It is hard to believe that with this Fall’s Festival, we are entering our 10th year of screening free films at PROXY! In that first year in 2015, our festival was a scrappy experiment in activating public space: projecting films from the back of a box-truck onto the outdoor movie screen we had crowdfunded for just a few months prior. Under the tagline of LET’S WATCH MOVIES OUTSIDE TOGETHER, we began our now decade-long effort to encourage togetherness through shared experiences.

This Fall’s Festival, we intentionally chose a wide range of films — the crowd-pleasing rock documentary BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN that reveals the hard work, creative drive and mastery of craft it takes to become rock legends (and which also features scenes from late-60’s San Francisco!); NICKEL BOYS, a richly beautiful film narrating the lives of two black teenagers who land in a reform school in the segregated South; EVERY LITTLE THING, a documentary about an incredible LA woman who has dedicated her life to hummingbird rescue; LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS, an adults-oriented animated love-adventure thriller; and, finally, our family-friendly Halloween pick, WICKED. We hope that you, your friends, partners and loved ones can make it out this Fall for a film or two (or even five)! See you there!