Equipoise Films

SF Film Collective Open House, Thursday December 1, 6-8 PM

Please Join Us In Celebration!

THE SF FILM COLLECTIVE:  Members screen works in progress

SF FILM SPOTS: Catch a first glimpse of an exciting, new mobile app

Please join us in celebration as we share a toast to a convergence of Mayor’s office initiaves, benefiting filmmakers, film lovers and ultimately all San Franciscans. Films, food and swills provided.

The SF Film Collective, offering low cost office space to local independent filmmakers, is located in the heart of the Mid-Market revitalization and the City’s goal to restore the Central Market arts district. Additionally members have the unique advantage of lightning fast internet, courtesy of the Department of Technology’s Community Broadband Network, a program spawned from the Mayor’s office vision to bring free wifi to challenged neighborhoods.

We are also taking the opportunity to announce a first: a mobile app dedicated to the City’s rich movie history. Developer Dennis Harvey amplifies the San Francisco experience with the roll out of SF FILM SPOTS. Using a data provided by The Film Office for the Mayor’s office DataSF initiative, the app provides an interactive map of movie locations in San Francisco along with history and fun facts.

This is a free event. Donations accepted and appreciated, will help fund equipment for the benefit of Collective tenants.

 *SF Film Collective, 134A Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco. Parking available at  Golden Gate and Jones lot. 

 

Stable Life work-in-progress to screen at Rough Cuts, Monday November 14, 7:30 PM

We are pleased to announce that Stable Life will screen at the November 2011 session of Rough Cuts next Monday night, November 14, 7:30 PM, at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 Ninth Street, between Mission & Howard, San Francisco. Admission is $7, which includes wine & hors d’oeuvres. This will be the first public screening of Stable Life, and we expect that the audience feedback we receive will be important as we refine the film.

Rough Cuts is a series of work-in-progress documentary screenings that are produced every other month at various locations throughout San Francisco. Each meeting screens one rough cut of a long-form documentary followed by a moderated conversation about the film. These post-screening discussions are designed to give the filmmaker a better, more objective sense of what is working and not working with his/her film, with particular attention paid to improving the film’s structure and narrative clarity. The series also aims to provide a welcome space for local filmmakers, film professionals, and fans of documentary film to meet and talk.

Moderator: Donald Goldmacher

Donald Goldmacher is the President of PsychComp Associates and is both a psychiatrist and a filmmaker. He has served as director of Planning for the California Department of Health, and was the director of Mental Health, Alcohol, and Drug Abuse Services of Contra Costa County, CA. His films include “Do No Harm” and “Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House,” which won over 20 festival awards and aired on HBO. His most recent film, “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?” recently made its world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

*Red and white wine provided by Hahn Winery

For more information about the evening and Rough Cuts in general, visit  http://sfroughcuts.com/nextevent.html

 

We hope to see you there!

equipoise films joins the SF Film Collective

the new SF Film Collective building

equipoise films is pleased to announce that we have joined the SF Film Collective and moved into its brand new office space on Golden Gate Avenue in downtown SF! The SF Film Collective is a new iniative of the San Francisco Film Commission designed to support independent filmmakers in San Francisco. Stay tuned for information about the Film Collective’s first Open House!

BAVC Behind the Mediamaker Exhibition

Filmmakers Sara MacPherson and Tricia Creason-Valencia at the Mediamaker exhibit opening on May 12th.

Curator Lauren Kitz wrote this piece about the show:

Established in 1991, BAVC’s MediaMaker Awards are training and post-production grants for independent filmmakers with a particular focus on supporting emerging artists and under-served communities. Through these awards, BAVC provides four projects annually with direct access to the latest digital media technologies, screening opportunities, and other direct resources. Established in 2008, ROHSTOFF engages our community on a different level, providing a quarterly exhibition space in our facility for local and national artists, including BAVC staff, instructors, and our community of media artists and producers.

With one of ROHSTOFF’s objectives in mind – to strengthen BAVC’s commitment to the ‘art’ in ‘media arts’ – we turned to a group who are a vital part of BAVC’s artistic fabric and whose work we wanted our community to engage with in greater depth: that of our MediaMaker Award winners.We knew that each MediaMaker film had a powerful story to tell, but also suspected that the images from these projects – film stills, behind-the-scenes moments, or archival photographs – would be powerful in their own right. We sent out a call for images to each filmmaker, and the response was remarkable. The images on display in this exhibition speak to the director’s experience with his or her subject, a split-second moment in a character’s journey, and the inspiration for the conception of a project. What they also show is that the flowing of a narrative surely tells one kind of story, but a single moment says something of its own, something which illuminates for us, the viewer, how the narrative came to be. An intimate, haunting portrait of a faceless boy sprawled on a recliner in a bare tack-room in Sara MacPherson and Tricia Creason-Valencia’s Stable Life finds its foil in a behind-the-scenes still from Banker White’s WeOwnTV, of a boy of a similar age in his Sierra Leonean house, arms stretched above his head, as he patiently waits to be filmed. Conversely, the gritty images from Chris Metzler and Lev Anderson’s Everyday Sunshine immediately convey the raw power and energy experienced at Fishbone’s punk shows, while Luke Griswold-Tergis uses the ruggedly peaceful tableau of the Alaskan wilderness to belie the inner conflict of his main protagonist in Salmon Dreams. Using these films as a starting point, this exhibition freezes the frame and ventures behind the camera to get a glimpse at the story behind the storytelling.