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  1. How special places make liveable cities

    Posted July 24th, 2017 by SFUFF in General

    Check out this interesting TEDx talk by Dr. Antoine Zammit, urban designer and educator at the University of Malta and one of the curatorial school workshop leaders at Valletta 2018 coming up Aug 25-Sept 1. Also, this is the topic I will be exploring that week: Curating the Place and the Social: Art as Production […]

  2. Guess who’s going to Valletta, Malta to improve her film festival curatorial skills?

    Posted July 12th, 2017 by SFUFF in General

    As part of Valletta 2018, a year-long program to develop Valletta, Malta as Europe’s 2018 Cultural Capital, Fay Darmawi, Founder and Executive Producer of the SF Urban Film Fest will attend a week-long curatorial school on the historic campus of the University of Malta. A total of 55 students will attend daily lectures and workshops […]

  3. Exploring Urban Narratives and the Birth of SFUFF

    Posted July 6th, 2017 by SFUFF in General

    My friend Laura J. Lukitsch of Global Performance Media produces and hosts a great urbanist podcast “this beautiful shot is not an accident” – this is a link to my interview about the genesis of SFUFF. Check it out and let me know what you think!

  4. Al Gore and “Truth To Power” film at the SF Jewish Film Festival

    Posted July 2nd, 2017 by SFUFF in General

    For the past few years, our little SF Urban Film Fest has been invited to co-present films at the SF Jewish Film Festival (and the SF Green Film Festival) that highlight the convergence between climate change activism and urban planning.  On July 24, SFJFF has asked us to co-present “Truth to Power”, the long awaited […]

  5. Join SFUFF Campfire on July 14 to discuss affordable housing, is it a place where all our dreams come true?

    Posted June 26th, 2017 by SFUFF in General

    Many folks in San Francisco wonder what is affordable housing and why isn’t there more? What if we asked the question this way – where is affordable housing? Does it have an actual address, or is it a place where we project all of our utopian hopes and dreams? Do all the expectations tacked on […]

  6. Introducing the new SF Urban Film Fest website!

    Posted June 21st, 2017 by SFUFF in General

    Thank you Leah Nichols for a great job on the new SF Urban Film Fest website!  I am very excited about the schedule feature that includes a drop down menu for event details.  Also the new website allows you to peruse our last three years of film festival programming to see the diversity of our […]

  7. Fay Darmawi and Ken Fisher To Create Videos Highlighting the SF Treasurer’s Efforts to Make SF More Equitable

    Posted June 12th, 2017 by SFUFF in General

    In the next few months, Ken Fisher and I will be busy creating four videos to support the efforts of the City of San Francisco’s Treasurer’s Office of Financial Justice to reform the fees and fines that impact low-income and people of color disproportionately. The SF Financial Justice project was born out of DOJ’s 2015 Ferguson […]

  8. SF Ahead of the Curve

    Posted May 30th, 2017 by SFUFF in General

    Part of what’s unique about the SF Urban Film Fest, is that many of us devise and implement public policies, so that we can tell authentic stories about what works and what doesn’t to further social equity goals.  Last month, I had the honor to be a member of the City of San Francisco’s Nonprofit […]

  9. How Mass Media Can Sink or Save Public Policy

    Posted May 23rd, 2017 by SFUFF in General

    Many of you know that I have worked in the affordable housing for two last decades.  Recently, Frontline aired a documentary about the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program (the number financing tool that produces most of the new supply of affordable housing nationwide) and the corruption of a few developers in Texas and Florida. […]

  10. SF’s Public Defender Jeff Adachi Filmmaking Side Hustle

    Posted May 19th, 2017 by SFUFF in General

    A few weeks ago, I met SF’s elected public defender Jeff Adachi at an informal gathering of a few local filmmakers I organized.  I knew he had just premiered his film “Defender” at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) so it was a long shot that he would take time out of his hellish […]