PROXY FALL FILM FEST 2021
We are incredibly excited to announce the 2021 PROXY Fall Film Festival, our first full festival of outdoor cinema since Fall 2019. Come out and enjoy a movie (or five!) under the stars in the Hayes Valley every Friday night in October.
10.01 Summer Of Soul
Summer Of Soul
Directed by Questlove, 2021
Running time: 1h 57m
In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary— part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten – until now. SUMMER OF SOUL shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present.
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10.08 Gunda
Gunda
Directed by Viktor Kossakovsky, 2020
Running time: 1h 37m
Experiential cinema in its purest form, GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. Using stark, transcendent black and white cinematography and the farm's ambient soundtrack, Master director Victor Kossakowsky invites the audience to slow down and experience life as his subjects do, taking in their world with a magical patience and an other worldly perspective. GUNDA asks us to meditate on the mystery of animal consciousness, and reckon with the role humanity plays in it.
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10.15 Try Harder!
Try Harder!
Directed by Debbie Lum, 2021
Running time: 1h 25m
At Lowell High School, San Francisco's academic pressure cooker, the kids are stressed out. With a majority Asian American student body, high-achieving seniors share their dreams and anxieties about getting into a top university. But is college worth the grind?
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10.22 Pig
Pig
Directed by Michael Sarnoski, 2021
Running time: 1h 32m
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
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4.21 Marcel The Shell With Shoes on
Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, 2022
Running time: 1h 30m
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. When a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope of reuniting with his long-lost family.
Marcel The Shell With Shoes on
