The Official Welcome:
"The Film Arts Foundation's once-a-month True Stories screening series has established itself as the place to see the cool new indie documetaries first."
(Voted Best Place To See New Documentaries, SF Bay Guardian, 2005)
Welcome to the Film Arts Foundation's blog for our True Stories Documentary Series! Join us the third Wednesday of every month (March - September) at the screening room at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for exciting sneak previews and new, topical documentaries. Tickets are $8/$6 for Film Arts & YBCA members, available at www.ycba.org or by calling 415-978-2787.
THAT SAID!
My name is Reynaldi Lolong, I'm the Program Manager for True Stories, and I am tickled (insert color of choice) to be kicking off this blog and telling you about our upcoming season. I'm also hoping I can fill it with all kinds of fun tidbits leading up to each screening: background information on the subjects, peripheral anecdotes of interest, and maybe I'll even be able to snag a filmmaker or two to give some insight into their work.
Our season, thus far:
March 12: Piece By Piece by Nic Hill. This ground-breaking film documents San Francisco's highly controversial graffiti art movement, and offers an intimate journey into the most intriguing and misunderstood artistic movement of modern youth culture - a candid and accurate story behind the writing on the wall in Northern California.
April 18: Row Hard, No Excuses by Luke Wolbach. A noble quest, or an ill-fated nightmare? Row Hard No excuses chronicles the voyage of the only American entry in a rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean, and is both an exciting sports-adventure story as well as an intimate portrait of the two-man crew that explores masculinity, midlife, and ambition. An Official Selection of the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival.
May 16: Red Without Blue by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills & Todd Sills. In 1983, Mark and Alexander Farley were born just minutes apart as identical twin boys. Twenty-three years later, Mark is apartment hunting with his boyfriend in San Francisco, and Alex is living as a woman named Clair. A heartbreaking but optimistic look at the tribulations of growing up gay and transgender in rural Montana and maintaining strong family bonds in the face of adversity. Voted Audience Favorite at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival.
So there you have it. Keep checking back, and I hope to catch you at one of our screenings!
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