SAN JOSE, California – With 23 officially selected films, 15 of which are award winners, The World’s Independent Film Festival (TWIFF) will celebrate its fifth year in San Francisco on September 25 – 27.
TWIFF recognizes filmmakers around the world and celebrates films that raise awareness of global and local issues.
Created in 2010 by Ted Unarce and Gracie Suzara for filmmakers, the festival showcases films that advocate positive social change, life journeys, cinematic discoveries, educational documentaries and new media work.
The World’s Film Festival staff and volunteers. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Films are officially selected and awarded by a select panel of jurors located in different parts of the world. These jurors have complete access to all submitted films, which they watch and rate based on originality/creativity, direction, writing, cinematography, performance, production value, pacing, structure and music.
The annual festival kicks off with a red carpet event on Friday night, September 25 at Fort McKinley Restaurant in South San Francisco from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m., to celebrate and recognize this year’s filmmakers. TWIFF sponsors, partners and various community groups and leaders will be in attendance.
The screening will be held on September 26-27, Saturday and Sunday, at the New People Cinema, 1746 Post St. in San Francisco, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. A special Short Fest will kick off the screening with “Take a Stand” directed by Austin Fickman as the opening film.
The Saturday screening will close with “Facet Three” directed by Stephen Fenech. TWIFF’s Sunday screening will open with “Chasing Rainbows” directed by Robert Fritz and close with “Decoding Baqtun” directed by Elisabeth Thieriot. Question and Answer portions for select films will be held on both days.
The three World Premier films are: “Vibrant Highland, Commercial Love” directed by Mark Dworzanczyk, “Uncommitted” directed by Chandu Yarram and “The Faith in Ailao Mountain” directed by Ci “May May” Zhang.
The California Premier film is “The Mayo Conspiracy” directed by Craig Horwitz and Anthony Vollmer. The complete TWIFF 2015 Screening Schedule can be found at www.twiff.org/screening-schedule and tickets are available at www.twiff.org/shop.
The Submission process for 2016 is now open and filmmakers can submit their films at https://filmfreeway.com/festival/TheWorldIndieFilmFestival.
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