"It's been a tough last few years for Bay Area film festivals, with many having to scale operations back, while a few shut down for good. But this week sees the return of two among the hardiest survivors: SF IndieFest launches its 28th annual program on Thu/5, the same night that the Mostly British Film Festival opens its 18th such event."
"SF Indie remains, as it was from the start almost three decades ago, a home for enterprising, adventurous, often highly personal projects that seldom sport big-name talent or hefty budgets. There are no lack of big ideas, however, starting with this year's opening night selection of Santacon. Seth Porges' documentary charts the evolution of what's now alternately embraced and abhorred as an annual "Bromaggedeon" of public intoxication, vomiting, urination, fights, vandalism, etc."
"But in 1994 it began as something quite different, an offshoot of the San Francisco Cacophony Society and its Dadaist, anti-capitalist pranks. Those early years-which despite their relative harmlessness, attracted considerable police presence right away-are the primary focus here, with just cursory attention given to the nationwide, regurgitative latter-day reality. It's a boisterous, then ultimately wistful look at one more good thing that went large and pretty much lost its original spirit."
Bay Area film festivals endured contraction and closures in recent years, with several events scaling back while some shut down. Two resilient festivals resume: SF IndieFest (28th annual) and the Mostly British Film Festival (18th annual). SF IndieFest programs enterprising, adventurous, personal films lacking big-name talent or budgets but rich in ideas. The opening-night film Santacon chronicles the evolution from harmless Dadaist pranks to a widely reviled annual "Bromaggedeon" marked by public intoxication and vandalism, focusing on early Cacophony Society roots. Join the Club profiles Dennis Peron’s creation of a medicinal cannabis buyer's club and his fraught conflict with SFPD officer Joe Bannon.
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