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FILM Detention San Francisco Black
Independent Film Festival What starts out like a stereotypical teen comingof age film
quickly gives way to a very layered grittyfilm about contemporary students in an
urban highschool in America. Director Lemont Wheaton's plottwisting film bears
witness to the inventiveness andidealism of a young African American teacher
and her students. The film deals in a very truthful way thedifficulty and resiliency in recognizing and
navigatingthrough gang violence, sexual molestation, domestic violence that
effect the students in this high school
ona daily basis. The film is a revelation. Friday, February 4, 2005. 8PM $5 Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 824-3890 SF Bike Messenger
Association Screening Program:Metropoloco 13 mins.Bicycle Repairman (Monty Python) 4
mins.Bicycle (music video by Queen) 5 mins.Yellow Jersey 20 mins.Les Triplettes de Belleville (dir: Sylvain
Chomet)80 mins.Plus two more shorts. Saturday, February 12, 2005. 2 to 5 PM $5 Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street DVD RELEASE PARTY "NOMADS AND
NO-ZONES: Western Essays by Greta Snider and Vanessa Renwick." Filmmakers Greta Snider and Vanessa Renwick will be at ATA to
celebrate the release of their split DVD. Produced by Other Cinema DVD, this compilation (1989-2004)
features 90 minutes of diaries, essays and wildness from the margins of
documentary. The films and videos include collaborations with many notable Bay
Area underground artists, such as Eric Lyle (Scam magazine), Ivy McClelland
(muralist, musician in MIAMI and Allergic to Bullshit), and Aaron Cometbus; and
Portland's Moe Bowstern (X-tra Tuff magazine) and filmmaker Dawn Smallman. The release party will feature a screening of selected works from
the DVD (which boasts Renwick's and Snider's award-winning documentaries,
"Richart" and "Portland," respectively) as well as new
short film and animation by emerging makers, a slide show, and more! The Other Cinema Digital project provides an alternative platform
for the distribution of extraordinary film works. They celebrate peculiar
visions and offbeat sensibilities, drawn from the contemporary underground as
well as the archives. Be it auteur, exploitation, or industrial, OCD
delivers a decidedly different audio-visual experience - opening up spaces
both marvelous and dangerous. Tuesday, February 15, 2005. 8PM Free @ ATA This way out &
Not In Our Town @ ATA Amnesty International presents: This way out: This highly personal documentary tells the story of three
individuals who escaped persecution at home based on their homosexuality to
claim refugee status in the United States--Kahunya, who grew up on a mission
station in Kenya where his father is a Bishop; Ana Claudia, a famous sports
caster in Brazil; and Arslan, who was born into a "noble family" in
Pakistan. Their combined stories are a powerful illustration of the
universality of homosexuality, regardless of cultural origins, and the
vulnerability faced by lesbians and gays in most parts of the world. Besides portraying eloquent accounts of Kahunya, Ana's and
Arslan's experiences, the film questions what kind of asylum theU.S. provides
for them and what kind of "freedom" they have found. Dir. Jill Burnett & Anthony Lhotskyc 2004. Canada and USA 32
mins. English Not In Our Town, Northern California: When Hate Happens Here looks at five communities dealing with
deadly hate violence over a five-year period. Together, the stories reveal that
whether the motivation is racism, anti-Semitism, or crimes motivated by gender
or sexual orientation, hate is the same. But Californians are finding innovative
ways to respond when hate happens here.
From the state capital to the center of San Francisco, from the
shadow of Mt. Shasta to the suburbs of Silicon Valley, community leaders and
ordinary citizens have found new ways to see through controversy and difference
to create a safe place for all residents. After a transgender teen is killed by local youth in the Silicon
Valley suburb of Newark, high school students, residents and civic leaders
struggle to deal with a brutal and preventable crime; Sacramento mobilizes after the worst anti-Semitic arson
attacks in the California capital's history; Redding citizens find new strength
in diversity after a prominent gay couple is murdered; the Shasta County town
of Anderson joins forces to make their
values clear when a cross is burned on an African-American family's lawn; and
the San Francisco Public Library turns the mutilation of gay-themed books into
an opportunity for creative community action. Not In Our Town, Northern California is a co-production of KQED-TV
and Oakland-based productions company
The Working Group, producers of the Not
In Our Town films and www.pbs.org/niot Web site. This new hour-long documentary is the first regionally-focused
episode in the Not In Our Town series. Sunday, February 20, 2005. 7PM Indecency NPR broadcasts from
ATA's front window Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) will be broadcasting for 3 consecutive
Saturdays from ATA's front window starting on February 5th and continuing
through February 12th and 19th. In honor of the Super Bowl which a year ago spawned unprecedented
new fines for "Indecent" language and behavior, and in honor of the
"Indecent" behaviors frequently associated with Valentine's Day they
will be broadcasting around the theme of indecency. They will be interested in finding new ways to define indecency
as an alternative to that imposed by the FCC, they will also be interested in
challenging the notion that those things currently defined as indecent are in
any way harmful to the human psyche or society as a whole. To this end they are soliciting the
participation of all those who have been deemed indecent, or who admire those
who seem indecent, or who feel the need to express their indecent thoughts and
feelings to come on down to ATA and share. February 5, 2005 - February 19, 2005. noon til 11pm, Saturdays
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