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SUMMARY:FUNNY HA HA
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for FUNNY HA HA at 518 Val Sun Feb 11\, 1p HERE\n  \nDirector Andrew Bujalsky – 2002 USA 89 min – IndieFest 2004 program note: \n  \nFive minutes\, is that so long? Marnie would like to go five minutes without something embarrassing happening to her. But for the beleaguered heroine of Andrew Bujalski’s spot-on exploration of life in the awkward lane\, that’s just not possible. Friends who don’t know when to shut up\, jobs that are okay at best\, and kisses\, both unwelcome and unsent: Marnie’s endured them all\, uncertain but ever hopeful that someday\, all the pieces of her life will come together and everything will fit. \nAt first blush\, Funny Ha Ha may seem like a familiar story—a twenty-something drifting through her life\, suffering from unrequited love and a touch of post-college ennui—but Bujalski has a refreshingly original approach. While other directors would lather on the soporific humor or aim for emotional fireworks\, Bujalski lingers on life’s quietly uncomfortable moments\, like when you run out of conversation on a date and there’s nothing left to do but just look at each other. It’s rich material and Bujalski renders each stilted conversation perfectly\, with every “Um” and “Ah” in exactly the right place. As Marnie\, Kate Dollenmayer projects a vulnerability and naturalism that is perfectly in harmony with the cliché-free script. Not to be outdone\, Bujalski steps in front of the camera himself to play Mitchell\, the nicest guy Marnie will probably never go out with. He’s also one of three nominees in the 2004 Independent Spirit Awards Someone to Watch Award.  – Doug Jones \n \n\n\nABOUT INDIEFEST Year Six \nDates: Feb 5-15\, 2004 \nVenues: Castro\, Roxie\, Women’s Building\, Oakland Metro \nFeatures: 35  Shorts: 63  Parties: 7  Bands: 3 Total Films: 98  Total Films To Date: 415.  \nWith: Jeff Ross\, Bruce Fletcher\, Tod Booth\, Molli Simon\, Alicia Perre-Dowd\, John Lee\, Catherine Fougere\, Michael Tino\, Sean Kelly\, Kat Borgen Werbel\, Karen Larsen \nSponsors: The Women’s Building\, Live 105\, Adolph Gasser\, Phoenix Hotel\, Bay Guardian\, Sierra Nevada\, Kitchen Sink Magazine\, Landmark Theaters\, sfstation.com\, Lost Weekend Video\, Rainbow Grocery\, KQED\, Hotel Bijou\, La Mediterranee\, Monaco \nNOTES: First Big Lebowski Party! First screenings at the Women’s Building Auditorium. Back cover of the 40 page program guide featured a cut out clip&save Mission Hipster by Hugh Andrade. First year with Karen Larsen as our publicist. First and only time an entire sold out Roxie theater crowd walks out of a movie. (Bettie Page-Dark Angel a film we booked as a world premiere after seeing only a 20 minute rough cut\, and saw for the first time at the festival. It was so bad Betty Page had them change the spelling of her name in the title when she pulled out of working on it. But the Betty Page look a like contest at Bondage A Go Go that everyone went to instead was awesome!)
