Documentary Screenings San Francisco

Outsider Film Night

Open Screening of short films made by our beloved community members! Emphasis on experimental films or oddities :) **OPEN CALL for short films 15 mins and under⚠️** **[Submit films HERE](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmXuZtjZXYkM1tIQFKj4pSqmm7jxVr1Yx5dV_Q8Ko_gH5AsQ/viewform?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGn4UOuv-ePPFS1Y6y_IWrnB2d8v1PmPVTncCbcrOnfOW53JsTY3Pi9RQdIKQc_aem_n0XopdugstwU3QrLglILbA)** **DEADLINE to submit is May 20 ⌚️⏱👀** **SCREENING takes place May 28❣️❤️‍🔥💞** **ADDRESS is [@clarion_sf](https://www.instagram.com/clarion_sf/) 2 waverly place 🙈** **FREE ADMISSION 7-9 PM🤷🏽‍♂️** **Come one come allllllllllll🙇🏽‍♂️**

Documentary on Musician Linda Perry (Sold Out as of May 8)

Known partly for her hit single What's Up with 4 Non Blondes, Linda Perry has reinvented herself as a songwriter and producer in the decades since that song topped the charts, penning hits for artists like Dolly Parton, Christina Aguilera and Pink. This 2024 film offers an intimate look at a woman who dreams big, yet still struggles with fear, identity and family, as she grapples with the same big question we all do: Who am I? **This screening includes a Q&A with Linda Perry and director Don Hardy, as well as a special acoustic performance by Perry. Given all that, I think this screening will sell out.** COST: Lowest-priced tickets for this show start at about $15 per person. **Buy your own ticket** (and see the trailer) at the following link: https://roxie.com/film/linda-perry-let-it-die-here/ WHEN/WHERE TO MEET: No later than 2:50 p.m. outside the Big Roxie. The film is due to start at 3:15 p.m., and lasts about 1 hour, 40 minutes (not counting the in-person appearance segment). HOW TO FIND ME: I'm WF, about 5 feet tall, with short, salt-and-pepper hair and glasses. (See Meetup profile pic.) Also, I'll send RSVPers my mobile number prior to the event. If I'm missing anyone when I get seated, I'll post a Comment on the Meetup Event Page telling people where I'm located. (I'll turn my phone off when the film starts.) OPTIONAL POST-FILM DINNER at a nearby late-night Chinese restaurant. **Bring cash if interested in the dinner.** Also, I welcome $1.00 donations to offset the $180.00 per year that Meetup charges me as lead organizer. TRANSIT/PARKING: The Roxie is on the #22 Fillmore bus line, and is located less than 2 blocks from the 16th Street BART station and assorted Mission Street bus lines. If you're driving, allow extra time to find parking on side streets.

Berkeley Community Media Planning Meet-Up

Overview Join us for an opportunity to be on the Film Festival Production Team as well as share your work in creative works in progress with peers. **Join the BCM Film Festival Team!** Be part of a passionate group dedicated to creating meaningful, community-driven filmmaking events. We meet once a month to plan, collaborate, and make the magic happen. **Contact Melanie@betv.org and come to the 3rd Wednesday of every month at BCM headquarters to get involved.** This is a chance for you to become involved in a deeper way with the wonderful film festivals produced by BCM. Traditionally, we have had 2 film festivals each year: the 48 Hour Filmmaker Challenge in July and the Horror Film Fest-Evil in October. However, there have been others such as "The BCM Screening Room," "St. Valentine’s Day Film Festival," "March Mania" and a "Sci Fi Film Festival." What are festival themes YOU would like to see BCM produce? In other words, we COULD be having more events if only we had more support…and…YOU could be getting the inside scoop on how it all works from start to finish. This means a more in-depth understanding of film fest production. BCM celebrates Berkeley’s creative spirit and longstanding tradition of independent arts and storytelling. Our festivals highlight independent filmmakers while providing a public platform for diverse voices and experimental work. By bringing together filmmakers, residents, students, and visitors for screenings, discussions, our festivals reflect Berkeley’s identity as a city that values creativity, free expression, and community engagement. The events we produce strengthen local cultural life while making independent film accessible to the broader community. Whether you’re in the industry as a filmmaker already, just starting out or purely want to support the festival production at BCM, please contact Melanie@betv.org and show up to the Community Club 2.0 every month 3rd Wednesday 6-8pm

