31st Annual Women's Building Celebration of Craftswomen (Dec. 5-6)

Need a Holiday Gift? Stop by our table at the 31st Annual Women's Building Celebration of Craftswomen.

For the past three decades, The Women’s Building Celebration of Craftswomen has allowed Bay Area residents, along with visitors to San Francisco from throughout the world, to discover the work of the nation’s best female artisans and fine artists.

The Celebration of Craftswomen is San Francisco’s largest holiday fine crafts retail fair, and the largest event celebrating the craft of women in the nation. The event is sponsored by and is a benefit for The Women’s Building, a community service center serving women and girls in San Francisco.

Featured at the Celebration of Craftswomen are contemporary and traditional handcrafted items, such as:

• Functional and decorative ceramic and glass vessels
• Sculpted wood and works of metal.
• Polymer clay, beaded, stone and precious metal jewelry
• Woven, painted silk, leather clothing and wearables
• Home furniture and accessories
• Fine art sculpture
• Photography
• Watercolor and oil paintings

The crafts fair will also offer live music, gourmet food, a benefit raffle, and a silent auction

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FREE Webinar - How to Ask People for Money with Holly Million

How to Ask People for Money Webinar with Holly Million. This webinar is FREE and demonstrates how to develop relationships with individual donors and ask them to make a financial contribution to your film. Learn how to fundraise fearlessly and make a successful ask. We'll discuss how to identify donor prospects and cultivate them, what tools you need to do this kind of fundraising and how to go face to face to ask for money. Webinar will be held on Dec. 3, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Space is limited and RSVP by emailing: sfwomensfilmfestival@gmail.com

About Holly Million:
Holly is a consultant, author, and filmmaker with nearly two decades' worth of experience in fundraising. In addition to securing funding for "A Story of Healing," which won a 1997 Academy Award, Million has raised money for documentary and dramatic films that have aired on PBS, HBO, and other broadcast outlets. She is the author of "Fear-Free Fundraising: How to Ask People for Money," available on Amazon.com. She is writing a new book, "A Helluva Guide to Indie Film Fundraising" to be published in 2010.

She is the founder of Golden Poppy Productions, LLC, the presenters of A Helluva Camp for Indie Filmmakers on 1/23/2010 and for Nonprofit Rebels on 1/30/2010 in San Francisco, CA. For more information on Helluva Camp or to register visit:http://www.goldenpoppy.com

Panel: Native American Women vs. Hollywood Stereotypes

Coming soon to the American Indian Film Festival on Nov.12 in SF @ 10:00 a.m.

AIFI seminars bring noted industry professionals to San Francisco to teach, inspire and share their knowledge with current and the next generation of media makers. These programs are free and open to the public. Advance registration required.

This panel explores the stereotypes of Native women in Hollywood from the common portrayal of the "Indian Princess" to the modern Native woman today. Panelists include Shirley Cheechoo, Carole Nee-ta-key Marie, Larissa Fasthorse, Kateri Walker and Casey Camp-Horinek.

The panel will screen Total Silence by Carole Nee-ta-key Marie, a compelling documentary that offers Native American women a opportunity to voice how they have been affected by Hollywood's stereotyped images.

Must Advance Register at:

http://www.aifisf.com/aiff/2009/?fMenu=program&q=&fContent=program&id=86

Coming soon to SF Latino Film Festival

San Francisco Women's Film Festival is proud to co-present the following screening as part of this year's SF Latino Film Festival featuring: 1, 2, y 3 Mujeres directed by Andrea Herrera, Anabel Rodriguez and Andrea Rios. A beautifully shot film in three parts that navigates Venezuelan society through the lens of three women and their feminine condition. Each woman in the film shows us the grand destinies that exist in even the smallest stories. Fore more information and to purchase tickets:
http://www.sflationfilmfestival.com

Don't miss the Anne McGuire Show on 10/25/09

Don't miss the Anne McGuire Show at Cinema by the Bay presented by San Francisco Film Society. McGuire's rare genius (Photograph above by M.C. Schmidt) will be on full display as she draws from her extensive catalogue for an eclectic and pleasurable evening featuring some of her most famous videos, live performances, recent works, a guest MC and several surprises.

Admission: $12.50 (General), $11 (Senior discount).

Landmark Clay Theatre,

San Francisco, CA:

Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, 9:00 p.m.

http://www.sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=8,38,106&pageid=1311

Read more about the Anne McGuire Show:

http://www.sf360.org/features/anne-anne-anne-mcguire-comes-alive

The Celluloid Ceiling: Thoughts From Five Women Who Broke Through

Last night at the London Film Festival, to an audience of possibly 90% women, a lively and at times quite provocative discussion went down about a topic that’s come up quite a bit this year - women and filmmaking. 2009 has been seen by many as landmark film for female-directed, written or produced cinema, which certainly finds evidence London’s programming. To name but a few: Lone Scherfig’s “An Education,” Claire Denis’ “White Material,” Xiaolu Guo’s “She, A Chinese,” Jane Campion’s “Bright Star,” Lindy Heymann’s “Kicks,” Sophie Barthes’ “Cold Souls,” Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Father of My Children,” Catherine Breillat’s “Bluebeard” and Sam Taylor Wood’s “Nowhere Boy.” And in honor of this notable but still stunningly disproportionate trend, the festival put together “Snipping Away at the Celluloid Ceiling,” a panel featuring five women associated with some of those films to discuss whether or not there’s a “sea change” in female-associated filmmaking, and what exactly that characterization means in the first place. (article published by IndieWire, written by Peter Knegt) To read more visit:

http://www.indiewire.com/article/the_celluloid_ceiling_thoughts_from_five_women_who_broke_through/p

San Francisco Film Society Presents Cinema by the Bay (Oct. 22-25)

San Francisco Film Society Presents Cinema by the Bay (Oct. 22-25)

Don't miss Cinema by the Bay, a three-day festival featuring new films produced in or about the San Francisco Bay Area that provide a compelling window into its local film culture and practice. Cinema by the Bay kicks off Thursday, Oct. 22 at 8:00 p.m. at Temple Nightclub and Prana Restaurant with an eclectic and exuberant evening of short film and video screenings, multimedia performances, live music and collegial carousing. The festival will cover a broad range of subject matter and genres -- from a hipster odyssey of self-discovery to a documentary tracking the likely extinct ivory-billed woodpecker, to a shorts program showcasing Bay Area filmmaking at its best.

Don't miss the Anne McGuire Show. McGuire's rare genius (Photograph above by M.C. Schmidt) will be on full display as she draws from her extensive catalogue for an eclectic and pleasurable evening featuring some of her most famous videos, live performances, recent works, a guest MC and several surprises.

Admission: $12.50 (General), $11 (Senior discount).

Landmark Clay Theatre,

San Francisco, CA:

Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, 9:00 p.m.

http://www.sffs.org/content.aspx?catid=8,38,106&pageid=1311