FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
FILM SOCIETY CINEMA
August 2010
August 2010 Member News & Notes
Congratulations to Film Society members, fiscally sponsored filmmakers and FilmHouse Residents who recently won grants with the Berkeley Film Foundation. The Berkeley Film Foundation gives $100,000 in grant monies to independent filmmakers residing in the Berkeley Area. Former FilmHouse resident Eugene Corr received $12,000 for postproduction on From Ghost Town to Havana. Since the summer of 2007, Corr has followed the lives of boys growing up in Havana, Cuba who play baseball for coach Nicholas Reyes, and boys growing up in West Oakland, California who play for for coach Roscoe Bryant. SFFS fiscally sponsored filmmaker Maureen Gosling received $11,000 for postproduction on No Mouse Music!, which follows the legendary record producer and Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz on his life-long quest to record American roots music. Fiscally sponsored filmmaker Jed Riffe received $10,000 for production on Germ Wars, which takes viewers behind the scenes of the government’s tough—and occasionally brutal—crackdown on raw milk dairies, as seen through the eyes of milk producers, regulators, scientists, prosecutors and consumers. FilmHouse resident and fiscally sponsored filmmaker Kelly J. Richardson received $4,000 for postproduction on Without a Net, which chronicles five young Brazilians at risk for joining the drug trade and prostitution who opt instead for the hazards of life in the circus.
Wonder Drug, a screenplay by SFFS member Caitlin McCarthy, won the Most Likely to Be Produced Award at the 2010 Action on Film International Film Festival. Currently in development with acclaimed independent director Tom Gilroy, the film is a scientific drama about DES, the chemical responsible for one of the world’s biggest drug disasters.
Sheila Ganz’s documentary-in-progress Moms Living Clean traces the three-year journey of six women with addictions through a gender specific treatment program interwoven with the devastating impact of drug laws on mothers and children. The rough cut screened at the Public Policies, Secret Histories Conference at MIT and at the Kentucky School of Alcohol and Other Drug Studies 37th Annual Conference. Ganz also received the Best Work-in-Progress Documentary Award at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival.
Pam Walton’s Raging Grannies: The Action League won an honorable mention for the John Michaels Award at the Big Muddy Film Festival. KQED is podcasting Raging Grannies on Truly CA Shorts, and Free Speech TV will be broadcasting it for the next six months. Walton’s film The Forever Home: Going Green won a 2010 National Mature Media Merit Award for Work/Retirement.
Kevin Gordon won a Student Academy Award for his documentary short Dreams Awake. The film, a portrait of a janitor from Mexico who discovers his artistic and political voice in the United States, won a bronze medal in the documentary category. Gordon is a student in the Stanford Documentary Film and Video MFA Program.
Kathleen McNamara’s documentary Why Isn’t Chris von Sneidern Famous? will air on the KQED Truly CA series, Sunday, November 7. The film also screened as part of the Mission Creek Music Festival and at the International Pop Overthrow music festival. It had its world premiere at the Film Society’s Cinema by the Bay festival last year.
Eve A. Ma’s experimental narrative Two Streets & Adela will be released in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain (where the film was shot) in an official presentation by the city’s cultural division, Subdelegación de Cultura.
Producer/director Amelia Chua has received a grant award from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program for her Japanese American octogenarian love story, Being Human, Being True.
Carmen Madden’s family drama Everyday Black Man won the Programmer’s Award for Best Narrative at the Pan African International Film and Arts Festival and the Best Narrative Feature Award from the Tallahassee Film Festival.
Margot Smith’s video To Empower Women—filmed in China at the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995—screened twice in March at the Non-Governmental Organization Global Forum in New York City.
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) recently honored Tamara Perkins with the PASS Award for her feature documentary The Trust. The PASS Award (Prevention for a Safer Society) is one of the few national awards recognizing filmmakers, journalists and others who focus America’s attention on the criminal justice and child welfare systems.
SFFS members Judith Montell and Emmy Scharlatt were named Saul Zaentz Award winners and received $20,000 for Separate and Unequal, which focuses on the lives of four Palestinian women living in the West Bank who have been trained to use video cameras by the Israeli Human Rights organization B’Tselem. B’Tselem created the Camera Project in order to get accurate information on the ground as well as to empower Palestinians living under occupation.
Karil Daniels’s film Water Baby: Experiences of Waterbirth was selected for the May 2010 edition of the Ironweed Film Club. Water Baby is an in-depth look at water birth, the new innovation that promises safe, gentle, joyous and empowering childbirth. It was shot in the USA, France and Russia with the world’s leading water birth pioneer researcher and doctors. Over its long life, the film has received awards from 14 festivals.
Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider’s award-winning film Speaking in Tongues, a documentary about kids in San Francisco schools who grow up bilingual, has been selected by PBS to air and stream on the Web this fall. The filmmakers see this as an opportunity to bring the issues and opportunities of bilingualism to a very broad audience and help push forward local initiatives.
Two Jason Wallach screenplays were nominated as finalists in the 2010 Action on Film Festival. A Tale of Water was nominated for best script and Hymn was nominated as best science fiction script.
