SF/Arts Curator Insight

DocFest’s reliably eclectic programming includes the rousing “Black Rio! Black Power!,” which explores the key role Rio’s soul music scene played in the struggle for racial equality during Brazil’s dictatorship and its influence on Hip Hop and Funk in the 70s. The fest’s closer, “23 Mile,” part cinema verite, part political journal, charts the troubling events that transpired in the crucial state of Michigan, in 2020; none more notorious than the shocking plot to kidnap the state’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer.