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G. Allen Johnson April 2, 2021 John Boyega stars in “Naked Singularity,” which will make its world premiere as the opening night film of the 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival on April 9. Photo: SFFilm Programming a film festival in 2021 has an inherent difficulty: Because of the coronavirus pandemic, filmmakers toiling away in 2020 were challenged like never before. Worries about budget and resources are a constant in independent filmmaking; adding COVID-19 protocols to the mix affected everything from where to film to whom you hire for your crew and whom you cast. So it’s quite the first San Francisco International Film Festival for programmer Jessie Fairbanks, who took over for longtime programmer Rachel Rosen this year. To her surprise, she found the quality of work she had to choose from to be inspiring. ....
Adrian Spinelli March 14, 2021Updated: March 15, 2021, 10:50 pm Fantastic Negrito talks with friends and family after learning of his Grammy win during a watch party for the 63rd Grammy Awards outside Store Front Records in Oakland. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle On the corner of 32nd Street and San Pablo Avenue in West Oakland, a small homeless encampment stretches along the edge of a parking lot of a building that used to be a seedy liquor store in the neighborhood where blues musician Xavier Dphrepaulezz, best known as Fantastic Negrito, grew up. Today, that building now houses a recording studio and Dphrepaulezz’s new label, Storefront Records. And by noon Sunday, March 14, the parking lot was staged for a community-driven event with about 75 of the artist’s friends, family and industry colleagues plus Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf watching the 63rd Grammy Awards telecast with bated breath as the album, “Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? ....