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Monday, November 10, 2014

SF Urban Film Festival


For the first time in the US I've seen someone put together a Film Festival on Urbanism and city planning. For most people this sounds kind of weird but the truth is most developed countries with amazing cities and spectacular quality of life do this a lot. 

Not surprisingly San Francisco is one of the very first cities in the US to take the lead. A city full of creative, proactive, advanced people who have come together to set the pace and lead important changes in the world. Fay Darmawi, is one of them: A wonderful scriptwriter and entrepreneur, who has taken the initiative to put together cinema and urbanism. 

As different as it sounds, this is actually one of the best ways to introduce people to the topic of urban planning and proactive citizenship. People love movies, people love living well, so no wonder this is a great idea to bring these two things together in order to create a think tank for the development of the city. 

The fest was hosted at SPUR, a place that is always open to the public and specifically designed to promote urbanism and social planning. The films were very well curated (I personally recommend a documentary called Urbanized streaming on Netflix), the organization and dynamic were excellent as well. Let's hope next year this initiative gets continuity and hopefully gets replicated in many other cities. 

Here's the Link to the Website in case you want to know the rest of the schedule and their info. 



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