The Ears Have It
Sound designer James LeBrecht enriches movies through the art of “sonic shadows.”
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Black Studies Matter
Abby Ginzberg’s new documentary, Agents of Change, revisits black activism at SF State and Cornell in the ’60s
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The Dark Side of Hoop Dreams
Basketball great Chamique Holdsclaw goes one-on-one with mental illness in Rick Goldsmith’s documentary Mind/Game.
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Portrait of a Young Man
Fruitvale Station, the story of the last 24 hours of Oscar Grant, who was killed by police on an Oakland BART platform on New Year’s Eve 2009, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Directed by Richmond filmmaker Ryan Coogler, the movie opens this month.
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Wish Granted
For cash-strapped filmmakers, the Berkeley Film Foundation serves as something of a fairy godmother. Young but influential, the 4-year-old grant-making organization is dedicated to helping East Bay residents start (or finish) their films. Our longtime film critic, Michael Fox, fills us in on the backstory.
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