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SFUFF 2018: The City That Holds Us
SFUFF 2018 Program Guide
SFUFF 2018 Program Guide
The City That Holds Us
Omeed Manocheri
Dec 29, 2018
Coming Up: Youth Empowerment
Coming Up: Youth Empowerment
It’s no secret that young people today (those born after Millennials, sometimes called Generation Z) are leading an extraordinary rise in a
Paige Schwartz
Apr 12, 2019
The City That Holds Us
The City That Holds Us
As the audience filed into the glass-walled theater room at SPUR, each person received a piece of paper with a question like “Where in the…
Paige Schwartz
Dec 27, 2018
Infrastructure for Equity
Infrastructure for Equity
The room was full at SPUR for an evening of storytelling, at turns inspirational and infuriating, about infrastructure and its tendency to…
Paige Schwartz
Dec 27, 2018
The Stories We Will Tell: Interactive Media and Placemaking
The Stories We Will Tell: Interactive Media and Placemaking
It felt a little bit like a hip party happening 20 years in the future.
Paige Schwartz
Mar 15, 2019
Sports in the City — For Economy or Community?
Sports in the City — For Economy or Community?
To Oakland soccer coach Dania Cabello, playing sports is an act of “joyful resistance,” an empowering expression of freedom and agency…
Paige Schwartz
Dec 27, 2018
Collective Memory in the Civic Commons
Collective Memory in the Civic Commons
“The city is changing every moment”: this is what inspires an urban photographer in Connection, one of the films drawn from SF Urban Film…
Paige Schwartz
Dec 27, 2018
Street Art as Political Currency
Street Art as Political Currency
Residents were encouraged to stay home that night — SF was facing some of the worst air conditions in its history — but a large crowd made…
Paige Schwartz
Dec 27, 2018
Warm Souls, Cold World
Warm Souls, Cold World
It was Friday night, and though the air outside was heavy with smoke, inside the whitewashed brick walls of City Hope, the mood was light…
Paige Schwartz
Dec 27, 2018
Protest and Celebration in Our Shared Spaces
Protest and Celebration in Our Shared Spaces
As footage of the 2016 Women’s March played on screen nearly two years later at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, the audience laughed…
Paige Schwartz
Dec 27, 2018
Rules in Reality: Understanding the Human Story in California’s Housing Crisis
Rules in Reality: Understanding the Human Story in California’s Hou...
“I have to warn you,” Jonathan Pachecho Bell told the audience gathered in SPUR, “there’s a part of this talk where I get choked up.” Bell…
Paige Schwartz
Dec 27, 2018
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