2015 “Best of Bernal” Film Night, Reception & Music | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema | 2019

The annual Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema is a showcase of short films, a film crawl, live music and awards. It’s your chance to check out the work of local filmmakers and musicians in parks, playgrounds and smaller venues around Bernal Heights, San Francisco.

16th Annual Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema
September 6, 7 and 14, 2019
All around Bernal Heights, SF
FREE, but donations are gratefully accepted at the door at each event

• Friday, 9/6: 7 pm to 10 pm – “Film Crawl on Cortland” 2019 Six simultaneous screenings — six different venues Bonview to Anderson. The local branch library, the neighborhood community center, a café, an art gallery, an outdoor restaurant courtyard and a photographer’s studio.
• Saturday, 9/7: 6 pm to 9:30 pm -Under The Stars At Precita Park Filmmaker Reception, music and films Precita Park, Folsom Street and Precita Avenue
• Saturday, 9/14: 3 pm to 6 pm – Sweet 16 Party & Retrospective Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts 2868 Mission Street

Selection of “Best” films of last 5 years + Reprise of 2019 award-winning films, followed by reception and music.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015
"Best of Bernal" | Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema | 2019

Come to the encore screening of the 2015 award-winning films, the Best of Bernal, Spirit of Bernal and Audience Award, followed by reception and music.

Entry is free, but a suggested donation of $10 at the door is gratefully accepted.

2015 Schedule

• 7 pm: Films and Q&A with directors
• 8:30 pm: Reception
  Enjoy music by 6Roses as you mingle with filmmakers and film lovers in the upstairs Gallery. 6Roses — Michael Cavaseno (guitar, electronics) and David Boyce (tenor/soprano sax, electronics) play jazz, blues, tangos, son cubanos, RnB/Soul ballads, experimental audio horizons and pop songs with a conception that is firmly rooted in the past but exists in the now, looking forward to the future.

2015 Films

• Best of Bernal Award – All Things Considered by Amir Jaffer 12 mins
  The artistic journey of photographer extraordinaire Philip Rossetti is documented in this beautiful film that exemplifies Rossetti’s mantra, “art is where one finds it.” All Things Considered offers a slice of Rossetti’s talent, his humor and his passion as he stalks the grungy back alleys and wrong sides of the track to find striking images of things abandoned and decayed. Rossetti lingers in the back corners of trashy dollar stores and dingy Chinese markets to capture consumerist scenes abounding with cheap plastics and stinking fish — diurnal images made stunning through his lens.
• Spirit of Bernal Award – Touching the Untouchable by Chihiro Wimbush and Meena Srinivasan 8 mins
  Touching the Untouchable is the story of the empowerment of a Dalit, Untouchable, community in Tamil Nadu, India. Long shunned inside India’s rigid caste system and denied basic human rights and amenities, the new generation of Dalits are taking matters in their own hands and creating a community where clean water, food, education, sanitation and health are accessible to all. Their leader, Dalit activist Gauthama Prabhu, reaches out to a kindred soul: Venerable Pannavati, an African-American Buddhist who understands the plight of the disenfranchised. Together, they work to empower and uplift the Untouchables.
• Good Life Audience Award – I Hate The Color Red by Jazmin Jamias 19 mins
  A comedy about a sister and a brother who having inherited a video store from their parents, struggle to keep it a viable business. However thanks to “red boxes” and “red envelopes,” they realize that their store will soon become obsolete. How they reconcile themselves to this realization, or don’t, will leave you chuckling and charmed.

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