Bollywood Festive Nights at Union Square

Join us for an unforgettable **Bollywood Night** in the heart of San Francisco at Union Square – rhythm, fun, community. **5:00 – 6:00 PM** – *30 minute Bollywood* *Dance Lesson* + *Party* — we’ll teach you the steps, the flair, and the fun; then we dance it out together! **6:00 – 7:00 PM** – *30 minute Bollywood* *Dance Lesson* + *Party* — we’ll teach you the steps, the flair, and the fun; then we dance it out together! **7:00 – 8:00 PM** – *Dance Party* — We turn up the music and light up the floor with a 1-hour open dance party. 🌈 Open to all ages, all levels, all backgrounds. ✨ Come casual or dressed, no pressure! Bring your friends, learn some moves, find your groove, find your friends, be a part of a magical community once a month at Union Square. Previous class in 2025 summary joy v[ideo: ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHSENixJaVA&list=RDnHSENixJaVA&start_radio=1) Free class every month on 4th Friday of the Month except in August it will be on August 14th Classes go till end of September Park in garage, Uber over, or take Powell exit on Bart Do come say hello to us so we can welcome you in our La Dolce Vita :)

BASH- Bay Area & Sacramento Short Film Festival 2025- Part 1- PLUS

Bollywood Nights at Union Square

Profs & Pints Alameda: A History of Mythical Cures

[Profs and Pints Alameda](https://www.profsandpints.com/sfbayarea) presents: **“A History of Mythical Cures,”** on America’s longstanding tradition of selling false remedies in pursuit of fortune, with Vivian Delchamps Wolf, assistant professor of English at Dominican University of California and scholar of the portrayal of disability in literature. [Tickets available only online, at [https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/alameda-mythical-cures](https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/alameda-mythical-cures) .] What drives the desire for a cure-all? Who benefits from that desire? Explore tough questions related to our quests for cures with Vivian Delchamps Wolf, a scholar of disability studies, feminist studies, and race studies whose upcoming book *Resisting Diagnosis* examines how women’s disability literature of the nineteenth century altered notions of health and drove social change. She’ll trace the advocacy of mythical cures in the United States from the 19th century to today, unpacking how such cures were promoted in ways that reinforced eugenic beliefs and biases related to gender, ability, and race. She’ll describe how nineteenth-century medical authorities promised cures to capitalize off those seeking their care. You’ll learn about health spa owners who paid doctors to send them patients, sustaining the myth of the “water cure” that boosted California’s health tourism. We’ll look at how the “rest cure” was prescribed to women diagnosed with “hysteria” to force them into isolation. Women’s writings gave accounts of their desperation being exploited by male doctors who exerted control by prescribing “cures” that actually worsened symptoms, necessitating further care. We’ll consider the traveling medicine shows popularized in the West after the Civil War, examining how these performances involved music and aggressive rhetoric promoting “exotic” cure-alls such as snake oil. You’ll learn how white salesmen, in purporting to source ingredients from Native American and Chinese medicine, promoted harmful racial stereotypes for their own financial gain. Dr. Wolf will explore how curative and eugenic rhetoric persists in today’s wellness trends such as the promotion of “detoxifying” teas. In discussing the racialized and financial politics of medicine, she’ll offer a disability-centered perspective that challenges the assumption that bodies and minds need to be “fixed.” She’ll familiarize her audience with disability advocates who challenge the rhetoric surrounding “cures” and urge us to envision a future in which we seek to care for people rather than fix them. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.) Image: Old bottles for bogus medicines on display at a Tulsa Fair. (Photo by Wesley Fryer / Creative Commons.)

