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July 30–August 5, 2010
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Making Plans for Lena
August 6–12, 2010
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August 13–19, 2010
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Army of Crime
August 20–26, 2010
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September 3–9, 2010
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San Francisco Film Society Announces New SFFS FilmHouse Residents
Five Local Filmmakers Join Vibrant Professional Community Already in Residence in Free Production Office Space Made Available in Partnership with San Francisco Film Commission
1/20/2009
San Francisco, CA – The San Francisco Film Society announced today the second round of filmmakers who have been awarded SFFS FilmHouse Residencies. This innovative program, developed in partnership with the San Francisco Film Commission and launched in November 2008, supports local independent filmmaking by making office space available free of charge to filmmakers actively engaged in various stages of film production. The newest recipients include producers and directors working on a wide range of projects from social issue documentaries to an animated science fiction Western, and in stages of production ranging from the earliest phases of development to postproduction. FilmHouse, part of the Film Society’s expanding filmmaker services programs, functions as a vibrant workshop and community-builder for local filmmakers of all stripes.
Eugene Corr: six-month residency, postproduction, feature documentary
From Ghost Town to Havana is a documentary feature exploring the lives of two dedicated and charismatic baseball coaches in Oakland, California and Havana, Cuba. Each man helps the young boys they coach become young men and to face the challenges of the game and of the societies they live in. Eugene Corr is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker (feature documentary) and a coach’s son.
Miles Matthew Montalbano: six-month residency, preproduction, narrative feature
The Recondite Heart is a dark coming-of-age story of small town punk rock and star-crossed love at the onset of the Reagan era. The film will be the second feature from from Montalbano, whose debut, Revolution Summer (2007), was called “One of the 10 Best Films of the Year” and “One of the Best Independent Films of the Decade” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Melissa Regan: six-month residency, postproduction, feature documentary
The No Dumb Questions project includes a documentary film and online story-sharing community to build understanding and challenge discrimination and violence based on gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation. Regan is an award-winning filmmaker and interactive media designer whose work has appeared on HBO/Cinemax, PBS, LOGO and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Regan also produced an award-winning series about water and sanitation in Africa for the Coca-Cola Company. For more information visit http://www.nodumbquestions.org.
Rajendra Serber: six-month residency, postproduction, narrative feature
GoodGuy/BadGuy is a feature-length animated space Western. While on tour in a dusty Western town GoodGuy/BadGuy blasts off on his own personal space odyssey, leaving the townspeople to struggle with questions of what is good and what is bad, as he travels to find the ultimate truth about where they all come from. Serber is a director and choreographer experimenting with the cross pollination of genres and artistic disciplines. For more information visit http://www.rjndr.net.
Valerie Soe: six-month residency, postproduction, feature documentary
The Oak Park Story is a documentary about a multiethnic coalition in Oakland, California that in 2000 won a historic settlement of almost one million dollars against their landlord. Valerie Soe is a San Francisco artist, writer and filmmaker whose award-winning experimental documentaries have screened throughout the U.S. and abroad. She is also a professor in San Francisco State University’s Asian American studies department. For more information visit http://oakparkstory.info/.
The new FilmHouse residencies will begin over the next three months as filmmakers from the original group reach the end of their terms. The inaugural FilmHouse residencies were awarded in November 2008 to:
Dina Ciraulo: postproduction, narrative feature (Opal)
Arwen Lee Curry: preproduction, documentary feature (Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin)
Sara MacPherson: postproduction, documentary feature (Also Ran)
David Munro: writing, graphic novel adaptation (The Inferiors)
Tamara Perkins: postproduction, social documentary (The Trust)
Yoav Potash: writing, documentary feature (Crime After Crime)
Kate Schermerhorn: postproduction, documentary feature (To Have and to Hold)
Tiffany Shlain: production, documentary feature (Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence: A New Conversation About the Birds and the Bees)
Greg Sirota: writing, narrative feature (New Eyes)
Lise Swenson: preproduction, narrative feature (Saltwater)
Applications for the next term of FilmHouse Residencies (August 1, 2009–January 31, 2010) are due 5:00 pm, May 15, 2009.
For more information, http://www.sffs.org/filmmaker_services/filmhouse-residencies.html
Since 1989, the San Francisco Film Commission has served to encourage the recognition of film as an art form with widespread economic benefits for the city. While recognizing filmmaking as a major emphasis of the city’s economic and cultural base, the Film Commission supports a variety of film activities in the city and promotes San Francisco as a film destination. While stimulating community awareness of the film art form, the Commission is also interested in promoting long-range investment in projects originating in San Francisco, liaises with groups, councils, organizations and institutions related to the film industry and provides perspective for both the mayor and the board of supervisors with respect to long-range promotion, development and planning for a significant film arts base in San Francisco. For complete information, visit FilmSF.org.
