Fests and events, 2/4.

Dan Jardine is covering the Victoria Film Festival, running through Sunday.

Bomb It! is Michael Guillén's "'don't miss' pick from the 10th Annual San Francisco Indiefest" - Thursday through February 20.

Joe Heim opens a nice Washington Post preview of Our City Film Fest, "a day-long screening of locally based documentaries next Sunday at Busboys and Poets." And that day is this coming Sunday. Via Sujewa Ekanayake.

Ellipsis: Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie, Francesca Woodman - at the Lund Konsthall from Saturday through April 13.

"Sporting over 200 features, 400 shorts, and a few dozen art installations and live performances, Rotterdam had a little something for everyone, from the loud to the quiet, the popular to the obscure, high art to industry." A dispatch from Doug Jones at indieWIRE, where Eugene Hernandez notes that Persepolis took the festival's audience award.

Also, DJ Palladino reports on the just-wrapped Santa Barbara International Film Festival: "Though it began with a high-profile studio premiere of Definitely, Maybe, clearly the biggest hit was a locally-produced surf film." That'd be Bustin' Down the Door.

Anne M Hockens has the latest Noir City 6 update at the Siffblog.

Online listening tip. Rob Davis and J Robert Parks and, half an hour in, Brian Darr discuss this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Posted by dwhudson at February 4, 2008 1:23 AM