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 Anna-Mae Chin.
O'Day's night
Celebrating a documentary on jazz singer Anita O’Day, from left, are Adam Hirschfelder of Koret Foundation/Jazz Heritage Center Board, Kim Bender, SF Film Society’s Director of Foundations & Major Gifts, Peter Fitzsimmons, Executive Director, Jazz Heritage Center, and Robbie Cavolina, codirector of "Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer," at a reception at the Jazz Heritage Center following the San Francisco premiere of the film on the SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki.
10.02.2008
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