Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Fest | Top of the Hill Screening

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Enjoy film and the stunning view from the top of the Hill in Bernal Heights Park. The gates will be open to pedestrians, joggers and our impromptu audience as Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema returns to set up on the northwest corner of Bernal Hill where Folsom Street meets Bernal Heights Boulevard. The “die hards” know to bring blankets, cushions, and low-backed lawn chairs to a have a comfortable view of the screen and city lights.

Outdoor Cinema Top of the Hill
Saturday, September 4, 6:30-9:30pm
Bernal Heights Park
Folsom Street at Bernal Boulevard

MUSIC:
Mister Odom and the Odom Poles — 6:30–7:30pm

SCREENINGS — 7:30pm

GET UP Judith Keenan TRT 2:05
Shot on the staircase in the Health Center at City College of SF.

INVISIBLE BAYCAT TRT 3:50
This music video is a segment of a larger film project still in production. A plea from the youth featured in the piece to look beyond the surface and really “see” them, their struggles, hopes and dreams.

THE LEGEND OF TOILET-SEAT CHARLIE Jeremy Kaller TRT 12:00
Meet Charlie Deal, Mill Valley, California’s unofficial mayor, folk icon, and inventor of the toilet seat guitar. Charlie stated that he was “sitting on a good idea” in 1965, when he envisioned the unique instrument. This short documentary explores Charlie’s rock ‘n’ roll dream and the community that cherished him.

THE OAK PARK STORY Valerie Soe TRT 22:00
This documentary follows three very different families who find themselves together in a run-down housing complex in Oakland, CA. When the city condemns the building because of landlord negligence, the families form a multiethnic alliance to fight for their housing rights and preserve their community.

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LATINAS MUNDIAL BY TRUCHO Jose Garrotte TRT 3:27
Trucho celebrates his love of the Latinas of the world through song.

SIN PAIS (Without Country) Theo Rigby TRT 19:35
One family’s complex and emotional journey involving deportation. In 1992, Sam and Elida Mejia left Guatemala during a violent civil war and brought their one-year old son, Gilbert, to California. Two years ago, immigration agents stormed the Mejia’s house looking for someone who didn’t live there. Sam, Elida, and son Gilbert were all undocumented and became deeply entangled in the U.S. immigration system. With intimate access and striking imagery, Sin País explores the complexities of the Mejia’s new reality of a separated family–parents without their children, and children without their parents.

THROUGH THE NEGEV Ya-Hsuan Huang TRT 18:00
Stories from Sudanese women refugees who found temporary oasis at an Israeli women’s shelter. Told through first-person narratives from women and children, this short documentary gives voice to the refugees’ struggle for home and safety. Caught in complicated geographic, religious and political webs, the simplicity of their message becomes even more powerful: all they want is a place to call home.

BLACK ROCK (trailer) Kevin Epps TRT 15:00
An accounting of the black experience at Alcatraz Prison as told thru the eyes of Ellsworth “Bumpy Johnson, infamous Harlem gangster, Robert Lipscomb, counterfeiter turned prison activist, and William “Ty” Martin, the only black inmate to participate in a planned escape from Alcatraz. Some people believe that all criminals are treated equally, and many are deceived by the notion that all individuals receive equal treatment under the law.

About Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema: The 2010 season kicks off on September 2, Opening Night. Four more evenings of screenings, music and more follow on September 3 with a Film Crawl on Cortland Avenue, September 4, a Hilltop Screening on Bernal Heights Park and September 5, Closing Night at Precita Park. Then October 4 sees us back for a Season Finale at El Rio (must be 21 years of age).

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.