SFSU Cinema Department

Black 2 Da Movies (Black Film Club event 10/31 7-11PM) Dear Gators: Black Film Club is back with another Film Festival/Mixer this Halloween October 31st 7-11PM, join us this Saturday night in downtown Oakland for a Black & Brown cinema extravaganza you won't soon forget! Featuring 10 original shorts by talented, up and coming Black & Brown filmmakers. There will also be a Q&A with the filmmakers at the end of the event. Tickets start at $20. Come in costume for a chance to be... celebrated for best costume! This is an outdoor, COVID-19 compliant event. Face masks are required, temperatures will be taken at our admission booth prior to entry. We hope to see you there! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dmta-bfc-present-black-to-da-m

499 Screening and Q&A with director Rodrigo Reyes, 4:30 PM Dear Cinema Community: Please join us on Friday, October 16th from 4:30-6:30pm for a screening of acclaimed documentary 499, followed by a Q&A with director Rodrigo Reyes. As part of our programming focus this year on Race, Resistance and Rebellion, we are screening this powerful documentary, in which a ghostly Conquistador arrives in modern Mexico on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish Conquest, encountering t...he testimonies of real people, the survivors of contemporary violence. Rodrigo Reyes will be leading a masterclass for School of Cinema students over the weekend. You can register for the webinar at the link below, or the link embedded in the flyer. You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Oct 16, 2020 04:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: Cine 650 Masterclass Register in advance for this webinar: https://sfsu.zoom.us/web/register/WN_sKcwfl13TpWnIjV8aF7miA

Guy Hircefeld, a Guy with a Camera. After a successful livestream last Wednesday, Veteran Documentary Corps, a SF State film unit, in partnership with El Dorado Films made publicly available the complete award-winning film, Guy Hircefeld, a Guy with a Camera. Produced, Directed and Edited by School of Cinema faculty and alumni, including Andrés Gallegos (Director and Cinematographer), Daniel Bernardi and Molly Stuart (Producers), Arash Maleki (editor), and Dan Olmstead (So...und Design), this short film won the 2019 Best Short Documentary film at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Director Andrés Gallegos hosted a live event and conversation with the film’s subject, Guy Hircefeld, an Israeli Army veteran and activist on behalf of the ongoing Palestinian conflict. You can watch the entire film free on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tahFBL7GFBw If you like the film, please subscribe to the channel to get updates on future Veteran Documentary Corps and Cinema Alumni work.

The Archive Project: Imagine Our Future presents Mark Toscano Mark Toscano is a filmmaker, curator, and film preservationist based in Los Angeles. Since 2003, he has worked at the Academy Film Archive, where he specializes in the curation, conservation, and preservation of artists’ films. He works with the collections of over 150 filmmakers, and has overseen the conservation and preservation of hundreds of films, including work by Stan Brakhage, Barbara Hammer, Chick Strand..., Tacita Dean, Penelope Spheeris, Betye Saar, the Whitney brothers, Gus Van Sant, Pat O’Neill, Suzan Pitt, and many others. He has curated and presented programs at numerous venues, including MoMA, Arsenal, EYE Filmmuseum, Centre Pompidou, and festivals in Rotterdam, London, Zagreb, Bangalore, Seoul, and elsewhere. He is a programmer with Los Angeles Filmforum, and has lectured at various universities on experimental film and archiving, as well as teaching in the Experimental Animation department at CalArts. This event is organized in dialogue with the School of Cinema's ongoing series on "Race, Resistance and Rebellion." Funding for this event is provided by a grant from the CSU Entertainment Alliance. Register in advance for this webinar: https://sfsu.zoom.us/web/register/WN_uit8NK_EQEGpOub9ESocwA

CINEMA COCKTAIL HOUR: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Friday, November 6, 2020 4-5pm Dear Cinema Community: ... Please join us on Friday, November 6 at 4-5pm as we welcome the Editorial Director and two acquisitions editors from Harvard University Press. The Editorial Director Sharmila Sen will talk about Harvard UP's publishing in film and media studies as well their new celebrated project Racism in America: A Reader (2020) which you can download for free now. Then you will learn from Harvard UP's newest acquisition editors Joseph Pomp and Emily Silk on how to write a book proposal and what they are currently acquiring and publishing at Harvard University Press. As per usual the format of our Cinema Cocktail Hour: Whetting Our Appetite for the Future of Cinema event will be a conversation between our guests and a faculty member and student. Thanks to Associate Professor Steve Choe and Tatiana Anoushian, President of the Cinema Studies Graduate Students for engaging our guests before we open it up for Q&A with our community. I will introduce the event which is part of our programming focus this year on Race, Resistance and Rebellion. Thank you for gathering with us as we build community and create new networks during this pandemic. Please go to tinyurl.com/sfsu-first-fridays-2020 Be well, Celine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Celine Parreñas Shimizu, M.F.A., Ph.D. Professor and Director School of Cinema San Francisco State University www.celineshimizu.com www.celinearchive.com she/her ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let's do great things together! www.cinema.sfsu.edu

Equality International Film Festival - Student Discount For more information about the festival, please check out our website: www.filmfreeway.com/8EqualityFilmFestival

SFSU CINEMA welcomes JONAS RIVERA AND KEVIN NOLTING Dear Cinema Community: We look forward to gathering with you to welcome our distinguished guests! And invite you to organize watch parties beforehand of their films UP and INSIDE OUT.... The School of Cinema at SFSU warmly welcomes Jonas Rivera and Kevin Nolting of PIXAR in conversation with Professor Ben Ridgway and Animation Society President Abbey Vollmer. Moderated by Animation Society Vice President Jessie Plascencia. Introduced by Professor and Director Celine Shimizu as part of our Race, Rebellion and Resistance Series. Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 6-7pm Via Zoom Register in advance for this webinar: https://sfsu.zoom.us/web/register/WN_wbxc_3ZMRCucGx1lyCLEHw Wishing you health! Celine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Celine Parreñas Shimizu, M.F.A., Ph.D. Professor and Director School of Cinema San Francisco State University www.celineshimizu.com www.celinearchive.com she/her ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let's do great things together! www.cinema.sfsu.edu

