FEATURES
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Borshay Liem’s Double Exposure of Korean Adoptions
Deann Borshay Liem’s terrific 1999 documentary First Person Plural recounted her experience as an orphaned Korean adoptee raised by a Caucasian family in an East Bay suburb. Only she wasn’t... more
NEWS
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San Francisco Film Society Announces Finalists for Film Arts Foundation Documentary Grant
Press Release: The SFFS announced last week the 11 finalists and one honorable mention for the SFFS/Film Arts Foundation Documentary Grant, the newest grant to be offered by... more
CALENDAR
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"Joseph Losey: Pictures of Provocation"—starts Mar. 5
The Pacific Film Archive surveys the work of a director who worked primarily in exile from red-baiting America, whose work, including noirs like The Prowler, persistently invokes the audience’s... more
Photo by Hilary Hart/SFFS.
AFF's lucky 13
The Arab Film Festival celebrated its 13th opening night on Thursday at the Castro Theatre. Palestinian director Najwa Najjar (center) joined AFF executive director Michel Sheadeh and program director Daniella Jubran for the Bay Area premiere of her fiercely political romantic drama Pomegranates and Myrrh.
10.20.2009
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