Mar 19, 2019
Festival
Guests Listed Alphabetically by Film Title & by Name (Guest schedules subject change)
Updated April 14
ALPHABETICALLY BY FILM TITLE/AWARD
| TITLE | GUEST NAME | ROLE |
| Ad Astra | Aisha Sultanbekova | Director |
| Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly | Cheryl Haines | Director |
| Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly | Ai Weiwei | Subject |
| All Down the Road | Sarah Jones | Director |
| Always in Season | Jacqueline Olive | Director |
| American Factory | Steven Bognar | Co-Director |
| American Factory | Chad Cannon | Composer |
| American Factory | Julia Reichert | Co-Director |
| American Factory | Rebecca Ruan-O’Shaughnessy | Co-Director |
| Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Charlie Barnett | Cast |
| Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Murray Bartlett | Cast |
| Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Garcia | Cast |
| Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Barbara Garrick | Cast |
| Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Paul Gross | Cast |
| Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | May Hong | Cast |
| Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Zosia Mamet | Cast |
| Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin | Creator |
| Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Lauren Morelli | Writer |
| Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Alan Poul | Director |
| Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Laura Linney | Cast |
| Ask Dr. Ruth | Ryan White | Director |
| Back to the Moon | Sara Diamond | Producer |
| Back to the Moon | Helene Leroux | Director |
| Beast in the Jungle | Dane Jeremy Hurst | Cast |
| Beast in the Jungle | Sarah Reynolds | Cast |
| Beast in the Jungle | Clara van Gool | Director |
| The Biggest Little Farm | John Chester | Director |
| Bloodroot | Noel Furie | Subject |
| Bloodroot | Selma Miriam | Subject |
| Bloodroot | Douglas Tirola | Director |
| Boba | Kristina Tran | Director |
| Booksmart | Kaitlyn Dever | Cast |
| Booksmart | Beanie Feldstein | Cast |
| Booksmart | Nico Hiraga | Cast |
| Booksmart | Olivia Wilde | Director |
| Boots Riley: State of Cinema Address | Boots Riley | Director |
| Car Thieves | Olive E. Starfas | Director |
| Charley Horse | Luna Garcia | Director |
| Claire Denis: Tribute + “High Life” | Claire Denis | Director |
| Claude Jarman, Jr.: George Gund III Award + “Intruder in the Dust” | Claude Jarman, Jr. | Awardee |
| Colewell | Karen Allen | Cast |
| Colewell | Tom Quinn | Director |
| Colewell | Craig Shilowich | Producer |
| Confidence Game | Kathleen Quillian | Director |
| The Death of Dick Long | Billy Chew | Writer |
| The Death of Dick Long | Daniel Scheinert | Director |
| Director’s Commentary | Jonn Herschend | Director |
| Don’t You Forget About Me | Lydia Ricci | Director |
| Dunya’s Day | Raed Alsemari | Director |
| Eat the Rainbow | Brian Benson | Director |
| Echo in the Canyon | Eric Barrett | Producer |
| Echo in the Canyon | Jakob Dylan | Subject |
| Echo in the Canyon | Andrew Slater | Director |
| Edge of Democracy | Petra Costa | Director |
| Elephant Queen | Mark Deeble | Co-Director |
| Elephant Queen | Victoria Stone | Co-Director |
| An Evening with Kahlil Joseph | Kahlil Joseph | Director |
| An Evening with Kahlil Joseph | Rachel Kushner | Moderator |
| Farewell | Lulu Wang | Director |
| First Night Nerves | Stanley Kwan | Director |
| Florianópolis Dream | Nicolás Avruj | Producer |
| Grass Is Greener | Fab 5 Freddy | Director |
| Grass Is Greener | Vikram Gandhi | Producer |
| Great American Lie | Amanda Mortimer | Producer |
| Great American Lie | Jennifer Siebel Newsom | Director |
| Green | Mustafa Kaymak | Producer |
| Hail Satan? | Sadie Satanas | Subject |
| Hala | Minhal Baig | Director |
| Halston | Roland Ballester | Producer |
| Halston | Naeem Khan | Designer |
| Halston | Frédéric Tcheng | Director |
| Harvesters | Etienne Kallos | Director |
