Palo Alto, CA writer Kevin Sharp is a regular attendee of
the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFilm). The festival, which originated
in 1957, is the oldest of its kind in North America; it is hosted by the
nonprofit San Francisco Film Society. Honors such as the Directing Award, New
Directors Award, and the Golden Gates Award are distributed each year. The
festival’s Cinema By The Bay program highlights feature, short, and documentary
films about and/or set in the Bay Area.
The 2018 festival featured the premiere of the film How to Talk
to Girls At Parties, adapted from a 2006 short story by Neil Gaiman and
directed by John Cameron Mitchell. Mitchell previously directed 2001’s Hedwig
and The Angry Inch. Gaiman’s story, first published in his book Fragile Things,
won both the Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Short Story. Honorees at the 2018
festival included actress Charlize Theron and director Wayne Wang. Programming was held at various venues around the city, including the Roxie, Castro, and
Victoria theaters, along with San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and
the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
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