SF Urban Film Fest 2021

Festival

SF Urban Film Fest 2021

SF Urban Film Fest |

February 14–21, 2021

YBCA artists-in-residence SF Urban Film Fest launch their seventh annual and first ever virtual film festival on February 14-21, 2021. This year’s festival, Wisdom Lives In Places, explores enduring injustices and environmental destruction alongside the resilience of neighborhoods and the communities that fill them. Featuring films and panel discussions around civic engagement with urban issues, SFUFF’s 2021 festival dives deeply into narratives of ruin, resistance, and renewal.

In addition to SFUFF’s digital programming, YBCA and SFUFF have teamed up to present MOURNING IS AN ACT OF LOVE, an in-person experience of the 2021 film festival to the public face of YBCA’s buildings through photography, video, glass painting, poetry, and large-scale projections. The artists selected for this physical installation engage with non-traditional forms of documentary by exploring space, performance, and participatory practice to tell stories.

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Schedule

Love is The Antidote: 36 QUESTIONS FOR CIVIC LOVE

February 14, 2021, 5 PM

Featuring San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and multimedia journalist Yesica Prado.

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A Pandemic of Opportunity: What & How to Change the Public Realm

February 18, 2021, 12 PM

Do empty streets mean the city is empty? Silent storefronts, office buildings, public space, and transit — bellweathers for the profound effect that COVID-19 does and will have on the public realm and a healthy civic life.

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Exploring the Urban American Indian Experience in Yelamu

February 18, 2021, 5:30 PM

The film screening and panel discussion will be focused on the San Francisco urban American Indian community.

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Let’s Make Civic Love

February 19, 2021, 4:30 PM

Join us virtually for this interactive event! Participants will be paired with a stranger to ask and answer as many questions as possible in the allotted time on the theme of Civic Love. Learn and get to talk with a stranger- the cornerstone of democracy.

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How We Mourn, Where We Remember

February 20, 2021, 4:30 PM

This program seeks to examine the questions of the purpose of monuments, memorials, and sites of gathering in our cities.

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About SF Urban Film Fest

The SF Urban Film Fest gathers a diverse, engaged audience and uses the power of storytelling to spark discussion and civic engagement around urban issues. Now more than ever we need to come together to create just and equitable cities.

We are an interdisciplinary storytelling organization that produces an annual film festival, year-round film-based discussion events, and long-term community storytelling projects.

Wisdom Lives in Places

The SF Urban Film Fest is proud to announce its lineup of films, panels, workshops and special events for the 7th Annual SF Urban Film Fest, Wisdom Lives in Places, taking place February 14-21, 2021. Amidst our new reality, the need to address our most pressing urban issues is more necessary than ever before. This year our programming suggests the way forward is to honor the wisdom that’s been here, long before 2020, from folks who have been resilient in the face of adversity, showing us how not only to survive but to thrive.

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