Congratulations to Film Society members, fiscally sponsored filmmakers and FilmHouse Residents who recently won grants with the Berkeley Film Foundation. The Berkeley Film Foundation gives $100,000 in grant monies to independent filmmakers residing in the Berkeley Area. Former FilmHouse resident Eugene Corr received $12,000 for postproduction on From Ghost Town to Havana. Since the summer of 2007, Corr has followed the lives of boys growing up in Havana, Cuba who play baseball for coach Nicholas Reyes, and boys growing up in West Oakland, California who play for for coach Roscoe Bryant. SFFS fiscally sponsored filmmaker Maureen Gosling received $11,000 for postproduction on No Mouse Music!, which follows the legendary record producer and Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz on his life-long quest to record American roots music. Fiscally sponsored filmmaker Jed Riffe received $10,000 for production on Germ Wars, which takes viewers behind the scenes of the government’s tough—and occasionally brutal—crackdown on raw milk dairies, as seen through the eyes of milk producers, regulators, scientists, prosecutors and consumers. FilmHouse resident and fiscally sponsored filmmaker Kelly J. Richardson received $4,000 for postproduction on Without a Net, which chronicles five young Brazilians at risk for joining the drug trade and prostitution who opt instead for the hazards of life in the circus.
Wonder Drug, a screenplay by SFFS member Caitlin McCarthy, won the Most Likely to Be Produced Award at the 2010 Action on Film International Film Festival. Currently in development with acclaimed independent director Tom Gilroy, the film is a scientific drama about DES, the chemical responsible for one of the world’s biggest drug disasters.
Sheila Ganz’s documentary-in-progress Moms Living Clean traces the three-year journey of six women with addictions through a gender specific treatment program interwoven with the devastating impact of drug laws on mothers and children. The rough cut screened at the Public Policies, Secret Histories Conference at MIT and at the Kentucky School of Alcohol and Other Drug Studies 37th Annual Conference. Ganz also received the Best Work-in-Progress Documentary Award at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival.
Pam Walton’s Raging Grannies: The Action League won an honorable mention for the John Michaels Award at the Big Muddy Film Festival. KQED is podcasting Raging Grannies on Truly CA Shorts, and Free Speech TV will be broadcasting it for the next six months. Walton’s film The Forever Home: Going Green won a 2010 National Mature Media Merit Award for Work/Retirement.
Kevin Gordon won a Student Academy Award for his documentary short Dreams Awake. The film, a portrait of a janitor from Mexico who discovers his artistic and political voice in the United States, won a bronze medal in the documentary category. Gordon is a student in the Stanford Documentary Film and Video MFA Program.
Kathleen McNamara’s documentary Why Isn’t Chris von Sneidern Famous? will air on the KQED Truly CA series, Sunday, November 7. The film also screened as part of the Mission Creek Music Festival and at the International Pop Overthrow music festival. It had its world premiere at the Film Society’s Cinema by the Bay festival last year.
Eve A. Ma’s experimental narrative Two Streets & Adela will be released in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain (where the film was shot) in an official presentation by the city’s cultural division, Subdelegación de Cultura.
Producer/director Amelia Chua has received a grant award from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program for her Japanese American octogenarian love story, Being Human, Being True.
Carmen Madden’s family drama Everyday Black Man won the Programmer’s Award for Best Narrative at the Pan African International Film and Arts Festival and the Best Narrative Feature Award from the Tallahassee Film Festival.
Margot Smith’s video To Empower Women—filmed in China at the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995—screened twice in March at the Non-Governmental Organization Global Forum in New York City.
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) recently honored Tamara Perkins with the PASS Award for her feature documentary The Trust. The PASS Award (Prevention for a Safer Society) is one of the few national awards recognizing filmmakers, journalists and others who focus America’s attention on the criminal justice and child welfare systems.
SFFS members Judith Montell and Emmy Scharlatt were named Saul Zaentz Award winners and received $20,000 for Separate and Unequal, which focuses on the lives of four Palestinian women living in the West Bank who have been trained to use video cameras by the Israeli Human Rights organization B’Tselem. B’Tselem created the Camera Project in order to get accurate information on the ground as well as to empower Palestinians living under occupation.
Karil Daniels’s film Water Baby: Experiences of Waterbirth was selected for the May 2010 edition of the Ironweed Film Club. Water Baby is an in-depth look at water birth, the new innovation that promises safe, gentle, joyous and empowering childbirth. It was shot in the USA, France and Russia with the world’s leading water birth pioneer researcher and doctors. Over its long life, the film has received awards from 14 festivals.
Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider’s award-winning film Speaking in Tongues, a documentary about kids in San Francisco schools who grow up bilingual, has been selected by PBS to air and stream on the Web this fall. The filmmakers see this as an opportunity to bring the issues and opportunities of bilingualism to a very broad audience and help push forward local initiatives.
Two Jason Wallach screenplays were nominated as finalists in the 2010 Action on Film Festival. A Tale of Water was nominated for best script and Hymn was nominated as best science fiction script.