9 @ Night SF Premiere
Dedicated to Edwin Johnson, (1937-2005) an unforgettable actor and a man to remember.
Join Rob Nilsson, The Tenderloin yGroup, Citizen Cinema, and the San Francisco cinema community for the 9 @ Night Film Series SF Bay Area Premiere. The premiere begins with a Pre-Opening Benefit for the Faithful Fools Street Ministry, August 28 at the Delancey Street Foundation. The 9 @ Night Film Series will then show at select Bay Area locations.
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Sponsors and Supporters
The San Francisco Film Commission
The Mill Valley Film Festival
The San Francisco Film Society
Host Committee: Stacy Keach, Ron Perlman, Cindy Asner, Graham Leggat, Mark Fishkin, Stefanie Coyote, Nion McEvoy, Ahmed Rahim, Numi Tea, Les Blank, Chris Blue, Chocolatier Blue, Andre Carothers, Robert and Robindira Unsworth, Marshall Spight, Reverend Dr. Kay Jorgensen, Sister Carmen Barsody, Anton Jungherr, Sister Susan Knutson, Melissa Fafarman, Denis Paul, Susan Petro, Martha Lorena Morago Garcia, Reverend Kurt A. Kuhwald, Gabriela Maltz Larkin, Dorka Keehn, Marika Holmgren, Quentin Olwell, Nancy Hayes, Richard Kamler, Prager Winery and Port Works
Pre-Opening Benefit for the Faithful Fools Street Ministry
Rob Nilsson’s 9 @ Night Film Series Pre-Opening Night Benefit for the Faithful Fools Street Ministry takes place August 28, 6:30pm at the Delancey Street Foundation. Join us for tastings from Chocolatier Blue and Prager Winery and Port Works. Numi Tea Cocktails will also be served. Special auction items include an autographed original Northern Lights movie poster and a part in an upcoming Rob Nilsson film.
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Special guest speakers:
Mark Fishkin - Executive Director of the Mill Valley Film Festival
Graham Leggat - Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society
Stefanie Coyote - Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Commission
Ron Perlman and Stacy Keach are expected to attend.
In addition, The Faithful Fools will be giving out the first Edwin Johnson Award.
The Edwin Johnson Award has been created by Citizen Cinema and the Faithful Fools Street Ministry to honor an unsung Tenderloin hero. Edwin Johnson was a “once homeless turned homeless advocate” and a founding member of the Tenderloin yGroup Player’s Ensemble. He appears in several of the 9 @ Night Films and embodies the spirit of this award. Edwin never forgot his life on the streets nor his friends there. His journey out of homelessness to advocate for the people of the Tenderloin is an example to us all. This special award recognizes an individual or group which embodies the spirit and dedication to others which is Edwin Johnson’s legacy.
“If you get the gist of the 9 @ Night movies you get the gist of the Fools. That’s where the rubber hits the road.”
Reverend Dr. Kay Jorgensen, Co-Founder – Faithful Fools Street Ministry
This event is in celebration and support of the 9 @ Night Film Series Openings, RSVP for the opening benefit today. The San Francisco Bay Area wide premiere program is listed below.
9 @ Night SF Premiere Schedule
9 @ Night Pre-Opening Night Faithful Fools Benefit
Thursday, Aug. 28, 6:30pm
Delancy St. Foundation, 600 Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
FREE admission, RSVP on socializr.com today »
Roxie Film Center
Starting Friday, Aug. 29
3117 16th. St., San Francisco, Valencia and 16th.
All 9 @ Night Films will play there for one week, with most films playing twice.
View official Roxie Announcement »
View show times and buy tickets now »
Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center
Starting Friday, Sept. 5
1118 4th. St., San Rafael.
All 9 @ Night Films will play there for one week, in their intended order, each film playing twice.
View show times and buy tickets »
Cerrito Speakeasy Theater
Thursday, Sept. 4
Cerrito Speakeasy Theater, 10070 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito
SCHEME C6, 9:15 Show only
cerritospeakeasy.com
Parkway Speakeasy Theater
Sunday, Sept. 7
1834 Park Boulevard, Oakland
STROKE will play at 5:00 PM and GO TOGETHER at 8:00 PM
parkway-speakeasy.com
Additional Details:
By Ana Traynin
Rob Nilsson is an internationally acclaimed film director and Bay Area native. From 1992-2007, he worked with the Tenderloin yGroup, an actors’ workshop recruited from the streets. Recovering homeless, drug users, and street people mingled with professional actors, inner city residents and all-comers. The result is 9 @ Night, a series of nine dramatic feature films chronicling the lives of 40-50 fictional characters living on the edges of society in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. Each film stands alone but the 9 together weave a single 14-hour portrait of 21st century urban characters struggling to survive.
The 9 @ Night Film Series had its World Premiere over three days at the Harvard Film Archive. The Roxie Film Center will screen the nine films in their chronological order from Aug. 29 - Sept. 4, followed by the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center Sept. 5 - 11. Rob Nilsson and members of the Tenderloin yGroup will be present for post-screening Q & A’s.
Learn more about 9 @ Night Film Series and view the trailer »
July 20th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Rob:
Congratulations on 9@Nights debut at the Roxie and other theaters. Everyone is very excited. We will try to attend as many shows as possible!!
Brette and I will definitely attend the PreOpening Event at Delancy St Foundation.
Jim Bulldis
July 27th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Can’t wait! It’s gonna be Fun!
August 10th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Watching “Need” and meeting you at the reception last Thursday has lit up some many aspects of my life. . .it is still coming. . .your kind thoughts about Pete Ferry has inspired me to pursue a showing of his “Inside A Woman” many thanks I look forward to seeing more of “Nine @ Night” at the the Smith Rafael or the Roxie.
Carl