The San Francisco Film Society is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to celebrating film and the moving image in all its glorious forms. SFFS year-round programs and events are concentrated in four core areas: Celebrating Internationalism; Inspiring Bay Area Youth; Showcasing Bay Area Film Culture; and Exploring New Digital Media. The Film Society shows the best of world cinema year-round on its SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas; presents the longest-running film festival in the Americas, the SF International (April 23–May 7, 2009), publishes a daily online magazine, SF360.org, with broad-ranging news and features on Bay Area film and media; and annually reaches more than 7,000 students ages 6–18 with its acclaimed media literacy programs, among many other activities.
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Eugene Corr: six-month residency, postproduction, feature documentary
From Ghost Town to Havana is a documentary feature exploring the lives of two dedicated and charismatic baseball coaches in Oakland, California and Havana, Cuba. Each man helps the young boys they coach become young men and to face the challenges of the game and of the societies they live in. Eugene Corr is an Academy Award–nominated filmmaker (feature documentary) and a coach’s son.
Miles Matthew Montalbano: six-month residency, preproduction, narrative feature
The Recondite Heart is a dark coming-of-age story of small town punk rock and star-crossed love at the onset of the Reagan era. The film will be the second feature from from Montalbano, whose debut, Revolution Summer (2007), was called “One of the 10 Best Films of the Year” and “One of the Best Independent Films of the Decade” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Melissa Regan: six-month residency, postproduction, feature documentary
The No Dumb Questions project includes a documentary film and online story-sharing community to build understanding and challenge discrimination and violence based on gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation. Regan is an award-winning filmmaker and interactive media designer whose work has appeared on HBO/Cinemax, PBS, LOGO and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Regan also produced an award-winning series about water and sanitation in Africa for the Coca-Cola Company. For more information visit http://www.nodumbquestions.org.
Rajendra Serber: six-month residency, postproduction, narrative feature
GoodGuy/BadGuy is a feature-length animated space Western. While on tour in a dusty Western town GoodGuy/BadGuy blasts off on his own personal space odyssey, leaving the townspeople to struggle with questions of what is good and what is bad, as he travels to find the ultimate truth about where they all come from. Serber is a director and choreographer experimenting with the cross pollination of genres and artistic disciplines. For more information visit http://www.rjndr.net.
Valerie Soe: six-month residency, postproduction, feature documentary
The Oak Park Story is a documentary about a multiethnic coalition in Oakland, California that in 2000 won a historic settlement of almost one million dollars against their landlord. Valerie Soe is a San Francisco artist, writer and filmmaker whose award-winning experimental documentaries have screened throughout the U.S. and abroad. She is also a professor in San Francisco State University’s Asian American studies department. For more information visit http://oakparkstory.info/.
The new FilmHouse residencies will begin over the next three months as filmmakers from the original group reach the end of their terms. The inaugural FilmHouse residencies were awarded in November 2008 to:
Dina Ciraulo: postproduction, narrative feature (Opal)
Arwen Lee Curry: preproduction, documentary feature (Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin)
Sara MacPherson: postproduction, documentary feature (Also Ran)
David Munro: writing, graphic novel adaptation (The Inferiors)
Tamara Perkins: postproduction, social documentary (The Trust)
Yoav Potash: writing, documentary feature (Crime After Crime)
Kate Schermerhorn: postproduction, documentary feature (To Have and to Hold)
Tiffany Shlain: production, documentary feature (Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence: A New Conversation About the Birds and the Bees)
Greg Sirota: writing, narrative feature (New Eyes)
Lise Swenson: preproduction, narrative feature (Saltwater)
Applications for the next term of FilmHouse Residencies (August 1, 2009–January 31, 2010) are due 5:00 pm, May 15, 2009.
For more information, http://www.sffs.org/filmmaker_services/filmhouse-residencies.html
Since 1989, the San Francisco Film Commission has served to encourage the recognition of film as an art form with widespread economic benefits for the city. While recognizing filmmaking as a major emphasis of the city’s economic and cultural base, the Film Commission supports a variety of film activities in the city and promotes San Francisco as a film destination. While stimulating community awareness of the film art form, the Commission is also interested in promoting long-range investment in projects originating in San Francisco, liaises with groups, councils, organizations and institutions related to the film industry and provides perspective for both the mayor and the board of supervisors with respect to long-range promotion, development and planning for a significant film arts base in San Francisco. For complete information, visit FilmSF.org.
The San Francisco Film Society is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to celebrating film and the moving image in all its glorious forms. SFFS year-round programs and events are concentrated in four core areas: Celebrating Internationalism; Inspiring Bay Area Youth; Showcasing Bay Area Film Culture; and Exploring New Digital Media. The Film Society shows the best of world cinema year-round on its SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas; presents the longest-running film festival in the Americas, the SF International (April 23–May 7, 2009), publishes a daily online magazine, SF360.org, with broad-ranging news and features on Bay Area film and media; and annually reaches more than 7,000 students ages 6–18 with its acclaimed media literacy programs, among many other activities.
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