BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//San Francisco IndieFest - ECPv6.6.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:San Francisco IndieFest X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sfindie.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for San Francisco IndieFest REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181109T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181109T183000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20180828T163147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181108T154623Z UID:5748-1541788200-1541788200@sfindie.com SUMMARY:Sam Green Award event and Retrospective DESCRIPTION:TICKETS: https://drafthouse.com/show/sf-indieshorts-sam-green-award-event\nSF IndieShorts is pleased to be presenting The Philo T Farnsworth Award for Innovative Filmmaking to Sam Green on Friday November 9\, 630p\, at Alamo Drafthouse New Mission. \nSam Green is a documentary filmmaker who has made many movies including most recently A Thousand Thoughts\, a live cinematic collaboration with the Kronos Quartet. Previous “live documentaries” include The Measure of All Things and The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller\, featuring the indie rock band Yo La Tengo. Sam’s documentary The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award and included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. \nSam has been making award-winning short documentaries since the late 1990s. The SF IndieShorts program gathers together a full length program of Green’s short films\, ranging from a portrait of the world’s largest shopping mall in Southern China\, which is actually completely empty (Utopia\, Part 3)\, to an elegy for Meredith Hunter\, the young man who was killed by Hell’s Angels at the notorious 1969 Altamont concert (lot 63\, grave c). Other films from the program include: The Fabulous Stains: Behind the Movie\, the remarkable story of the cult film directed by Lou Adler in 1982. The Universal Language is a portrait of Esperanto\, an artificial language that was created in the late 1800s with the hope of creating world peace\, and the worldwide movement of people who still speak it. Plus Sam’s latest film Julius Caeser was Buried in a Pet Cemetary\, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. \nRunning through Green’s films is a celebration of idealism and the search for meaning along with the often humorous realities of human folly. \nFilms screening after the awards presentation and Sam Green in conversation with Chris Metzler:\nUtopia Part 3: the World’s Largest Shopping Mall – 13:08\, 2009 \nPie Fight ’69 – 8:03\, 2000 \nThe Fabulous Stains: Behind the Movie – 11:00\, 1999 \nlot 63\, grave c – 9:47\, 2006 \nN-Judah 5:30 – 3:18\, 2004 \nClear Glasses – 4:13\, 2008 \nThe Universal Language – 30:00\, 2011 \nJulius Caesar was Buried in a Pet Cemetery – 4:00\, 2018 \n  \nA short film by Electric Park Films about Sam Green: URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/sam-green-award-event-and-retrospective/ LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse New Mission\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110 CATEGORIES:Documentary,Shorts Program ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Utopia-Pt-3-Sam-Green.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T190000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171229T125334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180124T194756Z UID:4285-1518548400-1518548400@sfindie.com SUMMARY:RAMEN HEADS DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for RAMEN HEADS at Roxie Sat Feb 10\, 2p HERE\nTICKETS for RAMEN HEADS at Roxie Tue Feb 13\, 7p HERE\n  \nDirector Koki Shigeno  – 2017 Japan 93 min California Premiere – Food/Documentary \n  \nConsidered an edible embrace\, comforting ephemera and an art form by master chefs and legions of fans\, ramen—the perfectly slurpable combination of broth and noodles—inspires umami poetry. Japan’s reigning king of ramen\, Osamu Tomita\, takes us into his kitchen\, where he shares recipes\, trade secrets and flavor philosophies.  Ramen Heads is a mouthwatering survey of culinary history\, famous restaurants and specialty ingredients\, all the while making a compelling case for finding Japan’s heart through its stomach. \n– Chris Metzler \nCO-PRESENTED BY THE CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA \n\n  URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/ramen-heads-2/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Ramen-Heads.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180211T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180211T140000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171222T223249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T115240Z UID:4195-1518357600-1518357600@sfindie.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BETWEEN-LAND-AND-SEA-Ross-Whitaker.png ORGANIZER;CN="SF IndieFest":MAILTO:info@sfindie.