Fests and events, 6/2.

"Courage, which conventional movies sell you by the rusty bucketful, springs fresh on all sides in this year's Human Rights Watch International Film Festival," writes Stuart Klawans in the Nation, picking out three docs to preview, Switch Off, Source and Black Gold. Sidebar: The Media That Matters Film Festival.

Cinematical's Kim Voynar notes that the Seattle International Film Festival has launched SIFFcast. Trailers, interviews, events and so forth to watch online. Meanwhile, the Stranger's, Siffblog's and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's coverage of the fest plows ahead.

As if that weren't enough to keep up with up there, the Seattle True Independent Film Festival opens tomorrow and runs through Monday. The fest named The Proper Care & Feeding of an American Messiah "Best Religious Film" and will screen it tomorrow night at 10.

Before launching into his final wrap-up of the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival, Brian Darr runs through a schedule of Bay Area events worth looking forward to over the coming weeks.

Austinites: Jette Kernion's got your weekend options at Cinematical.

With CineVegas opening in a week, Hollywood Bitchslap begins interview directors with films in the lineup: Damn Yankee Day director Robert Shupe and Full Grown Men director David Munro.

At indieWIRE, Tamara Schweitzer looks over the Silverdocs lineup (June 13 through 18).

Anne Thompson presents a Cannes top ten.

In Italy? The Bellaria Film Festival runs through Monday; Camillo de Marco scans the program for Cineuropa.

The full program for the 11th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival (July 14 through 16) is now up.

Posted by dwhudson at June 2, 2006 2:29 PM