SF IndieFest, 2/6.

The 10th San Francisco Independent Film Festival opens tomorrow with Shotgun Stories. As Eve O'Neill notes, introducing her interview with writer-director Jeff Nichols for SF360, the film's "on quite a roll, fresh off grand jury prize wins at both the Seattle and Austin Film Festivals, Roger Ebert's 'great discovery' at the Chicago Film Festival, and now nominated for a Cassavetes Award at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards."

In the Bay Guardian's Cheryl Eddy previews Row Hard, No Excuses and The Bodybuilder and I, while Matt Sussman focuses on This World of Ours, "a youthfully nihilistic, epic, and episodic take on nihilistic youth in 21st-century Japan, represent[ing] the coming out of its writer and director, Nakajima Ryo, not just as a filmmaker to watch but in a larger sense as well. Nakajima made his debut feature after a period of post–high school isolation when he became a hikikomori, one of the growing number of young Japanese who voluntarily cocoon themselves in their rooms for months and sometimes years."

Earlier: Michael Hawley at the Evening Class.

SF Indiefest runs through February 20.

Posted by dwhudson at February 6, 2008 8:38 AM