| Hidden City | Victor Moreno | Director |
| High Life | Eric Hynes | Moderator |
| Honeyland | Atanas Georgiev | Producer |
| Honeyland | Tamara Kotevska | Co-Director |
| Honeyland | Ljubomir Stefanov | Co-Director |
| I Am Alive | Miles Potter | Director |
| Innocent | Simon Jaquemet | Director |
| Jawline | Liza Mandelup | Director |
| John C. Reilly Tribute + “The Sisters Brothers” | Cara Buckley | Moderator |
| John C. Reilly Tribute + “The Sisters Brothers” | Alison Dicky | Producer |
| John C. Reilly Tribute + “The Sisters Brothers” | John C Reilly | Tributee |
| Kabul, City in the Wind | Aboozar Amini | Director |
| Knock Down the House | Cori Bush | Subject |
| Knock Down the House | Rachel Lears | Director |
| Knock Down the House | Sarah Olson | Producer |
| The Last Straw | Julian Jordan | Director |
| Laura Dern Tribute + Trial by Fire | Laura Dern | Tributee |
| Laura Linney: Tribute + The Savages | Laura Linney | Tributee |
| Laura Linney: Tribute + The Savages | Murray Bartlett | Moderator |
| Life Overtakes Me | Kristine Samuelson | Director |
| Lost & Found | Andrew Goldsmith | Director |
| Lost World | Kalyanee Mam | Director |
| Madeline Anderson: POV Award + Short Films | Madeline Anderson | Awardee |
| Midnight Cowboy: 50th Anniversary Screening | Michael Childers | Photographer |
| Midnight Cowboy: 50th Anniversary Screening | Matt Tyrnauer | Moderator |
| Midnight Family | Luke Lorentzen | Director |
| Midnight Family | Kellen Quinn | Producer |
| Midnight Traveler | Emelie Coleman Mahdavian | Producer, Writer, Editor |
| Midnight Traveler | Kristina Motwani | Co-Editor |
| Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Erin Davis | Cast |
| Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Nicole London | Producer |
| Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Vince Wilburn | Cast |
| Mistaken Love | Jamahl Edwards | Director |
| The Missing Link | Rachelle Lambden | Animator |
| Mixed Signals | Courtney Stephens | Director |
| Moments | Beata Parkanová | Director |
| Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements | Irene Taylor Brodsky | Director |
| Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements | Jonah Brodsky | Subject |
| Nightingale | Aisling Franciosi | Cast |
| Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy | Elizabeth Carroll | Director |
| Now and There, Here and Then | Sun Park | Director |
| Official Secrets | Martin Bright | Subject |
| Official Secrets | Ged Doherty | Producer |
| Official Secrets | Katharine Gun | Subject |
| Official Secrets | Gavin Hood | Director |
| One Child Nation | Jialing Zhang | Director |
| One Small Step | Andrew Jennings | Technical Animator |
| Over the Rainbow | Jeffrey Peixoto | Director |
| Pahokee | Patrick Bresnan | Co-Director |
| Pahokee | Ivete Lucas | Co-Director |
| Pahokee | Maida Lynn | Producer |
| Paper Flags | Nathan Ambrosioni | Director |
| Photograph | Nawazuddin Siddiqui | Cast |
| The Pig on the Hill | John Helms | Co-Director |
| The Pig on the Hill | Jamy Wheless | Co-Director |
| Poem About All Different Things | Nancy Ellen Kangas | Director |
| Poem About All Different Things | Joshua Kun | Director |
| Premature | Joy Ganes | Producer |
| Premature | Zora Howard | Writer/Cast |
| Q Ball | Kevin Durant | Producer |
| Q Ball | Michael Tolajian | Director |
| Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins | James Egan | Producer |
| Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins | Janice Engel | Director |
| Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins | Amber Howell | Producer |
| Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins | Kristy Tully | Cinematographer |
| Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins | Carlisle Vandervoort | Producer |
| Red Joan | David Parfitt | Producer |
| Sam’s Dream | Nölwenn Roberts | Director |
| The Seer and the Unseen | Sara Dosa | Director |
| The Seer and the Unseen | Ragnhildur “Ragga” Jónsdóttir | Subject |
| Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall | Alfred George Bailey | Director |
