On April 19 at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, the Ata Film & Video Festival will be hosting a special springtime retrospective screening celebrating their 5th anniversary, pulling together films from each year they’ve been in operation. The festivities start at 7:30 p.m.
As a program of the Artists’ Television Access non-profit center, which began in the early ’80s, the Film & Video Festival was founded in 2006 and has always been run by co-directors and programmers Isabel Fondevila and Shae Green. In it’s brief history, the fest has quickly become one of the most significant experimental media events in the world. Each year, they screen a diverse range of cutting edge, avant-garde, playful and artistic short films and videos from an international pool of filmmakers.
In addition to the annual festival in San Francisco, held in October of every year, Fondevila and Green have also toured the world with...
As a program of the Artists’ Television Access non-profit center, which began in the early ’80s, the Film & Video Festival was founded in 2006 and has always been run by co-directors and programmers Isabel Fondevila and Shae Green. In it’s brief history, the fest has quickly become one of the most significant experimental media events in the world. Each year, they screen a diverse range of cutting edge, avant-garde, playful and artistic short films and videos from an international pool of filmmakers.
In addition to the annual festival in San Francisco, held in October of every year, Fondevila and Green have also toured the world with...
- 4/15/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Artists' Television Access (Ata) celebrates the first five years of the Ata Annual Film & Video Festival with a retrospective screening at the Roxie, Playback: 2006-2010, April 19th, 2011, a selection of local and international works, celebrating unconventional films that entertain and provoke audiences worldwide; what BadLit describes as "a real powerhouse of experimental media exhibition." The program includes works by Tommy Becker, Ariel Diaz, Paul Clipson, Zachary Epcar, Sam Barnett, Jibz Cameron & Hedia Maron, John Palmer, Rachel Manera, Carl Diehl, Martha Colburn, Guy Maddin, Clare Samuel & Candice Purwin, Olga Chernysheva, and Federico Campanale. I stopped by Ata to visit with festival directors Isabel Fondevila and Shae Green to talk about the upcoming retrospective screening and their collaboration with the Roxie....
- 4/11/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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