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/funny-ha-ha/
LOCATION:518 Valencia Gallery\, 518 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:20 Year Retrospective,Feature Narrative
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SUMMARY:BETWEEN LAND AND SEA
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for BETWEEN LAND AND SEA at Roxie Wed Feb 7\, 7p HERE\nTICKETS for BETWEEN LAND AND SEA at Roxie Sun Feb 11\, 2p HERE\n  \nDirector Ross Whitaker – 2017 Ireland 87 min West Coast Premiere – Adventure/Documentary \n  \nGet ready for an adrenaline high and take a plunge into the ice cold waters of the North Atlantic.  This observational documentary embeds itself in the big wave surf community of an Irish surf town to present a thoroughly engaging and visually stunning portrait of life at land’s end. Living in tune with nature far from busy urban environments is massively challenging but ultimately rewarding in this immersive portrait of a people and a place. – Chris Metzler
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/between-land-and-sea/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Documentary
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SUMMARY:Shorts 4: Fateful Intersections
DESCRIPTION:Shorts 4: Fateful Intersections: Dramatic Shorts \nStories about a seemingly random encounter that changes everything. Featuring atmosphere galore\, this is a true director’s showcase. 83 min. Contains sex and violence. \nTICKETS for SHORTS 4 at Roxie Feb 11\, 2p HERE\nTICKETS for SHORTS 4 at Roxie Feb 12\, 7p HERE\n  \n \nPluck \nMavi Phillips \nUSA\, 17 min \nA surrealist psychological adventure\, ‘Pluck’ tells the story of a twenty-something English woman who’s traveling alone through Europe on a journey of self-discovery\, searching for answers through sexuality and spirituality. While in the Italian countryside\, staying in a castle\, now a hotel\, she’s drawn to a young escort of an older woman. We follow her as she spends the day exploring the village and herself. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOn the Road \nBartosz Nowacki \nPoland\, 23 min \nDuring a long ride a woman picks up a hitchhiker. From the very beginning the man does not come across as trustworthy and the woman\, anxious and feeling the growing threat\, decides to pick up one more person. In the confined space of the car the three strangers begin a tense game. The characters hide some secrets that\, revealed in small steps\, will lead to tragic events. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWhoever Was Using This Bed \nAndrew Kotatko \nAustralia\, 20 min \nA married couple is woken in the dead of night by a mysterious phone call. Unable to sleep\, they are drawn into an unsettling examination of their fears and desires. Based on a story by Raymond Carver (Birdman)\, WHOEVER WAS USING THIS BED is a multi-award-winning short psychological drama starring Jean-Marc Barr (The Big Blue)\, Radha Mitchell (Man on Fire) and Jane Birkin (Blow Up). \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Smoke \nIvan Plechev \nRussia\, 23 min \nA nuanced crime drama about a policeman father and his hash-dealing teenaged son. Each is keeping secrets from the other. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/shorts-4-fateful-intersections/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Shorts Program
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SUMMARY:BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO at 518 VAL Sun Feb 11\, 3p HERE\n  \nDirector Peter Strickland – 2012 UK 91 min – IndieFest 2013 program note: \n  \nToby Jones (The Girl) plays Gilderoy\, a socially reserved British sound mixer invited to work on a film in Italy. Unbeknownst to him\, his new assignment turns out to be a horror film and Gilderoy is unexpectedly and unwillingly thrown into a world of sadistic violence\, gore and cruelty. His tolerance of this grotesque universe is tested\, as he adds sound effects to every stabbing and decapitation\, and a great many other violent actions in need of aural punctuation. As he continues to work on the film\, Gilderoy becomes increasingly alienated from reality. His mental state slowly deteriorates\, as director Peter Strickland expertly crafts a psychological thriller relying on the power of suggestion rather than graphic violence. At once homage and send-up of the classic giallo films of the 70s Berberian Sound Studio is tense\, unsettling and darkly funny. Like Brian De Palma’s Blow Out\, this is a master-class on the relationship between sound and image. (VIFF) \n \n  \n\n\nABOUT INDIEFEST Year Fifteen \nDates: Feb 7-13\, 2013 \nVenues: Brava\, Roxie \nFeatures: 34  Shorts: 44  Parties: 9  Total Films: 78  Total Films To Date: 1208.  \nWith: Jeff Ross\, Kier-la Janisse\, Holly Roach\, Anna Feder\, Jeff Giordano\, Fay Dearborn\, Laura Costantino\, Carl Elsaeeser\, Catie Roads\, Nina Ramos\, George Kasanlian\, Nadja Mark\, Tosh Hall\, Adam Harvie\, Karen Laresen\, studio1500 \nSponsors: Grants for the Arts\, Bay Guardian\, East Bay Express\, sfstation.com\, Yelp\, Creative America\, Alice Radio\, Hotel Carlton\, Hotel Abri\, Phoenix Hotel\, Other Avenues\, Live 105\, KALX\, Black Star\, Blue Angel\, Treasure Island Wines\, Los Osuna\, Air\, Lagunitas\, Tax Ninja \nNOTES: First year at the Brava Theater for opening night. First year with Jeff Giordano\, and Nadja Mark. First Bad Art Gallery show at IndieFest. And first of many Roller Disco Parties at the Women’s Building. First year with Lagunitas as a sponsor. \n 
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/berberian-sound-studio/
LOCATION:518 Valencia Gallery\, 518 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:20 Year Retrospective,Feature Narrative
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SUMMARY:Shorts 6: The Girls Are Alright
DESCRIPTION:Shorts 6: The Girls Are Alright: Light Comedy Shorts \nDon’t you love a happy ending? Life’s dilemmas are a piece of cake for these protagonists. 83 min \nTICKETS for SHORTS 6 at Roxie Feb 11\, 430p HERE\nTICKETS for SHORTS 6 at Roxie Feb 14\, 7p HERE\n  \nThe Makeover \nKaeli Quick\, USA\, 3 min \nA woman wears a trendy new fashion item\, only to find that she just can’t make it work. \n  \n  \nThe Bill \nCaralene Robinson\, USA\, 10 min \nA birthday celebration dissolves into chaos when a huge bill arrives. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNorth and Nowhere \nScott Ballard\, USA\, 12 min \nDevon has some unconventional ideas for helping her ailing dad stay on the family farm. \n  \n  \n  \nFlip the Record \nmarie jamora\, USA\, 15 min \nVanessa\, sick of piano lessons and the wishes her conservative 1980’s Filipino-American household\, starts teaching herself on the sly how to scratch on her older brother’s turntables. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLesbehonest: I’ll be all right \nJana Heaton\, USA\, 19 min \nAfter an impulsive breakup\, a womanizing lesbian moves back in with her gay best friend and rediscovers something worth strapping on to: their friendship. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSign \nSvetlana Samoshina\, Russia\, 25 min \nA psychic is pretty sure her doctor boyfriend is having an affair. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/shorts-6-the-girls-are-alright/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Shorts Program
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SUMMARY:HER MAGNUM OPUS
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for HER MAGNUM OPUS at Roxie Sun Feb 11\, 430p HERE\nTICKETS for HER MAGNUM OPUS at Roxie Mon Feb 12\, 7p HERE\n  \nDirector Marta Renzi – 2017 USA 61 min Bay Area Premiere – Dance / Aging \n  \nA freewheeling narrative enacted almost entirely through movement and music\, Her Magnum Opus is Marta Renzi’s ode to creativity and community as a circle of friends gathers to celebrate their mentor. Her little house was a refuge as the seasons changed\, with legendary parties that lasted for hours\, but was now coming to an end. \nA circle of friends gather to celebrate their mentor and learns that what lasts is those you leave behind. A freewheeling narrative enacted almost entirely through movement and music\, “Her Magnum Opus” is Marta Renzi’s ode to creativity and community. A diverse cast weaves in and out of the action like revelers in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream;” presiding over the festivities is Aileen Passloff\, a grey-haired force of nature playing a version of herself. Among her attendants are a devoted younger friend (dancer Arthur Avilés)\, a pregnant dancer\, a young couple in need of counseling\, even a fairy tale prince who pops out of a pile of autumn leaves. A tantalizing mix of magic realism and improvised naturalism\, the film unfolds in a bucolic setting—a beach\, a forest\, a country house—which holds emotional ties for the group as a source of inspiration and solace. Her little house was a refuge as the seasons changed\, with legendary parties that lasted for hours\, but was now coming to an end. A remarkable feature debut from award-winning choreographer Renzi\, for whom dancers have always been people first. Jennifer Junkyard Morris \nCo-presented by the SAN FRANCISCO DANCE FILM FESTIVAL \n  \nPlays with:  \nRICE BALL \nYusuke Oishi\, Japan\, 15 min \nA father and a son return from their wife and mother’s cremation and halfheartedly fix rice balls for lunch. It’s a moment full of meaning for both\, as her absence is felt even in the making of this seemingly simple dish. \n 
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/her-magnum-opus/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Feature Narrative
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SUMMARY:JIMMY AND JUDY
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for JIMMY AND JUDY at 518 Val Sun Feb 11\, 5p HERE\n  \nDirectors Jonathan Schroder & Randall Rubin – 2006 USA 99 min – IndieFest 2006 program note: \n  \nIt’s the IndieFest late show and we’re quite sure that Jimmy and Judy is exactly what you’re looking for. Mental illness\, ultraviolence\, sexual perversion\, meth cults\, nudity\, family dysfunction\, home movies\, and tender heart-warming romance are the order of the day. Join Jimmy and Judy as they discover that true love is possible – even in Hell. \nWelcome to suburbia. Jimmy is intelligent\, mentally ill and obsessed with his handheld video camera. He manipulates everyone\, and may have been expelled from college for talking his roommate into committing suicide on camera. Soon Jimmy focuses on Judy\, a timid ingénue who’s constantly bullied at school. He exacts revenge upon her enemies\, tapes himself in the act and Judy falls hopelessly in love with her passionate protector. \nExploring sex\, drugs\, gunplay\, even petty theft\, the two videotape everything they do\, but their escalating antics eventually lead to disaster. After a freak series of events\, they find themselves on the run from the law (in the underbelly of the American midwest). With nothing to lose (except each other)\, they rampage across the country in search of a near-mythical libertarian nirvana run by the elusive Uncle Rodney. \nThe excellent use of a clever concept\, a well-developed script\, daring performances by Edward Furlong and Rachael Bella (and their undeniable onscreen chemistry) ensure that the tale of Jimmy and Judy will stay with you long after the lights come up. – Bruce Fletcher\, SF IndieFest \n \n\n\nABOUT INDIEFEST YEAR EIGHT \nDates: Feb 2-14\, 2006 \nVenues: Castro\, Roxie\, Women’s Building \nFeatures: 37  Shorts: 71  Parties: 5  Bands: 3 Total Films: 108  Total Films To Date: 616.  \nWith: Jeff Ross\, Bruce Fletcher\, Alicia Perre-Dowd\, Mike Skurko\, Fay Dearborn\, Catherine Fougere\, Karen Larsen \nSponsors: Bay Guardian\, KRON\, Women’s Building\, Adolph Gasser\, Complex Corp\, sfstation.com\, Rainbow Grocery\, Lost Weekend Video\, Herring and Grey Design\, sfist\, Live 105\, Alice Radio\, Film Arts Foundation\, indiewire\, KUSF\, Pirate Cat Radio\, Sierra Nevada\, Makers Mark\, Johnny Love Vodka\, Hotel Fusion \nNotes: Tommy Chong stiffed us on plane tickets to the festival. We had tons of paparazzi for Furlong and Bella. The last time we played a 16mm feature (Blood Tea and Red String by local animator Christianne Cegavske).
