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March 29 - 31

University of San Francisco

Presentation Theater

San Francisco Film Festival

March 1-29

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Film Festival, March 1–29, 2012

Filmmaker(s): Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega
Year: 2011 / 93
March 8 / 29
A dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, crime, and betrayal, BETTER THIS WORLD goes to the heart of the “war on terror” and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in the United States after 9/11.
(Bay Area Premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Juan José Lozano and Hollman Morris
Year: 2010 / 85m
March 15

What is the cost of truth for families immobilised by Colombia's violent past?

(Bay Area premiere)
Filmmaker(s): Léa Pool
Year: 2011 / 97m
March 29

Pink Ribbons, Inc. focuses on the increased involvement of corporations in fundraising campaigns—which goes as far as outright ownership in some cases—and the impact it has had on breast cancer 'culture' and media messages about women with breast cancer.

(Bay Area Premiere)
Filmmaker(s): David Fine
Year: 2011 / 82m
March 1

With plenty of pop music and 'girl power', Salaam Dunk delivers a tale of hope and inspiration courtesy of one winning group of Iraqi women basketball players.

Filmmaker(s): Ali Samadi Ahadi
Year: 2010 / 80m
March 22 / 31

By providing an animated backdrop for the urgent blog posts and tweets that became a lifeline to Iranian pro-democracy activists, The Green Wave recounts the dramatic events of the most severe domestic crisis in the history of Iran.

Film Festival, March 29–31, 2012

Filmmaker(s): Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega
Year: 2011 / 93
March 8 / 29
A dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, crime, and betrayal, BETTER THIS WORLD goes to the heart of the “war on terror” and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in the United States after 9/11.
Filmmaker(s): Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy and Paco de Onis
Year: 2010 / 100m
March 30

Part political thriller, part memoir, Granito takes us through a haunting tale of genocide and justice that spans four decades, two films, and filmmaker Pamela Yates’s own career.

Filmmaker(s): Marshall Curry (director) and Sam Cullman (co-director)
Year: 2011 / 85m
March 31

How far would you go to create change? In December 2005 Daniel McGowan, a prominent New York City social justice organizer, was arrested by federal agents in a nationwide sweep of activists linked to crimes by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)—a group the FBI has called America's "number one domestic terrorism threat."

Filmmaker(s): Ali Samadi Ahadi
Year: 2010 / 80m
March 22 / 31

By providing an animated backdrop for the urgent blog posts and tweets that became a lifeline to Iranian pro-democracy activists, The Green Wave recounts the dramatic events of the most severe domestic crisis in the history of Iran.

Filmmaker(s): Mimi Chakarova
Year: 2010 / 73m
March 29

The Price of Sex  is an unprecedented inquiry into a dark side of immigration: the underground criminal network of human trafficking and the experiences of Eastern European women forced into prostitution abroad.

Filmmaker(s): Directed by Pamela Yates and Newton Thomas Sigel, Produced and Edited by Peter Kinoy
Year: 1985 / 83m
March 30

In the early 1980s, death squads roamed the Guatemalan countryside in a war against the unarmed indigenous population that went largely unreported in the international media. A unique group of filmmakers threw themselves into the task of bringing the crisis to the world’s attention.