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.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Thursday, July 5, 2007
BAWIFT General Meeting, featuring Judy Irving
On July 11, Judy Irving, director of our August film 19 Arrests, No Convictions, will be a featured speaker at the upcoming general meeting for BAWIFT (Bay Area Women In Film And Television).
Veteran documentary maker Judy Irving has achieved great success with her film Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill and several other productions over the years, including theatrical distribution of this amazing and delightful feature length documentary. Hear her stories and tips at our July meeting.
Agenda:
7 pm - networking and light dinner
7:30 to 9 PM - Judy's presentation/discussion and clips from Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, including a Q&A.
9 to 9:30 PM - More networking.
Although our special events include both men and women, our monthly meetings, such as this one, are for women only.
Free for paid BAWIFT members, $5 for non-BAWIFT members.
$3 for non-BAWIFT member students with ID.
Location: San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking,
2565 Third Street, Suite 337, between 22nd & 23rd Sts.
Directions by Public Transit:
BART: Exit at the 16th Street/ Mission Station.Take the #22 bus from the SW corner to the last stop on the line, which is Third St. at 20th.Walk 2 blocks south.
SF MUNI: To use Muni from downtown SF or from the East Bay, take the T-THIRD MUNI line (inbound to SF) on the Embarcadero. This is the street level. Pick it up anywhere along the Embarcadero and it goes down Third Street and stops just opposite the SFSDF building, at 22nd St. For more MUNI info go to: www.sfmuni.com
Bus Lines in San Francisco to use: #22 (take it to the last stop, at Third & 20th), and #49
Driving from East Bay: West toward San Francisco Cross Bay Bridge (toll) Stay on US 101, towards San Jose Exit right onto Cesar Chavez Blvd - EAST Turn left onto 3rd St. The school is located between 22nd & 23rd Streets.
Driving from South Bay: US 101 or US 280 North toward San Francisco Exit right onto Cesar Chavez Blvd., go EAST Turn left onto 3rd Street The Administrative building is located at 20th Street. The school is located between 22nd & 23rd Streets.
Driving from North Bay: US 101 S toward San Francisco (toll) Turn right onto Van Ness Ave./US101 Turn left onto Golden Gate Ave. Turn slight right onto 6th St. Merge onto I 280 S / US280 South Take Mariposa St. exit toward 18th St. Take the 18th St. ramp Turn left onto 18th St. Turn right onto 3rd St. - Go South a few blocks. The school is located between 22nd & 23rd Streets.
Driving from San Francisco:, South of Market Area Take 3rd Street (by SBC Park). Go South to 22nd. St. The school is located between 22nd & 23rd Streets.
Veteran documentary maker Judy Irving has achieved great success with her film Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill and several other productions over the years, including theatrical distribution of this amazing and delightful feature length documentary. Hear her stories and tips at our July meeting.
Agenda:
7 pm - networking and light dinner
7:30 to 9 PM - Judy's presentation/discussion and clips from Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, including a Q&A.
9 to 9:30 PM - More networking.
Although our special events include both men and women, our monthly meetings, such as this one, are for women only.
Free for paid BAWIFT members, $5 for non-BAWIFT members.
$3 for non-BAWIFT member students with ID.
Location: San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking,
2565 Third Street, Suite 337, between 22nd & 23rd Sts.
Directions by Public Transit:
BART: Exit at the 16th Street/ Mission Station.Take the #22 bus from the SW corner to the last stop on the line, which is Third St. at 20th.Walk 2 blocks south.
SF MUNI: To use Muni from downtown SF or from the East Bay, take the T-THIRD MUNI line (inbound to SF) on the Embarcadero. This is the street level. Pick it up anywhere along the Embarcadero and it goes down Third Street and stops just opposite the SFSDF building, at 22nd St. For more MUNI info go to: www.sfmuni.com
Bus Lines in San Francisco to use: #22 (take it to the last stop, at Third & 20th), and #49
Driving from East Bay: West toward San Francisco Cross Bay Bridge (toll) Stay on US 101, towards San Jose Exit right onto Cesar Chavez Blvd - EAST Turn left onto 3rd St. The school is located between 22nd & 23rd Streets.
Driving from South Bay: US 101 or US 280 North toward San Francisco Exit right onto Cesar Chavez Blvd., go EAST Turn left onto 3rd Street The Administrative building is located at 20th Street. The school is located between 22nd & 23rd Streets.
Driving from North Bay: US 101 S toward San Francisco (toll) Turn right onto Van Ness Ave./US101 Turn left onto Golden Gate Ave. Turn slight right onto 6th St. Merge onto I 280 S / US280 South Take Mariposa St. exit toward 18th St. Take the 18th St. ramp Turn left onto 18th St. Turn right onto 3rd St. - Go South a few blocks. The school is located between 22nd & 23rd Streets.
Driving from San Francisco:, South of Market Area Take 3rd Street (by SBC Park). Go South to 22nd. St. The school is located between 22nd & 23rd Streets.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Next up: Bad Boys of Summer
Bad Boys of Summer
by Loren Mendell & Tiller Russell (2007, 76 min)
Wed, Jul 18, 7:30 pm
$8 regular
$6 FAF members, seniors, students & teacher
$6 YBCA Members
Every spring, 24 convicts taste the cool, crisp air of freedom—not by stepping out of prison walls, but by putting on a pair of spikes and picking up a glove. And for four months, they’re not just inmates, they’re…ballplayers. Bad Boys of Summer follows the charismatic coach of the San Quentin Giants through his final season with the prison baseball team as he tries to change the men’s lives.
