Thursday, October 23, 2008: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Networking Happy Hour for the Filmmakers, Artists and Musicians at Madrone Lounge

San Francisco Women's Film Festival (SFWFF) invites you to join us at our networking happy hour event @ Madrone Lounge. This is a celebratory evening designed to bring together movers and shakers in the Bay Area art community. Network and socialize to gain valuable personal, professional and creative connections with a group consisting of business professionals, writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians, and media makers in film and TV, as well as online and print. Make a new friend, share resources, find a mentor or collaborate on a project.

Invite all of your friends and colleagues but please RSVP to let us know that you will be joining us.
Event is free and open to everyone. No host bar (21 + w/ valid ID).
To RSVP email: events@sfwff.com

Event Location:
Madrone Lounge
500 Divisadero St.
San Francisco (at the corner of Fell)

madronelounge.com


Saturday, October 11, 2008: 11:00 AM

Environmental Public Service Announcement featuring Eco Super Heroes ‘Lady Recycla and Captain Compost’ screens at Mill Valley Film Festival!

Willa Chiah Ingram Connolly participated in a free filmmaking workshop and mentoring program provided by the Women’s Film Institute/Youth Media Arts Project. A program that fosters the next generation of film directors for women ages 14-19. The theme of the media projects focused on everyday solutions to engage the public to improve the quality of life by reducing the inefficient use of the earth’s natural resources. Willa created two filmic Eco-Super Heroes, Lady Recycla and Captain Compost, and they are making their way to the Mill Valley Film Festival to inspire film-goers to reduce, reuse and recycle. From the more than 100 entries by young filmmakers worldwide, her film will screen as part of Lessons in Lice, Language and Lipstick program on October 11, 2008 at 11:00 am, for more information and to purchase tickets visit: www.mvff.com


September 27, 2008: 11 AM – 6 PM

Join WFI/SFWFF at the Ninth Annual Expo for Independent Arts - FREE!

The Expo is an all-day extravaganza featuring more than 100 Bay Area arts organizations, free workshops, performances, and hundreds of local artists and musicians. Attendees can browse tables staffed by local galleries, nonprofits, collectives and small businesses; present their portfolios; and join in workshops on grant proposals, censorship, arts marketing, underground art history, making a demo tape and more.
www.artsandmedia.net/expo/


Thursday, August 21, 2008: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Networking Happy Hour for the Filmmakers, Artists and Musicians at Madrone Lounge

San Francisco Women's Film Festival (SFWFF) invites you to join us at our networking happy hour event @ Madrone Lounge. This is a celebratory evening designed to bring together movers and shakers in the Bay Area art community. Network and socialize to gain valuable personal, professional and creative connections with a group consisting of business professionals, writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians, and media makers in film and TV, as well as online and print. Make a new friend, share resources, find a mentor or collaborate on a project.

Invite all of your friends and colleagues but please RSVP to let us know that you will be joining us. Event
is free and open to everyone. No host bar (21 + w/ valid ID). To RSVP email: events@sfwff.com


Saturday, June 28, 2008: 1:30 PM

San Francisco Women's Film Festival is proud to co-present a film screening of SONJA at Frameline32, the 32nd San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, held on June 19-29, 2008:

SONJA directed by Kirsi Marie Liimatainen
Saturday, June 28, at 1:30 pm at Victoria Theatre

Stranded somewhere between childhood and adulthood, 16-year-old Sonja is frustrated with her parents, alienated from her peers and bored with her boyfriend Anton. In stark contrast to the awkward
interactions with Anton are the blissful moments spent with her best friend Julia. What begins as
girlish, playful affection between them soon gives way to gentle caresses and tender moments.

As Sonja cautiously reveals her growing feelings to Julia, she confides her unrestrained emotions to her
diary, which is discovered by her disapproving mother. During a trip to her father's seaside summer home, Sonja, caving to pressure from her peers and her parents, confronts her burgeoning sexuality in an uncomfortable encounter with an older man. Upon returning home -and to Julia- she emerges as a young woman with a clearer sense of her own identity, but now that she's honest with herself, can she be honest with Julia?

This poignant exploration of teenage sexuality, unrequited love and identity is based on
writer-director Kirsi Marie Liimatainen's own adolescence growing up in Finland. With warmth and
sincerity, her feature-length debut is refreshingly devoid of the overwrought angst of many coming-of-age
stories and leaves us surprisingly nostalgic for that awkward innocence of adolescence, the thrill of
falling in love for the first time and even the twinge of heartache - reminding us that, somehow, we
survived.

For more information visit:
www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?FID=42&id=1452



Saturday, June 14, 2008: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

San Francisco Women's Film Festival is proud to co-present the International Museum of Women Film Festival:

The International Museum of Women hosts its Women Wielding Cameras Film Festival on Saturday, June 14 from 11am-5pm at the San Francisco Public Library's Koret Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

View four incredible films: Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, God Sleeps in Rwanda, Dishing Democracy, and Run Granny Run and talk with the women filmmakers who made them.

For more information visit:
www.imow.org/calendar/viewEvent?eventId=38



Wednesday, May 28, 2008: 7:00

San Francisco Women's Film Film is proud to co-present a film screening with the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival:

ARRANGED
By STEFAN SCHAEFER & DIANE CRESPO
United States, 2007, 89 Min
Wednesday, May 28, 7:30 pm @Yerba Buena Center for The Arts Two young women-- Rochel, an Orthodox Jew and Nasira, a Muslim-- meet and become friends during their first year teaching at a public school in Brooklyn. This excellent drama chronicles a friendship that crosses cultures and reveals that the two women share much in common-not least of which is the fact that they are both going through arranged marriages. "A pure pleasure to watch ... splendidly natural performances." - Ronnie Scheib, Variety

Ticket Prices
$8 general/$6 Jewish Film Forum and YBCA members, students, seniors
Seating is limited - Advance purchase recommended

For tickets, visit ybca.org or call: 415.978.ARTS (2787)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street (corner of 3rd)
San Francisco, CA 94103


Thursday, May 22, 2008: 6:30 – 8:30

Networking Happy Hour for the Filmmakers, Artists and Musicians at Madrone Lounge

San Francisco Women's Film Festival (SFWFF) invites you to join us at our networking happy hour event @ Madrone Lounge. This is a celebratory evening designed to bring together movers and shakers in the Bay Area art community. Network and socialize to gain valuable personal, professional and creative connections with a group consisting of business professionals, writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians, and media makers in film and TV, as well as online and print. Make a new friend, share resources, find a mentor or collaborate on a project.

Invite all of your friends and colleagues but please RSVP to let us know that you will be joining us. Event
is free and open to everyone. No host bar (21 + w/ valid ID). To RSVP email: events@sfwff.com