BASH- Bay Area & Sacramento Short Film Festival 2025- Part 1- PLUS

Bay Area and Sac Short Films Festival, PLUS- Challenge Filmmakers, Actors, and Writers Compete!!!.. with NETWORKING! THIS EVENT WILL SELL OUT- Get Tickets WELL IN ADVANCE! For More Info or GET TICKETS TODAY[ ](https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/bash-bay-area-and-sacramento-short-film-festival--2026)[CLICK HERE](https://www.mmtb.org/festival) SEE OUR ANNUAL CALENDAR FOR ALL OUR EVENTS THIS YEAR [event.mmtb.org](http://event.mmtb.org)

Monthly Movie Happy Hour

**We are hosting a Monthly Movie Discussion Happy Hour at the Flying Pig Bistro in the Mission every 3rd THURSDAY of the month!** Join us for an evening of movie talk with your fellow movie lovers. We'll start by forming groups where people will take turns sharing 1-2 quick movie reviews of what they've watched recently (no spoilers unless the group decides it's ok). After group sharing is done we'll mix and mingle for general discussion. Please come prepared to share at least one movie review with your group. The Flying Pig has a great selection of beverages (including non-alcoholic) as well as food for dinner or snacking. Please consider purchasing something to support the Flying Pig since we are not paying for the venue. Let me know if you have any questions!

Kurosawa’s RASHOMON (1950) film @5, discussion after in JAPANTOWN

It’s hard to rank the films of Akira Kurosawa, who gave us Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, High & Low, and Ran among his stunning 30-film career. But “Rashomon” (1950) makes most film lovers’ Kurosawa Top Ten and often Top Five - it’s the pivotal moment when multi-perspective storytelling entered mainstream cinema. Of course you might see this entirely differently…. To attend this event, you have to BUY a TICKET (HERE: https://roxie.com/series/nippon-vibes-japanese-cinema-weekend-at-new-people/), come to the event, and come to the discussion afterward (at a local Japantown restaurant or pub TBD). Please only RSVP if you’re planning to buy a ticket, see the film, and come discuss it afterwards! Save spots for those who are coming.

Yosemite! MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND w/ Valley Floor Activities - 4 days/3 nights!!!

We have done Yosemite before on the group. And each and every time it fills up early with lotos of people with big sadness they can not go. Plain and simple . . . our events have limited size. So when it fill . . . it fills. Yosemite is that amazing and iconic place that everyone loves to go. ***There are Saturday/Sunday planned Easy, Medium and Hard Options.*** We will divide by interest for different hikes. **The "Easy" route:** * Yosemite Falls (the easy walk) * Tunnel View * Glacier Point * Bridal Veil Falls * Mirror Lake * The Meadows * The River * Ahwahnee Hotel **Planned Medium Hike:** * Vernal/Nevada Mist Trail **Planned Difficult Hikes** * Yosemite Falls * 4 Mile Trail * Pohono Trail **To attend this event:** * **RSVP** on this event * **[CLICK HERE for the payment link.](https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/2MT6V38JJTEVJ)**[ ](https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/2MT6V38JJTEVJ) * **[Click Here and fill out our Attendees google form](https://forms.gle/7LktppE3Uqo67XSs5)** (this is also what the carpool info gets built from) **Notes:** * **[You MUST take care of payment to be confirmed to go.](https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/2MT6V38JJTEVJ)** * After payment you will get a confirmation email from Paypal * You do NOT need a paypal account. Click the process as guest, or use any credit or debit card. * If you have a X2 or a Plus One . . . just do the link a 2nd or 3rd time. * You may see LOTS of people RSVP on the event. Many do RSVP and not take care of payment. * Event is limited in size. When filled the payment link will be disabled. * If you not ready to commit yet . . . * **[Click Here and fill out our google "interest" form](https://forms.gle/7LktppE3Uqo67XSs5)** (there is a box for "interested and keep me in the loop") **Includes:** * Site (on private land) for a three day weekend * All Firewood & propane heaters provided. * Flush restrooms (that are clean) * (free)(hot) Showers available * Restaurants and Grocery adjacent * Pool and Jacuzzi available. * Super Civilized Camping. * Perfect for the beginner and first timers. * Many come solo. * Come alone and leave with friends. Come with friends & leave with more friends. **Tell me about food and everything else . . .** The logistics of providing food for every possible diet, as well as food prep issues is just not feasible or safe. AND Due to varied dietary needs and food contact issues, it's better if bring what you like and prep it. **What gear do I need?** The only specialized gear you need is Tent, Sleeping bag, Sleeping Pad (yoga mat). Everything else is household items you already have. **Special note:** this is Tent camping. No RV. No Trailers. No giant campervans. **Can I park my car next to my tent?** Sniffing tires, oil, exhaust and fuel? Yuck!!! You cars will be close. But not on top of us. Cars on one side. Humans on the other. If we overflow our parking area . . . there is an overflow parking area. **Carpools?** * Carpool info goes out ONLY to paid attendees. *(it really sucks to set up a carpool with a person who is not actually going)* * Carpool info ONLY goes out to those who fill out the [ATTENDEES/CARPOOL FORM ](https://forms.gle/7LktppE3Uqo67XSs5) *(this way it is reliable info)* * Carpool info goes out all at once *(not as you sign on)* * Carpool info goes out 1 week before the event. Too early and most carpools fall apart. *It really sucks when your ride canceled at asked for a refund a month ago but did not tell you. Carpools info sent when it is stable of who is attending.* * Carpool in week before makes sense because that's when people can really determine schedule and departure time and availability. **Refunds?** If requested 2 weeks before event start: 100% refund. If requested less than 2 weeks: 100% Full Credit be applied to ANY future event we run. ***Questions?*** [CLICK HERE to send a Direct Message](https://secure.meetup.com/messages/?new_convo=true&member_id=273063881) OTHER INFO: * *[Carpool info](https://www.meetup.com/MoreToExplore/events/282458970/)* * *[Newbie Camping Advice All things GEAR](https://www.meetup.com/MoreToExplore/events/282543094/)* * *[Newbie Camping Advice All things FOOD](https://www.meetup.com/MoreToExplore/events/282543120/)* * *[General Policies](https://www.meetup.com/MoreToExplore/events/282460572/)* This event is cross-posted to several groups. The number RSVP'd is not accurate. **ONLY Paid attendees are actually going to be attending.** [To See MORE of those RSVP'd](https://www.meetup.com/moretoexplore/events/311055925/) [CLICK HERE](https://www.meetup.com/twofeet/join/) to join in on the other fun events planned. **Notice:** We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, age, disability, gender, gender preference, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, national identity, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, political beliefs or even for belly button lint. We welcome all, and that includes you!

