TAIWAN FILM DAYS
Opening Night
Friday, November 6, 9:00–11:00 pm
Friday, November 6, 9:00–11:00 pm
SF INTL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Kickoff Celebration
Wednesday, November 11, 8:00 pm
Wednesday, November 11, 8:00 pm
SF INTL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Opening Night Party
Thursday, November 12, 8:00 pm
Thursday, November 12, 8:00 pm
NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Opening Night Party
Sunday, November 15, 8:00–9:30 pm
Sunday, November 15, 8:00–9:30 pm
KINOTEK
Catherine Galasso: Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice
December 12–13, 8:00 pm
December 12–13, 8:00 pm
SF360 FILM+CLUB
Steven Severin: Music for Silents
Tuesday, January 12, doors 7:00 pm, show 8:00 pm
Tuesday, January 12, doors 7:00 pm, show 8:00 pm
Current Projects
Accused of Being Communist
Leonard Kurz
Leonard Kurz
A group of victims of the little-known early 1940s Rapp-Coudert investigation in New York City joins Ossie Davis for a reunion to discuss their experiences with this precursor of and blueprint for the following decade’s McCarthy hearings.
Across the King’s River
James Weeks
James Weeks
Across the King’s River artfully weaves African shamanism and modern science against a backdrop of friendship, family and the larger issues of vanishing cultures and languages. Fascinating profiles of diviners, world class scholars and one determined man’s quest to heal and empower his daughters create an intellectually invigorating and soulful journey that takes viewers to Nigeria, West Africa, the United Kingdom, and Senegal, West Africa.
Ambos Nogales
Luisa Greenfield, Inouk Demers
Luisa Greenfield, Inouk Demers
Ambos Nogales is a documentary short about one town that straddles both sides of the U.S./Mexico border. In a time of fierce debate about border security and illegal immigration, dehumanizing governmental policies and intrusion by vigilante groups like the Minutemen, the people of this unique community share their personal experience of border life and the bridges they create to form one community.
America's Most Unwanted
Shani Heckman
Shani Heckman
Breaking free of the negative statistics and sad stories of emancipation, America's Most Unwanted, will show the other side of growing up in institutionalized care: the strength, courage and resiliency of those that make it through. America's Most Unwanted will dispel myths as it tells the story of happy, healthy and successful foster youth.
American Dreams
Ron Rogers
Ron Rogers
American Dreams tells the inspiring true story of the remarkable Rafael Morales family who immigrate to the U.S. from Mexico and dramatically rise from the picking fields of Sonoma county to achieve the American dream. Overcoming poverty, speaking only Spanish, and facing other daunting obstacles in an unfamiliar new country, the family perseveres and the family’s dreams become reality—one son graduates from Harvard Law School, another son is appointed an adviser to the President of Mexico, and two daughters raise families while working as teachers.
American Foodways
Evan Elliot, Charlotte Baker Weinert
Evan Elliot, Charlotte Baker Weinert
Join John T Edge on his quest for the best in our country’s regional foods—endangered, indigenous, or just plain delicious. In thirteen episodes, Edge—New York Times food columnist and culinary adventurer—explores the people and places behind “slow” and local favorites such as boudin and Delta tamales, and he meets the folks who would roll naked in hickory coals if that’s what it takes to get just one more plateful, to go.
American Mosque
David Washburn
David Washburn
American Mosque will tell the story of the Muslim community in Yuba City, California and the arson that destroyed its newly constructed mosque in 1994. The film will explore the repercussions of the unsolved crime and reveal the human impact of Islamophobia. By portraying a multigenerational Muslim community in California’s farmland, American Mosque will challenge common assumptions of Islam in the United States and who participates in and shapes the American experience.
An American Virtuoso
Donna S. Kline
Donna S. Kline
In 1908, an American woman who aspired to become a concert pianist was nonexistent. Yet, against all odds, talented Olga Samaroff Stokowski, aka Lucy Hickenlooper, rose from complete obscurity to become America’s first international concert artist, Juilliard professor, author and famous conductor’s wife. Set against the rich historical tapestry of late 19th and early 20th centuries, An American Virtuoso is the compelling story of the American pianist who paved the road that American musicians and women of today can now walk.
And We Will Dance
Steve Childs
Steve Childs
And We Will Dance peeks into the lives of incredibly gifted dance students at the UNC School of the Arts. The audience will get a first-hand look into the passionate intensity and the phenomenal dedication these young dancers exude in pursuit of their dreams. This film also shows artist/filmmaker Steve Childs’ fascination for drawing and painting dancers and glimpses into his creative process. This film is a visual delight of movement, passion, dedication, humor and beauty.
Angel of Mercy
George Paul Csicsery
George Paul Csicsery
Margaret Slachta defied Nazis and Communists in her fight for social justice. A teacher and activist, she was the first woman elected to Hungary’s parliament in the 1920s. Her vision of social intervention on behalf of the poor, combined with a strong feminist streak and devout Catholic faith, led to heroic acts of courage during the Hungarian Holocaust of 1944–45, when Slachta and the Grey Sisters (the order she founded) saved over 1,000 Jewish lives.
Angel's Soul
Erika Sikes, Isaac Ebersole
Erika Sikes, Isaac Ebersole
The youngest angel in heaven plays the viola in the choir of angels. He accidentally loses his angel charm one day and finds out that charms are actually human souls and to be protected at all costs. The Little Angel goes on a quest to search for his soul with all of heaven trying to stop him. (fantasy narrative short)
The Annual
Sean Gillane
Sean Gillane
Kate and Lee, two twenty-somethings disillusioned and defeated by the futility of relationships, meet and decide to become a couple for exactly one year. They love and fight as any couple would, but for them, every step of the way is carefully scheduled. As the end of their year approaches, they realize that even with the perfect plan, relationships are still more complicated than they can imagine.
Archy Lee: CA Last Fugitive Slave Trail
Larry L. Sheman
Larry L. Sheman
The 1858 the arrest of Archy Lee as a fugitive slave initiated a dramatic sequence of legal decisions and public reactions. When the final case was heard in a packed San Francisco courtroom, streets pulsed with California’s greatest rallying of blacks and white allies around a fugitive-slave case. Archy Lee’s compelling journey from arrest to acquittal fuses major themes in American history and demonstrates African-Americans’ early struggles to participate fully in a just society.
Atomic Mom
M.T. Silvia
M.T. Silvia
Atomic Mom reveals the intimate story about one of the few female scientists working on the development of the atom bomb in the early 1950s. After decades of silence and a crisis of conscience promoted by the probing of her filmmaker daughter, she shares her story and is offered an olive branch by a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing.
Autumn Gem - The Qiu Jin Project
Rae Chang, Adam Tow
Rae Chang, Adam Tow
This hour-long documentary explores the extraordinary life of China's first feminist, Qiu Jin. During the reign of the country's last dynasty, Qiu Jin boldly challenged traditional gender roles and demanded equal rights and opportunities for women. An accomplished writer, skilled martial artist and leader of a revolutionary army that attempted to overthrow the corrupt dynasty, she emerged as a national heroine who redefined what it meant to be a woman in 20th-century China.
