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FUTURESTATES Launch Party is Tonight!
ITVS, KQED, and Public Works invite you to attend the SF launch party to ring in the second season of FUTURESTATES
The event will feature screenings of Asparagus by Robby Henson, and Remigration by Barry Jenkins, two new episodes from the series.
San Francisco’s award-winning writer and director Barry Jenkins will be on hand to participate in a Q&A following the screening with Series Manager, Karim Ahmad.
Attend the FUTURESTATES Launch Party
ITVS, KQED, and Public Works invite you to attend the launch party to ring in the second season of FUTURESTATES on Wednesday, March 30 in San Francisco.
The event will feature screenings of Asparagus by Robby Henson, and Remigration by Barry Jenkins, two new episodes from the series.
San Francisco’s award-winning writer and director Barry Jenkins will be on hand to participate in a Q&A following the screening with Series Manager, Karim Ahmad.
Barry Jenkins Film Remigration Available Online Today
Bay area filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ film Remigration is streaming free on FUTURESTATES.TV.
The original online series FUTURESTATES launched its second season last week at SXSW and will release films for free online, over the next several weeks.
Check in today and watch Jenkins’ futuristic vision of San Francisco in Remigration, streaming free online. Enjoy and welcome to the future!
FUTURESTATES & ITVS on Display at SFIAAFF
The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival runs from March 10 through March 20
The 29th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) gets started today and will run through March 20. The festival is the largest showcase for new Asian and Asian American films in North America, annually presenting approximately 120 works in San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Jose.
Among the featured films this year are several shorts from the second season of our online series FUTURESTATES, which premieres next week at SXSW.
Michella Rivera-Gravage is SFIAAFF’s director of digital media and will be moderating a discussion with filmmakers from the FUTURESTATES series on Beyond the Box next Wednesday, March 16.
SF International Film Festival Unveils Doc & New Directors Competitions
The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival runs April 21 through May 5.
America’s longest-running film festival announced selections for its New Directors Feature Competition and the Golden Gate Awards Documentary Feature Competition.
Among the titles selected for Best Documentary Feature is the ITVS-funded Better this World, which airs next fall on P.O.V.
Additional films and categories will be announced by the SFIFF on March 29th.
San Francisco Gets a Peek at Academy Award-Nominated Waste Land
Filmmaker Lucy Walker attended a screening in SF on Wednesday
Lucy Walker’s Oscar-nominated doc Waste Land will have its broadcast premiere April 19 on Independent Lens on PBS, but San Francisco got a sneak peak this week in an exclusive screening and reception.
San Francisco Goes Parking with ITVS
ITVS' free outdoor screening of The Parking Lot Movie last Friday in San Francisco
Many thanks to all the Bay Area residents who made the trip to the parking lot of The Good Hotel at 7th and Minna street last Friday night for this season’s launch of Independent Lens and free outdoor screening of The Parking Lot Movie. The event was part of the annual Park(ing) Day, which encourages citizens to turn metered parking spaces into public spaces for a day.
More than 140 indie film enthusiasts spread out under the Northern California stars to enjoy Meghan Eckman’s film about one small parking lot in a college town and the asphalt philosophers who work there.
Peckish parkers had multiple food options with both a taco and French bistro truck dispensing savory pre-movie fare. ITVS staffers were also on hand to introduce this year’s lineup of Independent Lens shows and to announce a host of Community Cinema events slated to play in more than 85 cities nationwide.
Enjoy some (ahem) artfully grainy film footage and photographs below from Friday’s event:
Also, one faithful BTB staffer was delighted to run into a viewer who knew the stars of The Parking Lot Movie personally. Check out what he had to say about the band of over-educated parking attendants in the clip below:
Again, thanks to all for coming to the event, and remember to mark your calendars and set your DVRs for the official broadcast premiere of The Parking Lot Movie, airing on Independent Lens Tuesday, October 19 at 10:00 PM (check local listings).
The Parking Lot Movie: Filmmaker Interview
Filmmaker Meghan Eckman
Filmmaker Meghan Eckman spoke to BTB this week about her film The Parking Lot Movie, which premieres on Independent Lens Tuesday, October 19th. The film will also be screened tonight in San Francisco at the parking lot across from The Good Hotel at 7 PM.
Congratulations on your film. Give us a little background on the movie and what inspired you to make it.
One of my friends was a parking lot attendant at this lot and he suggested that someone make a movie about it. I volunteered, and showed up the next day with my video camera.
Once we started filming, it became immediately apparent to me that this parking lot was very film-worthy. And once I started doing interviews with former parking attendants, I realized it needed to be a feature.
The parking lot has great myths and lore attached to it. It’s legendary in Charlottesville. Once I started filming, I got to uncover why it was legendary and what made it so special.
Is this little parking lot in Charlottesville really a microcosm of America or, shall I say, humanity?
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Free Parking & Free Movie!
The Parking Lot Movie screens for free this Friday, September 17th outside The Good Hotel in San Francisco
The launch of this year’s season of Independent Lens, hosted by America Ferrera, kicks off this Friday night, September 17th at 7 PM in San Francisco. Don’t have a ticket? Perfect. It’s free! Just show up to the parking lot across from The Good Hotel at 7th and Minna Street.
In conjunction with Parking Day — an annual global event where citizens, artists, and activists transform metered parking spaces into temporary public spaces — ITVS will transform The Good Hotel’s parking lot into an outdoor movie theater for one night and preview Independent Lens’ season opener, The Parking Lot Movie, ahead of its October 19th broadcast premiere.
San Francisco: ITVS Joins Power to the Peaceful
The annual Power to the Peaceful Festival, featuring CARE Ambassador Michael Franti and more than 50,000 music fans, will take place in Golden Gate Park on Saturday, September 11, 2010. The night before, on Friday, September 10 at 8 pm, CARE and Michael Franti will kick off the festival with the second annual Global Action Forum & Celebration at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.
The evening will feature the screening of two short films: one about Franti’s recent trip with CARE to East Timor, and another about a girls’ education crusader from Mali. The films will be followed by an intimate conversation with top experts in global women’s issues and an acoustic performance by Franti.
Click here for more information and here to purchase tickets for the event.
Watch for ITVS’s Community Cinema staff in Golden Gate Park with information on this season’s lineup of Independent Lens films, including several highlighting women’s issues as part of our Women’s Empowerment Initiative. Visit communitycinema.org for more information and become a fan of Community Cinema on Facebook to be sure you find the screening nearest you.
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