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Listen: Oakland music scene heavyweights Zion I and Fantastic Negrito team up


Adrian Spinelli April 29, 2021Updated: April 29, 2021, 6:51 pm
Oakland musician Fantastic Negrito and his band pose before performing the score during the screening of “Lost Landscapes: Oakland” at Fort Mason Flix during the 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival. Photo: Pamela Gentile / SFFilm
This week’s Chronicle’s guide covers new music by notable Bay Area artists. 
Zion I and Fantastic Negrito, “Try & Try” (Mind Over Matter)
Two pillars of the Oakland music scene have teamed up for this latest release amid the pandemic. As he has done for decades, Zion I’s Baba Zumbi opens with a dizzying, socially conscious flow, spitting, “Not concerned with celebrity/ I’d rather have liberty and justice in the city/ it’s a pity, they don’t trust us.” Three-time Grammy winner Fantastic Negrito adds a funky blues hook that highlights their take on community when we need it most. ....

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SFFilm might keep drive-in and online events even after it returns to theaters


G. Allen Johnson April 23, 2021Updated: April 23, 2021, 11:25 am
SFFilm Executive Director Anne Lai (left) and Director of Programming Jessie Fairbanks at Fort Mason Flix, where the festival could continue drive-in screenings. Photo: Pamela Gentile, SFFilm
Organizers of the San Francisco International Film Festival are excited at the prospect of being able to once again pack the Castro Theatre and other local venues for its 2022 festival. But after this month’s successful online and drive-in events, they realize that what started as a pandemic stopgap might become a permanent feature of SFFilm.
“We are going to continue to look at how we can enhance that model of a hybrid of both being virtual and being in person,” said Jessie Fairbanks, SFFilm’s new director of programming. “My dream is that we are able to offer virtual presentations. It allows for greater accessibility and inclusivity at the festival. ....

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SFFilm executive director Anne Lai on Sundance 2021 and the immediate future of film festivals


G. Allen Johnson January 27, 2021Updated: January 28, 2021, 6:21 pm
Anne Lai, a former Sundance Institute executive, became the executive director of SFFilm on March 11. Photo: Pamela Gentile, SFFilm
Last year, Anne Lai left Utah’s Sundance Institute and moved to the Bay Area to lead SFFilm. She never dreamed that when the Sundance Film Festival returned on Thursday, Jan. 28, it would be screening films near her new home in San Mateo and not in its base in Park City, Utah.
That’s because the first major film festival of 2021 is mostly virtual, with select in-person events happening around the country, including drive-in screenings at Fort Mason Flix on the San Francisco waterfront. ....

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