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 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.


Max travels back in time to a Patrick Kelly exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco where he touches base with Pat Cleveland (designer Patrick Kelly's friend and champion). She takes him through a time warp and they land in Versailles in 1973 where a fundraiser organized by Eleanor Lambert to rescue the Palace pitted five french couturiers, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Emanuel Ungaro, Hubert de Givenchy and Pierre Cardin, and five american designers Anne Klein, Stephen Burrows, Bill Blass, Halston and Oscar de La Renta, in a fashion show. Cleveland led a groundbreaking group of models to victory for the Americans. Versailles changed the way fashion looked at Black models and American designers.


Through Pat Cleveland's life story and activism Max Vogue is able to open a new perspective of fashion history and it's future.

  • Runtime
    20 minutes
  • Country
    USA
  • Director
    Antonio Conteras
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