From Django to Tango (Sold Out!)

This event at a favorite Meetup venue features Grammy-winning violinist Mads Tolling, Grammy-nominated accordionist-pianist Sam Reider, and acclaimed bassist Sam Bevan in a performance of classic and original pieces that draw on rhythms ranging from Argentine tango to Django Reinhardt’s jazz manouche (aka "gypsy" jazz) and beyond. EVENT COST: The show costs about $42 (with Eventbrite service fee) for concert tickets when bought online. **I am posting this event earlier than usual, because it is assigned seating, and because I think it will sell out.** Some central tables have already filled up. SEATING: This show is **ASSIGNED** seating, mainly at four-person tables. ***NOTE that I will be sitting at Table Twelve Seat B.*** If possible, please buy your tickets for seats at the same table or adjoining tables. **TICKET LINK and MORE SHOW INFO**: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mads-tolling-sam-reider-django-to-tango-tickets-1985736138244?aff=oddtdtcreator *Click on the **Buy on Map** button on the above Eventbrite page to select your table and seat number. Note that this event is on a FRIDAY night.* WHEN/WHERE TO MEET: I recommend arriving at the Sound Room by about 7:00 p.m. so you have more time to socialize with your fellow Meetup members, and possibly order any food or drinks you want for yourself. (The show starts shortly after 7:30 p.m. and will go to at least 10:00 p.m. There are typically two sets with one intermission at this venue.) HOW TO FIND ME: I'll email my cellphone number and final details to RSVPers prior to the event date. Also, you can see my photo with my Meetup profile. (I'm WF, about 5 feet tall, now with glasses and short, salt-&-pepper hair.) LOCATION/TRANSIT: The Sound Room is at 3022 Broadway (directly across from Sprouts). At least one AC Transit bus line goes to the Sound Room from Oakland BART stations, and possibly ones in El Cerrito and Richmond. (The closest Oakland BART stations are at 19th Street and in Rockridge.) PARKING: Free parking is available on Broadway and on side streets. There are also supervised parking lots at Summit Medical Center and Kaiser Medical Center – both of which are 2 blocks away – that are available for a fee. FOOD OPTION: The Sound Room has a limited but good menu of small plates (entrees, appetizers, and desserts) and drinks that you can enjoy before or during the show. The venue emails RSVPers the current menu on the day of the show. (There is no minimum requirement for ordering food or drink, but these purchases help cover this nonprofit's operating costs.) MORE INFO: https://madstolling.com/ https://www.samreidermusic.com/