Posts filed under "SF Indie"
Congratulations to this year’s Award Winners!
Audience Awards Narrative Feature: The Story of Luke Documentary Feature: Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp Short: Josephine and the Roach Animation: The Missing Key Jury Prizes Narrative Feature: The Legend of Kaspar Hauser Documentary: The Revisionairies Short: My Name is Your First Love
Special Guests Antonio Campos, Joe Swanberg, Jane Adams, Amy Seimetz and more!
This year we are proud to host nearly 30 special guests who will be on hand to introduce their films and to participate in post-screening Q+As. Among them are Antonio Campos, who will present his new film SIMON KILLER (known from the chilling AFTERSCHOOL and as the producer of MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE), Joe Swanberg [...]
2013 SF Independent Film Festival Press Coverage (so far)
IndieFest Slide Show in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/06/sf-indiefest_n_2632783.html The Beginning, Simon Killer, Inside Lara Roxx, The Story of Luke, Ghosts with Shit Jobs, Antiviral http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=1082 Ghastly Love of Johnny X on CBS Morning News (nationwide!) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50141635n LIFE AND TIMES OF PAUL THE PSYCHIC OCTOPUS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-heymont/the-inside-scoop_b_2774796.html WayTooIndie Top 10 Films of Festival http://waytooindie.com/news/top-10-films-from-sf-indiefest/ [...]
Special Guests for Opening Night Announced!
We’ve added another film to the calendar called FACES IN THE MIRROR. A great new film by Boyd Tinsley, violin player for the Dave Matthew Band. Tickets are available at the Festival Calendar, and your ticket to that show will get you in to our Opening Night Party that night at Brava Theater. The party [...]
SF Indie selection “I DECLARE WAR” picked up by Drafthouse Films!
EXCLUSIVE: Drafthouse Films, the distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse, has snatched up I Declare War, a kid-centered actioner about an epic game of capture-the-flag that comes alive through its young characters’ vivid imaginations. The pic, directed by Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson and produced by Lewin Webb, Robert Wilson and Patrick Cameron for Samaritan [...]
Simon Killer review in Fangoria!
A sociopathic odyssey, SIMON KILLER is less explicit horror and more the true nature of psychological thriller. Simon is unknowable; his intentions, actions, words and the truth behind them, unknown. This, in effect, is terrifying. When Antonio Campos’ deliberate camera isn’t focused on Simon’s enigmatic behavior, it finds brief interludes in a cool blue wide [...]
Get ready for The Legend of Kaspar Hauser with this classic Vitalic video!
In anticipation of SF Indie’s screenings of Davide Manuli’s trippy take on the Kaspar Hauser tale, starring Vincent Gallo and featuring an amazing, immersive score by Vitalic, why not revisit Vitalic‘s much-buzzed about video “Birds” from 2009, directed by Parisian collective Pleix. Read about the film and get tickets HERE.
Celebrating the 15th SF Independent Film Festival!
¡Fiesta Quinceañera! Celebrating the 15th SF Independent Film Festival 2013 February 7-21 Brava Theatre, Roxie Theatre, Vortex Room in San Francisco FULL PROGRAM, TICKETS AND PASSES HERE! “Always a highlight of the year, IndieFest is a celebration of independent cinema of the past, present and future. It’s also one hell of a good time and [...]
IndieFest Films Make Bay Guardian Best of 2012 List
Four of the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s film critics listed six SF IndieFest films in their year end wrap up! Jesse Hawthorn Fick: Best Unreleased Films: BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (playing next month at IndieFest 2013, image above) Dennis Harvey: Top Narratives: GIRL WALK//ALL DAY, KLOWN Sam Standers: Top 15: THE COLOR WHEEL, KILL LIST Cheryl [...]
HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN Sidebar at SF Indie!
As part of its 2013 programming, SF Indie will be hosting a House of Psychotic Women sidebar, with rare prints of two films hosted by author Kier-la Janisse, who will be introducing each show and signing copies of her book afterwards. House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and [...]
