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COMPANY TOWN — Deborah Kaufman & Alan Snitow Interview

October 27, 2016 By Leave a Comment

COMPANY TOWN — Deborah Kaufman & Alan Snitow Interview

The 2014 election for the supervisor of District 3 in San Francisco became the referendum on tech for filmmakers Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow. The two candidates, Aaron Peskin and Julie Christensen had different approaches to the issues, including the effect of the so-called “sharing economy” on affordable housing in San Francisco.  When we spoke… Read More »

Tagged With: Aaron Peskin, affordable housing, AirBNB, Chinatown, corporate tax breaks, district elections, evictions, gentrification, homelessness, Julie Christensen, losing the middle class, Lyft, Mission District, monetizing, San Francisco, Sharing economy, Silicon Valley, tech economy, tech workers, transparency, Twitter, Uber

ROCKET SCIENCE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

ROCKET SCIENCE

Rites of passage come in many forms, and for Hal (Reece Daniel Thompson), the game but hapless hero of ROCKET SCIENCE, that rite is pizza. Specifically, being able to overcome his stutter long enough to form the words to place the order before a lesser option is forced upon him by the bored lunch ladies… Read More »

Tagged With: Anna Kendrick, Chinatown, cinema, comedy-drama. family, coming of age, debate team, debating, film, Jeffrey Blitz, movie, narrative, Reece Daniel Thompson, ROCKET SCIENCE, self-esteem, spelling bee, stuttering

Jeffrey Blitz and Reece Daniel Thomspon Explain ROCKET SCIENCE

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jeffrey Blitz and Reece Daniel Thomspon Explain ROCKET SCIENCE

When I spoke to Jeffrey Blitz and Reece Daniel Thompson on May 4, 2007, the buzz about ROCKET SCIENCE had just begun. In town for a screening at the San Francisco International Film Festival, they had just completed a sword-buying trip to Chinatown before our scheduled appointment and worries had set in about how the swords… Read More »

Tagged With: Anna Kendrick, Chinatown, cinema, comedy-drama. family, coming of age, debate team, debating, film, Jeffrey Blitz, movie, narrative, Reece Daniel Thompson, ROCKET SCIENCE, self-esteem, spelling bee, sword. stuttering

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