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Saw this over on Bad Lit –

The ATA Film and Video Festival is once again looking for some great experimental short films for their fourth annual edition that will run in October in San Francisco at the famed Artists Television Access space. This is one of the premiere short film festivals in North America, showing a terrific variety of avant-garde work from around the globe. Yeah, you know, “experimental,” “avant-garde,” “underground” — whatever you want to call it, festival co-curators Isabel Fondevila and Shae Green somehow manage to find the best of the best.

Specific details for submission are here.

March 7th, 2009 | Category: Festivals | Comments (1)

Tijuana wrestling! At the Latino Film Festival November 19th.

Local filmmaker Gustavo Vazquez combines footage of heart-stopping acrobatics and high impact collisions with touching personal interviews with the wrestlers, their families, and the fans. This documentary is a celebration of a Mexican Wrestling legacy and prospering future spearheaded by young luchadores like Extreme Tiger, whose goal was to expose Japan to Mexican Wrestling.

November 16th, 2008 | Tags: Latino Film Festival | Category: Festivals, Screenings | Leave a comment

Tonight is closing night for the San Francisco International Animation Festival, with a screening of Bill Plympton’s Idiots and Angels at the Embarcadero Landmark.

November 16th, 2008 | Tags: Bill Plympton, San Francisco International Animation Festival | Category: Festivals | Leave a comment

The extremely well-reviewed Slumdog Millionaire is closing the South Asian Film Festival tonight at the Castro.

November 16th, 2008 | Tags: Castro Theatre, South Asian Film Festival | Category: Festivals, Screenings | Leave a comment

The 12th annual Arab Film Festival kicked off tonight but really gets rolling tomorrow Oct. 17th through Thursday the 23rd. It then rolls over to Berkeley and down to LA before reprising here on the 27th. For full schedule, see visit here.

October 17th, 2008 | Tags: Arab Film Festival | Category: Festivals | Leave a comment

Tonight’s the closing night for SFFS’s French Cinema Now series. Michael Hawley recommends Entre les Murs (tonight at 6:15, Clay Theatre), this year’s unanimous Palme d’Or winner.

October 12th, 2008 | Tags: Clay Theatre, French Cinema Now, San Francisco Film Society | Category: Festivals, Screenings | Leave a comment