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Sophie Constantinou
Sophie Constantinou is an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. Constantinou co-founded Citizen Film, a San Francisco based documentary nonprofit. She has served on the board of the California Native Plant Society, Collective Eye Films, and San Francisco's Park and Recreation Open Space Advisory Committee. Career Constantinou co-founded Citizen Film in 2002 with Sam Ball and Kate Stilley Steiner. She is credited as a director and cinematographer on several films. She made ''Trans'' (1994), which premiered at Frameline Film Festival. She also directed and filmed ''Between the Lines'' (1998) and ''Divided Loyalties'' (2001). She directed photography for the PBS documentary ''Presumed Guilty'' (2000), The PBS/POV film '' Maquilapolis'' (2006), KQED’s Emmy-winning ''Home Front'', and HBO feature documentaries ''Unchained Memories'' (2003) and '' Regarding Susan Sontag'' (2014). Constantinou filmed ''The Joy of Life'' (2005) and was director of photography on '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citizen Film
Citizen Film is a not-for-profit, San Francisco-based documentary company founded in 2002 by Sam Ball (filmmaker), Sam Ball, Sophie Constantinou and Kate Stilley Steiner. Citizen Film specializes in producing media that “fosters active engagement in cultural and civic life." Documentaries They produce long-form documentary programs such a''Joann Sfar Draws from Memory''an''Green Streets'' (in progress) and they have produced more than 10short films In addition, they provide key production and/or post-production services for independent producers such as Nancy Kates (''Regarding Susan Sontag''); Vicki Abeles (''Race to Nowhere''); Tiffany Shlain (The Tribe (2005 film), ''The Tribe''); and Jenni Olson''575 Castro St.''. Citizen Film collaborated with Academy Awards, Academy Academy Awards, Award-winner Debra Chasnoff and her nonprofit production company Groundspark on several films. Citizen Film’s Kate Stilley Steiner produced and edited Groundspark’s ''That’s a Family (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. The festival was established in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival. The festival moved to nearby Park City, Utah, in 1981 and was renamed the US Film and Video Festival. It was renamed the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. From its inception through 2025, the festival took place every January in Utah. In March 2025, it was ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Film Directors
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Living People
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Fillmore District, San Francisco
The Fillmore District is a historical neighborhood in San Francisco located to the southwest of Nob Hill, west of Market Street and north of the Mission District.Oaks, Robert F. San Francisco's Fillmore District. lectronic resource n.p.: Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia, c2005., 2005.Ignacio: USF Libraries Catalog, EBSCOhost. The Fillmore District began to rise to prominence after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. As a result of not being affected by the earthquake itself nor the large fires that ensued, it quickly became one of the major commercial and cultural centers of the city. After the earthquake, the district experienced a large influx of diverse ethnic populations as other neighborhoods in San Francisco would not allow non-whites to move there. It began to house large numbers of African Americans, Japanese and Jews. Each group significantly contributed to the local culture and earned the Fillmore district a reputation for being "One of the most diverse neighborhoods in San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Human Rights Commission
The San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) is a charter commission of the City and County of San Francisco that works to increase equality, eradicate discrimination, and to protect human rights for all people. The HRC enforces City Ordinances and policies on nondiscrimination and promotes social and economic progress for all. History In 1963, the modern day civil rights movement manifested in San Francisco through demonstrations against hotels, supermarkets, drive-in restaurants, automobile showrooms and automobile repair shops which were discriminating against African Americans. In early 1964, Mayor John Shelley appointed an Interim Committee on Human Relations, which subsequently recommended to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors that a permanent Human Rights Commission be established. In July 1964, the Board of Supervisors passed the recommendation, and Mayor Shelley signed an ordinance establishing the Human Rights Commission. From 1964, the Human Rights Commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glide Memorial Church
Glide Memorial Church is a nondenominational church in San Francisco, California, which opened in 1930. Since the 1960s, it has served as a counter-culture rallying point, as one of the most prominently liberal churches in the United States. Located in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood, an area affected by drug addiction and homelessness, Glide is known for its social service programs, as well as the Glide Ensemble, its Gospel choir. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022. History In 1929, Methodist philanthropist Lizzie Glide purchased a parcel of land at the intersection of Ellis and Taylor Streets in San Francisco and founded the Glide Foundation as a memorial to her millionaire cattleman husband, H.L. Glide of Sacramento. Construction of Glide Memorial Methodist Church was completed two years later. Glide purchased the Hotel Californian two blocks away and it was operated as a temperance hotel for decades. The foundation also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen De Michiel
