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Cine Accion Festival Cine Latino
The 1998 Cine Accién ;Festival Cine Latino! screened more than a hundred shorts and feature-length films and videos representing the best of documentary, narrative and experimental filmmaking from the U.S. and Latin America.
Opening the Festival was an exciting sold-out tribute to actress Rita Moreno, with an on-stage interview and a screening of West Side Story in the historic Castro Theatre.
Rita Morena was honored at Cine Accion ;Festival
Cine Latino!
Independent experimental films included Ximena Cuevas’ Paper Bodies/Cuerpos de Papel (1997, Mexico), which uses irony and black humor to explore a tale of love and jealousy between two women and Half Lies/Medias Mentiras, a personal portrait of Mexico City.
Also shown was El Corrido de Cecilia Rios (1997, U.S.),
directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, is a documentary about a
Medias Mentiras/Half Lies, a
video by Ximena Cuevas, ijFestival Cine Latino!
young teenage woman who was murdered.
A festival forum, “1848: The US.-Mexican War (1846-1848),” featured Ginny Martin’s
7 video documentary The U.S. Mexican War (1846-1848), Part 1: Neighbors and Strangers.
Contributor Lauri Rose Tanner is the Director and Founder of Film Festival Consultants, a strategic planning, fundraising and sponsorship group specializing in work with arts organizations and film festivals. She is currently completing the writing of the first book of a two-volume manual on How to Start and Operate Film & Video Festivals, based in part on interviews with the film festival directors of Northern California.
Editorial Assistant Jennifer Campbell provided extensive special research for this article. Thanks also to festival publicists Karen
Larsen, Pam Miller (Mill Valley Film Festival and Hilary Hart (SFIFF) who also provided information.
For more information: Lauri Rose Tanner, 337 Nevada Street, San Francisco, CA 94110-6106. 415/ 550-9445. Fax: 415/ 8245118. Email: laurirose@aol.com or web: www.filmdependent.comifestbook/ O
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (July/August) 346 Ninth St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
415/621-0556
Fax: 415/621-0568
Web: www. sfiff.org
San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (June) Frameline
346 N. Ninth St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
415/703-8650
Fax: 415/861-1404
Web: www.frameline.org
San Francisco International Film Festival (April/May) San Francisco Film Society Web: www.sfiff.org
San Francisco Asian American Film Festival (March) 346 Ninth St., 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
415/552-9550
Fax: 415/863-7428
Web: www.naatanet.org
Mill Valley Film Festival (October) 38 Miller Ave., Ste. 6
Mill Valley, CA 94941 415/383-5256
Fax: 415/383-8606
Web: www.finc.org
Festival Cine Latino (September) 346 Ninth St., 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103 415/553-8135
Fax: 415/553-8137
Web: www.cineaccion.com
MadCat International Women’s Film & Video Festival (September)
937 Fell St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
415/436-9523
Fax: 415/934-0642
Email: alionbear@earthlink.net
For more information about Bay Area film festivals and exhibition venues, visit Lauri’s Guide, published by the San Francisco Film Commission: www.filmdependent.com/ sffests.html/ or call the San Francisco Film Office for a complimentary copy at 415/554-6244.