October 2 @4pm FIRST FRIDAYS CINEMA COCKTAIL HOUR with Pratibha Parmar Please join us for the next Cinema Cocktail Hour Whetting Our Appetite for the Future on Friday, October 2, 2020 from 4-5pm. This special event focused on Race, Rebellion and Resistance brings together our community during a difficult time when we cannot be physically together. This will be a meaningful gathering! ... The classic film A PLACE OF RAGE by Pratibha Parmar focuses on the life and work of legendary icons Angela Davis and June Jordan along with Alice Walker and former SFSU CINEMA faculty member Trinh T. Minh-ha. The film is available via Kanopy with your SFSU ID. Please watch the hour-long film before our event! Co-sponsored by the Marcus Funds for Excellence in Cinema, the Marcus Endowed Chair in Social Justice Fiction Filmmaking Mayuran Tiruchelvam, the Feminist Filmmaking Collective (F3)at SFSU and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. The Zoom event will be a conversation with the filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and Marcus Endowed Chair Mayuran Tiruchelvam and Wencie Hoang, F3 President (SFSU) and Usha Iyer, Professor of Film and Media at Stanford. The event will be introduced by Professor and Director of the SFSU School of Cinema Celine Shimizu and Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford Jennifer Brody. The audience will be composed of SFSU and Stanford faculty, staff, and students. Join us and welcome Pratibha Parmar to our campus (virtually)! And join us to welcome Stanford faculty, staff and students in conversation with our community. Be well, Celine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Celine Parreñas Shimizu, M.F.A., Ph.D. Professor and Director School of Cinema San Francisco State University www.celineshimizu.com www.celinearchive.com

The School of Cinema supports film and cinema students in Budapest. http://hungarianfreepress.com//artist-revolt-against-orban/

Award-winning feature doc #OurTimeMachine is available to stream on-demand in partnership with local art house cinemas NOW through 9/25! For tickets, visit http://timemachinefilm.com/ & select a theater you'd like to support with your purchase. SFSU students get $3 off by entering the discount code "SFSUdoc". "Beautiful" - The New York Times "Moving. Compelling" - Variety "Tender, soulful & life-affirming" - KQED Arts

"Black films have championed Black lives for 100 years..." The New Republic, a national magazine on politics, contemporary culture, and the arts, "with an outsized influence on American political and cultural thinking" published a feature article written by Artel Great, the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chair in African-American Cinema Studies and Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema. The article, "Black Cinema Matters" is an incisive and expansive... piece that speaks to the social and racial justice issues facing our nation today and the indispensable role Black cinema plays in helping us understand this critical moment in American history. The article also unveils elements of new research that puts Black cinema's origins as early as 1896 and includes revealing details about James Young Deer and the first Black women directors. Professor Great's research in this article has never been written about in a popular magazine or shared in public scholarship. https://newrepublic.com/article/159336/black-cinema-matters

October 2 @4pm FIRST FRIDAYS CINEMA COCKTAIL HOUR with Pratibha Parmar Dear Cinema Community: Please join us for the next Cinema Cocktail Hour Whetting Our Appetite for the Future on Friday, October 2, 2020 from 4-5pm. ... This special event focused on Race, Rebellion and Resistance brings together our community during a difficult time when we cannot be physically together. This will be a meaningful gathering! The classic film A PLACE OF RAGE by Pratibha Parmar focuses on the life and work of legendary icons Angela Davis and June Jordan along with Alice Walker and former SFSU CINEMA faculty member Trinh T. Minh-ha. The film is available via Kanopy with your SFSU ID. Please watch the hour-long film before our event! Co-sponsored by the Marcus Funds for Excellence in Cinema, the Marcus Endowed Chair in Social Justice Fiction Filmmaking Mayuran Tiruchelvam, the Feminist Filmmaking Collective (F3)at SFSU and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. The Zoom event will be a conversation with the filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and Marcus Endowed Chair Mayuran Tiruchelvam and Wencie Hoang, F3 President (SFSU) and Usha Iyer, Professor of Film and Media at Stanford. The event will be introduced by Professor and Director of the SFSU School of Cinema Celine Shimizu and Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford Jennifer Brody. The audience will be composed of SFSU and Stanford faculty, staff, and students. Join us and welcome Pratibha Parmar to our campus (virtually)! And join us to welcome Stanford faculty, staff and students in conversation with our community. Be well, Celine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Celine Parreñas Shimizu, M.F.A., Ph.D. Professor and Director School of Cinema San Francisco State University www.celineshimizu.com www.celinearchive.com she/her ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let's do great things together! www.cinema.sfsu.edu

Film Production Funds for Seniors and MFAs The School of Cinema is excited to announce the inaugural round of Marcus Culminating Funds. Each semester, one MFA student and one undergraduate student with senior standing will receive $625 each in funding for a work-in-progress film. Films may be at any stage of production. Previous recipients of this award are not eligible to apply again. The application deadline is Monday, October 5th at 5pm. Award funds will be announced by October 12th and they will be disbursed by the end of the semester. Please contact Prof. Julian Hoxter, Awards Committee Chair, with questions. You can follow this link to apply: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSeqNgSrO9MKrTJ3wO/viewform