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/jimmy-and-judy/
LOCATION:518 Valencia Gallery\, 518 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:20 Year Retrospective,Feature Narrative
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SUMMARY:GUITAR MAN
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for GUITAR MAN at Roxie Sun Feb 11\, 7p HERE\nTICKETS for GUITAR MAN at Roxie Thu Feb 15\, 915p HERE\n  \nDirector Rocky Capella – 2018 USA 98 min Bay Area Premiere\, Local Filmmaker – Drama / Youth / Prison \n  \nLifelong Musician BUZZY MARTIN began teaching at-risk kids about music to help them through the trial of their daily lives. Through this experience he was given the opportunity to teach a music class inside San Quentin State Prison. Intimidated at first by the brutal surroundings\, he soon found a common language between him and the inmates: music. He returned to his younger students with stories about the reality of prison life\, desperate to teach them that prison was not a streetwise “badge of honor.” The dangerous paths down which they were headed could be replaced by real dreams\, hope and the redemptive muscle of liberating jailhouse rock. Along the way they discover the true gift of music…and the deeper meaning of freedom. – Jennifer Junkyard Morris \n\n  \n 
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/guitar-man/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Feature Narrative
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SUMMARY:THE MIDNIGHTERS
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for THE MIDNIGHTERS at Roxie Sun Feb 11\, 7p HERE\n  \nDirector Julian Fort – 2017 USA 86 min Northern California Premiere – Crime Thriller \n  \nLifelong character actor Leon Russom (Prison Break\, The Big Lebowski) stars as a safe-cracker fresh off 30 years in prison. When his estranged son offers him for one last job and a $10 million payday\, his listless life spirals out of control in this perfectly-plotted brooding heist debut from Fort. \nThe story behind Julian Fort’s THE MIDNIGHTERS and his star Leon Russom is similar to the one inside the film. “It was almost like a movie father and son because he’s worked in business for so long\,” says the writer-director\, who crossed paths with Russom time and time again at a coffee shop. You may not know Russom’s name\, but you’ve seen his work. With over 100 credits\, including Prison Break\, The Big Lebowski and the 2010 True Grit\, Julian’s star has been in the business a long time. “Someone pointed out to me that I’ve been an actor for maybe 55 years or more and I’ve never played a lead like this\,” says the actor\, “and [the film] is the perfect metaphor for your situation.” \nRussom plays Victor\, a former safe-cracker fresh out of prison after thirty-five years. With the shadow of Shawshank’s Brooks Hatlen hanging over Victor’s situation\, he even tells his old friend that he’d rather be back inside than try to adjust to this new world. Everything changes when he connects with the son he never met\, Danny\, who offers him a safe-cracking job for 10 million dollars. “The movie for me is really about my escape and my trying to break into Hollywood\,” says writer-director Fort\, “it’s something that I’ve been trying to do my whole life and I don’t come from a big money background so it’s been very difficult. And Leon’s been trying to be a leading man for his whole career\, he’s had an amazing career playing\, you know\, the fourth man.” (source: AMFM Magazine – Bears Fonte) \n –Bears Fonte \n 
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/the-midnighters/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Feature Narrative
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SUMMARY:RAIN THE COLOR OF BLUE WITH A LITTLE RED IN IT
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for RAIN THE COLOR OF BLUE WITH A LITTLE RED IN IT at 518 Val Sun Feb 11\, 730p HERE\n  \nDirector Christopher Kirby – 2015 Niger 75 min – IndieFest 2016 program note: \n  \nPrince goes Sahel in this remake of Purple Rain in the Saharan Desert.  The first feature film in the Tamashek language (which has no word for “purple\,” hence the title)\, the film tells the universal story of a musician trying to make it against all odds. With a purple robe and matching chopper\, a smoking hot guitarist arrives in a music-mad Niger town and sets about wooing a local beauty\, clashing with his pious father and fencing with the jealous king of the local scene until their climactic six-string shootout. –Chris Metzler\, SF IndieFest \n \n\n\nABOUT INDIEFEST Year Eighteen \nDates: Feb 11-15\, 2016 \nVenues: Brava\, Roxie\, Alamo Drafthouse \nFeatures: 42  Shorts: 46  Parties: 7  Total Films: 88  Total Films To Date: 1465.  \nWith: Jeff Ross\, Jennifer Junkyard Morris\, Bears Fonte\, Jeff Giordano\, Chris Metzler\, Jay Wertzler\, Catie Roads\, Holly Roach\, Colin Johnson\, Nadja Mark\, Nina Ramos\, George Kaskanlian\, Sara Sherman\, Patricia Moran\, Robert Meyer\, Karen Larsen\, Fabian Falconett\, Melissa Martin \nSponsors: Grants for the Arts\, SF Art Commission\, Bawdy Caste\, KQED\, KALX\, SF Weekly\, sfstation.com\, Yelp\, Funcheap\, Phoenix Hotel\, Hotel Kabuki\, Hotel Carlton\, Laurel Inn\, Tito’s Vodka\, Lagunitas\, 48 Hills\, Pabst Blue Ribbon\, Pusser’s Rum\, Distillery 209 \nNOTES: Bears Fonte is recruited to “bring the weird.” Junkyard joins the team. We’re the first festival to screen in the new Alamo Drafthouse. First presentation of Big Lebowski Shadow Caste with Bawdy Caste performing the film live on stage. Toyota is our first real live big sponsor.
