By popular demand: BAD BOYS OF SUMMER

FILM ARTS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES
ADDED BADS BOYS OF SUMMER SCREENING

July 11, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - Film Arts Foundation is excited to announce an encore presentation of Bad Boys Of Summer, to be held on Friday July 20, 2007 @ 7:00pm, at the Screening Room of the Ninth Street Media Consortium. In attendance for the post-screening Q&A will be Elliot Smith, the player/manager for the Oaks, San Quentin's rival baseball team. The Oaks play the San Quentin Giants on opening day every year. Also in attendance will be scorekeeper Alison Harrington, San Quentin PR Officer Eric Messick, and San Quentin Warden Robert Ayers, Jr.

Originally programmed as part of Film Art's award-winning True Stories Documentary Series at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Bad Boys Of Summer is a feature documentary that follows the charismatic coach of the San Quentin Giants through his final season with the prison baseball program, as he tries to change the lives of the men on his team. By peeling back the layers of their dark personal histories, he reveals their inner core as human beings. In the process, he gives a startling new face to our national pastime. Bad Boys Of Summer brings together inmates, guards, parolees and their families, and shows us a side of the prison system few ever could imagine, and for those that live it, they will see it anew when they see the film for the first time.

Bad Boys of Summer marks the fourth documentary collaboration between filmmakers Loren Mendell and Tiller Russell through their production company Angry Young Ranch. Founded in 2001, the company’s slate of films includes the IDA Award nominee Cockfight (PBS), Change Up (Discovery), and One Strong Arm (A&E Indie Films). This is their first feature length film. More information can be found at www.angryyoungranch.com.

WHAT: A special screening of BAD BOYS OF SUMMER, followed by Q&A
WHEN: Friday July 20, 2007 @ 7:00pm
WHERE: Ninth Street Media Consortium, Screening Room
145 Ninth Street, # 104
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tickets $8/$6 for Film Arts or YBCA members. Cash and checks only.

SPACE IS LIMITED. Please contact Reynaldi Lolong, True Stories Program Manager,
at 415-552-8760 x304, or via e-mail: reynaldi@filmarts.org if you would like to attend.