Media Advisory: SF Black Film Festival Media Briefing & Tribute to Late SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi

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San Francisco Black Film Festival

P.O. Box  15490

San Francisco, CA  94115

SAN FRANCISCO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL XXI HOLDS MEDIA BRIEFING & SCREENING WITH PRISON REFORM PANEL IN TRIBUTE TO LATE PUBLIC DEFENDER JEFF ADACHI @ Century San Francisco Center 9 & XD, JUNE 12^TH 4-6 P.M.

WHO:          Kali O'Ray & Katera Crossley, SFBFF Festival Co-Directors; CA State Senator Nancy Skinner (Invited-Author of SB 1437); Attorney Jacq Wilson; Supreme Court-Winning Civil Rights Attorney Pamela Price; Former PUC Judge Karen Clopton.  (Prison Reform Panelists subject to change). "Disparity" Filmmakers: Brothers, Justin Givens & Jeremy Givens of Los Angeles.

WHAT          Media Briefing, Screening, and Prison Reform Panel Discussion based on State Senator Nancy Skinner's SB 1437 at the San Francisco Black Film Festival XXI, celebrating 21 years of bringing films about the African Diaspora for a multicultural audience. Media will receive an overview of the festival and media passes.  Short feature film "Disparity" by Justin Givens will be screened along with short documentary "Neko Wilson, Social Biography" by Raj Jayadev & Silicon Valley DeBug.  After spending nearly a decade in prison for a murder he did not commit, Neko Wilson is the first Californian freed by SB 1437.

WHEN          June 12, 2019, 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

WHERE         Century San Francisco Center 9 & XD (Cinemark Theatre) 835 Market Street, Westfield San Francisco Centre (Most convenient entrance is on Mission Street across from 5^th& Mission Garage. Use elevators near Bloomingdale's).

The Media Briefing and Screening is free with RSVP at www.sfbff.org.


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In photos taken at Congregation Emanu-El are "Implicit Bias" panelists who followed the screening of Jeff Adachi's "Racial Facial" at the 2016 San Francisco Black Film Festival: SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi, Attorney Jacq Wilson; Then CA PUC Judge Karen Clopton and Supreme Court-Winning Civil Rights Attorney Pamela Price.

ABOUT @SFBFF

The Mission of the San Francisco Black Film Festival is to celebrate African American cinema and the African Cultural Diaspora and to showcase a diverse collection of films – from emerging and established filmmakers. This is accomplished by presenting Black films, which reinforce positive images and dispel negative stereotypes, and providing film artists from the Bay Area in particular and around the world in general, a forum for their work to be viewed and discussed.

The San Francisco Black Film Festival believes film can lead to a better understanding of and communication between, peoples of diverse cultures, races, and lifestyles, while simultaneously serving as a vehicle to initiate dialogue on the important issues of our times.  Visit www.sfbff.org.