Various locations
This event has passed.
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Still from Shoot the Messenger
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June 4, 2008 – June 15, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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Various prices
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The San Francisco Black Film Festival premiered in 1998 as a one-day event. Ten years make quite a difference: this year's festival stretches over ten days, and is flush with local premieres, tributes, and awards. Highlights include documentaries about Stanley Tookie Williams and revolutionary defense attorney Charles Garry, as well as features from South Africa, Mali, and England. The festival also lassos a retrospective of films by St. Clair Bourne, a notable African-American documentary filmmaker who passed away last year. Bourne was best known for his intimate portraits of cultural icons (Paul Robeson, Amiri Baraka, Langston Hughes) and his riveting behind-the-scenes look at Spike Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing.
