The SF Urban Film Fest (SFUFF) is proud to present its 9th annual film festival, Rituals of the City, March 6-11, 2023. The screenings and special programs will take place in person throughout San Francisco across various venues, including the Roxie theater, Tenderloin Museum, Exploratorium, and outdoors at the Victoria Manalo Draves Park in SOMA.
The festival believes compelling stories can help shape urbanist ideas, practice, and project implementation to improve our cities.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
Information regardings tickets and registration is available on the SFUFF 2023 website.
Day 1: Monday, March 6
Kicking off the six-day festival, the Navigating Rituals event at the Roxie Theater features work by California-based filmmakers Sue Ding, Sarah Garrahan, and Carlo Nasisse. Films explore the way we interact, see, and acknowledge each other on city streets, and how our rituals are changed when we are forced to migrate; our wayfinding, and history is disrupted when public memorials and spaces are moved. Audience members are welcome to join the after-party with the filmmakers in the upstairs lounge at Arepas restaurant and bar on 16th Street.
Day 2: Tuesday, March 7
Questioning Rent as Routine is a workshop and short film screening to demystify affordable housing finance led by Rebecca Foster, founder of the innovative San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund. Tenant advocate Reetu Mody will facilitate a discussion with the audience that questions the underpinning of affordable housing finance based on rent.
Day 3: Wednesday, March 8
Ritual, Memory and Place celebrates the work of emerging Bay Area filmmakers including Daniel Diaz, Emma-Marie Chang and Nick Hartanto that focus on the importance of place for family, community, and culture, and how these spaces are continually under threat. This program is co-presented by BAVC Media (Bay Area Video Coalition).
Day 4: Thursday, March 9
More Than Human Cities: Kinship Across Species at the Exploratorium is a special screening of the Oscar nominated full-length documentary All That Breathes. Discussion afterward will focus on the question of what caretaking rituals might city dwellers create as pathways to rebalancing our relationship with the natural world? Tickets to this program include access to all After Dark programs at the Exploratorium that evening.
Day 5: Friday, March 10
Through visual storytelling, film and discussion, the Communion and Wellbeing: Arts and Outreach program to be held at the Tenderloin Museum shows how community artists assume the role of catalysts, organizers, and ministers - involving neighbors and residents in transformational acts of creation.
Day 6: Saturday, March 11 Free and Open to the Public
The Our Place in the Park is an enactment of the ritual of festivals and will feature a sneak peek of the proposed SOMA Pilipinas Gateway arch, film screenings of "Sa Amin: Our Place", "It Takes A Hood to Save A Hood", and a selection of shorts from the "SOMA Sapiens" series, musical acts by local performers, resource and arts and crafts vendor booths, and a puppet-making workshop. Complimentary meals for the community and Filipino snacks for purchase will be available.
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The SF Urban Film Fest (SFUFF) was founded in 2014 by Fay Darmawi, an immigrant from Jakarta, Indonesia, who worked for decades in affordable housing finance to finance the construction of over 10,000 low-income units during her career in California. But when Jerry Brown dissolved redevelopment agencies in 2012, a major source of affordable housing funding had been eliminated, and she wanted to jump start the conversation of what she saw as the ensuing homelessness crisis by leveraging the power of film and storytelling. She believed that as the film "An Inconvenient Truth" mainstreamed the conversation around climate change, she could do the same around the issues of housing justice with a film festival. In 2014, with a small crew of volunteers and donated space, the SF Urban Film Fest held its inaugural festival with 4 events, attracting 200 people over a long weekend.
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The festival believes compelling stories can help shape urbanist ideas, practice, and project implementation to improve our cities.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
Information regardings tickets and registration is available on the SFUFF 2023 website.
Day 1: Monday, March 6
Kicking off the six-day festival, the Navigating Rituals event at the Roxie Theater features work by California-based filmmakers Sue Ding, Sarah Garrahan, and Carlo Nasisse. Films explore the way we interact, see, and acknowledge each other on city streets, and how our rituals are changed when we are forced to migrate; our wayfinding, and history is disrupted when public memorials and spaces are moved. Audience members are welcome to join the after-party with the filmmakers in the upstairs lounge at Arepas restaurant and bar on 16th Street.
Day 2: Tuesday, March 7
Questioning Rent as Routine is a workshop and short film screening to demystify affordable housing finance led by Rebecca Foster, founder of the innovative San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund. Tenant advocate Reetu Mody will facilitate a discussion with the audience that questions the underpinning of affordable housing finance based on rent.
