San Francisco Film Society presents:
Sugar
- When
- Thu Oct 4, 2012
- Where
- San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema
- Time
- 6:30
- Cost
- $11 - $13
- Tags
- Movies
Description
The San Francisco Film Society has announced that American independent filmmaker Anna Boden will be in San Francisco for the Film Society’s fourth Artist in Residence program, September 25–October 9. Boden’s schedule will include programs in each of the Film Society’s core areas—education, exhibition and filmmaker services—including visits to Bay Area high school and college classrooms, a screening of her feature film Sugar (October 4), an artist talk and various networking events with the local film community. Boden’s residency is funded by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.For complete Artist in Residence information visit sffs.org/Education/Artist-in-Residence.
Anna Boden has made three feature films in collaboration with her filmmaking partner Ryan Fleck. Their first feature, Half Nelson, which Boden co-wrote and produced, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006.
Boden went on to co-write and direct her next two features with Fleck. Sugar, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, received a Gotham Award nomination for Best Ensemble Cast, an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Screenplay and an American Film Institute (AFI) Award as one of the year’s ten most outstanding achievements in film. Their most recent project, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, based on the young adult novel by Ned Vizzini, was released by Focus Features in 2010.
Sugar (USA 2008), Boden’s heartfelt examination of a Dominican baseball player’s journey to the big leagues, will be screened Thursday, October 4 at 6:30 pm at New People Cinema (1746 Post Street). The screening will be followed by a discussion with the director and a special guest moderator.
Written by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Photographed by Andrij Parekh. With Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland. (114 min. In English and Spanish with subtitles, Sony Pictures Classics)
Tickets $11 for SFFS members, $13 general, $12 senior/student/disabled.
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