Laida Lertxundi at the ATA Film and Video Festival 2009 - Oct 21-23 '09 - San Francisco, CA

Artists' Television Access, ATA Film and Video Festival, 992 Valencia St., San Francisco, CA 94110

The ATA Film & Video Festival is dedicated to celebrate and support underground film exhibiting every year two original ensembles of short works by emerging and established film and video artists from all over the world. The festival also includes installations in our Mission District storefront gallery, a lunch for the filmmakers, and new in our 4th year, a discussion forum for the exchange of ideas amongst filmmakers, curators and audiences. Throughout the year, work from the festival is broadcast to the San Francisco community on ATV, ATA's weekly cable-access television show, and screened in other national and international venues. Out of the hundreds of films submitted to the festival, a first selection of films is presented to a diverse panel of local filmmakers, curators and ATA staff. After sessions of viewings and discussion, the panel ranks them and 4 thematic sections are assembled from the best-ranked.