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.

10 + 4
Abbas Kiarostami introduced the world to Mania Akbari in 2002, when he placed his video camera on her dashboard and filmed her talking alternately to her son, friends and strangers while driving them through the streets of Tehran.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 SFIFF
Attendance: 170
Co-presenter: Bay Area Women in Film

The Bridge
The Bridge, a documentary exploration of the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world, and the unfortunate souls drawn by its siren call.
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 SFIFF
Attendance: 1194
Website: www.thebridge-themovie.com/new/index.html

Crude
This lively and gripping documentary follows the shifting course of a lawsuit brought by 30,000 Ecuadoreans against Chevron over its responsibility for the country’s contaminated waters and streams. 
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 1,108
Website: http://www.crudethemovie.com/

D Tour
Pat Spurgeon, charismatic drummer for local indie rockers Rogue Wave, needs to keep playing music—and a new kidney. This remarkable travelogue follows his double quest during an eventful tour, mixing interviews with performances by Rogue Wave and Ben Gibbard.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 885
Website: http://www.dtourmovie.com/

A Doula Story
Employing a doula to assist a mother through labor pains during childbirth has grown more prevalent over the years as women have sought to replace the instruction and care once provided by large generational families.
SFFS Exhibition: 2005 SFIFF
Attendance: 401
Youth Ed Attendance: 39
Website: www.adoulastory.org/
 
The English Surgeon
What is it like to have God-like surgical powers yet to struggle with your own humanity? This question has plagued London neurosurgeon Henry Marsh his entire medical career.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 SFIFF
Attendance: 284
Website: www.theenglishsurgeon.com/
 
Heart of the Game
The politics of race, class and gender land center court in Ward Serrill’s entertaining documentary about the Birkenstock-shod coach of a high school girls basketball team in Seattle…
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 SFIFF
Attendance: 318
Youth Ed Attendance: 101
Website: www.heartofthegame.org/web/home.htm
 
JUMP!
A feature-length character-driven documentary about competitive jump rope that follows kids on five teams from around the country who push physical and psychological limits in pursuit of winning the World Championship.
SFFS Exhibition: 2008 SFIFF
Attendance: 215
Youth Ed Attendance: 321
Website: www.jumpmovie.com/
 
Runners High
If you can finish a marathon you can do anything. Such is the elegant and powerful mantra of the organization Students Run Oakland. It’s an inspiring challenge, rife with metaphor and room for resolve—and then there's the doing of it. To get to the finish line, SRO asks teens to dedicate themselves to four months of training.
SFFS Exhibition: 2006 SFIFF
Attendance: 1197
Youth Ed Attendance: 706
Website: www.runnershighfilm.com/
 
Super Size Me
Using his daredevil gastronomic stunt as a jumping-off point for a wider exploration of the role fast food plays in America’s super-sized collective weight problem, Spurlock hits the road to interview a range of health and food industry experts as well as just plain folks, and marshals a staggering amount of research into this playful, pointed and highly entertaining cautionary tale of epic proportions.
SFFS Exhibition: 2004 SFIFF
Attendance: 450
 
A Walk to Beautiful
The journey Ayehu and many young women make on foot and by bus from their remote villages in Ethiopia to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital to have corrective surgery.The film follows five women from the despair of their conditions to hope and confidence as they undergo treatment and take control of their lives.
SFFS Exhibition: 2007 SFIFF
Attendance: 594
Website: www.walktobeautiful.com/
Co-presenter: United Nations Association Film Festival

Wild Field
In the desolate beauty of the Kazakh steppes, a Russian doctor without adequate supplies struggles to treat a surreal parade of locals with medical emergencies. Beautifully filmed and well acted, Wild Field basks in the tradition of dark, existential Russian tragicomedy.
SFFS Exhibition: 2009 SFIFF
Attendance: 501
Website: http://dikoepole.ru/ru/

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.

Burning the Village
Elizabeth  McBee- Horner

C. Level
Maeve  murphy

D Tour
Jim Granato
 
Indestructible , Ben Byer(formerly ALS: The Quest for a Cure)
Rebeccah Rush
 
The Most Distance Places
Michael Seely

Of Wind and Waves: The Life of Woody Brown
David  L. Brown
 
A Permanent Mark: Agent Orange in Vietnam & America
Holly Million

Surviving Amina
Barbara Celis

Way of Life
David Driver
 
What Now? Stroke Recovery and How It Works
Alison Bonds Shapiro


RESOURCES

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

ACTION AID

Amazon Watch

ALS Association

American Cancer Society

American Psychiatric Association

Atomic Veterans

Brookline Center

California Black Health Network

California Transplant Donor Network

Cinterandes Hospital Project

Freedom Commission on Mental Health

Minorities AIDS Project

National Alliance for Mentally Ill

National Community of Woman Living with HIV
& AIDS

Planned Parenthood

Quest for the Cure

San Francisco Mental Health

Susan Komen Foundation

United Network of Organ Sharing

Young Survivor Coalition