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DFI's first production, Cachao:Uno Mas, premieres at the 51st San Francsico International Film Festival
April 28,2008 6:30PM @ Sundance Kabuki



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DOC Film Institute at San Francisco State University and Sundance Kabuki Cinemas present "Oscar Docs 2008", a FREE exclusive three-day screening of 2008 Academy Award nominated short and feature documentaries. There will be brief Q&A's with the filmmakers after a few selected screenings. This is DOC Film Institute's third year presenting this show in San Francisco, and Sundance Kabuki is proud to be this year's host.

Date: February 19--21, 2008
Venue: Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post Street at Fillmore

Limited seating. Tickets will be available at the venue beginning Wednesday, February 13.

Schedule:

February 19, 2008

• 12:30 PM Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (81 min) Q & A with director Richard Robbins
  
• 2:45 PM Sicko (123 min)
• 5:15 PM No End in Sight (102 min)
  Q & A with writer-director Charles Ferguson
• 7:45 PM Shorts (116 min)
  1. La Corona (40 min) (sneak preview)
     Q & A with co-director Amanda Micheli
  2. Sari's Mother (21 min)
  3. Salim Baba (15 min)
  4. Freeheld (40 min)

February 20, 2008

• 1:00 PM Sicko (123 min)
• 3:30 PM War/Dance (105 min)
  
• 5:45 PM Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (81 min)
• 7:30 PM Taxi to the Dark Side (106 min)

February 21, 2008

• 1:00 PM No End in Sight (102 min)
• 3:15 PM Taxi to the Dark Side (106 min)
• 5:30 PM Shorts (116 min)
  1. Salim Baba (15 min)
  2. La Corona (40 min) (sneak preview)
  3. Sari's Mother (21 min)
  4. Freeheld (40 min)
• 8:00 PM War/Dance (105 min)

DOC Film Institute will co-present two documentaries at 3rd I International South Asian Film Festival Nov 16-18, 2007

www.thirdi.org/festival

From art-house classics to documentary films, from innovative and experimental visions to next-level Bollywood: 3rd I is committed to promoting diverse images of South Asians through independent film. We showcase films from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, the Maldives and the global South Asian Diaspora.

9:00 pm, Friday November 16th, Victoria Theater, San Francisco ($9)
John & Jane Toll-free SF Premiere
Dir: Ashim Ahluwalia
India, 2005, 35mm, 83 mins

Unlike any other doc on the subject, John & Jane is not so much a film, as it is an experience. A surreal, captivating documentary that meanders through the nocturnal corridors of the steel-and-glass highrises of Bombay's burgeoning economic boom, and examines the cultural & psychological impact of the American dream on six young Indian workers. Official Selection at Toronto & Berlin Film Festivals.
For more information, please visit: http://thirdi.org/festival/film/johnJane.htm

12:00 noon, Sunday, November 18th, Roxie Theater, San Francisco ($9)
View from a grain of sand
Dir: Meena Nanji
USA, 2006, DV, 82 mins

Meena Nanji in Person for Q&A!
Meena Nanji, recalls 30 years of women's rights and struggles in Afghanistan in this powerful exploration of culture, tradition and migration. Filmed in the refugee camps of Kabul and northern Pakistan. For more information, please visit: http://thirdi.org/festival/film/grainofsand.htm

In September 2007, DOC Film Institute presented a special preview marathon of Ken Burns' newest film, THE WAR at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio. Burns introduced selected episodes from this new seven-part film about World War II and answered audience questions.

This once-in-a-lifetime viewing experience was held at the state-of-the-art Premier Theater at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio. This 294-seat theater is normally not open to the public, so this was truly a special weekend for Bay Area film lovers to see THE WAR under optimum conditions with the filmmaker present.

March 1--March 4, 2007

Eight powerful documentaries by gifted filmmakers, including an exclusive preview of Ken Burn?s new epic film, The War.

In March 2007, DOC Film Institute honored the legacy of some exceptionally gifted and insightful producers of war-related documentaries, tracing important works of non-fiction films with subject matter from World War II to the ongoing war in Iraq.

This four-day event began with a very special preview of Ken Burns’ The War at Castro Theater. Ken Burns was present to do a Q&A with noted author Thomas Sanchez.

Over the next three days at the De Young Museum, the show paid tribute to the legendary British filmmaker Humphrey Jennings, introduced by well-known writer and critic David Thompson, Screened Sergei Loznitsa’s Blockade, introduced by Tom Luddy, and James Longley’s Iraq in Fragments, introduced by Mark Danner. Renowned filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier introduced his masterpiece, THE UNDECLARED WAR

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Special Screening! Deliver Us From Evil

Written and Directed by Amy Berg
Tue, Oct 24 @ 7 pm, San Francisco location

Friends of the Doc Film Institute are invited to a special screening of Deliver Us From Evil, winner - Best Documentary Feature - 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival. The film opens in the SF Bay Area on October 27.

Sneak Preview
CACHAO
Produced by the Doc Film Institute
A film by Dikayl Dunkley

An intimate portrait of a legend: Israel “Cachao” Lopez
Featuring Andy Garcia, Orestes Vilato, Alfredo Valdes, Jimmy Bosch, Daniel Palaciao, Anthony Columbie, the God-Sons, Richie Clores, Rafael Palau and John Santos

Spring 2007
San Francisco

FutureTense: Frederick Wiseman in Conversation with Michael Krasny
September 20, 2006 @ Kanbar Hall, San Francisco SOLD OUT!
Hailed as “a master of the epic documentary” by the New York Times, visual literacy proponent Frederick Wiseman recreated his editing process using clips from a selection of his 35 full-length films, including Titicut Follies, High School I & II and Belfast, Maine. KQED Forum’s Michael Krasny moderated a lively discussion.

Our presenting partners:



When God Spoke: Al Franken (2006; Nick Doob & Chris Hegedus)
Presented in Association with SFIFF at the 49th SF International Film Festival
April 21, 22 & 25, 2006 @ Pacific Film Archive, Kabuki & Castro Theatre

West Coast Premiere—I Am a Sex Addict (2005)
Director Caveh Zahedi in person
April 5, 2006 @ Balboa Theatre, San Francisco

2005 Oscar Nominated Docs
First time in San Francisco—In conjunction with the Leacock/Pennebaker Tribute, the Doc Film Institute, in association with Film Arts Foundation, presented the screening of all nine 2005 Oscar nominated documentary features and shorts
Feb 28 & March 1, 2006 @ Balboa Theatre, San Francisco

Bay Area Academy Screening: Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
Director Hubert Sauper in person
Film subsequently nominated for an Academy Award
Jan 10, 2006 @ UA Metro Theatre, San Francisco

International Center for the Arts
San Francisco State University
Cinema Department/College of Creative Arts
1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132
(415) 405-3753

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