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/rain-the-color-of-blue-with-a-little-red-in-it/
LOCATION:518 Valencia Gallery\, 518 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:20 Year Retrospective,Feature Narrative
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SUMMARY:MAZE
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for MAZE at Roxie Sun Feb 11\, 915p HERE\nTICKETS for MAZE at Roxie Thu Feb 15\, 915p HERE\n  \nDirector Stephen Burke – 2017 Ireland 93 min Northern California Premiere – Prison Thriller \n  \nInspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from ‘the most secure prison in Europe\,’ the HMP Maze\, an inmate and revolutionary develops a complicated friendship with the prison warden. Or is it just a part of the plan? \nUpon its release last year in the UK and Ireland\, many people worried the film would glorify the prisoners and the moment in history became controversial anew. \nFROM BBC NEWS:  \nRepublicans\, with a sense of pride\, hold it up as their Great Escape; Unionists recall how one prison officer was killed and others were so seriously injured or traumatised that their lives were effectively ruined.  \nWith its warders backed up by armed soldiers and its distinctively-shaped ‘H’ blocks\, purpose built to house Northern Ireland’s feared paramilitaries\, HMP Maze became an instantly recognisable feature on the violent landscape of the Troubles. \nIt stood as another reminder of how things in Northern Ireland were not the same as in the rest of the UK.  \n –Bears Fonte \n  \n\n 
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/maze/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Feature Narrative
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SUMMARY:MINDHACK
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for MINDHACK at Roxie Sun Feb 11\, 915p HERE\n  \nDirector Royce Gorsuch – 2017 USA 106 min West Coast Premiere – Cyberpunk \n  \nA young mad genius attempts to ‘hack the mind’ in order to fix humanity.  During the course of his experiments Mason accidentally gives physical form to his inner voice\, Finn\, and the pair must work together to stop the opposing forces attempting to coopt the same technology for evil. \n. –Bears Fonte \nDirector Royce Gorsuch on the color palette of his cyberpunk film: I worked in commercials earlier for several years before the film and I was actually doing a completely different style. In those commercial works they were documentary-style\, very natural\, natural light\, real humans – non-actor style. So this film Mindhack is completely the opposite of that. It’s totally lit\, it’s hyper-real\, it’s not real\, it’s scripted…it’s all those things that my old work was not\, and I actually really love both styles. Mindhack was really a place for me to explore doing more hyper-real\, sci-fi cinema\, which is what I ultimately want to do. I did bring in some of the elements of my documentary work into Mindhack\, in certain scenes to make it feel more real\, to make it feel more intense and sometime we’d do very classic framing. But in terms of colour and lighting\, I’m a huge fan of cyberpunk. I love cyberpunk\, Neuromancer by William Gibson is my favourite book\, it’s influenced me my entire life. This was a place that I finally got to explore that on my own terms. It was a very purposeful decision to go with the colouring that we did because I wanted to make the world feel sort of extra real and I didn’t have a very big budget and it’s a sci-fi film and so the way that we could do that was with our colour and our lighting. The way that I view the film also is that I always thought about it as a mini-graphic novel\, that is the hidden graphic novel on the shelf. It’s not the blockbuster Marvel title but is like a cool little comic book\, and that’s the way that we lit it and the way that we cast it in a way. That was kind of the ethos of the film\, we’re making a mini-comic book movie and that’s the way we shot it. (Source: The Hollywood News) \n\n 
