With the release of The Hateful Eight we presented a selection of short Westerns. The response was terrific, and we return with The Bride, The Son, The Daughter and/or The Revenge of Goes West to entertain you. There are comedies and animated selections. Continue reading
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Eat My Shorts – HOUDINI
Sinatra Special: Eat, Drink, Singing, Acting

This week enjoy some pasta and have a Jack Daniels with Francis Albert Sinatra, and watch his Academy-Award-winning short film The House I Live In in celebration of his 100th birthday and this weekend’s Ring-a-Ding-Ding: The Movies of Frank Sinatra at San Francisco’s Vogue Theater.
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Eat My Shorts: Frozen Film Festival
What do musicians, artists, surfers, animators, local documentary filmmakers and Bay Area film lovers all have in common? They are all subjects of the 9th annual SF Frozen Film Festival in the Mission. Continue reading
Eat My Shorts: A LOVE SUPREME
A Love Supreme illustrates the various stages, or rituals, involved in making a samosa, the popular Indian deep-fried pastry stuffed with potatoes, peas and spices. Continue reading
Food for Thought at the San Francisco Green Film Festival
Kermit the Frog sang that “It’s not easy being green.” But it is getting easier, as more people become aware of the small things they can do to make the world a healthier place for all of us. Continue reading
Excavating the Internet: Three Shorts & Three Directors Talk Shop
by Janne Barklis
It should be no accident that the term “internet” begins with the letter “I” as this first-person singular pronoun encapsulates the independence and the capacity for self-impelled action that the Internet has enabled users since its birth. In simpler terms, the Internet offers singular voices around the world a direct link to potentially boundless sets of ears and eyes, the Web Hosting Hub of the world is the proverbial I.
Frameline: Spotlight on LGBT Films in Today’s Russia
by Tien-Tien L. Jong
“Hopelessness is being gay in Russia,” so says the protagonist of Stand , one of the films programmed as part of the Spotlight on LGBT Films in Today’s Russia at this year’s Frameline film festival (now playing through Sunday, June 29). Here’s a quick guide to the Spotlight line-up, including 2 films coming up this weekend.
Editor’s Pick: Oddball Film + Video
by Michael Guillén
With San Francisco’s neighborhood theaters biting the dust like Amerindian buffalo, it’s gratifying to know there are still alternate screening venues like Oddball Film + Video, a stock footage company based in San Francisco whose main business is licensing unusual stock footage to producers of feature films, documentaries, commercials, broadcast television, music videos, as well as web and new media productions. Continue reading
May 7: Lunch Love Community at the Brower Center
Lunch Love Community is an online documentary project offering shareable films, community engagement, and creative resources to inspire change in the way kids eat. This evening will include documentary shorts and lively discussion among filmmakers, educators, and food specialists about Berkeley’s role in food reform and food justice movements in area schools and neighborhoods. Continue reading
Film: CAFÉ REGULAR, CAIRO by Ritesh Batra
Ritesh Batra’s award-winning Arabic language short film CAFÉ REGULAR, CAIRO has screened at over 40 international film festivals and won 12 awards, including the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the International Film Festival of Oberhausen and Special Mentions at the Tribeca International Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival. Continue reading
