Posted by Larry Gleeson
San Francisco IndieFest Pronounces
Launch of RESISTANCE OF VISION
Politically-focused movie pageant will tour the USA
all through 2025-2026, starting with screening occasions
in San Francisco, Boston, and Wichita
Following a pair months of unprecedented political upheaval, filmmakers and the movie business are nonetheless scrambling to seek out footing to handle and even oppose what is occurring on this nation. The RESISTANCE OF VISION touring movie pageant is the primary concrete factor I’ve seen within the movie pageant world. The primary “shot throughout the bow” could also be coming courtesy of San Francisco IndieFest. The stalwart Bay Space movie pageant has launched a politically-focused touring movie pageant Resistance of Imaginative and prescient designed and set to display screen in cities throughout the U.S. this yr and subsequent.
The debut shall be comprised of 4 quick movie packages screening in Boston, Wichita, and San Francisco in Could. Every screening occasion will discussions and panels highlighting neighborhood organizing efforts within the metropolis internet hosting the movie pageant.
The brand new movie pageant is the brainchild of San Francisco IndieFest founder/director Jeff Ross, with veteran movie curator, documentarian, and cinema exhibition advisor Anna Feder serving because the Director of Programming. The Resistance of Imaginative and prescient movie pageant shall be out there for reserving for teams in search of to carry areas for dialogue, organizing, and motion inside their communities. Partnerships with nationwide organizations will help every program to help with assets, viewers constructing, and calls to motion. Taking part filmmakers will obtain screening charges for all bookings and shows.
Relating to the inspiration for creating Resistance of Imaginative and prescient, Ross stated, “Following the outcomes of the final yr’s election, I felt an pressing must push again on the deliberate adjustments we at the moment are seeing happen by the brand new regime in one of the best ways I understand how, via shared experiences and storytelling. By experiencing the lives of others, we construct empathy and are moved to motion. In keeping with the Washington Submit’s well-known slogan, ‘Democracy dies in darkness’, by exposing the tales of actual individuals and their actual lives, we ensure the preserve the lights on vital tales.”
Famous for her work with the profitable and influential Shiny Lights Cinema Sequence at Emerson Faculty, Feder was a pure option to tackle the programming reins for Resistance of Imaginative and prescient. Feder stated, “In the beginning, I’m an activist. I’m additionally a cultural employee who believes within the energy of seeing our tales mirrored again to us on display screen and gathering in neighborhood. I see this touring movie pageant as a strategy to combat again in opposition to the forces of repression which have seeped into each nook of our lives. The antidote to despair is motion. And this system that I shall be placing collectively can have calls to motion baked in. As a queer Jewish lady, the decision to Tikkun Olam (interprets to “repairing the world”) is an obligation to have interaction within the work of envisioning and dealing towards a greater world.”
Resistance of Imaginative and prescient shall be dedicated to showcasing tales of resilience and the combat for liberation which are typically excluded by corporate-controlled exhibition channels. Vigorous discussions following the screenings with filmmakers, movie contributors, activists & teachers native to every neighborhood shall be included after each program to permit audiences to dig deeper into the topics and points introduced on display screen.
The decision for submissions started earlier this month with April 1st set because the deadline. Notifications will exit on April 13, packages shall be supplied VOD in every collaborating geographical space Could 1-4, and the reside shows will happen on Could 3rd and 4th in San Francisco, Wichita, and Boston. Further screening dates and areas shall be added all through the U.S. because the tour is about to run via the start of 2026. As well as, there’ll a corresponding entry to screenings on-line throughout every of in-person occasion.
The 4 quick movie program subjects introduced for the inaugural pageant are Gender Justice, Environmental Justice, Racial Justice, and Labor and Housing Justice. Viewers Awards and Jury Prizes may also be awarded to movies/filmmakers in every of these classes.
Applications for the 2025-2026 Resistance of Imaginative and prescient Movie Competition will embrace; OUR BODIES, OUR CHOICE (Gender Justice): a program coping with bodily autonomy, together with transgender and reproductive healthcare, and different points affecting people based mostly on intercourse or gender; THIS IS AN EMERGENCY (Environmental Justice): a program coping with our relationship to the pure world and efforts to combat legal guidelines and establishments that fail to guard our surroundings and actively contribute to the worsening local weather disaster; FIGHT THE POWER (Racial Justice): a program coping with all types of racial discrimination, together with Indigenous communities across the globe and tales of people and organizations combating for a extra simply and equitable world; and WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? (Labor and Housing Justice): program coping with labor issues, together with union organizing and mobilizing for a residing wage and housing justice, and defending the rights and dignity of the unhoused.
For extra info go to: https://sfindie.com/festivals/resistance-of-vision-touring-film-festival/.
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