Berkeley Film Foundation: Celebrating Ten Years of Local Filmmaking

September 12–October 27, 2019

The Berkeley Film Foundation is an essential lifeline for East Bay filmmakers. We celebrate BFF’s tenth anniversary with a diverse selection of films—many with makers in person—including two free screenings on BAMPFA’s  outdoor screen.

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  • This Ain’t No Mouse Music!

  • Dogtown Redemption

  • Hale (screening with The Whistleblower of My Lai)

  • In the Image: Palestinian Women Capture the Occupation

  • Inequality for All

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Past Films

  • CANCELED—The Pushouts

    • Sunday, October 27 4 PM
    Dawn Valadez, Katie Galloway
    United States, 2018

    Canceled
    This screening has been canceled due to the UC Berkeley campus power shutdown. Please watch this page for updates on rescheduling and ticket refund information.

    This documentary tells the true story of Victor Rios, a former prisoner and Oakland gang member who became an award-winning professor, author, and mentor. With Serginho Roosblad’s short on the infamous MacArthur freeway interchange, The Maze.

    Dawn Valadez, Katie Galloway, and Serginho Roosblad in Person

  • Free Outdoor Screening: Inequality for All

    • Thursday, October 24 7 PM
    Jacob Kornbluth
    United States, 2013

    In this entertaining, still timely documentary, UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich takes on the American economy. “Smart, funny and articulate” (Los Angeles Times). With Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday’s The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement.

    Jacob Kornbluth in Person

  • The Whistleblower of My Lai

    • Tuesday, October 22 7 PM
    Connie Field
    United States, 2018

    Longtime activist/filmmaker Connie Field (The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter) follows the Kronos Quartet’s production of the opera My Lai. With short Hale, on the influential Bay Area disability-rights activist Hale Zukas.

    Connie Field, Gregory Scharpen, and Brad Bailey in Person

  • In the Image: Palestinian Women Capture the Occupation

    • Sunday, October 13 2:30 PM
    Judith Montell, Emmy Scharlatt
    United States, Israel, Palestine, 2014

    Get a first-person POV on Palestinian life under Israeli occupation from this powerful film that grew out of The Camera Project, which empowered Palestinian women on the West Bank to capture their day-to-day experiences and struggles.

    Judith Montell and Emmy Scharlatt in Person

  • RESCHEDULED—Free Outdoor Screening: Inequality for All

    • Thursday, October 10 7 PM
    Jacob Kornbluth
    United States, 2013

    Rescheduled
    This film has been rescheduled to screen Thursday, October 24.

    In this entertaining, still timely documentary, UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich takes on the American economy. “Smart, funny and articulate” (Los Angeles Times). With Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday’s The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement.

    Robert Reich, Jacob Kornbluth, and Robin Fryday in Person

  • Dogtown Redemption

    • Sunday, September 22 1 PM
    Amir Soltani, Chihiro Wimbush
    United States, 2015

    This intimate story of recyclers in West Oakland chronicles their battles to survive in Oakland’s Dogtown neighborhood, an area battered by addiction, violence, and unemployment—and about to be changed by gentrification.

    Amir Soltani and Chihiro Wimbush in Person

  • Free Outdoor Screening: This Ain’t No Mouse Music!

    • Thursday, September 12 7 PM
    Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon
    United States, 2013

    Longtime Les Blank collaborators Maureen Gosling and Chris Simon codirected this loving musical tribute to Bay Area legend Chris Strachwitz, the founder of folk/roots/blues label Arhoolie Records.

    Maureen Gosling and Chris Simon in Person