Day 3: Wednesday, March 8
Ritual, Memory and Place celebrates the work of emerging Bay Area filmmakers including Daniel Diaz, Emma-Marie Chang and Nick Hartanto that focus on the importance of place for family, community, and culture, and how these spaces are continually under threat. This program is co-presented by BAVC Media (Bay Area Video Coalition).
Day 4: Thursday, March 9
More Than Human Cities: Kinship Across Species at the Exploratorium is a special screening of the Oscar nominated full-length documentary All That Breathes. Discussion afterward will focus on the question of what caretaking rituals might city dwellers create as pathways to rebalancing our relationship with the natural world? Tickets to this program include access to all After Dark programs at the Exploratorium that evening.
Day 5: Friday, March 10
Through visual storytelling, film and discussion, the Communion and Wellbeing: Arts and Outreach program to be held at the Tenderloin Museum shows how community artists assume the role of catalysts, organizers, and ministers - involving neighbors and residents in transformational acts of creation.
Day 6: Saturday, March 11 Free and Open to the Public
The Our Place in the Park is an enactment of the ritual of festivals and will feature a sneak peek of the proposed SOMA Pilipinas Gateway arch, film screenings of "Sa Amin: Our Place", "It Takes A Hood to Save A Hood", and a selection of shorts from the "SOMA Sapiens" series, musical acts by local performers, resource and arts and crafts vendor booths, and a puppet-making workshop. Complimentary meals for the community and Filipino snacks for purchase will be available.
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The SF Urban Film Fest (SFUFF) was founded in 2014 by Fay Darmawi, an immigrant from Jakarta, Indonesia, who worked for decades in affordable housing finance to finance the construction of over 10,000 low-income units during her career in California. But when Jerry Brown dissolved redevelopment agencies in 2012, a major source of affordable housing funding had been eliminated, and she wanted to jump start the conversation of what she saw as the ensuing homelessness crisis by leveraging the power of film and storytelling. She believed that as the film "An Inconvenient Truth" mainstreamed the conversation around climate change, she could do the same around the issues of housing justice with a film festival. In 2014, with a small crew of volunteers and donated space, the SF Urban Film Fest held its inaugural festival with 4 events, attracting 200 people over a long weekend.
The SF Urban Film Fest (SFUFF) is proud to present its 9th annual film festival, Rituals of the City, March 6-11, 2023. The screenings and special programs will take place in person throughout San Francisco across various venues, including the Roxie theater, Tenderloin Museum, Exploratorium, and outdoors at the Victoria Manalo Draves Park in SOMA.
The festival believes compelling stories can help shape urbanist ideas, practice, and project implementation to improve our cities.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
Information regardings tickets and registration is available on the SFUFF 2023 website.
Day 1: Monday, March 6
Kicking off the six-day festival, the Navigating Rituals event at the Roxie Theater features work by California-based filmmakers Sue Ding, Sarah Garrahan, and Carlo Nasisse. Films explore the way we interact, see, and acknowledge each other on city streets, and how our rituals are changed when we are forced to migrate; our wayfinding, and history is disrupted when public memorials and spaces are moved. Audience members are welcome to join the after-party with the filmmakers in the upstairs lounge at Arepas restaurant and bar on 16th Street.
Day 2: Tuesday, March 7
Questioning Rent as Routine is a workshop and short film screening to demystify affordable housing finance led by Rebecca Foster, founder of the innovative San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund. Tenant advocate Reetu Mody will facilitate a discussion with the audience that questions the underpinning of affordable housing finance based on rent.
Day 3: Wednesday, March 8
Ritual, Memory and Place celebrates the work of emerging Bay Area filmmakers including Daniel Diaz, Emma-Marie Chang and Nick Hartanto that focus on the importance of place for family, community, and culture, and how these spaces are continually under threat. This program is co-presented by BAVC Media (Bay Area Video Coalition).
Day 4: Thursday, March 9
More Than Human Cities: Kinship Across Species at the Exploratorium is a special screening of the Oscar nominated full-length documentary All That Breathes. Discussion afterward will focus on the question of what caretaking rituals might city dwellers create as pathways to rebalancing our relationship with the natural world? Tickets to this program include access to all After Dark programs at the Exploratorium that evening.
Day 5: Friday, March 10
Through visual storytelling, film and discussion, the Communion and Wellbeing: Arts and Outreach program to be held at the Tenderloin Museum shows how community artists assume the role of catalysts, organizers, and ministers - involving neighbors and residents in transformational acts of creation.