| The Slows | Nicole Perlman | Director |
| Sound of Silence | Ben Nabors | Screenwriter |
| Sound of Silence | Michael Tyburski | Director |
| Street Food | David Gelb | Producer |
| Street Food | Brian McGinn | Producer |
| Street Food | Daniel Milder | Producer |
| Street Food | Tamara Rosenfeld | Producer |
| Tehran: City of Love | Ali Jaberansari | Director |
| That Woman | Sandra Davis | Director |
| This House Has Eyes | Theo Taplitz | Director |
| Trial by Fire | Edward Zwick | Director |
| Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America | Tom Shepard | Director |
| Warpaint: Live Score + Films by Maya Deren | Stella Mozgawa | Musician |
| Warpaint: Live Score + Films by Maya Deren | Theresa Wayman | Musician |
| We Are the Radical Monarchs | Linda Knowlton | Director |
| We Believe in Dinosaurs | Clayton Brown | Co-Director |
| We Believe in Dinosaurs | Amy Ellison | Producer |
| We Believe in Dinosaurs | David MacMillan | Subject |
| We Believe in Dinosaurs | Dan Phelps | Subject |
| We Believe in Dinosaurs | Monica Long Ross | Co-Director |
| Well Groomed | Kobe | Subject |
| Well Groomed | Cat Opson | Subject |
| Well Groomed | Rebecca Stern | Director |
| What We Left Unfinished | Mariam Ghani | Director |
| When I’m a Moth | Zachary Cotler | Co-Director |
| When I’m a Moth | Toshiji Takeshima | Cast |
| When I’m a Moth | Magdalena Zyzak | Co-Director |
| Wisconsin Death Trip | Pamela Esterson | Editor |
| Wisconsin Death Trip | Anthony Wall | Producer |
ALPHABETICALLY BY LAST NAME
| Karen Allen | Colewell | Cast |
| Raed Alsemari | Dunya’s Day | Director |
| Nathan Ambrosioni | Paper Flags | Director |
| Aboozar Amini | Kabul, City in the Wind | Director |
| Madeline Anderson | Madeline Anderson: POV Award + Short Films | Awardee |
| Nicolás Avruj | Florianópolis Dream | Producer |
| Minhal Baig | Hala | Director |
| Roland Ballester | Halston | Producer |
| Charlie Barnett | Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Cast |
| Eric Barrett | American Factory | Producer |
| Murray Bartlett | Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Cast |
| Brian Benson | Eat the Rainbow | Director |
| Steven Bognar | American Factory | Co-Director |
| Patrick Bresnan | Pahokee | Co-Director |
| Martin Bright | Official Secrets | Subject |
| Irene Taylor Brodsky | Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements | Director |
| Jonah Brodsky | Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements | Subject |
| Clayton Brown | We Believe in Dinosaurs | Co-Director |
| Cara Buckley | John C. Reilly Tribute + “The Sisters Brothers” | Co-Director |
| Cori Bush | Knock Down the House | Subject |
| Chad Cannon | American Factory | Composer |
| Elizabeth Carroll | Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy | Director |
| John Chester | The Biggest Little Farm | Director |
| Billy Chew | The Death of Dick Long | Writer |
| Michael Childers | Midnight Cowboy: 50th Anniversary Screening | Photographer |
| Emelie Coleman Mahdavian | Midnight Traveler | Writer |
| Petra Costa | Edge of Democracy | Director |
| Zachary Cotler | When I’m a Moth | Co-Director |
| Erin Davis | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Cast |
| Sandra Davis | That Woman | Director |
| Claire Denis | Claire Denis: Tribute + “High Life” | Director |
| Mark Deeble | Elephant Queen | Co-Director |
| Laura Dern | Laura Dern Tribute + Trial by Fire | Tributee |
| Kaitlyn Dever | Booksmart | Cast |
| Sara Diamond | Back to the Moon | Producer |
| Alison Dicky | John C. Reilly Tribute + “The Sisters Brothers” | Producer |
| Ged Doherty | Official Secrets | Producer |
| Sara Dosa | Seer and the Unseen | Director |
| Kevin Durant | Q Ball | Producer |
| Jakob Dylan | Echo in the Canyon | Subject |
| Jamahl Edwards | Mistaken Love | Director |
| James Egan | Rasise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins | Producer |
| Amy Ellison | We Believe in Dinosaurs | Producer |
