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21 st Annual Film Arts Festival Opening Night Gala Premiere Thursday, Nov. 3, 7:30 pm Kanbar Hall (in the Jewish Community Center) Ballets Russes Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller San Francisco filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller’s exquisite new film documents the ballet troupe that revolutionized 20th-century dance. Using a treasure trove of archival footage, entrancing and often hilarious interviews, and an evocative original score by Todd Boekelheide and David Conte, the filmmakers have crafted an extraordinary tribute to the artists of the Ballet Russe. Join the filmmakers, members of the Ballet Russe, and other special guests after the screening for a gala party at Sydney’s Restaurant, adjacent to the theater. Delicious desserts and savories, plenty of champagne and vodka will be on hand! A Zeitgeist Films Release, 2005 35mm 118m Film & Gala: $50 general / $40 Film Arts and PALM members Generously underwritten by Maurice Kanbar Co-presented by San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum “ Enormously absorbing! Elegant and touching! An ebullient odyssey!” — Scott Foundas, Variety Roxie Cinema, 12:30 pm Phantom Limb Mariana of the Universe Jay Rosenblatt, 2005 28m Isabella La Rocca, 2005 10m A Tale of Two Cities Program co-presented by the San Francisco Film Society Abby Ginzberg Pounds Per Square Inch A moving portrait of San Heather Posner, 2004 16mm 6m Francisco’s innovative Youth Roxie Cinema, 8:00 pm Part of the Mother Jones Agitators & Instigators series Numerical Engagements Treatment and Education Center Chelsea Walton, 2004 16mm 4m Academy that combines inspired teaching and faith in Just Say It: A Revolution in the Making Program co-presented by The Exploratorium the students. 2004 34m Jessica Dorfman Reaching for Success: Graduation Jennifer Gilomen Inspired by the Bay Area’s creative Roxie Cinema, 10:00 pm YouthLink Program at resistance to the current political Women In Love Bay Area Video Coalition system, the filmmakers document five activist artists Karen Everett 2005 6m including Boots Riley, Susan Appe, Diskarte Namin, The sex radical lesbian community Favianna Rodriguez and Michael Franti. 2004 35m of San Francisco is the backdrop Free screening! Co-presented by Bay Area Video Coalition for Karen Everett’s sensational Program Sponsored by the Levi Strauss Foundation documentary about the nature of relationships. 2005 59m With Shorts: Art (40m) Co-presented by Frameline Roxie Cinema, 6:00 pm The Bay Area is revered for its experimental Shorts: Love (78m) filmmaking—for keeping the Art in Film Arts alive! Roxie Cinema, 11:30 pm Love—romantic, familial, unrequited, and even interspecies Fear of Falling Blood, Sweat and Glitter —is the animating force behind this collection of shorts. Robbyn Leonard, 2005 9m Sasha Aickin Chronicle of a Love Confession A fabulous behind-the-scenes Deborah Cukierman, 2005 5m look at preparation for one of San Taeko Horigome, 2005 5m Francisco’s most glamorous events, Friday, November 4 Friday, The Light Predictions the competition for Miss Trannyshack! 2005 90m Mark Decena, 2004 11m Katherin McGinnis, 2005 1m Co-presented by Frameline To Hold a Heart Parallel Takeover Michael Wallin, 2005 13m Toney Grisey, 2005 3m Friday Festival Afterhours Laszlo (2534 Mission Street, between 21st & 22nd) The Year of the Wonderful Bedroom Margaret Freeman Paul Neyrinck, 2005 8m No Cover! 10:00 pm–2:00 am Niffer Desmond, 2005 1m Mix and mingle with some drinks and check out the La Vie d’un Chien sublime beats of Film Arts’ very own Funky J Vibe and John Harden, 2004 13m DJ Poxelnitzsky (Jonathan Parra and Donald Harrison). The Little Roxie, 12:00 noon Preceded by Interstate Roxie Cinema, 8:20 pm Tilt(ed): Youth Media Matt Ackerman Part of the Mother Jones Agitators & Instigators series 2004 14m This exciting program features the work of young, Wellstone! emerging filmmakers. Free screening! Pamela Colby Program co-presented by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts The inspiring story of Paul Roxie Cinema, 12:00 noon Wellstone, the remarkable senator Part of the Mother Jones Agitators & Instigators series from Minnesota who defied tradi- Roxie Cinema, 3:30 pm tion to return political power to the people. 2004 88m Nuestra Familia In This Short Life Co-presented by GreenCine, Sponsored by KQED Oriana Zill de Grenados Britta Sjogren This chilling documentary details Britta Sjogren’s exquisite film Preceded by Hush one of California’s most powerful works the blurry boundary of Mike Seely gangs, the Nuestra Familia, fiction and documentary, focusing 2004 5m and the FBI and local police roles in informants’ on four intertwined lives. The film’s music is made up of criminal activity. 