Day 6: Saturday, March 11 Free and Open to the Public
The Our Place in the Park is an enactment of the ritual of festivals and will feature a sneak peek of the proposed SOMA Pilipinas Gateway arch, film screenings of "Sa Amin: Our Place", "It Takes A Hood to Save A Hood", and a selection of shorts from the "SOMA Sapiens" series, musical acts by local performers, resource and arts and crafts vendor booths, and a puppet-making workshop. Complimentary meals for the community and Filipino snacks for purchase will be available.
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The SF Urban Film Fest (SFUFF) was founded in 2014 by Fay Darmawi, an immigrant from Jakarta, Indonesia, who worked for decades in affordable housing finance to finance the construction of over 10,000 low-income units during her career in California. But when Jerry Brown dissolved redevelopment agencies in 2012, a major source of affordable housing funding had been eliminated, and she wanted to jump start the conversation of what she saw as the ensuing homelessness crisis by leveraging the power of film and storytelling. She believed that as the film "An Inconvenient Truth" mainstreamed the conversation around climate change, she could do the same around the issues of housing justice with a film festival. In 2014, with a small crew of volunteers and donated space, the SF Urban Film Fest held its inaugural festival with 4 events, attracting 200 people over a long weekend.
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The festival believes compelling stories can help shape urbanist ideas, practice, and project implementation to improve our cities.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
Information regardings tickets and registration is available on the SFUFF 2023 website.
Day 1: Monday, March 6
Kicking off the six-day festival, the Navigating Rituals event at the Roxie Theater features work by California-based filmmakers Sue Ding, Sarah Garrahan, and Carlo Nasisse. Films explore the way we interact, see, and acknowledge each other on city streets, and how our rituals are changed when we are forced to migrate; our wayfinding, and history is disrupted when public memorials and spaces are moved. Audience members are welcome to join the after-party with the filmmakers in the upstairs lounge at Arepas restaurant and bar on 16th Street.
Day 2: Tuesday, March 7
Questioning Rent as Routine is a workshop and short film screening to demystify affordable housing finance led by Rebecca Foster, founder of the innovative San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund. Tenant advocate Reetu Mody will facilitate a discussion with the audience that questions the underpinning of affordable housing finance based on rent.
Day 3: Wednesday, March 8
Ritual, Memory and Place celebrates the work of emerging Bay Area filmmakers including Daniel Diaz, Emma-Marie Chang and Nick Hartanto that focus on the importance of place for family, community, and culture, and how these spaces are continually under threat. This program is co-presented by BAVC Media (Bay Area Video Coalition).
Day 4: Thursday, March 9
More Than Human Cities: Kinship Across Species at the Exploratorium is a special screening of the Oscar nominated full-length documentary All That Breathes. Discussion afterward will focus on the question of what caretaking rituals might city dwellers create as pathways to rebalancing our relationship with the natural world? Tickets to this program include access to all After Dark programs at the Exploratorium that evening.
Day 5: Friday, March 10
Through visual storytelling, film and discussion, the Communion and Wellbeing: Arts and Outreach program to be held at the Tenderloin Museum shows how community artists assume the role of catalysts, organizers, and ministers - involving neighbors and residents in transformational acts of creation.
Day 6: Saturday, March 11 Free and Open to the Public
The Our Place in the Park is an enactment of the ritual of festivals and will feature a sneak peek of the proposed SOMA Pilipinas Gateway arch, film screenings of "Sa Amin: Our Place", "It Takes A Hood to Save A Hood", and a selection of shorts from the "SOMA Sapiens" series, musical acts by local performers, resource and arts and crafts vendor booths, and a puppet-making workshop. Complimentary meals for the community and Filipino snacks for purchase will be available.
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The SF Urban Film Fest (SFUFF) was founded in 2014 by Fay Darmawi, an immigrant from Jakarta, Indonesia, who worked for decades in affordable housing finance to finance the construction of over 10,000 low-income units during her career in California. But when Jerry Brown dissolved redevelopment agencies in 2012, a major source of affordable housing funding had been eliminated, and she wanted to jump start the conversation of what she saw as the ensuing homelessness crisis by leveraging the power of film and storytelling. She believed that as the film "An Inconvenient Truth" mainstreamed the conversation around climate change, she could do the same around the issues of housing justice with a film festival. In 2014, with a small crew of volunteers and donated space, the SF Urban Film Fest held its inaugural festival with 4 events, attracting 200 people over a long weekend.
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