San Francisco International Film Festival
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The Honduran Coup Never Happened (Part 5)...District, I looked across the street, and observed a young woman reading an alternative newspaper sized program for the upcoming San Francisco International Film Festival at the end of the month. Having already ordered tickets for... In this article: Hillary Clinton, United States, Islam, Sesame Street, Capitalism, Pakistan, File sharing, and Imperialism |
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Denver Post Entertainment | November 12, 2009
Starz Denver honoree Ed Harris made time for directors' debut
...Award during an evening of clips and conversation at the King Center on the Auraria campus at 7 p.m. "I was being honored at the San Francisco Film Festival, and a young woman told me that there were two young men who insisted that they...
In this article: Ed Harris, Oscar, Denver Film Festival, The Hours, A History of Violence, Pollock, and Auraria
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The University Daily Kansan | November 05, 2009
KU professor to present film at Liberty Hall
...hands on. Since premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, the film has received awards from the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco and the Cherokee International Film Festival, where it won best film, best director, and best...
In this article: Kevin Willmott, Last of the Mohicans, Sundance Film Festival, Wes Studi, Anchorage, Alaska, American Indian Film Festival, and Haskell Indian Nations University
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Rotten Tomatoes: Movies | November 05, 2009
70% (Untitled)
...(BAND OF BROTHERS) and Vinnie Jones (SNATCH). (UNTITLED) was an official selection at the 2009 Palm Springs Film Festival and the 2009 San Francisco Film Festival. --© Samuel Goldwyn [More] Click on the "SAVE" button to put this movie...
In this article: Marley Shelton, Grindhouse, Adam Goldberg, Oscar, Woody Allen, and San Francisco Film Festival
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San Francisco Chronicle | October 27, 2009
Lawrence Halprin - landscape architect - dies
...wife's avant-garde dances. He wrote nine books, and his documentary on Salvador Dali, "Le Pink Grapefruit," won an award at the 1976 San Francisco Film Festival. What defined her husband's work, Anna Halprin said Monday, is that he never...
In this article: Lawrence Halprin, Taliesin, American Society of Landscape Architects, Frank Gehry, Anna Halprin, Frank Lloyd Wright, San Francisco, and National Council
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San Francisco Chronicle | October 26, 2009
Landscape architect Halprin dies
...dancer Anna Halprin. He wrote at least eight books and his documentary on Salvador Dali, "Le Pink Grapefruit," won an award at the 1976 San Francisco Film Festival. "I am basically a landscape architect, but I view myself as an artist,"...
In this article: Lawrence Halprin, San Francisco Film Festival, Anna Halprin, Salvador Dali, U.S. Navy, Sea Ranch, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, and Northern California
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Filmcritic.com DVD Reviews | October 18, 2009
Ichi the Killer - 10/20/2009
...the film's duration. Highly recommended, but be forewarned, it'll take a strong stomach. Aka Koroshiya 1. Screened at the 45th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival. Producer: Akiko Funatsu, Dai Miyazaki, Toyoyuki Yokohama
In this article: Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike, Tadanobu Asano, Celluloid, Nao Omori, Werner Fassbinder, and Billy Wilder
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Wikipedia | October 16, 2009
San Francisco International Film Festival
The San Francisco International Film Festival (abbreviated as SFIFF) is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the International is held each spring for two weeks,...
In this article: Academy Awards, San Francisco, Henry King, Pather Panchali, Beloved Infidel, Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa, and Satyajit Ray
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | October 14, 2009
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...for the first time in eight years to greet the press as "Stop Making Sense" celebrates its 15th anniversary with a screening at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Chris Frantz reveals he just bought a DVD player. Jerry...
In this article: Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense, Lynn Mabry, David X. Cohen, Tom Tom Club, DVD, Chris Frantz, and Bernie Worrell
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PBS | September 16, 2009
Forum Highlights Early Language Education
...language programs in America's schools is captured in the film of "Speaking in Tongues," which won a best documentary award at this year's San Francisco International Film Festival. Filmmakers Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider say politics...
In this article: KPLU, Pacific Lutheran University, Washington, and University of Washington
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SFGate: Entertainment | August 30, 2009
Letters to the Pink
...I released it. The film made fun of Muni and caused quite a stir at City Hall and with Muni top brass. The film went on to play at the San Francisco International Film Festival that fall, played in three theaters simultaneously in San...
In this article: San Francisco Chronicle, Goo Goo Dolls, Phoenix, and San Francisco
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The San Francisco International Film Festival, first held in December 1957 in San Francisco, is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the event celebrates its 50th anniversary at the 2007 festival held between 26 April to 10 May 2007. Graham Leggat became the executive director of the festival on 17 October 2005.
The Festival played a major role in introducing foreign films to American audiences. Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood and Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali screened at the first festival, which opened on December 4, 1957, and took place at the Metro Theater on Union Street, owned by Irving M. "Bud" Levin.
The annual 15-day Festival now presents nearly 200 films from over 50 countries and reaches an engaged audience of tens of thousands of film lovers, filmmakers, industry representatives and journalists with screenings in San Francisco, Berkeley, and the Peninsula. The Festival highlights current trends in international film and video production with an emphasis on work that has not yet secured U.S. distribution.
The Golden Gate Awards is the competitive section for documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental, youth-produced and work for television. Juries award cash prizes ranging up to $5,000 in ten of the 14 categories.
First features by emerging filmmakers are eligible for the SKYY Prize, which includes a $10,000 cash award, and was established in 1997 by the Festival and premier sponsor SKYY Vodka to recognize a director whose film exhibits a unique artistic sensibility.
The Festival also invites recent feature-length narratives and documentaries and archival presentations from around the globe, special awards and tributes recognizing individual achievement.
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