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180210T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180210T140000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171229T125251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180124T194835Z UID:4282-1518271200-1518271200@sfindie.com SUMMARY:RAMEN HEADS DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for RAMEN HEADS at Roxie Sat Feb 10\, 2p HERE\nTICKETS for RAMEN HEADS at Roxie Tue Feb 13\, 7p HERE\n  \nDirector Koki Shigeno  – 2017 Japan 93 min California Premiere – Food/Documentary \n  \nConsidered an edible embrace\, comforting ephemera and an art form by master chefs and legions of fans\, ramen—the perfectly slurpable combination of broth and noodles—inspires umami poetry. Japan’s reigning king of ramen\, Osamu Tomita\, takes us into his kitchen\, where he shares recipes\, trade secrets and flavor philosophies.  Ramen Heads is a mouthwatering survey of culinary history\, famous restaurants and specialty ingredients\, all the while making a compelling case for finding Japan’s heart through its stomach. \n– Chris Metzler \nCO-PRESENTED BY THE CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA \n  \n\n\n  URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/ramen-heads/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Ramen-Heads.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T211500 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171222T221152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180125T221121Z UID:4181-1518124500-1518124500@sfindie.com SUMMARY:GINGER NATION DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for GINGER NATION at Roxie Sun Feb 4\, 7p HERE\nTICKETS for GINGER NATION at Roxie Thu Feb 8\, 915p HERE\n  \nDirectors Jonathan Soja and Shawn Hitchins – 2017 Canada 56 min West Coast Premiere – Comedy/Documentary \n  \nRedheads are hot and fiery gay comic Shawn Hitchins has made flame-haired world domination his mission.  He verges on Spalding Gray in this intimate concert filming of his internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy\, Ginger Nation.  This humorous and heartfelt one-man show has the affable entertainer recounting his experience as a sperm donor to his lesbian friends. Hitchins’ spunky storytelling effortlessly weaves tales from his adolescence and his brushes with celebrity as a stand-up comic with bizarre tales of turkey basters and masturbating in increasingly suspect bathrooms.. – Chris Metzler \nCo-presented by FRAMELINE \nPlays with: \nSQUIRRELS DON’T JUDGE \nRoz Greenfield\, USA\, 25 min \nMorgan Ruzzo\, a transgender\, lesbian in her 60s\, is a stand-up comedian and storyteller who lives in San Francisco with her fiancee Sharon. Ehsan Mafi is an Iranian-American Shia Muslim\, who is very dedicated to his Muslim faith. He lives in San Francisco\, working in tech while developing his skills as a stand-up comic. The documentary follows Ehsan and Morgan as they get to know each other\, and learn about themselves. Does stand-up comedy bridge these differences while respecting diversity? \n  \n\n\n  URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/ginger-nation-2/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Ginger-Nation.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T190000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171222T193043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180117T044801Z UID:4128-1518116400-1518116400@sfindie.com SUMMARY:FAR WESTERN DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for FAR WESTERN at Roxie Sat Feb 3\, 2p HERE\nTICKETS for FAR WESTERN at Roxie Thu Feb 8\, 7p HERE\n  \nDirector James D. Payne – 2017 Japan 93 min California Premiere – Music/Documentary  \n  \nAmid the ashes of post-WWII Japan\, the bittersweet sounds of American traditional country music drifted through the radio airwaves. Although intended for the U.S. occupying forces\, a vast ‘ghost audience’ of young Japanese quickly warmed to the soothing\, yet foreign\, sounds. \nSince falling in love with the music in the 1950’s\, Charlie Nagatani has lived to play and spread country music throughout Japan. From his hometown of Kumamoto in southern Japan\, Charlie operates a family-run honky tonk named Good Time Charlie’s and is the promoter of the largest country music festival in Japan\, Country Gold.   \nFar Western illuminates this lost chapter of music as the musicians’ journey from Japan to the heart of American music culture. Over seventy years later this American music tradition has been transformed into something distinctly Japanese. – Chris Metzler \n\n  URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/far-western-2/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/FAR-WESTERN-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T211500 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171222T214939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180125T221254Z UID:4170-1518038100-1518038100@sfindie.com SUMMARY:RUMINATIONS DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for RUMINATIONS at Roxie Sun Feb 4\, 430p HERE\nTICKETS for RUMINATIONS at Roxie Sun Wed Feb 7\, 915p HERE\n  \nDirector Robert James – 2018 USA 78 min World Premiere\, Local Filmmaker – Documentary/GLBT \n  \nA gender-bending coming-of-age story of Rumi Missabu\, the iconoclast co-founder of San Francisco’s infamous Cockettes.  He left Hollywood 50 years ago on a quest for his true identity and found it in underground drag theater.  