SFIFF54: Interview With Joanne Parsont, SFFS Director of Education

Joanne Parsont has worked in the Bay Area film community for 15 years as a film programmer, writer, editor, consultant, project manager and media educator, specializing in outreach, education, youth media, children's and documentary programming. She spent eight years directing... More »
  

STAKE LAND (2010): Interview With Jim Mickle

Jim Mickle's Stake Land (2010), co-written by its leading star Nick Damici, has been a consensual favorite for the Twitch team even before its world premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes... More »
  

THE DIGNITY OF THE NOBODIES: Interview with Fernando "Pino" Solanas

[With the recent publication of my friend Matthew Losada's profile of Argentine documentarian Fernando Solanas for the Great Directors database at Senses of Cinema, I felt now would be a good time to revisit my interview with Solanas from the... More »
  

THE VIOLIN—Interview With Francisco Vargas

Francisco Varga's multi-award winning Mexican drama, The Violin, opens January 11, 2008, in Bay Area theatres (including the Roxie Film Center in San Francisco and the Shattuck Cinema in Berkeley). The Violin, a Film Movement release, runs 98 minutes, is... More »
  

San Fran Report—Interview with Alicia Scherson

At the 2006 San Francisco International Film Festival, I caught up with Chilean director Alicia Scherson (Play) in the hospitality suite and she graciously granted me the following interview.... More »
  

San Fran Report—Interview With Carlos Bolado

During the San Francisco International Film Festival, I caught up with Carlos Bolado (director of Sólo Dios Sabe) in the hospitality suite and he graciously granted me the following interview.... More »
  

San Fran Report: Alice Braga's Introduction and Q&A for Cidade Baixa (Lower City)

Introducing Sérgio Machado's Cidade Baixa / Lower City, Alice Braga—niece of the radiant Sonia Braga—stated, "Sérgio always says when he introduces the film that he and Karim [Ainouz], the co-writer, they wanted to know who were the young people in... More »
  

San Fran Report: Interview with Alice Braga

Alice (pronounced Alicia) Braga has the sweet distinction of having two films screening at this year's festival: Sólo Dios Sabe and Lower City. I caught up with Alice after a screening of Lower City. She was excitedly on her... More »
  

SFIFF Report: Michael Guillen Interviews The Team Behind "Who Killed The Electric Car?"

Here's Michael Guillen with more excellent reporting from the San Francisco International Film Festival ... who knew Dean Devlin had a social conscience? The opening night gala at the Regency with its Perhaps Love circus atmosphere was truly fun!... More »
By Todd Brown