| Janice Engel | Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins | Director |
| Pamela Esterson | Wisconsin Death Trip | Editor |
| Beanie Feldstein | Booksmart | Cast |
| Noel Furie | Bloodroot | Subject |
| Aisling Franciosi | Nightingale | Cast |
| Fab 5 Freddy | Grass Is Greener | Director |
| Vikram Gandhi | Grass Is Greener | Producer |
| Joy Ganes | Premature | Producer |
| Josiah Garcia | Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Cast |
| Luna Garcia | Charley Horse | Director |
| Barbara Garrick | Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Cast |
| David Gelb | Street Food | Producer |
| Alfred George Bailey | Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall | Director |
| Atanas Georgiev | Honeyland | Producer |
| Mariam Ghani | What We Left Unfinished | Director |
| Andrew Goldsmith | Lost & Found | Director |
| Paul Gross | Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Cast |
| Katharine Gun | Official Secrets | Subject |
| Cheryl Haines | Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly | Director |
| John Helms | The Pig on the Hill | Co-Director |
| Jonn Herschend | Director’s Commentary | Director |
| Nico Hiraga | Booksmart | Cast |
| May Hong | Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Cast |
| Gavin Hood | Official Secrets | Director |
| Zora Howard | Premature | Writer/Cast |
| Amber Howell | Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins | Producer |
| Eric Hynes | High Life | Moderator |
| Ali Jaberansari | Tehran: City of Love | Director |
| Simon Jaquemet | Innocent | Director |
| Claude Jarman, Jr. | Claude Jarman, Jr.: George Gund III Award + “Intruder in the Dust” | Awardee |
| Andrew Jennings | One Small Step | Technical Animator |
| Dane Jeremy Hurst | Beast in the Jungle | Director |
| Sarah Jones | All Down the Road | Director |
| Ragnhildur “Ragga” Jónsdóttir | Seer and the Unseen | Subject |
| Julian Jordan | The Last Straw | Director |
| Kahlil Joseph | An Evening with Kahlil Joseph | Director |
| Etienne Kallos | Harvesters | Director |
| Nancy Ellen Kangas | Poem About All Different Things | Director |
| Mustafa Kayman | Green | Producer |
| Naeem Khan | Halston | Designer |
| Linda Knowlton | We Are the Radical Monarchs | Director |
| Kobe | Well Groomed | Subject |
| Tamara Kotevska | Honeyland | Co-Director |
| Joshua Kun | Poem About All Different Things | Director |
| Rachel Kushner | An Evening with Kahlil Joseph | Moderator |
| Stanley Kwan | First Night Nerves | Director |
| Rachelle Lambden | The Missing Link | Animator |
| Rachel Lears | Knock Down the House | Director |
| Helene Leroux | Beast in the Jungle | Cast |
| Laura Linney | Laura Linney: Tribute + The Savages | Tributee |
| Nicole London | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Producer |
| Luke Lorentzen | Midnight Family | Director |
| Ivete Lucas | Pahokee | Co-Director |
| Maida Lynn | Pahokee | Producer |
| David MacMillan | We Believe in Dinosaurs | Subject |
| Kalyanee Mam | Lost World | Director |
| Zosia Mamet | Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Cast |
| Liza Mandelup | Jawline | Director |
| Armistead Maupin | Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Creator |
| Brian McGinn | Street Food | Producer |
| Daniel Milder | Street Food | Producer |
| Selma Miriam | Bloodroot | Subject |
| Lauren Morelli | Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Writer |
| Victor Moreno | Hidden City | Director |
| Amanda Mortimer | Great American Lie | Producer |
| Kristina Motwani | Midnight Traveler | Editor |
| Stella Mozgawa | Warpaint: Live Score + Films by Maya Deren | Musician |
| Ben Nabors | Sound of Silence | Screenwriter |
| Jacqueline Olive | Always in Season | Director |
| Sarah Olson | Knock Down the House | Producer |
| Cat Opson | Well Groomed | Subject |
| David Parfitt | Red Joan | Producer |
| Sun Park | Now and There, Here and Then | Director |
| Beata Parkanová | Moments | Director |
| Jeffrey Peixoto | Over the Rainbow | Director |
