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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” [...]

In Cinemas: IF A TREE FALLS: THE STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT by Marshall Curry

By SFGFF ⋅ June 21, 2011 ⋅ One comment

July 15-21 // Landmark’s Lumiere Theatre, San Francisco and Landmark’s Shattuck Cinemas, Berkeley // On December 7, 2005, federal agents conducted a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)—an organization the FBI has called America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat.” A hit at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, IF A [...]

Watch online: BACK TO THE GARDEN: FLOWER POWER COMES FULL CIRCLE

By SFGFF ⋅ June 21, 2011 ⋅ One comment

The SFGFF 2011 Centerpiece film is now available to watch online HERE. (Please don’t forget to rate the film too!) In 1988, filmmaker Kevin Tomlinson filmed & interviewed a group of back-to-the-land “hippies”—living off-grid, insulated from mainstream culture. In 2006 he tracked down his subjects again to find out what had become of their families’ [...]

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 [...]

Panel discussion: Recycling at H.A.N.C. [live festival blog]

By SFGFF ⋅ March 6, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

A live event blog from the Festival’s work-in-progress screening and panel discussion around Soumyaa Kapil Behren’s “My Garbage, My Neighborhood” on March 6, 2011.

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 [...]

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 [...]

BACK TO THE GARDEN + Flower Power After-Party 3.5.11

By SFGFF ⋅ December 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Back to the Garden: Flower Power Comes Full Circle SATURDAY MARCH 5, 2011 8:15 PM @ Landmark Theatres Embarcadero Center Cinema” In 1988, filmmaker Kevin Tomlinson filmed & interviewed a group of back-to-the-land ”hippies”—living off-grid, insulated from mainstream culture. In 2006 he tracked down his subjects again to find out what had become of their [...]

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 [...]