Exhibition | Fiscal Sponsorship Resources

PAST EXHIBITIONS

Highlighted film titles link to SFIFF pages that contain film synopses, credits, print sources, running times and countries of origin.

2nd Verse: The Rebirth of Poetry
It's the annual Brave New Voices Poetry Slam, a San Francisco event that in 2005 (the year recorded here) attracted some 350 teenage poets from 36 U.S. cities, plus a smattering of international participants.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 Youth Ed
Attendance: 242
Website: www.2ndversefilm.com/
 
Al Franken: God Spoke
Love him or loathe him, the sharp-tongued liberal pundit Al Franken is on a mission.
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 SFIFF
Attendance: 764
Youth Ed Attendance: 52
Website: www.godspokefilm.com/
 
Amandla: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Interviews, archival footage, and filmed performances highlight the role of music in the South African struggle against apartheid.
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 Youth Ed
Attendance: 180

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
This harrowing, breathless documentary revisits the 2007 protests by hundreds of silent monks and thousands of chanting citizens against Burma’s military dictatorship, using the stunning concealed-camcorder footage smuggled abroad by a cadre of courageous young reporters.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 625
Website: http://www.burmavj.com/

Control Room
Charting the struggles of Al Jazeera, CNN and other journalists to cover, or creat, newsControl Room takes audiences inside the war in Iraq, or at least the buildings where it was presented.
SFFS Exhibition: 2004 SFIFF
Attendance: 663
Website: www.noujaimfilms.com/controlroom/site/01.html

Ferlinghetti
This portrait of poet and City Lights cofounder Lawrence Ferlinghetti traces a legendary and remarkably influential literary life, from the early Beats and the Howl censorship trial to the infamous anti-war banner hung outside the bookstore, “Dissent Is Not Un-American.” 
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 838
Website: http://ferlinghettifilm.com/

Home of the Brave
The price of social commitment, not just to oneself but to the generations that follow, is compassionately explored in Paola di Florio’s Home of the Brave.
SFFS Exhibition: 2004 SFIFF
Attendance: 389
 
The Orange Revolution
Steve York, director of this politically charged documentary, began tracking Ukraine’s presidential campaign in the summer of 2004, before opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned.
SFFS Exhibition: 2007 SFIFF
Attendance: 387
Youth Ed Attendance: 71
Website: www.orangerevolutionmovie.com/

Secrecy
In today’s wired world most of us enjoy the luxury of free flowing information 24 hours a day. So why does the United States government spend more time and money than ever before making sure we don’t have access to certain information?
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 SFIFF
Attendance: 629
Youth Ed Attendance: 93
SFFS Focus Attendance: 383
Website: www.secrecyfilm.com/

FISCAL SPONSORSHIP
 
HIghlighted film titles link to sffs.org "Current Projects" pages, alphabetically listing SFFS fiscally sponsored films, containing synopses and website links where available. Below each title is the filmmaker's name.

Counting To Five
Robert H. Martin

Raging Grannies
Pam Walton
 
Soul of a Nation
Elizabeth O'Connell


RESOURCES

The following list of resources offers interested audience members more information and ways to become involved in Free Speech.

First Ammendment Project