Helen De Michiel (born November 28, 1953) is an American director, producer, media arts advocate, strategist and author whose work includes film, television, multimedia installation and digital transmedia. Biography As a producer, director and writer, her work includes the dramatic feature film ''Tarantella'' (1995, starring Mira Sorvino) that toured festivals worldwide and was broadcast nationally on the public television series Independent Lens in 1997. Her documentary: ''Turn Here Sweet Corn'' (1990) was broadcast on the PBS series ''POV'' in 1993 and continues to be in educational distribution for environmental organizers. As artist-in-residence, she has created participatory media installations, including ''The Listening Project'' (1994) for the Walker Art Center and ''Paying Attention'' (2003) for the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Her documentary, ''The Gender Chip Project'' (2006) was created in an innovative participatory process with a cohort of young women studying sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joann Sfar
Joann Sfar (; born 28 August 1971) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, novelist, and film director. Life and career Sfar was born in Nice, the son of Lilou, a pop singer, who died when he was three, and André Sfar, a lawyer well known for prosecuting Neo-Nazis. As a result of his mother's early death, Sfar was raised by his father and maternal grandfather, a military doctor of Ukrainian origin in the Alsace-Lorraine Independent Brigade (France) during World War II. Sfar's grandfather reportedly saved the right hand of the brigade's leader, novelist André Malraux, for which he was awarded French citizenship. Sfar is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics, though he has rejected the assertion that he, along with artists such as Christophe Blain, Marjane Satrapi, and Lewis Trondheim, sought to create an alternative scene or a new movement in comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Foundation
San Francisco Foundation is a San Francisco Bay Area philanthropy Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ... organization. It is one of the largest community foundations in the United States. Its mission is to mobilize community leaders, nonprofits, government agencies, and donors to advance racial equity, diversity, and economic inclusion. It focuses on social justice, community building, access to affordable housing, political action, policy change, workers' rights, employment opportunity, and civic leadership. Its current CEO is Fred Blackwell Jr. History On January 16, 1948, the San Francisco Foundation officially launched with a luncheon at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel just off of San Francisco's Union Square. The foundation was created by Marjorie de Young Elkus of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenni Olson
Jenni Olson (born October 6, 1962) is a writer, archivist, historian, consultant, and non-fiction filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. She co-founded the pioneering LGBT website PlanetOut.com. Her two feature-length essay films — ''The Joy of Life (2005)'' and ''The Royal Road (2015)'' — premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Her work as an experimental filmmaker and her expansive personal collection of LGBTQ film prints and memorabilia were acquired in April 2020 by the Harvard Film Archive, and her reflection on the last 30 years of LGBT film history was published as a chapter in ''The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema'' from Oxford University Press in 2021. In 2020, she was named to the Out Magazine Out 100 list. In 2021, she was recognized with the prestigious Special TEDDY Award at the Berlin Film Festival. She also campaigned to have a barrier erected on the Golden Gate Bridge to prevent suicides. Biography Olson was born and raised in Falcon Heights, Minnesota and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Royal Road
''The Royal Road'' is a 2015 documentary film directed by Jenni Olson. The film premiered in the New Frontier section of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. In the film's voiceover, Olson reflects on her butch identity and experiences of unrequited love. The film went on to earn the award for Best LGBTQ Film at the 2015 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Consisting entirely of 16mm urban landscape shots and a lyrical stream of consciousness voiceover, the film touches on a wide range of topics from reflections on classic Hollywood film to the history of the Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War. A voice-over cameo appearance by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner serves as the centerpiece for the film's focal point segment entitled, "In Defense of Nostalgia." Jenni Olsen states that "In the same way that outdoorsy people experience feelings of calm and wholeness from spending time in nature, there are also those of us who discover a profound serenity in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
