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16th Annual
Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema presents:

FRISCO DISCO - 6pm
&
OH YEAH, TAKE THAT! - 10:30pm

at the Roxie Cinema
16th near Valencia
Friday, November 3rd, 6pm and 10:30pm

$7 general / $6 FAF members
for more information and advance tickets call:
(415) 552-FILM or go to www.filmarts.org

Yes folks this Fall the VAN meets the FAF. VAN works will be featured this night at the Roxie.

"FRISCO DISCO: A fresh mix of films about the city we love" ... If you are a San Franciscan, particularly one from the Mission District, you will see many familiar scenes in tonight's Frisco Disco. You will see the shiny new lofts (low-density housing, if they will ever be housing at all) popping up. You will see the creative resistance movement that has emerged to resist the displacement of the city's locals. This and much more will dazzle your senses with a view of Frisco from a wide variety of talent. And later ...

"OH YEAH, TAKE THAT! ... Co-presented with Whispered Media
This program is a sit-in of delectable docs and satires, throwing proverbial (and literal) pies in the faces of some of our most popular and corrupt notions."
This night Sam Green's and Christian Bruno's work, Pie Fight '69 will be served up with Whispered Media's, The Pie's the Limit ... And these famous pie film archivists will be joined by others ... simply delicious.

For more information about what else is screening this night, or any of the other nights of the FAF festival (Nov. 1 - Nov. 5) ... check out their site ...

for more on Housing, Displacement and Organizing, check out the ... Gentrification Report

for more on PIE-litical limelighting check out the ... Pie Page


Other Upcoming Film and Video Events listed:

  • Laughing Squid