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    Point of Pride

    Dimitri Moore / SFUFF 2015, Documentary / USA / 2014 / 26 mins
    A documentary film about the Bayview/Hunter's Point neighborhood. A recent Official Selection of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Point of Pride combines archival footage from the 1950's, 60's, and 70's with present-day viewpoints and reactions to these images from the past to create a compelling portrait of a community marked by struggle and fueled by hope.

    Preceded by: Panel Discussion: Storytelling in Community Development

    Precedes: Guerrilla Filmmaking Workshop: Hacking History

  2. Portraits of Our City 1986-1996

    James Q. Chan and Tina Bartolome / Films, SFUFF 2017, Documentary, Shorts / USA / 2017 / 7 mins
    Lingering shots of city spaces are recontextualized by the intimate voiceovers of queer encounters in 80’s & 90’s San Francisco. This is an excerpt of a longer piece.
    Plays In:
    Queer “Pioneers”: Cycles of Displacement

    518 Valencia The Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics
    November 18, 2017 1:00 pm Ticket Sales are Closed

  3. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

    Chad Freidrichs / SFUFF 2014, Documentary / USA / 2012 / 79 mins
    A full-length documentary about the people who created a community in an inhospitable public housing project in St. Louis, MO.

  4. The Ride

    Jeff Adachi / Films, SFUFF 2017, Shorts / USA / 2017 / Documentary / 15 mins
    Take an up close and personal ride inside criminal injustice system with one of the nation’s few elected public defenders, City of San Francisco’s Public Defender, Jeff Adachi. Adachi defends a young African American man who is charged with assaulting police officers after being falsely accused of a crime in a case with racial overtones. In this era of mass incarceration, police shootings of young African American men, and implicit bias in policing, what are the consequences for those who question police authority?
    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

  5. Rock the Boat

    Thea Mercouffer / SFUFF 2014, Documentary / USA / 2011 / 54 mins
    A full-length documentary about citizens reclaiming the LA River and winning over the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reverse its own work and return the waterway to its original state.

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    Saving The City

    Ron Blatman / SFUFF 2014, Shorts / USA / WIP / 20 mins
    A work-in-progress which includes a segment comparing two neighborhoods designed from scratch - Mission Bay in San Francisco and a similar neighborhood in Vancouver, Canada.

    Precedes: Panel: Mission Bay – The Transformation of A New Town

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    Show Me A Hero

    Paul Haggis and David Simon / SFUFF 2016, Narrative / USA / 2015 / 360 mins
    Based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Belkin, the miniseries "Show Me a Hero" tells the story of how civil rights violations tear apart Yonkers, N.Y., paralyze the municipal government, and forever change the lives of a rising politician and his constituents.

    Precedes: Panel Discussion: From Public to (Non)profit – SF’s New Model for Government-Funded Housing, Panel Discussion: Wealth Creation in African-American Communities

  8. “Arc of Justice” and James Baldwin’s “Take This Hammer”: Connecting Civil Rights to Place

    SFUFF 2017 / 150 mins
    The two films tell stories of struggle for social justice as directly connected to a physical place, whether it’s the rich agricultural lands of rural Georgia, or the streets of San Francisco. Join us for the screening and a discussion with panelists who have dedicated their lives to equitable community development in the Bay Area and beyond as we explore the intersection of activism, public policy and land wealth, with specific focus on African American communities.

    In This Program: Take This Hammer, Arc of Justice, The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of a Beloved Community

    “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

  9. Souvenirs

    Andre Margerìn / SFUFF 2015, Shorts / USA / 2013 / 9 mins
    Souvenirs explores the philosophy and controversy that surround the thrill-seeking practice of urban exploration in Manchester, England.

    Preceded by: The Cerebral City

  10. Panel Discussion: Storytelling for Social Impact

    SFUFF 2016 / Panel
    Featuring Bay Area filmmakers/educators Dimitri Moore and Keith Battle plus screenings of four short videos from last year's Bay Area Video Coalition workshop