2005 62m the haunting songs of San Francisco’s own Mark Eitzel and American Music Club. 2005 96m Preceded by November 1978 Roxie Cinema, 10:30 pm Paul VanDeCarr Preceded by Range 2005 16m Come Fly With Me Nude Bill Basquin Diane Karagienakos 2005 8m This zany comedy is the story of Program co-presented by Center for Investigative Reporting mutual muses Dom Casual and Program co-presented by San Francisco Cinematheque Bella Hagen, two San Francisco Roxie Cinema, 1:45 pm artists struggling to find their audience. 2005 90m Part of the Mother Jones Agitators & Instigators series Roxie Cinema, 5:45 pm Work in progress Rancho California (Por Favor) Part of the Mother Jones Agitators & Instigators series Preceded by Ringo John Caldwell Trespassing Conall Jones, Alfred Seccombe John Caldwell’s beautiful, Carlos DeMenezes 2004 5m contemplative documentary charts Native Americans confront the Saturday, November 5 Saturday, the intersection of the camps of United States government’s homeless migrant workers and affluent communities in nuclear energy policy as it Program co-presented by Theatre Bay Area Southern California. 2002 59m affects tribal lands and traditional ways of life in this fascinating documentary. 2005 116m Co-presented by Sierra Club Sunday, November 6 Roxie Cinema, 4:10 pm Preceded by Tales of Mere Existence Roxie Cinema, 12:00 noon Lev, 2005 8m Prospect Program co-presented by SF IndieFest, Program Sponsored by Alice Radio Octavio Solis Shorts: Collections (74m) Closing Night: $12 general / $10 Film Arts members “To collect is to rescue things, valuable things from Playwright Octavio Solis adapted neglect, from oblivion, or simply from the ignoble destiny his comic drama for the screen. Tuesday, November 8 of being in someone else’s collection rather than one’s Scout spends a night in hell when own.” —Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover he’s befriended by a beautiful stranger. 2004 87m Parkway Theater, 7:00 pm Graceland Too Preceded by Voices Carry Scared New World Erin Stamos, Ryan Beebe, 2005 11m Mark Arellano, 2004 8m Chris Brown Program co-presented by Intersection for the Arts This elegantly scripted feature illuminates the Miss Flighty in Orbit intersecting lives of four main characters—a struggling Stefan Gruenwedel, 2005 11m Roxie Cinema, 6:15 pm novelist, a pot-dealing single mom, a cancer patient, and Smitten 62 Years and 6500 Miles Between a French student—who share space in Oakland. 2005 82m Nancy Kelly, 2005 28m Anita Wen-Shin Chang Preceded by Raising the Roof Trina’s Collections Anita Chang’s “Democratic Veronica Selver, Francoise Flamant Ellen Lake, 2004 6m Grandma” is the subject of her The story of the Seven Sisters Construction Company, fascinating documentary that a group of women in the 1970s who formed their own Lost & Found takes her to Taiwan to uncover family history. 2005 52m company in this gender-biased field. 2005 30m Natalija Vekic, 2005 18m Program Sponsored by SF Bay Guardian Program co-presented by MadCat Women’s International Film Festival Preceded by Letter Never Sent Daniel Robin, 2005 35mm 8m Wednesday, November 9 Roxie Cinema, 2:00 pm and Devil’s Teeth Part of the Mother Jones Agitators & Instigators series Roger Teich, 2005 10m Rafael Film Center Program co-presented by NAATA, Program Sponsored by Eastman Kodak Romántico Special Sneak!!! Check filmarts.org November 6, 8 & 9 November Mark Becker Roxie Cinema, 8:00 pm This superb documentary SF Closing Night Film and Party! Festival Extras chronicles the struggles of an Nov 4–6, 11:00am & 2:00pm illegal immigrant who works as a I Am a Sex Addict Room 102 at Film Arts Foundation, Free! mariachi in San Francisco’s Mission district until family Caveh Zahedi Stop By. Shoot Film. Acclaimed San Francisco director matters bring him back to his Mexican village. 2005 80m Presented by Eastman Kodak Co-presented by GreenCine, The Mexican Museum, Mission Cultural Center, NALIP Caveh Zahedi’s unabashedly For anyone curious about shooting on 16mm film, these Sponsored by Monaco Labs autobiographical comedy about his free workshops are an opportunity to work with a struggle with sex addiction manages the difficult task of professional. www.kodak.com/go/stopbyshootfilm being both genuinely funny and utterly sincere. 2005 90m Festival Information Line: (415) 552-FILM Will Call Venues For orders received at least 10 days in advance: Kanbar Hall Tickets on Sale October 5 Your tickets will be mailed to you, or you may request that In the Jewish Community Center Advance Tickets through November 2 tickets be held at Will Call. 3200 California Street (at Presidio), San Francisco On-line (credit card only): filmarts.org For orders received fewer than 10 days in advance: MUNI: 1, 3, 4, 43 By Mail Your tickets will be held at Will Call. 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