NEWS
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Wired: "Macworld Expo 2010 Caters to Apple Fans — Without Apple"
"Like a Star Trek convention minus Leonard Nimoy, Macworld Conference and Expo 2010 kicks off Tuesday at San Francisco’s Moscone Center with no official presence from Apple," writes Brian X.... more
SEEN
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Sam Fleischner (left) and Ben Chace (right) look through the SF Indiefest catalogue on opening night of the festival, where there film Wah Do Dem played.
Indie Toolkit
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Even in the Bay Area, the quiet weeks of January remind us of the gifts of winter: a stillness, pause, and time of secret, subterranean growth. Similarly, silence and... more

Best Length for Documentary Films
By Karen Everett
How long should your documentary be? I get this question a lot in my work as an editor and story consultant. Frankly, I think the majority of documentaries that were not shaped by experienced editor, story consultant or a supervising executive at a broadcast outlet such as HBO or Showtime are too long. And the problem with "too long," of course, is that your audience begins to glaze over or feel restless, and you, my dear director, have lost the opportunity to leave them wanting more.
topics: authors, bay area, digital filmmaking, diy
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Scott MacDonald on Art in Cinema at SF MoMA
As part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, SF MoMA has commissioned three trios of programs surveying different eras of the museum’s history of film exhibition.... more
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Mostly British and Very Entertaining
Tragically underrepresented in the Bay Area’s densely packed world of globally oriented film festivals is: the land(s) of our erstwhile colonial rulers! Being English-language, films from... more
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SF Indiefest at Twelve
It may be a strange time for independent film, with scaled back "indie" divisions of Hollywood studios and filmmakers self-distributing online, but SF Indiefest, now... more
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Pacific Film Archive Hosts Young Filmmakers on the Big Screen
In the YouTube-Facebook-viral video era, it’s hard to remember the time when youth-made media was rare. Now in its 10th year, “Screenagers,” playing at the
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Opportunities
2010 BAY AREA WOMEN IN FILM AND MEDIA (BAWIFM) SHORTS SHOWCASE (March 8) seeking independent short films that have a... more
CALENDAR
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Watch hearts break and reconfigure in the romantic fare on many Bay Area screens this Valentine’s Day or simply take heart in what else there is to see this week:... more
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"Jacques Tati: Genius of French Comedy"—through Feb. 11
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts closes with Tati’s Playtime (Feb. 11), a comedy of modernist Paris.
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Mostly British Film Festival—through Feb. 11
Cinema from the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand comes to the Vogue and Smith Rafael, including Bran Nue Dae (Feb. 9, Smith Rafael) from indigenous Australian filmmaker... more
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