SF/Arts Curator Insight

Brought to you by the folks behind Indiefest, this is not your daddy’s environmental film event. Take “The Cigarette Surfboard,” where San-Francisco-based director, Ben Judkins, follows a Santa Cruz surfer, who fashioned a board from 10,000 cigarette butts scavenged from California beaches, provoking questions like: does the board smell of stale tobacco? In “Running for the Mountains” Mill Valley filmmakers delve into West Virginia’s shady, dark money politics and call out current Senator Joe Manchin and the coal baron likely to succeed him.