| Nicole Perlman | Slows | Director |
| Dan Phelps | We Believe in Dinosaurs | Subject |
| Miles Potter | I Am Alive | Director |
| Alan Poul | Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City | Director |
| Kathleen Quillian | Confidence Game | Director |
| Kellen Quinn | Midnight Family | Producer |
| Tom Quinn | Colewell | Director |
| Julia Reichert | American Factory | Co-Director |
| John C Reilly | John C. Reilly Tribute + “The Sisters Brothers” | Tributee |
| Sarah Reynolds | Beast in the Jungle | Cast |
| Lydia Ricci | Don’t You Forget About Me | Director |
| Boots Riley | Boots Riley: State of Cinema Address | Director |
| Nölwenn Roberts | Sam’s Dream | Director |
| Tamara Rosenfeld | Street Food | Producer |
| Monica Long Ross | We Believe in Dinosaurs | Co-Director |
| Rebecca Ruan-O’Shaughnessy | American Factory | Subject |
| Kristine Samuelson | Life Overtakes Me | Director |
| Sadie Satanas | Hail Satan? | Subject |
| Daniel Scheinert | Death of Dick Long | Director |
| Tom Shepard | Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America | Director |
| Craig Shilowich | Colewell | Producer |
| Nawazuddin Siddiqui | Photograph | Cast |
| Jennifer Siebel Newsom | Great American Lie | Director |
| Andrew Slater | Echo in the Canyon | Director |
| Olive E. Starfas | Car Thieves | Director |
| Ljubomir Stefanov | Honeyland | Co-Director |
| Courtney Stephens | Mixed Signals | Director |
| Rebecca Stern | Well Groomed | Director |
| Victoria Stone | Elephant Queen | Co-Director |
| Aisha Sultanbekova | Ad Astra | Director |
| Toshiji Takeshima | When I’m a Moth | Cast |
| Theo Taplitz | This House Has Eyes | Director |
| Frédéric Tcheng | Halston | Director |
| Douglas Tirola | Bloodroot | Director |
| Michael Tolajian | Q Ball | Director |
| Kristina Tran | Boba | Director |
| Kristy Tully | Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins | Cinematographer |
| Michael Tyburski | Sound of Silence | Director |
| Matt Tyrnauer | Midnight Cowboy: 50th Anniversary Screening | Moderator |
| Clara van Gool | Beast in the Jungle | Director |
| Carlisle Vandervoort | Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins | Producer |
| Anthony Wall | Wisconsin Death Trip | Producer |
| Lulu Wang | Farewell | Director |
| Theresa Wayman | Warpaint: Live Score + Films by Maya Deren | Musician |
| Ai Weiwei | Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly | Subject |
| Jamy Wheless | The Pig on the Hill | Co-Director |
| Ryan White | Ask Dr. Ruth | Director |
| Vince Wilburn | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Cast |
| Olivia Wilde | Booksmart | Director |
| Jialing Zhang | One Child Nation | Director |
| Edward Zwick | Trial by Fire | Director |
| Magdalena Zyzak | When I’m a Moth | Co-Director |
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2019 San Francisco International Film Festival
The longest-running film festival in the Americas, the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM Festival) is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in one of the country’s most beautiful cities. The 62nd edition runs April 10–23 at venues across the Bay Area and features nearly 200 films and live events, 14 juried awards with close to $40,000 in cash prizes, and upwards of 100 participating filmmaker guests.
SFFILM
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization with a mission to champion the world’s finest films and filmmakers through programs anchored in and inspired by the spirit and values of the San Francisco Bay Area. Presenter of the San Francisco International Film Festival, SFFILM is a year-round organization delivering screenings and events to more than 75,000 film lovers and media education programs to more than 12,000 students and teachers annually. In addition to its public programs, SFFILM supports the careers of independent filmmakers from the Bay Area and beyond with grants, residencies, and other creative development services.
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