From iam at lists.artsandmedia.net Wed Apr 11 17:06:11 2007 From: iam at lists.artsandmedia.net (iam@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Wed Apr 11 17:07:48 2007 Subject: [Indy Arts] Penelope Spheeris/Women's Film Fest; CounterCorp call out Message-ID: In 2007, Indy Arts is honored to sponsor The Third Annual San Francisco Women's Film Festival and the Second Annual CounterCorp Film Festival. Here's some late-breaking news on both of those events: IN BRIEF: -- The Third Annual San Francisco Women's Film Festival opens tonight, with a party at 12 Galaxies featuring "The L Word" co-writer Guinevere Turner, and offers screenings and workshops through Sunday. The festival closes with a party on Sunday at 111 Minna featuring none other than PENELOPE SPHEERIS, who will screen her '80s punk classic "Suburbia," and answer questions about her storied career, including the mainstream comedy "Wayne's World" and documentaries on Enron and American punk and metal. -- The Second Annual CounterCorp Film Festival is now accepting submissions for its main even in October. See below for details. --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 3RD ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 11 - 15, 2007 Full festival schedule online: http://www.sfwff.org/ Featured events: * Tonight, Wednesday, April 11: Opening Night Gala Featuring "Dogma" co-star, and "The L Word" and "The Notorious Bettie Page" co-writer Guinevere Turner At 12 Galaxies, 7pm * Friday, April 13: Documentary & Activism Panel "Filmmaking and Activism" panel with Karil Daniels, Carolyn Scott, Deborah Koons-Garcia, Connie Field and Dorothy Fadiman At the Little Roxie, 2pm, FREE * Saturday, April 14: Generation Next -- Film by youth for youth Short-film screening and discussion. At the Women's Building, 2pm, FREE * Sunday, April 15: Children's Animation Shorts Animated short films for children by women worldwide At Zeum, 2pm * Sunday, April 15: Closing night party with Penelope Spheeris! Director Penelope Spheeris screenings 80s punk classic "Suburbia," in this special tribute party. SFWFF 2007 pays tribute to Spheeris' achievements in films, which range from "Wayne's World" and the "The Decline of Western Civilization" to "The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron." Spheeris is currently at work on a Janis Joplin biopic. --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! * 2007 COUNTERCORP ANTI-CORPORATE FILM FESTIVAL The 2007 CounterCorp Anti-Corporate Film Festival is seeking submissions for this year's festival, which is scheduled to take place from October 19-21 in San Francisco. To submit a film for consideration, please download and fill out the 2007 submission form on the Festival page of the CounterCorp website (http://www.countercorp.org/countercorp-festival.htm) and mail it in with your film by this year's deadline: JULY 2. CounterCorp also welcomes suggestions for films to show at the Festival. Please e-mail your suggestions to submissions@countercorp.org. If we end up screening a film that you suggest, we will give you TWO TICKETS to *any* film at this year's festival. For more information about CounterCorp or the Anti-Corporate Film Festival, visit our website at http://www.countercorp.org or e-mail us at info@countercorp.org. CounterCorp: Putting an end to business as usual 2007 Anti-Corporate Film Festival October 19-21, San Francisco 2017 Mission Street, #305 San Francisco, CA 94110 http://www.countercorp.org --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -- ++ Independent Arts & Media ++ + http://artsandmedia.net/ + Indy Arts strengthens public dialogue by increasing access to independent voices. Newsdesk.org / News You Might Have Missed + http://newsdesk.org/ + The Expo for the Artist & Musician -- Eight Years in 2007 + http://artsandmedia.net/expo/ + Fiscal Sponsorship & Services + http://artsandmedia.net/cgi-bin/dc/iam/pages/fiscal_sponsorship + -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/iam/attachments/20070411/6c8b6c2e/attachment-0001.html From iam at lists.artsandmedia.net Thu Apr 19 15:48:00 2007 From: iam at lists.artsandmedia.net (iam@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Thu Apr 19 15:49:12 2007 Subject: Tonight: Open dialogue on "What's Natural About Natural Disasters?" Message-ID: Tune into KUSF tonight, Thursday, April 19, at 10:30pm for the next installment of Shaping San Francisco's inquiry into "What's Natural About Natural Disasters?" Tonight we feature part one of a two-part exchange between the audience and panelists Sherlina Nager (Literacy for Environmental Justice), Tom Athanasiou (Eco Equity), harm-reduction researcher Peter Davidson, plus Shaping SF host Chris Carlsson. Fur flies, pulses pound and brows furrow over such urgent questions as: -- How do you tell the plain truth about complex enviro-social issues? -- Is climate change a threat to capitalism? -- Does it matter if your mom decarbonizes? Listen in at 10:30 p.m. 90.3 FM in San Francisco, or streaming online at http://www.kusf.org. Recorded live at CounterPulse, Shaping San Francisco's Talks is produced by Shaping SF, City Lights Foundation, Nature in the City and Independent Arts & Media. Radio broadcast produced by Independent Arts & Media, http://artsandmedia.net. Shaping San Francisco on KUSF Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. 