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 Tommy Lau.
Eyes opened
Retired Chilean judge Juan Guzmán, subject of the powerful documentary The Judge and the General, was greeted by a standing ovation following Monday’s screening at the Kabuki. Guzmán became internationally famous for investigating the crimes of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. “The eyes of my soul opened after seeing so many sufferings,” Guzmán said of this experience, reported Maria Belilovskaya for the SF Film Society.
05.07.2008
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