The Three Bay Area film festival is offering moviegoers plenty to choose from this week. Two are in the South Bay, the Poppy Jasper International Film Festival and the Windrider Bay Area Film Forum, and the largest, SFFILM, spans San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley.
And early next week, Academy Award-winning director Jimmy Chin will be here to open the documentary Wildlife, about the life, legacy and work of conservationists Chris and Doug Tompkins. Chris Tompkins will join Chin in the main show.
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The Poppy Jasper International Film Festival, which runs from April 12-19, is an eclectic mix of feature films, documentaries, shorts and features screened in Morgan Hill, San Martin, Gilroy, Hollister and San Juan Bautista.
The festival opens Wednesday with film students at the Gilroy County Theater. On Thursdays, Morgan Hill hosts The Northern California Show, divided into two-hour blocks. The program includes “Queer Science” by Nicole de Menezes of Pleasanton and “Heartbeat on the Strings”, a short film by Nan Su of Oakland.
Other Poppy Jasper Theme Days: Women's Day at Morgan Hill Community Theater (April 14); Mexico Day (April 17) at Mission Farm Barn in San Juan Bautista; LGBTQ Day (18 April) at the Regional Theater in Gilroy and Granada Theater in Hollister and a screening of the Iranian filmmaker at the Regional Theater in Gilroy (19 April).
Most thematic programs include short films and even videos, but there are also special shows. In Hollister on Saturday at 5pm, actor, director and screenwriter Iain Pulston-Davies takes a back seat to exposing Bolan's boots, a group of 1970s Liverpool friends and a deadly car crash. Stone emerged years after their idol Marc Bolan. Starring Leanne Best, Timothy Spall and Mark Lewis-Jones.
Other feature films worth watching include Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game , a drama based on the true story of journalist Roger Sharpe, who challenged the global community in the 1970s. New York banned pinball. Austin and Meredith Bragg wrote and directed the hit film starring Crystal Reed. He appeared at 11am on Sunday at the mission farm shed in San Juan Bautista.
Directed by Keith Bearden, Kimmy Murray and Chloe Levine star as best friends who become immersed in modern and surreal themes after attending a youth party in Keith Bearden's indie comedy Antarctica . It will be shown at the Granada Theater in Hollister on April 15 at 11:00.
The following titles are also different:
Bradley Berman's personal film, Jack's Got a Plan, which documents the preparation for the end of the life of the director's friend Berkeley, was intended as a tribute. (April 15, 1 p.m., Morgan Hill Community Theatre)
The documentary Roots of Fire by Abby Behrendt Lavoie and Jeremy Lavoie follows the efforts of five instrumentalists and others to preserve the endangered heritage of Cajun music. (April 15 at 8 p.m., Gilroy Theatre)
To see the full list and purchase tickets, visit https://pjiff.org/
For those who need some inspiration, at least in cinematic form, the 14 -year -long, 3-day Windrider Bay course works as a full ship. All three events will be held April 13-15 at the Menlo-Atherton Center for the Performing Arts.
The festival will start on April 13th at 19:00 with the screening of documentaries and rescue from the contradictions we face. The Hideout shows how people can change by telling the story of Chris Buckley, a war veteran who returns to hating Muslims and then undergoes a transformation when his wife gives him an ultimatum: leave the Ku Klux Klan or lose his family. He befriends a Muslim doctor and a refugee. (Buckley, his wife and family, and Arno Michaelis, a former white supremacist who helped him transition, appear in the Q&A.)
On April 14, at 7 p.m., high school students from the Academy of Youth Documentary Films in Colorado Springs will show their film. Filmmaker and Stanford graduate Tom Sheppard (The Boy Scout Hour, Unemployed: Seeking Refuge in America), who directed Mitch Davila-Armendon's Blind Summer Project, hosted a screening of Olive Van's Skinless Good Cause. ”, Living Africa by Rose NC and Under the Wire by Madison Legg.
On the evening of April 15 at 19.00, the final program will be dedicated to surfer , Olympic medalist, swimmer and Duke of Paawa Kahina Moka Hulikohola of Hawaii, born in Kahanamoku. He faced racism on track and was admired not only for being an outstanding athlete, but also for being a good person. Narrated by Jason Momoa of Aquaman. Questions will be answered by producers Chet Thomas and Steve Hawk, former editors of Surfer and Sierra Magazine.
For tickets and more information, visit https://wrba2023.eventive.org/schedule.
Meanwhile, the SFFILM festival kicked off Thursday at the Grand Lake Theater with Oakland-based documentary filmmaker Peter Nix and co-produced Ryan Coogler's Stephen Curry: Underrated to the East Bay. The Apple TV+/A24 episode follows the career of the Golden State Warriors superstar from his breakout play at North Carolina's Davidson College of Liberal Arts during the 2021-2022 season.
We'll be back next week for another movie. For schedules and tickets, visit https://sffilm.org/
For fans of nature documentaries and conservation films, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Wasserhelli's Oscar-winning Free Solo is a moving and inspiring wildlife film . About the adventures of conservationists Douglas and Chris Tompkins and their shared love of nature and their quest to create parks in and around Chile. Chinn discussed filming at the Bay Area Q&A at the Raphael Film Center on April 18 at 5 p.m. (with Tompkins) and at the Landmark Opera Plaza on April 19 at 7:30 p.m. Wild Life opens in select theaters April 19 and 21
For tickets and details, visit https://rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/wild-life/ or https://www.landmarktheatres.com/movies/290352-wild-life.
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