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

Victoria directed by Anna Karina Tonight at MVFF

San Francisco International Women's Film Festival (SFWFF) is proud to co-present VICTORIA, a film starring, written and directed by Anna Karina at this year's MVFF32.

One part Some Like It Hot, one part Breathless and yet thoroughly fresh and new, Anna Karina's first directorial effort in more than 30 years echoes the youthful zest of the world-shaking French New Wave, while brimming with a life entirely its own.

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

Date and Time: Friday, Oct. 16, 2009, 6:30 p.m.

Location: Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael, CA.

For more information and to purchase tickets:

http://www.tiny.cc/victoria316

Don't Miss Arresting Ana at this year's Mill Valley Film Festival:

If you missed the premiere of Arresting Ana dir. by Lucie Schwartz as part of the Women's Film Institute (WFI) Shorts Tour in San Francisco in August, here's your chance. See an eye-opening film about the global underground of anorexia on Oct.16 at 5:00 PM at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, CA.

http://2009.mvff.com

3 Must See Films Coming Soon to the Mill Valley Film Festival

San Francisco International Women's Film Festival (SFWFF) is proud to co-present VICTORIA, a film starring, written and directed by Anna Karina at this year's MVFF32.

One part Some Like It Hot, one part Breathless and yet thoroughly fresh and new, Anna Karina's first directorial effort in more than 30 years echoes the youthful zest of the world-shaking French New Wave, while brimming with a life entirely its own.

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

Date and Time: Friday, Oct. 16, 2009, 6:30 p.m.

Location: Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael, CA.

For more information and to purchase tickets:

http://www.tiny.cc/victoria316

Don't Miss Kunjo and Arresting Ana at this year's Mill Valley Film Festival:

SFWFF 2007 was honored to screen Terrie Samundra's Tale of Xuan. Don't miss her new film entitled Kunjo on Oct.12 at 5:00 PM at the Sequoia Theatre in Mill Valley, CA. The film is about a young girl coping with her community's displacement and an act of betrayal as she strikes up an unlikely friendship with an upper caste girl.

If you missed the premiere of Arresting Ana dir. by Lucie Schwartz as part of the WFI Shorts Tour in San Francisco in August, here's your chance. See an eye-opening film about the global underground of anorexia on Oct.16 at 5:00 PM at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, CA.

http://2009.mvff.com

San Francisco International Women's Film Festival (SFWFF) is proud to co-present VICTORIA, a film starring, written and directed by Anna Karina at this year's MVFF32.

One part Some Like It Hot, one part Breathless and yet thoroughly fresh and new, Anna Karina's first directorial effort in more than 30 years echoes the youthful zest of the world-shaking French New Wave, while brimming with a life entirely its own.

Mesdames et Messieurs, Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Les Lolitas! Not one, but two stars are born, as Stan and Jimmy, a duo of talented and delightfully inept young musicians in sequined drag and not-quite-fitted platinum blonde wigs, hit the road on a tour through Quebec, lured by the thrill of a free meal. But their journey leads them further than they ever dreamed to love, loss and inevitable self-discovery.

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

Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael, CA:
Friday, Oct. 16, 2009, 6:30 p.m.

For more information and to purchase tickets:

http://www.tiny.cc/victoria316

Coming soon to Mill Valley Film Festival

SFWFF 2007 was honored to screen Terrie Samundra's Tale of Xuan. Don't miss her new film entitled Kunjo on Oct.12 at 5:00 PM at the Sequoia Theatre in Mill Valley, CA. The film is about a young girl coping with her community's displacement and an act of betrayal as she strikes up an unlikely friendship with an upper caste girl.

If you missed the premiere of Arresting Ana dir. by Lucie Schwartz as part of the WFI Shorts Tour in San Francisco in August, here's your chance. See an eye-opening film about the global underground of anorexia on Oct.16 at 5:00 PM at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, CA.

http://2009.mvff.com