fest09.sffs.org - 4/27/2009
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The POV Award honors the achievements of a filmmaker whose work is crafting documentaries, short films, animation or work for television. FESTIVAL SCREENING Al Más Allá An Evening with Lourdes Portillo Monday, April 27 7:00 pm Sundance Kabuki Cinemas 1881 Post Street (at Fillmore) This year's ...
fest09.sffs.org - 4/27/2009
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GOLDEN GATE PERSISTENCE OF VISION AWARD A documentary
film crew arrives at a tranquil aqua-toned beach town...
on Mexico's Mayan coast, chasing the story of three fishermen who happened upon a wayward package of cocaineflotsam from a steady narco-stream ...
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Al Más Allá | San Francisco International Film Festival
justpressplay.net - 4/23/2009
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The San Francisco International Film Festival opens today
for yet another two weeks of great films from...
all over the world: Bulgaria, Ecuador, Philippines and even all the way from San Francisco! It’s the festival’s 52nd year and it looks like it’s shaping up to be an exciting one, pointed ...
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52nd San Francisco International Film Festival Opens
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SFIFF52 Day 5: Empress Hotel
Hell On Frisco Bay —
... (MEXICO: Lourdes Portillo, 2008), screening as part of Lourdes Portillo's Persistence of Vision award tribute. I've only seen one of this documentarian's films, ...
SFIFF52: AL MÁS ALLÁ—On-Stage Conversation With Lourdes Portillo & John Anderson
The Evening Class —
... short films, animation or work for television. In as many years as I have been attending the San Francisco International, the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award has been given to such luminaries as Jan Svankmajer, Robert Frank, Johan van der Keuken, Faith Hubley, Kenneth Anger, Fernando Birri, Pat O'Neill, Jon Else, Adam Curtis, Guy Maddin, Heddy Honigmann and Errol Morris. Portillo—the "elegant insurgent" (as scribed by filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña in her commendable program essay)—rightfully joins that esteemed company. ...
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