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2023 SFFILM Festival
2023 SFFILM Festival
2023 SFFILM Festival
Saturday, April 22 | 12 pm PT | BAMPFA
Saturday, April 22 | 12 pm PT | BAMPFA
Saturday, April 22 | 12 pm PT | BAMPFA
Mid-Length
Short
Short
1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed
Playful and enormously charming, W. Kamau Bell’s latest work profiles the joys and struggles of children growing up mixed-race. Beginning with his own family, Bell speaks with kids and family members throughout the Bay Area as they illuminate the unique experience of defining themselves in a world that seems to prefer hard lines and neat categories. Tender but never shying away from hard questions, the HBO Documentary 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed is a timely exploration of identity and belonging that challenges our assumptions.
W. Kamau Bell (USA 2023, 59 min)
California Premiere
Creating Things
Through their father’s art and a long-lost interview, two brothers take stock of his legacy.
Bryan Simpson, Taylor Simpson (USA 2022, 11 min)
Southern Afternoon
A Uyghur father suspects his daughter has received a love-letter but faces a language barrier.
Tian Lan (China 2022, 16 min)
North American Premiere
Total Runtime 86 min
Recommended for ages 7 and up
1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed Director W. Kamau Bell
Creating Things Directors Bryan Simpson and Taylor Simpson
Southern Afternoon Director Tian Lan
Bay Area resident W. Kamau Bell is a comedian, author, and writer, producer, and director for television. Among his projects are Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell (2012-2013), W. Kamau Bell: Semi-Prominent Negro (2016), United Shades of America (Festival 2019), and We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022). He has received eight Emmy nominations, winning three; four Image Awards nominations; and a Film Independent Spirit Awards nomination.
Bryan and Taylor Simpson are brothers and creatives. Bryan is a freelance video editor/filmmaker and Taylor is a graphic designer/creative director/musician.
Lan Tian is an independent Chinese filmmaker who graduated from the Communication University of China. In 2016 and 2017, he shot and edited the behind-the-scenes documentary of feature films The Sun Also Rises and Hidden Man by renowned Chinese director Jiang Wen. As an ethnic minority (she people of Fujian Province), Lan Tian seeks in his films to investigate and portray the living conditions of various Chinese ethnic groups and their cultural integrations. Southern Afternoon is his debut short fiction film.
