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San Francisco Film Society Launches New Initiatives to Celebrate and Support Investigative Documentary Films
The San Francisco Film Society announced today the launch of two new initiatives designed to celebrate the world's finest investigative documentaries: an annual weeklong theatrical run of a world-class film, beginning this fall, and a new $25,000 Golden Gate Award, to be presented at the Film Society's San Francisco International Film Festival next spring.
The Film Society will initiate an annual investigative documentary screening program with a weeklong theatrical run of Secrecy (SFIFF 2008), directed by Robb Moss and Peter Galison, October 24 - 31, 2008 at Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema. A number of adjunct activities are planned to coincide with this run.
The first Golden Gate Award for Best Investigative Documentary Feature will be presented at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival, April 23 - May 7, 2009. This juried award, which includes a $25,000 cash prize, will be announced at the Festival's Golden Gate Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 6, 2009.
"These initiatives help further consolidate the Film Society's place as a leader in the exhibition of meaningful nonfiction films and enable us to bring the finest work on crucial issues from all over the world to Bay Area audiences," said Executive Director Graham Leggat. "They're designed to raise the visibility of courageous and committed documentary filmmakers, and to provide tangible encouragement to filmmakers considering launching investigative nonfiction film projects."
The seduction and power of secrets are at the core of Secrecy, a fascinating and timely documentary investigating how and why the U.S. government spends time and money keeping substantial information from the American public. On Saturday, October 25 there will be a panel discussion of the provocative questions raised in the film including: Are secrets necessary for our national security? Is an informed American public the best way to fight terrorism? Where does the line exist between public safety and civil liberties? And, if secrets are necessary, who gets to know? Phil Bronstein, executive vice president and editor-at-large of the San Francisco Chronicle, will moderate Need to Know: Uncovering Government Secrets with panelists Robb Moss, codirector of Secrecy; Robert Rosenthal, executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting, Berkeley; and Ben Wizner, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.
For more than 50 years, a significant element of the San Francisco International Film Festival has been a broad selection of the most searching -- and sometimes the most searing -- documentaries from across the globe. This, coupled with the Festival's annual Golden Gate Awards for documentary films, has established the International as one of the country's finest showcases for nonfiction filmmaking. The list of directors committed to bringing important and difficult topics to light, whose films have played at SFIFF include: Nick Broomfield (Soldier Girls, SFIFF 1981 and Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, SFIFF 1993); Adam Curtis (The Century of the Self, SFIFF 2003 and The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear, SFIFF 2005); Elizabeth Farnsworth, (The Judge and the General, SFIFF 2008); Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, SFIFF 2005); Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, SFIFF 1988 and Standard Operating Procedure, SFIFF 2008); Stanley Nelson (The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, SFIFF 1999 and Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, SFIFF 2006); and Fred Wiseman (High School, SFIFF 1969).
"The San Francisco International Film Festival produced the perfect world premiere for The Judge and the General. They treated us like royalty, got us great publicity, sold out every screening and organized provocative post-screening discussions. We will always be grateful and recommend the Festival to our colleagues around the world."
-Elizabeth Farnsworth, director, The Judge and the General
The call for entries for documentary features is now open. Investigative documentaries that have been completed after January 1, 2008 may be submitted. The primary deadline is Friday, November 7 and the final deadline is Friday, December 5, 2008. Entry form and information: http://www.sffs.org/sfiff/enter.html
The San Francisco Film Society, presenter of the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 23 - May 7, 2009), is a nonprofit arts and education organization dedicated to celebrating international film and the moving image.
The Film Society will initiate an annual investigative documentary screening program with a weeklong theatrical run of Secrecy (SFIFF 2008), directed by Robb Moss and Peter Galison, October 24 - 31, 2008 at Landmark's Opera Plaza Cinema. A number of adjunct activities are planned to coincide with this run.
The first Golden Gate Award for Best Investigative Documentary Feature will be presented at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival, April 23 - May 7, 2009. This juried award, which includes a $25,000 cash prize, will be announced at the Festival's Golden Gate Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 6, 2009.
"These initiatives help further consolidate the Film Society's place as a leader in the exhibition of meaningful nonfiction films and enable us to bring the finest work on crucial issues from all over the world to Bay Area audiences," said Executive Director Graham Leggat. "They're designed to raise the visibility of courageous and committed documentary filmmakers, and to provide tangible encouragement to filmmakers considering launching investigative nonfiction film projects."
The seduction and power of secrets are at the core of Secrecy, a fascinating and timely documentary investigating how and why the U.S. government spends time and money keeping substantial information from the American public. On Saturday, October 25 there will be a panel discussion of the provocative questions raised in the film including: Are secrets necessary for our national security? Is an informed American public the best way to fight terrorism? Where does the line exist between public safety and civil liberties? And, if secrets are necessary, who gets to know? Phil Bronstein, executive vice president and editor-at-large of the San Francisco Chronicle, will moderate Need to Know: Uncovering Government Secrets with panelists Robb Moss, codirector of Secrecy; Robert Rosenthal, executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting, Berkeley; and Ben Wizner, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.
For more than 50 years, a significant element of the San Francisco International Film Festival has been a broad selection of the most searching -- and sometimes the most searing -- documentaries from across the globe. This, coupled with the Festival's annual Golden Gate Awards for documentary films, has established the International as one of the country's finest showcases for nonfiction filmmaking. The list of directors committed to bringing important and difficult topics to light, whose films have played at SFIFF include: Nick Broomfield (Soldier Girls, SFIFF 1981 and Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, SFIFF 1993); Adam Curtis (The Century of the Self, SFIFF 2003 and The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear, SFIFF 2005); Elizabeth Farnsworth, (The Judge and the General, SFIFF 2008); Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, SFIFF 2005); Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, SFIFF 1988 and Standard Operating Procedure, SFIFF 2008); Stanley Nelson (The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, SFIFF 1999 and Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, SFIFF 2006); and Fred Wiseman (High School, SFIFF 1969).
"The San Francisco International Film Festival produced the perfect world premiere for The Judge and the General. They treated us like royalty, got us great publicity, sold out every screening and organized provocative post-screening discussions. We will always be grateful and recommend the Festival to our colleagues around the world."
-Elizabeth Farnsworth, director, The Judge and the General
The call for entries for documentary features is now open. Investigative documentaries that have been completed after January 1, 2008 may be submitted. The primary deadline is Friday, November 7 and the final deadline is Friday, December 5, 2008. Entry form and information: http://www.sffs.org/sfiff/enter.html
The San Francisco Film Society, presenter of the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 23 - May 7, 2009), is a nonprofit arts and education organization dedicated to celebrating international film and the moving image.
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