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/mindhack/
LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Feature Narrative
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SUMMARY:BUBBA HO-TEP
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for BUBBA HO-TEP at 518 Val Sun Feb 11\, 930 HERE\n  \nDirector Don Coscarelli – 2001 USA 92 min – IndieFest 2003 program note: \n  \nOur incredible Closing Night Gala is Don (Phantasm) Coscarelli’s hilarious ass-kicking tribute to the King of Rock n Roll. It’s also Bruce (Evil Dead) Campbell’s first starring role since Army of Darkness.What if Elvis was still alive? What if he secretly switched identities with one of his many impersonators to escape the trials and tribulations of superstardom? What if he didn’t really die on a toilet\, but lived a long (and reasonably) happy life in a trailer park\, eking out a meager living portraying himself? Where would he be now? \nApparently he’d be lying flat on his back worrying about his penis\, and waiting for the inevitable at the Shady Rest Convalescent Home in Mud Creek\, Texas. Thankfully\, he has a friend and confidante\, the wheelchair-bound John F. Kennedy. Complicating matters\, the home has a serious problem with giant scarab beetles\, and an Egyptian mummy that prowls the halls late at night performing indiginties on the hapless residents. Will our two geriatric heroes be able to end this ancient reign of terror? \nWith the truly inspired casting of Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie (Do the Right Thing) Davis as Jack Kennedy\, Coscarelli has created an unfogettable\, genre bending and affectionate charachter studio of two iconic sympbols of America. Bubba Ho-Tep allows the pair to reach old age (somewhat) gracefully. Thank you; thank you very much. – Bruce Fletcher\, SF IndieFest \n\n\n\nYear Five: Feb 6-16\, 2003 \nVenues: Castro\, Roxie\, Studio Z\, Galaxy\, Expression Center \nFeatures: 39  Shorts: 51  Parties: 5  Bands: 3 Total Films: 90  Total Films To Date: 317.  \nWith: Jeff Ross\, Bruce Fletcher\, Tod Booth\, Molli Simon\, Alicia Perre-Dowd\, Phillip Walker\, Patricia Moran. \nSponsors: Bay Guardian\, Sierra Nevada\, Landmark Theaters\, Phoenix Hotel\, SF Bicycle Coalition\, Kitchen Sink Magazine\, La Mediterranee\, Argus Design\, Redrum\, AIVF\, KUSF\, SF Late Night Coalition\, Expression Center for New Media\, Hotel Bijou\, Lost Weekend Video\, Rainbow Grocery\, Makers Mark\, Academy of Art\, 21st Amendment\, cfq.com\, NAATA\, Commodore Hotel \nNOTES: Some films with movie stars (for example the opening night film SPUN features Jason Schwartzman\, John Leguizano\, Mena Suvari\, Brittany Murphy\, Eric Roberts\, Debby Harry\, Rob Halford and Billy Corgan). The second weekend is all horror films\, leading to the launch of Another Hole in the Head film festival in 2004. Bruce Campbell parties with us at Jezebel’s Joint. Back page of guide featured a mad libs game about indie film. IndieFest launches short-lived microcinema series at Jezebels.
URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/bubba-ho-tep/
LOCATION:518 Valencia Gallery\, 518 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:20 Year Retrospective,Feature Narrative
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