San Francisco Documentary Festival 2023

Bay Area Shorts: Legends + Q&A

Expired June 12, 2023 6:59 AM
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5 films in package
The Girl From 7th Avenue. Pat Cleveland & The Runway Revolution
This illustrated film opens with fashion super hero Max Vogue on a mission to reshape fashion history through the story of super model Pat Cleveland's breakthrough career. Through Pat Cleveland's life story and activism Max Vogue is able to open a new perspective of fashion history and it's future.
Tony&Denise: Cinematic Memoir of Denise D'Anne
This 26-minute experimental documentary film tells the life of pioneering transgender labor activist Denise D’Anne. Based on Denise's autobiography, GOING THE DISTANCE: THE LIFE OF DENISE D'ANNE, this film is a cinematic-memoir-love-letter about a gender-feminist-social-environmental-justice pioneer and narrated in her own words.
The Ruth Brinker Story
At the age of 63, retired food-service worker Ruth Brinker became a pioneer of HIV care in her community and would become a legend among San Franciscans.
Closed captions available
See You At The Bar: The Casa Loma Story
During the 1980s and early 1990s there existed a strange little bar in the ground floor of a gay residence hotel. Generation X misfits partied here until its closing in 1994. It sat empty and abandoned for over twenty years and now, in an almost unrecognizable San Francisco of the 21st century, the unique clientele and ambience is explored from the perspective of the people that once called this place "home."
Legends Q&A

This 26-minute experimental documentary film tells the life of pioneering transgender labor activist Denise D’Anne.


Left in a Brooklyn orphanage, then foster care, followed by a reluctant return to his mother, Tony Albanese grew up confused and lonely. Having endured harassment in the army, then ten years as an executive secretary for the Southern Pacific Railroad, Tony decides, in 1968, to realign his gender identity and to start anew in San Francisco. Now Denise D'Anne, she commits her life to furthering labor causes, sexual and gender freedom, and a multitude of women and environmental issues, including the launch of one of the first organized recycling programs through her work with the San Francisco Department of Human Services and city government.


Based on Denise's autobiography, GOING THE DISTANCE: THE LIFE OF DENISE D'ANNE, this film is a cinematic-memoir-love-letter about a gender-feminist-social-environmental-justice pioneer and narrated in her own words.


Read about her incredible life in the BAY AREA REPORTER: https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=latest_news&id=296782

  • Runtime
    26 minutes
  • Country
    USA
  • Director
    Brian J Favorite
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