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The Greenwich International Film Festival has announced the 2nd annual Changemaker Honorees, honoring artists who use their public platform and film to work for positive social change. An awards dinner and gala is scheduled for Friday, June 10 at Richard's in downtown Greenwich. Trudie Styler will receive the…

Spring is coming and the race is set for the Golden Gate Awards at the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival this year. Nine films will vie for the GGA Directors Prize for narrative feature: Iris Elezi's Bota, Juan Francisco Olea's El Cordero, Chaitanya Tamhane's Court, Jamshid Mahmoudi's A Few Cubic Meters Of…

Here is the full transcript of director Steven Soderbergh‘s keynote at the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival delivered Saturday. At first he requested the festival ensure no still photographs, audio, or video of his talk at the Kabuki Theater. But instead it was tweeted, blogged, recorded, and put online…

This week the big April film festivals are tripping all over each other churning out announcements of film premieres, starry panels, schedules, events and so much more. Directly competing for attention — and against each other — on opposite coasts are, of course, the ever-growing Tribeca Film Festival in New York and…

With the San Francisco International Film Festival little more than two months away, the organization that runs it has appointed an interim director following the untimely death of Bingham Ray. Longtime San Francisco Film Society board member Melanie Blum is taking over as interim executive director pending a search…