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  • CROSSROADS 2020 Program 6

    CROSSROADS 2020 Program 6

    presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
    in community partnership with ATA
    curated by Steve Polta

    Let’s Take a Walk (2018) by Moira Lacowicz

    Livestream premiere: Wednesday, August 26 7pm PST :: click here to view
    theories of obliscence / erasing the grid

    SCREENING: Let’s Take a Walk (2018) by Moira Lacowicz (Brazil); Through a Field (2019) by Faith Arazi (US) and Madeleine Mori (US); A Winter Song (2019) by Jon Behrens (US); Specialized Technique (2018) by Onyeka Igwe (United Kingdom); The Losing Battle (2019) by Jean Sousa (US); Signal 8 (2019) by Simon Liu (Hong Kong/United Kingdom); Bathers (2019) by Douglas Urbank (US); to forget (2019) by Lydia Nsiah (Austria); Jeevithaye Mayawa / ජීවිතයේ මායාව / Imitation of Life (2020) by Rajee Samarasinghe (Sri Lanka/US)

    About CROSSROADS

    CROSSROADS 2020 is the eleventh manifestation of Cinematheque annual film festival, presented online FREE to the public. CROSSROADS 2020 features 85 works of film and video by 71 artists representing 22 countries and territories presented in 9 curated programs. Get the thrill of the festival experience by joining us for a series of scheduled livestreams August 21–29. Can’t make it? Don’t have the time? All programs available on a view-when-desired basis August 30–September 30.

    Press inquiries:  sfc@sfcinematheque.org
    Download press release here

  • CINEOLA: Live Filmmaker Q&A moderated by Colin Trevorrow

    Check out the films before the event: https://www.seedandspark.com/festivals/cineola/watch/recordar

    Advance tickets at Eventbrite

    Filmmakers

    • Celina Escher (‘Verde Olivo’ 🇨🇺)
    • Nicolás Rojas Sánchez (‘Tuyuku’ 🇲🇽)
    • Jean-Jacques Martinod (‘La Bala de Sandoval’ 🇪🇨)

    About Colin Trevorrow

    Filmmaker Colin Trevorrow re-launched the Jurassic franchise with the smash hit, Jurassic World, which he directed and co-wrote. Previously, Trevorrow directed Battle at Big Rock, a short film for the Jurassic franchise; The Book of Henry, for Focus Features starring Naomi Watts; and the indie hit Safety Not Guaranteed.

  • CINEOLA Latinx Online Film Festival

    June 6 – 12, 2020
    Festival Pass: $12
    Single Tickets: $8

    Co-presented by the Bay Area Video Coalition, CINEOLA will be available online across the U.S. on Seed&Spark. Proceeds will benefit ATA, The Roxie and CARECEN SF, a non-profit supporting Latino, immigrant, and under-resourced families in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    Shorts Blocks

    The festival features two blocks of documentary short films showcasing filmmakers from across Latin America, representing a variety of realities from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil. These include Hazte Sentir, a collaborative project led by Dieter Deswarte and the residents of Casa Miga, the first and only LGBTIQ+ refugee centre in Latin America, which sits in the middle of the Amazon, in the Brazilian city of Manaus, as well as Susy Peña’s The Breadmaker, about a Chavista collective that has stepped in to take over production at a local bakery, La Minka. Elsewhere, shorts feature everything from Cuban militants (Verde Olivo), Honduran trans woman (Victoria) and Colombian fishermen (La Pesca).

    • Recordar
      Stories of legacy, memory and identity from Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Ecuador and Colombia.
    • Resistir
      Stories of resistance, solidarity and tradition from Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Brazil.

    Virtual Events

    The festival will host two live filmmaker Q&As, featuring guest moderators film writer Carlos Aguilar and Bay Area filmmaker Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World).