SF International Women's Film Festival Call For Entries (Early Deadline: 8/31)

San Francisco International Women's Film Festival 2011 Call for Entries Early Deadline is now approaching!

“We’re open to professional and emerging filmmakers of narrative, documentary, music video, animation, and experimental works,” says festival founder Scarlett Shepard. “The only constant is that submissions must be directed or co–directed by women.”

SFWFF will be accepting online entries submitted via Withoutabox.com global filmmaker community. Their internet-only submission platform uses one master entry form and is an economical, eco-friendly, and secure alternative to traditional hard-copy DVD submissions: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/4231

The early deadline for submission is August 31, 2010. Entry fee: $20. Any questions regarding submissions can be emailed to: sfwomensfilmfestival@gmail.com or call (415) 754-3456.

Founded in 2004, the SFWFF celebrates the achievements of women working behind the camera and raises awareness about the need for more opportunities for female filmmakers: http://www.sfwff.org

About the Women’s Film Institute (WFI):
'Amplifying the Voices of Women and Girls through Film + New Media'
WFI is the presenter of the annual San Francisco International Women's Film Festival (April 6-l0, 2011), WFI Shorts Tour, and year-round educational programs and events. WFI is fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media. Independent Arts & Media is a 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to expand civic dialogue by increasing access to independent voices: http://artsandmedia.net

Join WFI and Jan Wahl to benefit Generation HERstory Media Arts Project

San Francisco based Women's Film Institute is holding a night of fun and networking to raise funds for our Generation HERstory Media Arts Project initiative (GHMAP).

GHMAP identifies and fosters the next generation of media-makers and broadens public access to arts enrichment by providing free hands-on filmmaking training and mentoring for diverse low-income and at-risk young women (ages 12-19) in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Young women are given the tools to create short films and public-service announcements that authentically reflect their voices. Films created in GHMAP will premiere at the 7th Annual San Francisco International Women's Film Festival (April 2011).

All proceeds from the event will go toward providing scholarships for up to 8 young women to enroll in GHMAP free of charge for the Fall session beginning in September.

Stop by for a drink, to learn more about the Women's Film Institute and Generation Herstory, and participate in our silent auction:

Location: Tonic Bar, 2360 Polk Street (at Union) San Francisco (21 + with Valid ID): http://www.tonic-bar.com

Time: 6-9pm

Date: Thursday, August 12th

• We'll be behind the bar mixin and fixin up drinks for the crowd (No host bar). All tips made during the evening will be donated to Generation HERstory.

• 6-7pm is happy hour-- all drinks are two for one!

• Silent Auction. Bid on some great film-centric and lifestyle items!

To RSVP: http://tiny.cc/wfi0812

We hope you will celebrate with us! Please RSVP, as space is limited.

WFI Benefit is co-presented by SF Weekly:
http://www.sfweekly.com/

About the Women’s Film Institute (WFI):
WFI is the presenter of the annual San Francisco International Women's Film Festival (SFWFF), WFI Shorts Tour, and year-round educational programs and events. WFI is fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media. Independent Arts & Media is a 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to expand civic dialogue by increasing access to independent voices. Independent Arts & Media is dedicated to producing and promoting independent media and supporting and serving independent artists and media producers. Visit us: http://www.sfwff.org, http://artsandmedia.net

Coming soon to Frameline34

SFWFF is proud to be a community partner at this year's Frameline34, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival!

SFWFF co-presents a film screening of Heretics directed by Joan Braderman on June 26th at 11:00 am at the Victoria Theater. Admission: $8 (General Admission) and $7 (Members).

For more information and to purchase tickets: 
http://www.frameline.org/frameline34

THE HERETICS uncovers the inside story of the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement for the first time in a feature film or video. Joan Braderman, director and narrator, follows her dream of becoming a filmmaker to New York City in 1971. By chance, she joins a feminist art collective at the epicenter of the 1970’s art world in lower Manhattan.  In her first person account, THE HERETICS charts the history of a feminist collective from the inside out. 

That group, the Heresies Collective, published: “HERESIES; A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics” from 1977-1992.  Unlike more traditional  “documentaries,” the film is framed with striking new digital motion graphics that extend the aesthetics of the magazine into the digital realm and onto the screen.  THE HERETICS focuses on The Heresies Collective as a microcosm of the larger international women’s movement, in which thousands of small, private groups of women met together in forms unique to their own settings, to consider their situation -- as women in a man’s world -- and to devise strategies for unlocking the potential in women’s lives. 

The hundreds of collective members, now scattered around the globe are accomplished artists, writers, architects, painters, filmmakers, designers, editors, curators, and teachers. Twenty-four of these women, speak intimately with the filmmaker about the extraordinary times they shared, challenging the terms of gender and power and re-imagining the lives of generations to come. 

Designing expressive ways to layer images, we work with: text, animation, archival stills and footage, the magazine itself, completed artworks and art as it is being made on sites world-wide. We collage all these elements in a language that evokes the collective experience and the aesthetics of the magazine.  The original soundtrack for THE HERETICS mirrors the "radical collage" aesthetic, mixing acoustic rock guitar, scat-singing, jazz piano and violin, made mainly by women.

Check out all 27 issues at:

http://helios.hampshire.edu/nomorenicegirls/heretics

Orgasm Inc. screens tonight

Orgasm Inc. The Strange Science of Female Pleasure directed by Liz Canner

In the shocking and hilarious documentary ORGASM INC., filmmaker Liz Canner takes a job editing erotic videos as part of a pharmaceutical drug company’s drug trial. Her employer is developing what they hope will be the first Viagra drug for women that win FDA approval to treat a new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD). Liz gains permission to film the company for her own documentary. Initially, she plans to create a movie about science and pleasure but she soon begins to suspect that her employer, along with a cadre of other medical companies, might be trying to take advantage of women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of billion dollar profits.

ORGASM INC. is a powerful look inside the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our everyday lives around health, illness, desire — and that ultimate moment: orgasm.

Upbeat, engaging, enlightening, and provocative, ORGASM INC. will change the way you think about sex.

Date:Thursday, April 8, 2010
Time: 7:30 PM
Time: $10 adv, $12 door
Location: The David Brower Center (Tamalpais Room)
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley

http://www.sfwff.com

SF International Women's Film Festival Day begins April 7, 2010

We are thrilled to announce that the SF International Women's Film Festival, presented by the Women's Film Institute, was awarded with a Mayor proclamation on April 1, 2010. It is official, Gavin Newsom, Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, has proclaimed April 7, 2010 as "SF International Women's Film Festival Day."

Get out and see a movie! Don't miss the 6th annual SF International Women’s Film Festival (SFWFF) celebrating women in all areas of film will take place April 7th through 11th at the Roxie Theater and other community centers across the San Francisco Bay Area. The 2010 selection of diverse films celebrates the exceptional contributions of women in the world of cinema and represents a convergence of excellence in filmmaking from around the globe.

Use special discount code: film2010 and receive half-off on advance ticket purchase on all festival screenings and events.

SFWFF 2010 full festival schedule: http://www.sfwff.com