Part way through the powerful documentary “The First Wave,” film subject Dr. Nathalie Douge confesses to the camera that she doesn’t feel like a hero.  Modesty does not impel the internist to make this statement.  What actually motivates her comment
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In recent years, Danny Glover has used his formidable acting chops and Hollywood connections to boost a series of independent films that might otherwise have struggled to find an audience. San Francisco’s most beloved home-grown movie star and political activist
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Jessica Kingdon’s Tribeca Film Festival award-winning documentary, “Ascension” takes its title from a 1912 poem of the same name written by Zheng Ze.  The relevant verse that Kingdon quotes from her grandfather’s poem at the beginning of her film goes
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One of the annual highlights of SFFILM’s DocStories Festival (running November 4-7, 2021 at the Castro and Vogue Theaters) is the New York Times Op-Docs shorts program.  Several of the selections tie personal tales to larger socio-political issues. Dara Kell
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Directors Sarah Kunstler and Emily Kunstler’s new documentary “Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism In America” shows why the GOP should be stopped from promoting educational cover-ups of America’s shameful racist history.  ACLU attorney Jeffery Robinson’s titular Juneteenth 2018
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“The Rock” isn’t as unlikely a setting for art as it might initially seem. The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei exhibited his work there in 2014 and 2015. Now, in the New Industries Building, where Weiwei’s large-scale sculpture, sound, and mixed-media
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Viewers who need a quick illustration of the cultural divide between Black America and White America can turn to the protest that’s captured in the opening minutes of Ashley O’Shay’s award-winning documentary “Unapologetic.”  The events of the brunch protest at
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I walked out of church one Sunday afternoon and saw something which would change the course of my entire life.  Underneath a black rubber coroner’s tarp lay the form of a man, the toes of his nubuck blue Timberland boots
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