at 8.00 pm at Landmark Theatres Embarcadero Center Cinema. Yann Arthus-Bertrand will be [...]

Join us for festival Q&A with iconic writer Margaret Atwood 3.4.11

By SFGFF ⋅ December 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

SFGFF will screen the West Coast premiere of veteran Canadian documentarian Ron Mann’s IN THE WAKE OF THE FLOOD, a film about iconic Canadian writer and environmental activist Margaret Atwood. Atwood will join the festival audience for a live satellite Q&A after the screening. On the eve of her 70th birthday, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood [...]

Multi award-winning GREEN highlights threats to orang-utan habitat

By SFGFF ⋅ December 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

We’re thrilled to be hosting the Bay Area Premiere of filmmaker Patrick Rouxel’s multi award-winning documentary, GREEN, following ‘Green’, a female orang-utan which is the victim of deforestation and and resource exploitation in Indonesia. The film is an emotional journey with Green’s final days. It is a visual ride presenting the treasures of rainforest biodiversity [...]

Jon Bowermaster’s new film from the Gulf of Mexico screening Sept 30 at ‘Nightlife’

By SFGFF ⋅ September 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Drill, baby, spill: On Sept 30 we’re screening Jon Bowermaster’s film SOLA: LOUISIANA WATER STORIES at the California Academy of Sciences ‘Nightlife’ special H2O edition. Jon arrived in Louisiana in July 2008 to make a film about the relationship between man and water, and could never have predicted his reportage would end with the planet’s biggest ecological disaster [...]