-also showing-
"The Ghost in the Material" by Kelcey Edwards and solo exhibit of new work by William Noguera
From the confines of his 4x10 foot cell on Death Row at the notorious San Quentin State Prison, down on his knees, hunched over a makeshift easel erected from his steel mattress frame, William Noguera crafts painstaking canvases of chilling beauty and great emotional depth. Mr. Noguera is a completely self-taught artist; he has been imprisoned since 1983. During an enforced 27 day stay in solitary confinement, William began to draw on the walls of his cell, and has focused on this means of expression ever since to escape the confines of his difficult circumstances.
"The Ghost in the Material" is a four-minute short in 16mm black & white film which presents a haunting, outsider's look at the black-and-white world of William Noguera. An exhibit of Noguera's work will also be on display, courtesy of the Institute For Unpopular Culture.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Audience Response: Red Without Blue
The film itself was very personal and dug so deeply into the twins' lives that it felt like a gift being allowed into their world -- and they didnt tell the story like they were experts, they felt honest and real and completely unpretentious. Not only was it a trans story, but it became a universal story as it went on, in the interviews with the parents and all of the archival home movies and photos, that touched everyone.
Iit became a story everyone could relate to about growing up, the relationship between parents and children, how you choose the life you want to lead for yourself, becoming the person you want to be and are comfortable being... it transcends boundaries that people like to put up between themselves and shows that we are all in the same world together, no matter how different we are or like to think we are, there are so many comonalities that bring us together. the support to be found in those simmilarities can be universally comforting if we just open ourselves up to it.
Many thanks to audience member Liz for sending in her response to the screening!
Iit became a story everyone could relate to about growing up, the relationship between parents and children, how you choose the life you want to lead for yourself, becoming the person you want to be and are comfortable being... it transcends boundaries that people like to put up between themselves and shows that we are all in the same world together, no matter how different we are or like to think we are, there are so many comonalities that bring us together. the support to be found in those simmilarities can be universally comforting if we just open ourselves up to it.
Many thanks to audience member Liz for sending in her response to the screening!
Friday, May 18, 2007
True Stories filmmakers out and about in the world
A congratulations to the team from Red Without Blue for a fantastic, sold-out screening on Wednesday night. If you weren't able to snag a ticket, you can also catch the film as part of this year's Frameline Festival, on June 17 and June 20. And if you miss that, then tune in to the Sundance Channel on June 25 at 9pm for the television premiere.
Row Hard No Excuses continues to screen at film festivals around the country, recently showing at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Interesting factoid from last month's Q&A: the wreckage of the American Star washed up on a distant shore, and is in the process of being recovered. I salute anyone with the guts to sail that ship in another race.
Piece By Piece director Nic Hill continues to scour the globe for the making of Truth In Numbers: The Wikipedia Story. According to their Current Shooting Schedule, the wrapped up in Cape Town last month and are onwards to Croation next month. Good times.
Monday, April 9, 2007
Coming up:
JUNE 20: WHEN PIGS FLY, by Eric Breitenbach & Phyllis Redman
One quadriplegic, 20 acres and 700 pigs are the setting for this film that probes the complicated relationships that emerge when fate and obsession converge upon a family. When Pigs Fly provides an unflinching look at a family coping with one member’s physical disability and increasingly eccentric behavior. Individual rights of self-determination are raised as a family walks the fine line between love and obsession, passion and madness.
JULY 18: BAD BOYS OF SUMMER, by Loren Mendell & Tiller Russell
Every spring 24 convicts taste the cool, crisp air of freedom. Not by stepping outside the prison walls, but by putting on a pair of spikes and picking up a glove. And for four months, they’re not just inmates, they’re...ballplayers. Bad Boys Of Summer 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.
AUGUST 15: 19 ARRESTS, NO CONVICTIONS, by Judy Irving
Directed by acclaimed local filmmaker Judy Irving (Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill), Nineteen Arrests, No Convictions looks at bar owner George Farnsworth, the oldest person to swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco on New Year’s Day.
One quadriplegic, 20 acres and 700 pigs are the setting for this film that probes the complicated relationships that emerge when fate and obsession converge upon a family. When Pigs Fly provides an unflinching look at a family coping with one member’s physical disability and increasingly eccentric behavior. Individual rights of self-determination are raised as a family walks the fine line between love and obsession, passion and madness.
JULY 18: BAD BOYS OF SUMMER, by Loren Mendell & Tiller Russell
Every spring 24 convicts taste the cool, crisp air of freedom. Not by stepping outside the prison walls, but by putting on a pair of spikes and picking up a glove. And for four months, they’re not just inmates, they’re...ballplayers. Bad Boys Of Summer 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.
AUGUST 15: 19 ARRESTS, NO CONVICTIONS, by Judy Irving
Directed by acclaimed local filmmaker Judy Irving (Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill), Nineteen Arrests, No Convictions looks at bar owner George Farnsworth, the oldest person to swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco on New Year’s Day.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Row Hard No Excuses is a sell-out!
I'm excited to report that our April True Stories screening, Row Hard No Excuses, has sold out! However, for those of you hoping to see the film, we're looking at adding a second screening. Shoot me an e-mail at reynaldi@filmarts.org, and I will keep you updated as soon as a second screening is confirmed.
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