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SF Urban Film Fest - Rituals of the City at The Roxie in San Francisco - March 6, 2023
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SF Urban Film Fest at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco - March 12, 2022
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Alice Street, a film by Spencer Wilkinson, is the story of the people who created a mural at 14th and Alice in downtown Oakland. The effort brought together the Asian and African communities of Oakland to celebrate their cultures and beautify a wall that, for decades, was covered in a hodgepodge of graffiti.
The director used the fight to paint the mural–and to save it from the wrecking ball–as a metaphor to explore the history of Oakland’s Asian and African communities, now threatened with displacement as the city builds more and more high rises. The filmmaker shows how this mural was key to political negotiations that resulted in a “Community Benefits Agreements” with condo developers and the city that helped save Oakland’
The SF Urban Film Fest is proud to announce its lineup for the 7th Annual SF Urban Film Fest, Wisdom Lives in Places, taking place February 14-21, 2021. Amidst our new reality, the need to address our most pressing urban issues is more necessary than ever before. This year our programming suggests the way forward is to honor the wisdom that s been here, long before 2020, from folks who have been resilient in the face of adversity, showing us how not only to survive but to thrive. SF Urban Film Fest has always been a space to uplift the diverse voices of the city, says Fay Darmawi, Founder and Executive Director of the SF Urban Film Fest. In pursuing our mission in the new world presented by COVID-19, we are finding ways to keep the civic spark alive by meeting community members where they re at. We re asking our audience members this year: What can you find that s always been there in yourself? How can you use it in a new way to be part of and make a more vibrant, equitable comm