public health

2011 Video Contest: show us what you are doing to reduce pollution!

By SFGFF ⋅ August 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Star in your own 60 seconds-or-less video that shows what you are doing to promote pollution prevention and see your film on the big screen at the 2012 San Francisco Green Film Festival! Video submission deadline is September 14. Entry form, rules, plus news on the latest prizes (including Grand Prize of a screening at [...]

Free Screenings: BAG IT by Suzan Beraza

By SFGFF ⋅ June 21, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

July 5-18 // San Francisco Public Libraries (various locations) // Another chance to see our popular 2011 Opening Night film BAG IT. We are partnering with SFPL GreenStacks and SF Department of the Environment to present five neighborhood library branch screenings and a grand finale screening at the Main Branch at Civic Center. Follow “everyman” [...]

On Television: BAG IT by Suzan Beraza

By SFGFF ⋅ April 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

April 26-30 // KQED // Festival Opening Night film BAG IT hits the airwaves April 26-30! Mark your calendars – and don’t forget to tell your friends too. This film will change your life! Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes, disposable bags that they throw away without much thought. But where is “away”? [...]

In Cinemas: INTO ETERNITY by Michael Madsen

By SFGFF ⋅ April 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

May 27 // Roxie Theater // Did you miss our SF Premiere of “Into Eternity”, a terrifying look at our efforts to find solutions to the radioactive waste issue? Don’t miss the opportunity to catch the film again at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater in May. Go to the “Nuclear Facts” tab at http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com to get [...]

Fredrik Gertten’s BANANAS!* wins festival’s inaugural Green Tenacity Award

By SFGFF ⋅ March 8, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

(March 6, 2011, San Francisco, CA) – The 1st San Francisco Green Film Festival (SFGFF), which made its debut March 3-6, 2011, announced today the recipient of the festival’s inaugural Green Tenacity Award. The award, to be given annually to a filmmaker who shows great tenacity in exploring crucial environmental issues in their work, was [...]

Opening Night Green Carpet Gala: BAG IT 3.3.11

By SFGFF ⋅ December 1, 2010 ⋅ 4 comments

OPENING NIGHT GALA: 1st San Francisco Green Film Festival THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011 A night to remember! Join us to celebrate the launch of San Francisco’s newest, ‘greenest’ Arts event! Following the Bay Area Premiere screening of “Bag It”, mix and mingle with festival filmmakers and special guests at the beautiful Bently Reserve. Enjoy local [...]

BANANAS!* SF premiere – The film Dole Food Co. doesn’t want you to see

By SFGFF ⋅ December 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Keep posted for details of the festival’s Bay Area Premiere of Fredrik Gertten’s documentary, BANANAS!*, a suspenseful, layer-peeling, court room drama within the global politics of food and First vs. Third world dynamics. Directed by Fredrik Gertten, Sweden’s pre-eminent documentarian and investigative journalist, BANANAS!* focuses on a slippery fact trail and a landmark and highly [...]

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 [...]