As the 29th edition of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (Sfjff) draws near to wrapping up at The Castro Theatre—its San Francisco venue—and continues on through August 8 at Berkeley’s Roda Theatre and Palo Alto’s Cinearts, I felt now would be a good time to present the first in a series of research interviews I’m entitling “Diaspora By the Bay.” This research is for a paper I’m writing for the next volume of The Film Festival Yearbook, which hopes to explore issues of disaporic content and constituency within the film festival circuit. Sfjff Program Director Nancy K. Fishman and Program Coordinator Joshua Moore were the first to make themselves available for this research project. Peter Stein, the festival’s Executive Director, was hard-pressed to launch the festival and apologized for not being able to participate.
Establishing straight off that Sfjff follows the now-standard non-profit model of film festivals,...
Establishing straight off that Sfjff follows the now-standard non-profit model of film festivals,...
- 7/31/2009
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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