Explore SF’s queer art past through his lurid tales in and out of the spotlight as he reinvents himself at the end of his life.   \nLiving off the grid from the age of 19\, Rumi was a short-order cook\, cleaned houses\, and lived all over the country\, amassing crazy adventures along the way.  Ruminating about his encounters with everyone from Tina Turner to Jane Russell\, Andy Warhol\, Cindy Williams and more\, Ruminations uncovers the man\, James Bartlett\, underneath the artist Rumi Missabu.  Breaking down the fourth wall the film takes the audience on the surreal adventure that is Rumi’s story. – Chris Metzler \nCo-presented by FRAMELINE \n\n  URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/ruminations-2/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/RUMINATIONS-Robert-James.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T190000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171222T223131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180117T044252Z UID:4191-1518030000-1518030000@sfindie.com 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/4191/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BETWEEN-LAND-AND-SEA-Ross-Whitaker.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180206T190000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171222T194144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180117T044047Z UID:4133-1517943600-1517943600@sfindie.com SUMMARY:THE S WORD DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Sat Feb 3\, 430p HERE\nTICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Tue Feb 6\, 7p HERE\n  \nDirector Lisa J. Klein – 2017 USA 93 min Bay Area Premiere – Documentary \n\nThis powerful documentary explores one of the most feared and misunderstood topics in the human experience – suicide.  Putting a human face to the subject\, the film shares the stories of those with lived experience – people who have attempted to take their own lives and survived to tell their stories.  Capturing personal revelations and surprising moments of humor\, The S Word opens a door on this most taboo of subjects through the eyes of the people who have been there and are now committed to preventing others from getting to that edge. –  Chris Metzler URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/the-s-word-2/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/S-Word.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180204T190000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171222T221052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180125T221147Z UID:4178-1517770800-1517770800@sfindie.com SUMMARY:GINGER NATION DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for GINGER NATION at Roxie Sun Feb 4\, 7p HERE\nTICKETS for GINGER NATION at Roxie Thu Feb 8\, 915p HERE\n  \nDirectors Jonathan Soja and Shawn Hitchins – 2017 Canada 56 min West Coast Premiere – Comedy/Documentary \n  \nRedheads are hot and fiery gay comic Shawn Hitchins has made flame-haired world domination his mission.  He verges on Spalding Gray in this intimate concert filming of his internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy\, Ginger Nation.  This humorous and heartfelt one-man show has the affable entertainer recounting his experience as a sperm donor to his lesbian friends. Hitchins’ spunky storytelling effortlessly weaves tales from his adolescence and his brushes with celebrity as a stand-up comic with bizarre tales of turkey basters and masturbating in increasingly suspect bathrooms.. – Chris Metzler \nCo-presented by FRAMELINE \n\nPlays with: \nSQUIRRELS DON’T JUDGE \nRoz Greenfield\, USA\, 25 min \nMorgan Ruzzo\, a transgender\, lesbian in her 60s\, is a stand-up comedian and storyteller who lives in San Francisco with her fiancee Sharon. Ehsan Mafi is an Iranian-American Shia Muslim\, who is very dedicated to his Muslim faith. He lives in San Francisco\, working in tech while developing his skills as a stand-up comic. The documentary follows Ehsan and Morgan as they get to know each other\, and learn about themselves. Does stand-up comedy bridge these differences while respecting diversity? \n  \n\n\n  URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/ginger-nation/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Ginger-Nation.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180204T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180204T163000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171222T214817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180204T170556Z UID:4166-1517761800-1517761800@sfindie.com SUMMARY:RUMINATIONS DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for RUMINATIONS at 518 Valencia Sun Feb 4\, 430p HERE\nTICKETS for RUMINATIONS at Roxie Sun Wed Feb 7\, 915p HERE\n  \nDirector Robert James – 2018 USA 78 min World Premiere\, Local Filmmaker – Documentary/GLBT \n  \nA gender-bending coming-of-age story of Rumi Missabu\, the iconoclast co-founder of San Francisco’s infamous Cockettes.  He left Hollywood 50 years ago on a quest for his true identity and found it in underground drag theater.  Explore SF’s queer art past through his lurid tales in and out of the spotlight as he reinvents himself at the end of his life.   \nLiving off the grid from the age of 19\, Rumi was a short-order cook\, cleaned houses\, and lived all over the country\, amassing crazy adventures along the way.  Ruminating about his encounters with everyone from Tina Turner to Jane Russell\, Andy Warhol\, Cindy Williams and more\, Ruminations uncovers the man\, James Bartlett\, underneath the artist Rumi Missabu.  Breaking down the fourth wall the film takes the audience on the surreal adventure that is Rumi’s story. – Chris Metzler \nCo-presented by FRAMELINE \n\n  URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/ruminations/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/RUMINATIONS-Robert-James.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180203T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180203T163000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171222T194056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180117T041704Z UID:4130-1517675400-1517675400@sfindie.com SUMMARY:THE S WORD DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Sat Feb 3\, 430p HERE\nTICKETS for THE S WORD at Roxie Tue Feb 6\, 7p HERE\n  \nDirector Lisa J. Klein – 2017 USA 93 min Bay Area Premiere – Documentary \n\nThis powerful documentary explores one of the most feared and misunderstood topics in the human experience – suicide.  Putting a human face to the subject\, the film shares the stories of those with lived experience – people who have attempted to take their own lives and survived to tell their stories.  Capturing personal revelations and surprising moments of humor\, The S Word opens a door on this most taboo of subjects through the eyes of the people who have been there and are now committed to preventing others from getting to that edge. –  Chris Metzler URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/the-s-word/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/S-Word.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180203T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180203T140000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171222T192950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180117T041524Z UID:4122-1517666400-1517666400@sfindie.com SUMMARY:FAR WESTERN DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for FAR WESTERN at Roxie Sat Feb 3\, 2p HERE\nTICKETS for FAR WESTERN at Roxie Thu Feb 8\, 7p HERE\n  \nDirector James D. Payne – 2017 Japan 93 min California Premiere – Music/Documentary  \n  \nAmid the ashes of post-WWII Japan\, the bittersweet sounds of American traditional country music drifted through the radio airwaves. Although intended for the U.S. occupying forces\, a vast ‘ghost audience’ of young Japanese quickly warmed to the soothing\, yet foreign\, sounds. \nSince falling in love with the music in the 1950’s\, Charlie Nagatani has lived to play and spread country music throughout Japan. From his hometown of Kumamoto in southern Japan\, Charlie operates a family-run honky tonk named Good Time Charlie’s and is the promoter of the largest country music festival in Japan\, Country Gold.   \nFar Western illuminates this lost chapter of music as the musicians’ journey from Japan to the heart of American music culture. Over seventy years later this American music tradition has been transformed into something distinctly Japanese. – Chris Metzler \n\n  URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/far-western/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/FAR-WESTERN-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180202T190000 DTSTAMP:20261002T143919 CREATED:20171222T183948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T115343Z UID:4096-1517598000-1517598000@sfindie.com SUMMARY:DO U WANT IT? DESCRIPTION:TICKETS for DO U WANT IT? at Roxie on Fri Feb 2\, 7p HERE\n  \nDirector Josh Freund and Sam Radutzky – 2017 USA  92 min Bay Area Premiere\, Local Filmmaker – Music/Documentary  \n  \nPapa Grows Funk was the quintessential New Orleans groove band\, a supergroup of local players who drew fans from around the world for their renowned Monday-night residency at the Maple Leaf Bar. Percolating with electric performances\, this doc wraps the tale of the band and its breakup into a larger story about New Orleans music\, crystallizing the tension between the ease of being a working musician in a city that supports homegrown talent like no other and the frustration that can come with wanting more than that.  Defining success proves to be as murky as achieving happiness. \nDo U Want It? revisits the band’s career as they prepare for a final tour and album recording before a planned hiatus. The film asks the eternal question for New Orleans’ performers: in a city where you can make it as musician\, is that enough? Does success mean always leaving your home behind?- Chris Metzler \n\n  \n  URL:https://sfindie.com/fest/do-u-want-it/ LOCATION:Roxie Theater\, 3117 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103 CATEGORIES:Documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sfindie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/PGF_Tips.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="SF IndieFest":MAILTO:info@sfindie.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR