
BAY AREA FILM COMMUNITY MIXER
mvff 2022 Outdoor Art Club Oct 14 Mind the Gap
An inspired gathering of filmmakers and film lovers across the Bay Area, and those attending the festival. This event aims to strengthen the existing connections in the local film community and establish new ones. The mixer will feature an…

MIND THE GAP: DIRECTORS’ FORUM
mvff 2022 Sweetwater Music Hall Oct 8 BEHIND THE SCREENS Mind the Gap, Panel
Telling stories, mining for truths both big and small: With approaches both fictional and non-fictional, these directors all delve into their subjects with impressive creativity and thought. Join us in person for this keystone Mind the Gap…

MIND THE GAP: EVOLUTION OF ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S ROLES ON SCREEN
mvff 2022 Oct 6 BEHIND THE SCREENS Mind the Gap, Panel Panel
Our annual roundtable series, Evolution of Roles On Screen for Historically Excluded Communities, began in 2020 with Evolution of Black Women’s Roles Onscreen and continued in 2021 with Evolution of Latina Roles Onscreen. This year’s pre-recorded…

MIND THE GAP: THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY: AN EXPLORATORY FILMMAKING PROCESS
mvff 2022 Outdoor Art Club Oct 9 BEHIND THE SCREENS Mind the Gap, Panel
An exciting conversation with the filmmakers of The Unknown Country, a dazzling, poetic narrative-documentary feature film that demonstrates how cinema can be used as a means to listen, understand, and honor human dignity. The conversation…

BLACK GIRLS FILM CAMP
mvff 2022 Virtual Oct 6 BEHIND THE SCREENS, FAMILY FILMS Mind the Gap, Panel
Black Girls Film Camp is a nonprofit organization that provides a free, annual, virtual 12-week filmmaking experience for high-school-age Black girls across the country. For the 2022 camp, over 200 applicants pitched a story idea, and ten finalists…

WOMEN TALKING
mvff 2022 United States Rafael 1 Oct 11, Oct 9 BIG NIGHTS, US CINEMA Mind the Gap
SPOTLIGHT | MIND THE GAP ENSEMBLE AWARD
MIND THE GAP | US CINEMA
US 2022, 104 min, Director: Sarah Polley
Powerful, committed performances by an extraordinary ensemble—including Frances McDormand, Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy,…

WHINA
New Zealand TRAILBLAZERS Lark Theater, Rafael 2 Oct 14, Oct 8 WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap FilmTRAILBLAZERS | MIND THE GAP | WORLD
New Zealand 2021, 112 min, Directors: James Napier Robertson, Paula Whetu Jones
This inspirational film reveals the extraordinary life of New Zealand’s Dame Whina Cooper, a courageous Māori woman whose…

TURN EVERY PAGE – THE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT CARO AND ROBERT GOTTLIEB
United States CREATE BAMPFA, Rafael 3 Oct 16, Oct 7 DOCS Mind the Gap FilmCREATE | MIND THE GAP | DOCS
US 2022, 112 min, Director: Lizzie Gottlieb
Fifty years, five books, four thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight pages…and counting. Lizzie Gottlieb’s gripping documentary focuses on the intersecting life's…

TOWN DESTROYER
mvff 2022 United States Rafael 3, Roxie Theater, Sequoia 2, Virtual Oct 14, Oct 15, Oct 6, Oct 8 DOCS Mind the Gap FilmMIND THE GAP | DOCS
US 2022, 55 min, Director: Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman
Is art’s role to provoke or placate? What happens when it no longer reflects current societal views? These questions and many more were the subject of hot debate…

TILL
mvff 2022 United States Sequoia 1, Sequoia 2 Oct 11 BIG NIGHTS, US CINEMA Mind the Gap
CENTERPIECEMIND THE GAP AWARD • CREATIVITY & TRUTH
MIND THE GAP | US CINEMA
US 2022, 130 min, Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Visually striking and moving, Till centers the story of Emmett Till through the experience of his mother, Mamie…