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Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
This ground-breaking documentary reveals the struggles and victories of South Africa's women from the perspectives of three major performers in South Africa’s hip-hop scene.
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
This verité documentary shows a day in the life at Levels, a bustling barbershop located in the heart of Harlem. The film shows the vital role community barbershops play as a forum for black men to discuss any topic, whether controversial or banal, sacred or profane, political or personal. And with the increasing gentrification of the area, a number of diverse clients (including a white gay man) occasionally enter the mix. Topics discussed in the film include HIV/AIDS, infidelity, gay marriage, greedy preachers, Bill Clinton, the world's sexiest actresses, and more.
Start: 2:15 pm
End: 4:15 pm
Roxie Cinema 2/15/2007 7PM
2/17/2007 2:15PM
Animation Amalgamation
You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll cringe.
The Waif of Persephone
Nick Cross
Canada, 2006, 13 min
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Windows, Masks, Doors
Sarah Orenstein
USA, 2006, 5 min
Kuro Kumo
Jesse Norton
Japan/ USA, 2006, 6 min
Cry From the Past
Susan Stamp
Australia, 2006, 6 min
Ara's Flight
Hagop Kaneboughazian
Start: 2:15 pm
Roxie Theater 2/11/2007 9:30PM
Victoria Theater 2/17/2007 2:15PM
Roxie Cinema 2/19/2007 9:30 PM
Nothing makes the IndieFest crew happier than discovering new artists, and presenting the world premiere of a local filmmaker's debut feature film is a particular pleasure. Cyrus Amini's stunning 25-Cent Preview is a gritty cinema-verite-style drama that journeys headlong into San Francisco's dark underbelly.
Director/editor Amini's balanced, brutally honest film is a sympathetic yet unflinching portrait of two young guys cruising lower Polk—and the brutal reality of their hard-drug & sex-for-pay lifestyle. Marcus (Merlin Gaspers), a white, jagged-edge pretty-boy, is the protégé of a more seasoned black street hustler “DotCom” (Dorian Brockington). They join forces to self-medicate, turn tricks, deal with the power-plays and random violence that come with the lifestyle, and to find basic solutions to their common problems of daily survival.
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:15 pm
“Dear San Francisco Independent Film Festival Programmer:
‘Rolling’ is a film that explores a subject that other films only touch upon. (The use of) MDMA (Ecstasy) is, without question, one of the most significant drug phenomena in human history. Despite this, there has yet to be a fictional film that focuses on the drug or, more specifically, the users’ experiences with the drug. It is our belief that audiences are long overdue for a film that fully explores Ecstasy. …Thank you, in advance, for your consideration, The Rolling Team.”
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:15 pm
Roxie Cinema 2/14/2007 12PM
2/17/2007 4:30PM
“[Nick Peterson] is one of the best young filmmakers I have come across in a long time. His unity of vision is rare and gives me hope for the next generation of American filmmakers.” - Gus Van Sant
“Yellow,” an indie-musical-romanti-drama, marks the debut feature of award-winning filmmaker Nick Peterson. Interweaving rich-yet-realistic artistic direction, delicately balanced cinematography, and notably earnest acting is a feat in itself. “Yellow,” however, goes one step beyond, with Eric Schopmeyer’s lyrical compositions periodically highlighting the humor, self-awareness and thorny honesty found throughout this tale of sexual-wows and woes.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:45 pm
Victoria Theater 2/10/2007 2:15PM
2/17/2007 7PM
Thrill to the strange adventures of Tex Kennedy after the great nation formerly known as the United States collapses completely. By the year 2097, history has begun to unfold again in New America. The survivors are re-emerging from the ashes to take (by any means necessary) their rightful places as the founding fathers of a brutal and bizarre new nation.
Kennedy, driven by his passionate (and more than a little delusional) objective to sew together the tattered remnants of the old world with principles of liberty and freedom, journeys to the deadly future capital of New America, notoriously known as the Threshold of Hell. Standing by Tex’s side are his two robot companions and the legendary 'Cannibal Sue'. As Tex’s epic journey progresses, we learn how a young appointed king, his murderously jealous cousin, a giant sea snake, the great, great, great grandson of Fidel Castro, a powerful communication radio tower, and the spawn of Satan himself, all hold a vital presence in the New American mythology.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Dionysius Zervos’ first feature is based on a true event. As recounted to him by a lifeguard, the story goes that a young mother and her child regularly came to the beach, until one day the child disappeared and the mother never saw her again.
Start: 9:30 pm
End: 11:00 pm
“...Plunges its audience into a violent abyss of extremities so potent that a person fainted during its World Premiere.” - FantAsia film festival program note
Start: 9:30 pm
End: 11:00 pm
This is a big true story of the long ago time and the time before that. A story within a story with spears and humor, goose eggs, wives, more wives, and perhaps too many wives. Ten men set out in canoes into the Arafura Swamp to collect goose eggs and an elder notices the youngest member of the clan is making eyes at his brother’s youngest wife. To divert him the elder tells the story of ten men setting out in canoes to collect eggs and how a young member of the clan covets his brother’s youngest wife.
Start: 11:45 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Primitive Screwheads and Tossing Alice
Victoria Theater
The Primitive Screwheads, along with their friends Tossing Alice, present “The Crazy Go Nuts Show;” a late night comedy/horror variety program that harkens back to the glory days of The Donnie and Marie Show and Creature Features.
Start: 11:45 pm
USA Premiere
“Unholy Women” is an omnibus film—three stories by three directors. Each tells the horrific tale of a woman, who for one reason or another, becomes very very scary.
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Roxie Cinema 2/11/2007 4:30PM