In “Warm Blood,” director Rick Charnoski takes viewers to the 1980s, in the hard-edged section of Modesto where a runaway named Red searches for her father.
The fest’s centerpiece selection “Warm Blood” is reminiscent of indie filmmaker Sean Baker’s gritty portraits of forgotten America, à la “Red Rocket” and “The Florida Project,” in which low-income people are barely clinging on. Filled with revealing interviews, it shows the connections between punk rockers and animal rights. “Punk Rock Vegan Movie,” fresh from its Slamdance festival premiere, is the directorial debut of the musician Moby. Eng and his buddy-sidekick Justin Morrice reveal the crazy truth about being a teen. (Photo courtesy of SF IndieFest)įor a fun time, check out director Ethan Eng’s “Therapy Dogs,” a rogue high school picture shot guerilla style and under the guise that a yearbook video was getting made. The rousing “Therapy Dogs” is the festival’s closing-night feature.
Put on your best leather or pleather for the opening night after-party at Cat Club, 1190 Folsom St. About an unexpected connection that gets made at a BDSM (bondage, submission and sadomasochism) club, it was filmed in San Francisco, Oakland and Pleasanton. If you need something with some kink, check out writer-director Charles Lyons’ San Francisco-set “Rough Edges” at 8:45 p.m. It whisks viewer back to the twisted group’s Seattle roots, shows how it became a phenomenon and took the world by surprise and (and sometimes outrage) while there was more drama behind the scenes. Thursday with the documentary “Circus of Scars: The Insider Odyssey of the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow” from San Francisco director Chicory Wees. 9.Ī killer double bill kicks off the silver anniversary program at 6:30 p.m. All in-person screenings take place at the Roxie in San Francisco from Feb. 14) and a screenwriting reception and panel at 518 Valencia (1 p.m. The complete lineup, which includes non-film events such as the popular “Anti-Valentine’s Day” get-together (9 p.m. You can attend in person for $15 per screening or watch at home for $10. 2-14, the fest again doesn’t disappoint in that department, with its wild bunch of 35 indie features and 62 shorts, 34 of which have ties to the Bay Area. In its 25th year and running in person and online Feb. You can always count on the San Francisco Independent Film Festival to whip up a diverse platter of quirky shorts and features that steer far from the mainstream.
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