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2 weeks ago |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Pam Grady
A scene from “Middletown,” screening at the DocLands documentary film festival. Photo: California Film InstituteDocLands 2025 promises to serve up a heady feast for fans of nonfiction filmmaking, where the boundaries of storytelling stretch from the depths of the Bay Area’s vibrant culture to the far reaches of space.
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2 weeks ago |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Pam Grady
A scene from “Middletown,” screening at the DocLands documentary film festival. Photo: California Film InstituteDocLands 2025 promises to serve up a heady feast for fans of nonfiction filmmaking, where the boundaries of storytelling stretch from the depths of the Bay Area’s vibrant culture to the far reaches of space.
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3 weeks ago |
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Pam Grady
Children learn to check out materials at the San Francisco Public Library main branch in Bay Area filmmakers Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor's documentary "Free for All: The Public Library," which premieres on PBS on Tuesday, April 29. Photo: Lucie FaulknorLibraries are under assault. Those who would censor what children or even adults read demand book banning.
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3 weeks ago |
missionlocal.org | Pam Grady
Nearly a half-century after her death, writer and diarist Anaïs Nin is taking over the Mission. While she may be more closely associated with Paris, New York and Los Angeles, Nin also lived in San Francisco in the late 1940s, when her lover Rupert Pole was studying forestry at UC Berkeley. Now her shade returns to the city in two vastly different projects, both serendipitously opening in April.
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4 weeks ago |
missionlocal.org | Pam Grady
It was all over the national news in 2022: Actor, writer, and musician Kyle Casey Chu, in her drag persona Panda Dulce, was reading to a roomful of children and their parents during a Drag Story Hour at the San Lorenzo Public Library when a group of Proud Boys stormed in shouting transphobic slurs. The incident was, understandably, traumatizing for Chu.
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San Francisco’s Arab Film Festival is back after a year of hiatus, including "From Ground Zero," the fest centerpiece, a collection of 22 short films about Gaza. Read about the fest in @SFC_Datebook https://t.co/Uwbp29BtvT via @sfchronicle
Those scamps from Winnipeg are back. For the first time since 2017's THE GREEN FOG, Guy Maddin and his partners and besties Evan and Galen Johnson have a new feature, RUMOURS. They tell me all about it in @48hills. https://t.co/Xa5pz4qlDA