A mix of the supernatural, with the super romantic, and a tad bit of comedy is the general feel of Brad Silberling's City of Angels. Premiering in 1998, the plot is an angel, a supernatural being ends up falling in love with a Doctor, played by Meg Ryan. The caveat is that he's not really alive or can be seen, making him unable for him to communicate with his love. As he falls in love, struggling with the obstacle set before him; which is to do the forbidden thing, and become Read More
Hey everypeople,
We here at SCREAM are proud to announce our upcoming screening, in association with OutTakes and Disposable Film Festival at the Art Crawl!
We invite anyone to come, the event is free, and bound to be a blast. Check out the work we’ve been doing with OutTakes!
Follow the event page info here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/233785786728376/?notif_t=plan_edited
Hey all,
Miles here, and happy to say that, here at SCREAM I am in the script/storyboard writing process of one of my film ideas. I hope to see it finished after the summer, and hopefully share it however I can.
The film is about a daydreaming teenager depressed by constant routine and boredom, when suddenly he finds purpose in helping others, until he becomes a violent, yet somewhat ineffective street vigilante to achieve what he deems as “good” and “right.” Eventually, the strain of his vigilante life conflicts with his home life, and he soon realizes the difficulty of being in the position of a so-called “superhero.”
Tanya is reading over my storyboard now, and we will share with the others for more thoughts soon. This, being my first post, has been lengthy enough, but I will continue to often update on progress of my movie.
Stay tuned for more news on the tentatively titled “Civilian”!
Just a quick update on the progress of the Outer Sunset (OS) documentary. We plan to have it done by the end of the summer… don’t quote me on that though! Anyways, what we HAVE done is come up with a list of potential questions that we might use to interview people.
Here’s the list:
What do you think other people’s (larger San Francisco area) impression of the Outer Sunset?
What is/are the Outside Lands?
How long have you lived in the Outer Sunset?
What is the Outer Sunset community like?
SCREAMERS at ze Dispoasble Film Fest
The Disposable Film Festival was an amazing opportunity. I can’t wait to edit the documentary footage we got. I got to meet many cool people and try lots of cool things. The best part of the actual film festival was the screenings. Seeing so many, well-made indepedent films really inspired me and the fact that they made them with disposable media, is even more awesome. A new dream is inspired: Make a film. Just a film. But a film.
Sioban Clancy from the Disposable Film Festival visits SCREAM
I attended the Disposable Film Festival for the first time last year, and I have to say it was the most fun I’ve ever had at any festival. Maybe it was the amount of young people in the audience or the accessibility of mobile technology, but I’m telling you the Castro Theater was bursting with energy!
Check out the line up here: http://disposablefilmfest.com/
About Film Festival
Selected by MovieMaker Magazine as one the world’s “coolest film festivals,” the Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 by Eric Slatkin and Carlton Evans to celebrate the creative potential of disposable video: short films made on everyday equipment like cell phones, pocket cameras, and other inexpensive video capture devices. The Disposable Film Festival hosts screenings, competitions, and other events to showcase the best work within the genre. Disposable kicks off in San Francisco every March before traveling to cities around the world.
Opening night is this THURSDAY at the CASTRO THEATER and not to be missed.
This year SCREAM will be participating in the OutTakes Youth Documentary Crew documenting the festival, as well as interviewing filmmakers and audience members. Keep a watch out for us!
February 17th marked the 8th Annual Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center Film Festival. Besides screening two of our films, “Reversal Pitch,” and “A Hard Rock Life,” this year SCREAMers’s Marvin Yan, Miles Heverin, and Jason Lo MC’d the Festival.
In the words of Megan Agee, SNBC’s new Executive Director,
SCREAM – In addition to tremendous filmmakers, ya’ll were amazing hosts!! So poised, so eloquent, and supremely endearing. The crowd loved you. You should each add MC-ing to your long list of skills…
Check out Marvin Yan’s photos of the festival below!
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I’m excited to announce that SCREAM, in affiliation with the Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center, will be making a documentary on the Outer Sunset!
With this documentary, we hope to create a greater sense of community in the Outer Sunset. We plan to blend many different styles of documentary filmmaking, including analytical, direct cinema (observational & non-interventional), and historical styles of filmmaking. We will also interview many different people of the Outer Sunset to get their thoughts on their community.
I’m excited to work be a part of this project and it should be a lot of fun! Stay posted for pictures and snippets of our upcoming, momentous, Outer Sunset documentary!
An old photo of the 22nd & Irving Market
Check out this photo on the Western Neighborhoods Project’s website here: http://www.outsidelands.org/
First of all, if you didn’t already know, BAM, which is short for Bamboozled, is a high-school group of writers, poets, artists, and general creative minds. You can check them out at their website. bamboozled.org.
Well, one day SCREAM and BAM were having a discussion about poetry: we were thinking of making a film based on a poem (due to that being a requirement of a certain film festival), and BAM coincidentally the same.
Currently we have a poem decided (http://www.bamboozled.org/
After months and months of planning, coordinating, asking everyone I knew for permission to use their houses, and other fun things like that, as well as several days shooting and editing the film, “The Reversal Pitch,” adapted from Terry Kitagawa’s play of the same name, is finally finished. It is up on Youtube and Facebook (and embedded on this post). It was screened at the SNBC Film Festival last Friday. It will also be entered into the 18th Annual Ohlone College High School Theatre Festival, which will take place on March 16th and 17th. As the director, I would like to thank everyone who helped or supported me in the making of this film, as well as anyone who watches it. I hope all of you enjoy the story of the two salesmen and their very different approaches to selling ‘canned air.’
~Polina Litvak