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SAN FRANCISCO INDEPENDENT FILM MISSION MOVIE
ANNOUNCES PRESS SCREENING

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Stephanie Lim– 415.533.8085
steph3280@hotmail.com

Thursday, May 13, 2004 - Screening Will Offer First View of Final Cut at Dolby Labs

San Francisco April 20, 2004

Mission Movie, the new independent feature film about San Franciscoís Mission District, directed by award-winning Bay Area filmmaker Lise Swenson, will hold a special press screening Thursday, May 13, 2004, 7:30 p.m., at Dolby Labs in Potrero Hill. The screening at Dolby Labs will offer the press the first time to see the final version of the film before its gala community screening, June 4, 2004, at Mission Village in San Francisco.

The passionate, soulful urban drama about the inner life of San Franciscoís most diverse enclave tells five intersecting stories that take place over one summer. The cast is led by veteran Colombian actor Diego Vasquez and features many Bay Area actors, including cameos by well-known local artists and activists. Although the version screened at the gala event will feature both Spanish and English subtitles, the press screening will only have English subtitles.

In the film, a narrative based entirely on true stories, a Central American immigrant couple is torn between oneís love of American city life and the otherís discomfort with it. The politics of eviction play into their lives as well, but mostly disturb those of their upstairs neighbors ó a hipster set of four roommates. One of these is a white artist who also faces other challenges in the neighborhood. When four kids keep tagging the mural he has been commissioned to paint, he seeks the help of a Latino artist to intervene. And two older Mission business owners ó one a third-generation Latina and the other a Palestinian immigrant ó both find themselves trying to defend their property and protect the lives they have established.

Dolby Labs is located at 100 Potrero Avenue. Detailed directions can be found at the Dolby Web site, http://dolbysearch.dolby.com/company/directions_sf.html.

The screening will be lightly catered.

More about Mission Movie:
The concept for the film was born when Director Lise Swenson gathered a group of San Francisco artists and media makers and real-life stories of the Mission District. Swenson is an award-winning filmmaker who has been deeply involved with media arts in the Bay Area since the early 1980s. In 1999 she received the San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award for outstanding achievement in film and video. She also received a prestigious Creative Work Fund grant to collaborate with Southern Exposure in the development phase of the project, which led to the creation of the feature-length film.

The Mission District: 74,633 Residents, 196 Nationalities, 2 Square Miles, One Movie