ALL FILM & EVENTS
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5 Blocks
Dan Goldes, Robert Cortlandt / SFUFF 2014, Shorts / USA / WIP / 8 mins
A work-in-progress tracking the radical changes in the five block area of Mid-Market, San Francisco since prior to the recent tech-boom to the present.Precedes: Panel: Mid-Market – How Do You Tell A Story of Neighborhood Change?
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73 Questions
Leah Nichols / Films, SFUFF 2017, Documentary, Shorts / USA / 2017 / 10 mins
This beautifully hand-drawn animated short film inverts the popular culture trope of celebrity questionnaires and uses it instead to build a soulful profile of a man whom you would never otherwise stop to get to know.Plays In:
Nurturing the Media Activist Ecosystem of Citizen Journalists, Mainstream Media, and Policy-Makers
Ninth Street Independent Film Center
November 15, 2017 6:00 pm Ticket Sales are Closed
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Panel Discussion: Adventures in Urban Storytelling
SFUFF 2016 / Panel
Panelists: Scott Samuels aka SCS, Renée Elaine Sazci, Rebekah Fergusson, Kristin Tieche, Winnie Wong
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Another Way of Living: The Story of Reston, VA
Rebekah Weingart-Jabi / SFUFF 2016, Documentary / USA / 2015 / 70 mins
Visionary American planner Robert Simon sets out to build a new kind of suburban community that would integrate citizens across racial, economic, and religious divides. His ambition is realized in Reston, Va.Precedes: Panel Discussion: Before Burning Man – The Story of Reston, VA
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Arc of Justice, The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of a Beloved Community
Helen S. Cohen and Mark Lipman / Films, SFUFF 2017, Documentary, Shorts / USA / 2015 / 22 mins
“Arc of Justice” traces the inspiring journey of New Communities and the struggle for racial and economic justice among African Americans in southwest Georgia. Formed in 1969 during the Civil Rights movement, New Communities persevered as the largest black-owned farm in the country despite relentless opposition.Plays In:
“Arc of Justice” and James Baldwin’s “Take This Hammer”: Connecting Civil Rights to Place
SPUR
November 17, 2017 6:00 pm Ticket Sales are Closed
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Panel Discussion: Before Burning Man – The Story of Reston, VA
SFUFF 2016 / Panel
Panelists: Kristen Hall, Ben Lillienthal, Robin AbadPreceded by: Another Way of Living: The Story of Reston, VA
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Blade Runner
Ridley Scott / SFUFF 2015, Narrative / USA / 1982 / 117 mins
This 1982 Neo Noir Dystopian Classic depicts a world (set in 2019 LA) where a young Harrison Ford is tasked with chasing down and destroying escaped “replicants” – Humanoid Clones created as slaves, with no rights, and strictly forbidden from existing on the homeworld – Earth.Precedes: Panel Discussion: Cinema and the City
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Brooklyn Farmer
Michael Tyburski / Films, SFUFF 2017 / USA / 2015 / 27 mins
“Brooklyn Farmer” explores the unique challenges facing Brooklyn Grange, a group of urban farmers who endeavor to run a commercially viable farm across the rooftops of New York City. As their growing operation expands to a second roof, the team confronts the realities inherent in operating the world’s largest rooftop farm in one of the world's biggest cities.Plays In:
“No Man’s Land”: Where Nature and Community Thrive
Google Community Space
November 13, 2017 6:00 pm Ticket Sales are Closed
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Buchanan Mall
Sophie Constantinou / SFUFF 2016, Shorts / USA / 2016 / 11 mins
Buchanan Mall is five consecutive blocks of underutilized public parkland in the Western Addition neighborhood from Grove to Eddy Street. The 7,000 low-income, predominantly African-American residents who live adjacent to Buchanan Mall, face acute challenges: recent, rapid gentrification, longstanding patterns of discrimination and turf conflict, an exodus of employed adults, and decades-long cycles of displacement, unemployment, and mass incarceration. Buchanan Mall, at the center of this neighborhood, has become a nexus of violence and a place pervaded by fear.
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Build The Lot
Russell Blanchard / Films, SFUFF 2017 / USA / 2017 / Documentary / 3 mins
The Director of “The Lot” film Russell Blanchard working together with the community to improve an actual vacant lot into a children’s play area.Plays In:
“No Man’s Land”: Where Nature and Community Thrive
Google Community Space
November 13, 2017 6:00 pm Ticket Sales are Closed