90.3 FM, KUSF San Francisco (www.kusf.org) -- ++ Independent Arts & Media ++ + http://artsandmedia.net/ + Indy Arts strengthens public dialogue by increasing access to independent voices. Newsdesk.org / News You Might Have Missed + http://newsdesk.org/ + The Expo for the Artist & Musician -- Eight Years in 2007 + http://artsandmedia.net/expo/ + Fiscal Sponsorship & Services + http://artsandmedia.net/cgi-bin/dc/iam/pages/fiscal_sponsorship + From iam at lists.artsandmedia.net Thu Apr 26 16:42:34 2007 From: iam at lists.artsandmedia.net (iam@lists.artsandmedia.net) Date: Thu Apr 26 16:45:33 2007 Subject: [Indy Arts] SF Int'l Film Fest screening, speaker, free tix Message-ID: Indy arts wants you to know about three unusual events coming up at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival: * "ARROWS OF TIME" -- April 27 A live multimedia performance and mashup of particle physics, philosophy and poetry. * "MURCH" -- April 29 A documentary on film editor Walter Murch ("Apocalypse Now" and many others). Murch himself will be in attendance! * "NOTES TO A TOON UNDERGROUND: Animation & Live Music" Featuring members of Jet Black Crayon, Xiu Xiu, Good for Cows and other local-music savants. WIN TICKETS to one of these screenings at the end of this email. Thanks for your support of independent culture and community! -- Expo for the Artist & Musician --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- The 50th San Francisco International Film Festival April 26-May 10 Tickets and details: http://fest07.sffs.org/ * "ARROWS OF TIME" -- World Premiere Directed and performed by Ken McMullen Friday, April 27, SFMOMA, 6:30 pm (also 4/29 at McBean Theater) Imagine a film featuring French philosopher Jacques Derrida, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center physicists, German artist Joseph Beuys, a crime spree flashing forward from 1971 to 2006, and reconstructions of poems by John Milton, Jorge Luis Borges and Fernando Passoa as performed by leading actors such as "Henry and June"'s Maria de Medeiros. Now imagine all these elements as part of a live multimedia performance, edited in real-time into a mind-boggling mix-and- match of content and form. Director and artist Ken McMullen has amassed an impressive array of documentary footage of artists, philosophers and scientists to create an elaborate timeline of ideas, images and sounds that contrasts new discoveries in high-energy physics with other distinct yet overlapping cultural developments in fields such as philosophy, poetry, film and video. * "MURCH" Directed by David Ichioka, Edie Ichioka Sunday, April 29, Castro Theatre, 4:15 pm (also screening three other times) ** Walter Murch himself will attend the April 29 screening! There are film editors, and then there's Walter Murch, widely considered the world's greatest cutter for "Apocalypse Now" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" to name just two. "Murch" is an epic sit-down with the man as he discusses his theories on why we blink and what this has to do with cutting film; why he stands while he works (does a surgeon sit, or an orchestra conductor or a butcher?); "A Touch of Evil" (which Murch reedited in 1998 guided by Orson Welles's detailed 58- page memo written some 40 years earlier); what cooking and editing have in common (adding something bitter to bring out the inherent sweetness of the dish); and more. * "NOTES TO A TOON UNDERGROUND: Animation and Live Music" Saturday, May 5, Castro Theatre, 8:30 pm Featuring 15 animated films made between 1912 and 2005 by six different directors, and with 11 musicians providing live accompaniment, it's safe to file this program under "This Will Never Happen Again." The lineup includes Marc Capelle, Devin Hoff (of Good for Cows), Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy) Ches Smith (of Good for Cows, Xiu Xiu and Ceramic Dog), Jamie Stewart and Caralee McElroy (of Xiu Xiu), Carla Fabrizia (of Gamelan Sekar Jaya), Tommy Guerrero, Monte Vallier and Gadget (of Jet Black Crayon) and avant-garde legend William Winant. These musicians will unveil world premieres of newly composed scores to historic and contemporary animated shorts. *** WIN FREE SFIFF TICKETS *** SFIFF has made a pair of tickets for "MURCH" available to the Expo community. We'll give the tickets to the first person who emails us back and correctly names one other film Walter Murch edited, besides the three listed above. Simply "reply" to this email, or send your response to: expo_info at artsandmedia.net.