San Francisco United Film Festival 2009

In 1960, Congress held "payola" hearings to target the deejays guilty of breaking down economic and racial barriers. Program director and radio consultants took control. Rock radio became bland and predictable, until a new wave of deejays set up shop on the FM dial. "Top 40 is dead," declared Tom Donahue in San Francisco. "And its rotting corpse is stinking up the airwaves." Bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane ignited a cultural revolution until FM, too, was silenced by FCC intimidation and corporate greed. "Airplay" pays tribute to those unsung heroes of FM, and the promise of a rebirth on satellite radio, told by the deejays and the artists they made rock stars. *Appearances by David Crosby, Grace Slick, and radio personality Casey Casem.

America's most notorious prison is hosting an alumni reunion, inviting every ex-inmate, and their former cellhouse guards, back to the Rock. Against the backdrop of these colorful characters and their strange rendezvous, 'Alcatraz Reunion' traces the history of the iconic island, and its mysterious transformation from legendary penitentiary to tourist mecca.

This quirky film utilizes the technique of stop-motion animation and tells the story of a young girl forced to face her fears that lurk in the silent darkness. Endowing power to the surrounding objects of the dark, she allows them to overpower her with unforeseen consequences.

They are seekers, madmen, and angels hell-bent on riding across America on a bicycle in less than ten days. Eager to push their bodies to the limit, they set out on a daunting 3000-mile odyssey. But what begins as the adventure of a lifetime is transformed in an instant when tragedy strikes the race. These voyagers discover what is truly at stake as they pedal on, praying for the deliverance only the finish line can bring. By journey's end, some are saved, others are lost, but all learn that the fuel that takes a soul toward its own true destiny is desire.

Global Warming is an issue of “how” we live, the water crisis is an issue of “if” we live.

What do a schizophrenic; a Shakespearean actor, a mafia thug and a director hell bent on revenge have in common? They're all working together on the same film. Callback tells the story of the actors and director whose lives are irrevocably changed by the making of a movie and the factors that cause the film to go hurtling inexorably towards disaster.

Based in the short story 'One of the missing' by the American writer Ambrose Bierce, CHAT NOIR, tells the absurd destiny of a French soldier throughout the Battle of Verdun, within the 1st World War.

A victim of circumstance, Dave Kraft is having one of the worst days of his life. After literately an entire day of failure Dave manages to land a few private moments with the girl he’s been crushing on for months. For the first time today, and maybe even years, Dave actually tries to make himself happy instead of just leaving things to chance – and it feels good, really good.

Brian Marquez was murdered on a San Francisco street corner in 2005--since that day his father Luis, has been on a quest to find the killers that took his son. Through his passionate advocacy to find the murderers, Luis has lost sight of his family, and his family now suffers the absence of a father, along with the loss of Brian. Luis' daughter, Norma, expounds on the fragile mind-state of her father, and their tenuous relationship, as she sets up an altar welcoming Brian's spirit back into the house on the traditional Mexican holiday of the Day of the Dead.