FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
Cinema by the Bay
November 3–6, 2011
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
The San Francisco Film Society's Cinema by the Bay festival celebrates the passion, innovation and diversity of Bay Area filmmaking, the intelligence and probing spirit of local directors and the incredible depth and breadth of America’s film and media frontier. The four-day festival will feature new work produced in or about the San Francisco Bay Area and provide a compelling window into Bay Area film culture and practice at its best. The 2011 edition of Cinema by the Bay opens with Joshua Moore’s heartfelt debut feature I Think It's Raining, includes screenings of dynamic new films by leading filmmakers and is capped with the Film Society’s annual celebration of Bay Area innovators, Essential SF.
Download the program (PDF)
Cinema by the Bay Sponsors & Supporters
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
The San Francisco Film Society's Cinema by the Bay festival celebrates the passion, innovation and diversity of Bay Area filmmaking, the intelligence and probing spirit of local directors and the incredible depth and breadth of America’s film and media frontier. The four-day festival will feature new work produced in or about the San Francisco Bay Area and provide a compelling window into Bay Area film culture and practice at its best. The 2011 edition of Cinema by the Bay opens with Joshua Moore’s heartfelt debut feature I Think It's Raining, includes screenings of dynamic new films by leading filmmakers and is capped with the Film Society’s annual celebration of Bay Area innovators, Essential SF.
Download the program (PDF)
Cinema by the Bay Sponsors & Supporters
Opening Night Party
Join director Joshua Moore, cast and crew after the first screening of I Think It’s Raining for a festive Opening Night party. Celebrate at 1300 Fillmore with Southern-inspired hors d‘oeuvres and sponsored wine. Read more...
Thursday, November 3
9:00-11:00 pm
9:00-11:00 pm
1300 Fillmore (at Eddy)
I Think It’s Raining
Joshua Moore
Featuring a mesmerizing performance by Alexandra Clayton with original songs written and performed by her, I Think It’s Raining expertly portrays a young woman at odds with who she once was and who she will become. Read more...
Thursday, November 3, 7:00 pm; Thursday, November 3, 9:30 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Baywatch!
This compendium of insightful, humorous, beautiful and strange films, including some real and seemingly real documentaries, music videos and experimental and uncategorizable films, offers something to delight and offend everybody! Read more...
Friday, November 4, 7:00 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Ava Mendoza with The Bat
Bay Area musical mastermind Ava Mendoza performs her original composition to accompany the 1926 silent film The Bat, a comedy/mystery about a group of greedy loot seekers who are picked off one by one by a shadowy killer. Read more...
Friday, November 4, 9:30 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
WeOwnTV: Freetown in the Bay
Banker White, Black Nature
Filmmaker Banker White and musician Black Nature present a shorts program of newscasts, art films and traditional tales developed by WeOwnTV, the collaborative media project they helped found in Sierra Leone. Read more...
Saturday, November 5, 2:00 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Essential SF: Canyon Cinema
Canyon Cinema’s executive director/filmmaker Dominic Angerame presents a retrospective of short films chronicling the vibrant history of Canyon Cinema and experimental film. Read more...
Saturday, November 5, 4:30 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
The Price of Sex
Mimi Chakarova
Filmed undercover for over ten years in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, The Price of Sex investigates the root causes of sex trafficking while compassionately documenting the stories of women enslaved by poverty and prostitution. Read more...
Saturday, November 5, 6:45 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Where’s My Stuff?
Sam Burbank
A band of misfits undertakes a trip to Nevada to recover belongings placed in deep storage, encountering an abundance of colorful characters and absurd situations along the way. Read more...
Saturday, November 5, 9:00 pm; Sunday, November 6, 4:15 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Reel SF
The Bay Area is home to some of the most vital filmmakers working today. This shorts program provides a quick snapshot of a theme that unites many of them: the investigation of social justice. Read more...
Sunday, November 6, 2:00 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
SF360.org Presents: Essential SF
Essential SF is an ongoing compendium of the Bay Area film community's most vital figures and institutions. Veteran visionaries Allie Light and Irving Saraf, Joshua Grannell, Susan Gerhard, Karen Larsen, Canyon Cinema, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman and others will be feted at this short ceremony. Read more...
Sunday, November 6, 7:00 pm
SF Film Society | New People Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Filmmaker Services Brunch
Presented in conjunction with the San Francisco Film Commission, the SFFS Filmmaker Services Brunch at Cinema by the Bay celebrates the diverse and dynamic films cultivated at FilmHouse. Read more...
Sunday November 6, 11:00 am
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