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04 Dec 2023

Another Hole In The Head Film Festival Turns 20!

Ghost stories are just as much a part of winter celebrations as online website visits to buy holiday presents.  This year’s Another Hole In The Head (hereafter AHITH) marks the 20th such run up to Christmas (December 1-25) with another batch of ghost stories, horror, science fiction, fantasy, crime drama,

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01 Nov 2023

SFFILM’s Doc Stories 2023: #MeToo, Soccer, and More

Want to groove to the music of Little Richard and Jon Batiste?  How about pumping your fist in the air as the predecessors of Brandi Chastain and Megan Rapinoe score goals?  Or why not get your mind blown by the art of Germany’s greatest living contemporary artist?  All these experiences

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10 Jul 2024

This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

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11 Oct 2023

The Green Film Festival Of San Francisco is Here!

Who says the joy of shouting “Soylent Green is people” moments before Charlton Heston opens his mouth is a lost theater-going pleasure?  Thanks to the folks at this year’s Green Film Festival Of San Francisco (hereafter “Green Film SF”), the Charlton Heston-starring science fiction tale set in the awful overpopulated

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04 Oct 2023

Your Preview Of The 46th Mill Valley Film Festival

Fall brings the return of one of the S.F. Bay Area’s biggest and best film festivals, the Mill Valley Film Festival (hereafter “MVFF”).  Now in its 46th edition, MVFF runs theatrically from October 5-15, 2023 and streams online from October 16-22, 2023.  The festival will show 148 films from 41

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07 Apr 2023

12 Reasons To Check Out SFFILM 66

For those who don’t know, the San Francisco International Film Festival (or “SFFILM” for short) began back in 1957.  The 2023 edition of the festival is thus called “SFFILM 66.”  This year’s edition runs from April 13-23, 2023. Help Celebrate North America’s Oldest Continuous Film Festival Over its long history,

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17 Oct 2022

The United Nations Association Film Festival Turns 25!

Now that the Mill Valley Film Festival has finished celebrating its 45th edition, it’s time for another San Francisco Bay Area film festival to celebrate its reaching a milestone.  This particular festival happens to be one of the U.S.’ oldest documentary-only film festivals, and this year it celebrates turning 25. 

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11 Apr 2022

The Green Film Festival Of San Francisco is Finally Here!

How many environmental-themed film festivals would willingly program a film about homicidal blue jeans? Were this question asked in other parts of the country, the answer would be difficult. Fortunately, here in the City we have the Green Film Festival Of San Francisco (hereafter “Green Film”) which had no qualms

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19 Mar 2021

Cinequest Film Fest is Back This Year as Cinejoy and it’s All Online

Cinequest is back!  The South Bay-based film festival had to stop its 2020 edition halfway through because of coronavirus lockdowns.  (The remaining Cinequest 2020 films were screened later in the year as the Cinejoy online film festival.)   Now, from March 20-30, 2021, Cinequest returns in its online version as Cinejoy,

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