The California premier of Mija took place at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Doris Muñoz was born in the US, but her family crossed the border from Mexico. She has privileges of citizenship denied her parents and siblings. In fact, her brother got deported, and she has survivors guilt, easily crossing over to Mexico…
Attention science nerds. Well, you don’t have to be a nerd to get engrossed watching Linoleum, screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Jim Gaffigan plays George Westinghouse, a rudderless man recently fired from his job as the host of a late night children’s science show, in the vein of Bill Neigh, the Science…
Few are neutral when talking about sex work. Tony winner Sarah Jones partnered up with executive producers Rashida Jones, Meryl Streep, and Laverne Cox to take a deep dive, interviewing women from diverse backgrounds who had something to say about the subject. Screening at the San Francisco International Film Festival, SELL/BUY/DATE addresses the treatment of…
HIT THE ROAD screened at the 65th annual San Francisco Film Festival. A quirky family embarks on a mysterious road trip to spirit their oldest son across the border to avoid an unnamed fate, but it certainly can’t be good. The majority of the film takes place in the car, and along the way we…
Lin-Manuel Miranda once again shatters stereotypes with “In the Heights“, a feel-good tribute to the Latino immigrant experience in the New York neighborhood of Washington Heights.The 2006 play of the same name started Miranda’s meteoric rise to fame, awards swirling in orbit. Being a scripturient, he has earned a ridiculous amount of accolades to date,…
The San Francisco Film Festival wrapped up Its 2021 program with a screening of the documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. Good choice SFFILM! Sesame Street, still the gold standard of children’s programming worldwide, was the first racially integrated television show, born out of the mind of Joan Ganz Cooney, inspired by…
The San Francisco Film Festival presented the North American premiere of The Dry, a genuinely entertaining mystery/drama/who-done-it set in a fictional drought-ridden Australian town, a very dry town. The film is based on Jane Harper’s bestseller, starring the eternally handsome Eric Bana as Federal Agent Aaron Falk, returning to his hometown after twenty years to…