Posts by SFUFF
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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 […]
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Unfortunately, SFUFF did not get Cal Humanities grant…
Posted May 10th, 2017 by SFUFF in General
This year we applied for the first time for a grant from the California Humanities but we were not successful, unfortunately. So we have to implement Plan B, which is to seek sponsorships from mission-aligned businesses. If you have any contacts or leads on businesses who would be interested in sponsoring the SFUFF in exchange […]
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Lots of urban themed films coming soon!
Posted May 5th, 2017 by SFUFF in General
This March, I was on a 6 person jury panel at the SF Arts Commission to fund new media work and 7 of the 35 films were related to how we experience living in cities covering topics of gang violence in the Mission, profiles of Muni riders, public art as activism, and the redevelopment of […]
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Join us at the “The Art of Recovery” screening
Posted April 5th, 2017 by SFUFF in General
Fay Darmawi, Founder and Executive Producer of the SF Urban Film Fest, will MC the Q&A of “The Art of Recovery” with the film director Peter Young (who is flying in from New Zealand!) after the screening Monday, April 24th at the Roxie. with the film director Peter Young who is flying in all the […]
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Leah Nichols joins SFUFF as web designer
Posted March 29th, 2017 by SFUFF in General
Thank you patrons for supporting SFUFF so that we are now able to hire the talented filmmaker/urban designer Leah Nichols to join our team. As many of you know, Leah designed the beautiful eye catching SFUFF logo and we are so lucky to have her expand our design identity through building out a brand new […]
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SFUFF 2017 kick-off house party!
Posted March 24th, 2017 by SFUFF in General
Last week we were busy growing the SFUFF community with a house party featuring catering from Azalina’s, a special presentation of Janet Delaney‘s most recent photography of South of Market, San Francisco , and Truth Be Told Creative‘s new #film/#communityplanning project Society’s Soul. Thank you to everyone who came out to support our cause!
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Meet our amazing SFUFF interns, Hannah and Nic
Posted March 21st, 2017 by SFUFF in General
Hannah Moore is SFUFF’s 2017 intern and is a recent college graduate interested in changing the way museums and other cultural institutions engage with the public. Nic Winstead was our social media intern live tweeting and creating cool graphics for SFUFF 2016. He is an artist and interested in a full time job in graphic […]
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SFUFF co-presents film at Jewish Film Institute
Posted February 6th, 2017 by SFUFF in General
SFUFF is honored to co-present with the Jewish Film Institue “All Governments Lie” as part of WinterFest 2017 on Saturday, March 4th (Alamo Drafthouse New Mission Theater) and Sunday, March 5 (Roxie Theater). Film details: All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone. Dir. Fred Peabody, Canada, 91 min, English. Independent journalists like […]
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Introducing the SFUFF YouTube channel
Posted January 13th, 2017 by SFUFF in General
Klaine Justo has been working on compiling videos from around the world to post and share on the SF Urban Film Fest YouTube channel. Check out Ezra Stanley’s short videos, featured on our YouTube channel, and born out of his passion for SFUFF. He walked around North Beach and asked what it means to live in […]
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