SF IndieFest Presents A MIGHTY RUCKUS AT ISLAIS CREEK
Saturday, September 17. Noon to 8p, All Ages, Free
SF IndieFest has produced 15 film festivals over the last 7 years,
including the annual SF Independent Film Festival, the SF
Documentary Festival and Another Hole in the Head: 8 Nights of
Horror, Fantasy and Sci Fi. The local grass-roots arts
organization is now broadening its horizons to produce an all day,
all ages, free arts festival in the industrial-fabulous district
of Bayshore.
The event will take place along Islais Creek, located near where
Third Street and Cesar Chavez meet. Eight bands from as far away
as the UK will play on the outdoor stage while indoors there will
be a DJ Lounge, an art exhibit and a screening room.
The bands include Plastination, (alt glam), The Copper Tones
(surf), Riot A Go Go (dance punk), Radio Noise (ska), Justin
Sullivan and Dean White of New Model Army (UK - aggressive
acoustic), Smash-Up Derby (live mash up), Babyland (LA -
electronic junk punk) and F-Space (industrial pyro punk).
New Model Army will headline and play a full set later that
evening at The Independent.
DJs in the DJ Lounge include Adrian and Mysterious D (Bootie),
John (New Wave City). Fact 50 (Red Square), Mitch (Meat), Kit
(Sin) and Moonshine (Church of Elvis).
Artists exhibiting in the Gallery include Tanya Regan, Joseph
Hren, Ally Beth, Sadie and others.
The Screening Room will feature shorts programs curated by SF
IndieFest, Other Cinema, Microcinema International and the Found
Footage Festival. (The Brooklyn-based traveling Found Footage
Festival plays at the Roxie Cinema later that evening 9/17 and at
the Parkway Theatre on 9/18. )
The festival is sponsored by The Bay Area Motor Club, The Bay
Guardian, Live 105, Retina Sound, SF Station, SFist.com, Adolph
Gassers and The Film Arts Foundation
The Islais Creek Festival will take place at and around the Bay
Area Motor Club, the city's only self service auto garage, located
at 1598 Custer Ave at Rankin, close to Muni's 15 and 19 routes.
The staff and volunteers of the 4th San Francisco Independent Film Festival would like to thank you for joining us.
The Bay area is the home of the niche Film Festival, and our niche is “entertaining and informative narrative, documentary, music and alternative film.” We love movies that make you laugh, cry and think (occasionally – all three). The goal of IndieFest is to gorge on film for ten days and go home with bleary eyes and a smile. Shopping is Patriotic, so our objective is valid: Provide an opportunity for filmmakers to dream in public, eat, drink, schmooze, party, dance all night, and for you to meet interesting people from faraway places, have fun, and gamble on films you know nothing about. You may not fall in love with them all, but you won’t be bored for a moment.
On a serious note, this is the first IndieFest since September 10th, the last day of the 20th Century. Every movie in this Program was produced before ’Ground Zero’ became a place in New York, but many now have unintended, often startling, relevance.
The 4th SF IndieFest is a terminal document of the 20th Century. Welcome to the 3rd Millennium.
