San Francisco Film Society Fall Season - Cinema by the Bay

November 5–8, 2010
Roxie Theater, The Lab & Southern Exposure

The San Francisco Film Society's Cinema by the Bay festival celebrates the passion, innovation and diversity of Bay Area filmmaking, featuring new work produced in or about the San Francisco Bay Area that demonstrates the incredible depth and breadth of America’s film and media frontier.

The 2010 edition of Cinema by the Bay opens with Chris Brown’s darkly comic feature Fanny, Annie & Danny and presents dynamic films from leading Bay Area filmmakers throughout the weekend, including Jennifer Gilomen and Sally Rubin's Deep Down, a complex documentary that contrasts the devastating result of rampant energy consumption with the remote and picturesque backdrop of Appalachia. SF360 Presents Essential SF concludes the festival in celebration of Bay Area veteran visionaries and the launch of the newly designed SF360.org.

For tickets and full program information, visit sffs.org.

New Exhibtions Opening Reception: Mapping Memory and Doug Burgess

Wednesday, November 10
5:00PM to 7:00PM
Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco

In Mapping Memory artist Gurpran Rau mixes maps with layers of paint, de-emphasizing boundaries and their political meanings. Rau's paintings suggest that home is just a state of mind and that we all spring from the same source. In the Seed Gallery, photographer Doug Burgess displays his detailed images of Bay Area invasive plants. He combines his images with narratives, challenging our understanding of weeds and our complicity in their proliferation.