San Francisco Black Independent Film Festival starts Friday Feb 1

Schedule for the 2002 San Francisco Black Independent Film Festival:

Friday, February 1, 2002
ATA Artists Television Access
992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA
$5 Suggested Donation
Doors Open at 7:30 pm

1) The Texture of Honesty Short (3 minutes) comparing the texture of hair to other things.
2) "Fillmore" A half hour documentary on the Fillmore.
3) "Birth of the Hip-Hop Dynasty" A martial arts film, urban fiction/fantasy

Saturday, February 2, 2002
ATA Artists Television Access
992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA
$5 Suggested Donation
Doors Open at 7:30 pm

1) "Roll" Short, Documentary (3 minutes) on the first black competitive rollerskater.
2) "The Wedding Dress" Short Film, Fiction
3) "Ricco" Feature Length Film, Mystery/Suspense about police brutality and corruption

Sunday, February 3, 2002
ATA Artists Television Access
$5 Suggested Donation
Doors Open at 7:30 pm

1) "The Encounter" Animated short (claymation).
2) "Life Itself" A documentary on disabled artists
3) "Patience and Shuffle The Cards" A documentary on James Baldwin, speaking at UC Berkeley in 1981
4) "Alfonia" documentary on a funk composer/performer who died at 26 in1983

Saturday, February 9
Koret Auditorium
San Francisco Main Public Library
101 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA
FREE TO THE PUBLIC - Doors Open at 2pm

1) "The Texture of Honesty" Short (3 minutes) comparing the texture of hair to other things.
2) "The Public Housing Scandal" About housing injustice in the Bayview and Western Addition
3) "Straight Outta Da Fillmore" documentary/music
4) "The Script" Feature length fiction. About the challenges of a group of African Americans
who are trying to get their movie made.

Sunday, February 10
Koret Auditorium
San Francisco Main Public Library
FREE TO THE PUBLIC - Doors Open at 1pm

1) "The Encounter" Animated short (claymation).
2) "The Public Housing Scandal" About housing injustice in the Bayview and Western Addition
3) "Straight Outta Da Fillmore" documentary/music
4) "Birth of the Hip Hop Dynasty" Martial Arts (fiction/fantasy)

Saturday, February 17, 2002
Buriel Clay Memorial Theater
African American Art and Culture Complex
762 Fulton Street (near Webster) San Francisco
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Doors Open at 4:00 pm

1) "What Jesus Wouldn't Do" Comedic short film (15 minutes) of a fictionalized interview with Jesus.
2) "Ricco" Feature Length Film, Mystery/Suspense about police brutality and corruption

(films also listed on http://www.indybay.org/calendar/event_display_week.php)
and
all weekend February 16 17 18 --- The African-American Multimedia Conference will be at
African American Art and Culture Complex 762 Fulton Street (near Webster) San Francisco.
Free workshops and panels all day. http://www.geocities.com/aamulticon/aammc.html

for more information contact Sumiko Saulson California <aamulticon [at] yahoo.com>